When his former ship, the much-beloved Mauretania, sailed for Scotland to the shipbreakers in 1935, Rostron was supposed to have been on board; however, overcome with emotion, he refused to board her and instead waved farewell from pierside, preferring to remember the ship as she was when he commanded her.
She was returned to civilian service after paying off in late 1945, and was broken up in 1952.
Ship breaking, a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for scrap recycling.
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After that sale fell through, she remained laid up in Genoa for an extended period before being towed to Aliağa where she arrived on 6 August 2013 for breaking.
The ship was placed in reserve in 1904 and disarmed the following year before being sold for scrap in 1908.
She was broken up in Toulon in July 1921 after being used for underwater demolition training.
The historic part of the first field shows the emblem of the conquest of Seville by Cantabrian marines in 1248, with the tower (representing the Torre del Oro) and the ship breaking the chains that blocked the way through the river Guadalquivir.
Shipbreakers, a 2004 documentary film that explores the practice of ship breaking decommissioned vessels in India.