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For the descendants, and their close relatives, of Abraham Cunard (1756-1824), a United Empire Loyalist carpenter, timber merchant, and ship owner from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and his son, the shipping magnate Samuel Cunard, founder of the Cunard Line.
In March 1960, Cunard bought a 60% shareholding in British Eagle, an independent (non-government owned) airline, for £30 million, and changed its name to Cunard Eagle Airways. The support from this new shareholder enabled Cunard Eagle to become the first British independent airline to operate pure jet airliners , as a result of a £6 million ...
The Cunard Yanks (also known as the Boat Boys or Hollywood Boys) were the young working class British male Cunard Line household crew, who worked on the transatlantic shipping routes from Liverpool to New York and Montreal, from the late 1940s to the 1960s.
Cunard Caravel: 1971: 1971–1974: Bulk carrier: 15,498: Sold to the Great Eastern Shipping Co in 1974 and renamed Jag Shanti. Scrapped at Alang, India in 1997: Cunard Carronade: 1971: 1971–1978: Bulk carrier: 15,498: Sold to Olympic Maritime in 1978. and renamed Olympic History. Cunard Calamanda: 1972: 1972–1978: Bulk carrier: 15,498: Sold ...
Queen Anne is stopping off in Liverpool during her maiden sailing around the British Isles.
Here, an inside look at Cunard’s new Queen Anne cruise ship. Take a look at the ship's stunning interiors—and its full pickleball court. Here, an inside look at Cunard’s new Queen Anne ...
RMS Caronia was a 34,183 gross register tons (GRT) passenger ship of the Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line). Launched on 30 October 1947, she served with Cunard until 1967. She was nicknamed the "Green Goddess" [1] after her light green hull livery. She was one of the first "dual-purpose" ships, built both for 2-class transatlantic ...
Names, from Charles Dickens and Mark Twain to Judy Garland and David Bowie, have sailed under those famed funnels. Cunard’s Carpathia steamed to the stricken Titanic to rescue survivors in 1912.