After 22 years of carrying the Blue Riband, MAURETANIA lost the trophy to the BREMEN. On her first trip in 1929 she sailed from Cherbourg to New York in 4 days 17 hours and 42 minutes, an average speed of 27.9 knots or more than 52 km/h.

EUROPA, built simultaneously with the BREMEN, was given to France after the war and sailed until 1961 as LIBERTÉ for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.

In th eearly 30s the United States Lines had two ships built. Both Washington and Manhattan sailed from New York to Hamburg. After a period as troop ship they continued their passenger service until demolition in 1964.

In 1935 the Blue Riband was taken over by the NORMANDIE of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. Already on her first voyage from Le Havre to New York she broke all records by sailing from Bishop Rock in England to Ambrose Channel Lightship near New York in 4 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes.

At the beginning of WW2 NORMANDIE was laid up in New York. During conversion to troopship for the US government in 1942 she caught fire and sunk. Repair proved to be too expensive so she was demolished in 1946.

Not only Westeuropean companies croosed the Atlantic. From Poland, the Gdynia-America Line had a service to New York via Copenhagen en Halifax in Canada with the sisters BATORY en de PILSUDSKY.

The QUEEN MARY took the Blue Riband from the NORMANDIE in 1938. After sailing as a troopship in the war she resumed her old service in 1947. In 1952 she had to surrender the Blue Riband to the UNITED STATES. She made her last transatlantic voyage in 1967.