High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Campania was a seaplane tender and aircraft carrier, the first Royal Navy vessel to launch aircraft whilst underway. Originally built as a passenger liner for Cunard Line's Liverpool-New York service in 1893, RMS Campania was holder of the Blue Riband from 1893-1894, losing it to her sister ship Lucania. In 1914, she was sold to the shipbreakers TW Ward.