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RMS Queen Elizabeth (ship)
Corporate body · 1939 - 1972

83,673 gross tons, passenger liner In Cunard Line’s transatlantic service from 1939 to 1968. She served as a troopship from 1940 to 1945 and was famously docked in Esquimalt Graving Dock in February 1942 for underwater hull work and fitting of additional troop accommodation. She re-entered transatlantic service in 1946, was taken out of service in 1969, and was burned at Hong Kong while being converted to a floating university in 1972 and scrapped.

RMS Megantic (ship)
Corporate body · 1909 - 1933

14,878 gross tons passenger liner in White Star Line of Liverpool’s transatlantic service, normally operating between Liverpool and Montréal. From 1915 to 1917, she served as a troopship. After 1928, she operated from London and Southampton and, in 1931, she was taken out of service 1931. She was scrapped in 1933.