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RMS stands for Royal Mail Ship. Large British shipping companies won contracts to carry mail to the far extremes of the British Empire. These ships names were prefixed with RMS instead of SV (Sailing Vessel) as in the first mails ships and later SS (steamship).

Both the Titanic and the Lousitania of the White Star Line were RMS ships.

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