Elder Dempster Lines' RMMV AUREOL in her heyday. Peter Knego collection. The RMMV AUREOL of 1951 was a hard working, much-loved liner that linked Liverpool (and later Southampton) with West Africa in the waning days of the British Empire. She was built by Alexander Stephen and Sons at Glasgow, Scotland in an era when polished woods, linoleum decking, nickel and glass fixtures and brass fittings were the norm. Long after most of her contemporaries were scrapped, she went on