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The Cunard Line (/ ˈ k j uː n ɑː r d / KYEW-nard) is a British shipping and cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. [1]
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 ...
The company was created to control the joint shipping assets of the Cunard Line and the White Star Line after both companies experienced financial difficulties during the Great Depression. Cunard White Star controlled a total of twenty-five ocean liners (with Cunard contributing fifteen ships and White Star ten).
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.
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 ...
RMS Samaria was a transatlantic ocean liner built for Cunard Line. She was completed in 1922 and served until 1955. In the Second World War she was a troopship in the Royal Navy. Samaria was scrapped in 1956. [1] [2] Samaria was a sister ship of RMS Scythia and half-sister of RMS Franconia. [3]
Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 ship broke from its moorings due to strong winds in Italy on Friday. The cruise line had anticipated adverse weather and was “in the process of taking precautionary ...
Queen Mary 2 is the flagship of Cunard Line. She was constructed to replace the ageing Queen Elizabeth 2 , which was the Cunard flagship from 1969 to 2004 and the last major ocean liner built before Queen Mary 2 .