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Built for Thompson Line, purchased by Cunard 1911, sold to Bank Line 1912, scrapped 1930 [3] Ausonia: 1909: 1911–1918: Intermediate: 7,907: Ex-Tortona built for Thompson Line, purchased by Cunard 1911, sunk by SM U-62 30 May 1918. Ascania: 1911: 1911–1918: Intermediate: 9,100: Wrecked 1918: Caria : 1900: 1911–1915: Cargo ship: 3,023: Sunk ...
The new ship Queen Anne was delivered to Cunard on 19 April 2024, the first new ship for the line in over 14 years. [93] She arrived in Southampton on 30 April 2024. [ 94 ] The ship departed on her maiden cruise from Southampton to the Canary Islands on 3 May 2024, and she will be officially named in Liverpool in June.
Samuel Cunard was the second son of Abraham Cunard (1756–1824), a Quaker and Margaret Murphy (1758–1821), [3] a Roman Catholic.The Cunards were a Quaker family that originally came from Worcestershire, in Britain, but were forced to flee to Germany in the 17th century due to religious persecution, where they took the name Kunder.
The merger took place on 10 May 1934, creating Cunard-White Star Limited. White Star contributed ten ships to the new company while Cunard contributed fifteen. Due to this arrangement, and since Hull 534 was Cunard's ship, Cunard's shareholders owned 62% of the new company, with the remaining 38% being owned for the benefit of White Star's ...
However, in 1921, Cunard removed her from service when fire broke out on E deck and decided to overhaul the ship. [31] She returned to the Tyne shipyard where she was built, where her boilers were converted to oil firing, [32] and returned to service in March 1922. Cunard noticed that Mauretania struggled to maintain her regular Atlantic ...
Launched on 1 March 1881, Servia was the first of Cunard's new breed of ocean liners. She was the third largest ship in the world at 515 feet long and 52.1 feet wide, [2] surpassed only by Brunel's SS Great Eastern and Inman Line's SS City of Rome.
Cunard began to replace its fleet of wooden paddle steamers with iron ships, first paddle driven, but increasingly employing the screw propeller. The first iron screw steamer was the China in 1862. Burns was particularly keen on economy, and the Cunard Line quickly adopted the new compound engine with the Batavia in 1870.
RMS Ivernia was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line, built by the company C. S. Swan & Hunter of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and launched in 1899.The Ivernia was one of Cunard's intermediate ships, that catered to the vast immigrant trade between Europe and the United States of America in the early 20th century.