154 Book of Steamships 

 unfortunately burnt out in dock at Liver- 

 pool in 1909, and was thought not worth 

 re-conditioning, but the Campania con- 

 tinued upon the New York run until the 

 Spring of 1914. She, like the Majestic, 

 went to the scrappers just before the War, 

 but they had not made any headway with 

 her when she was sold to the Government 

 for conversion to a seaplane carrier. 

 Throughout the War the Campania was 

 attached to the Grand Fleet, and only 

 missed the Jutland battle by a mere 

 accident. After the Armistice she broke 

 loose in the Forth, and was driven by the 

 current across the bows of a battleship. 



Wounded, the gallant liner slowly 

 settled down, remaining long enough 

 afloat for all her people to get away safely. 

 She had to be blown up later because of 

 danger to traffic. 



Within five years of these fine Cunarders 

 coming into service, Britain had a rude 

 shock. The Germans had previously come 

 to us for all their liners, but now they were 



