RMS Queen Mary II & RMS St Helena

Last month we posted about a rendezvous of the “Three Queens,”  the RMS Queen Mary II, the MS Queen Elizabeth and the MS Queen Victoria in New York harbor.   Of the three ships only the Queen Mary II has the distinction of the designation RMS for Royal Mail Ship.   Indeed, there are only two remaining ocean-going ships in the world with the designation RMS,  the RMS Queen Mary II and the RMS St Helena, which carries the mail, as well as passengers, goods and supplies to the island of St Helena and other British outposts in the South Atlantic.  John Edwards on his Oceanliners.org  blog has a great photo of the last two ocean-going Royal Mail Ships off Tristan de Cunah.

Meeting of the Only Two “RMS” Ships

There is one other Royal Mail Ship, though not an ocean-going vessel,  in service in the Canadian Muskoka Lakes, the RMS Segwun, the oldest operating steam driven vessel in North America, built in 1887.