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Cunard, Inman and the German Norddeutscher Lloyd were each awarded one of the three weekly New York mail services. The fortnightly route to Halifax formerly held by Cunard went to Inman. Cunard continued to receive an £80,000 subsidy (equivalent to £8,947,514 in 2023), [15] while NDL and Inman were paid sea postage. Two years later the ...
Sold 1878 to Red Star Line, and renamed Zeeland, lost at sea 1895 [3] Palmyra : 1866: 1866–1896: Intermediate: 2,044: Scrapped 1896 Malta : 1866: 1865–1889: Intermediate: 2,132: Wrecked 1899 Russia: 1867: 1867–1879: Express: 2,950: Sold to Red Star Line 1880 and renamed Waesland. Resold and renamed Philadelphia, sank after a collision ...
Persia was a British passenger liner operated by the Cunard Line that won the Blue Riband in 1856 for the fastest westbound transatlantic voyage. [2] She was the first Atlantic record breaker constructed of iron and was the largest ship in the world at the time of her launch.
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.
Cunard's ships were reduced versions of Great Western and only carried 115 passengers in conditions that Charles Dickens unfavourably likened to a "gigantic hearse". Mean 1840 – 1841 Liverpool - Halifax times for the quartette were 13 days, 6 hours (7.9 knots, 14.6 km/h, 9.1 mph) westbound and 11 days, 3 hours (9.3 kn, 17.2 km/h, 10.7 mph ...
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Marina — Latin name meaning “from the sea” Rosemary — Derived from the Latin terms “ros” meaning “dew” and “marinus” meaning “of the sea” 150 Ocean Names For Baby Boys And ...
RMS Aquitania was an ocean liner of the Cunard Line in service from 1914 to 1950. She was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland. ...