Aquitania as a hospital ship, off the Greek island of Lemnos, October 2, 1915. After her maiden voyage to New York in May of 1914, Aquitania’s commercial life was brief. (52/72)

By August of that year she had been requisitioned by the government for use as an armed merchant cruiser. In the spring of 1915 it was decided the huge liner was better suited to trooping and hospital work. She was sent on troop voyages to the Dardanelles and then converted to a hospital ship