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Cunard History Website on Chriscunard.com; Official 'Queen Mary 2' Fan Page; Cunard Line Ephemera 1880-2004 GG Archives; The Last Ocean Liners – Cunard Line – trade routes and ships of the Cunard Line since the 1950s; Curator Intro Cunard Sesquicentennial Exhibition – 150 Transatlantic Years – The Ocean Liner Museum, New York
RMS Franconia was an ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line from 1922 to 1956. The liner was second of three liners named Franconia which served the Cunard Line, the others being Franconia (1910) built in 1910 and the third Franconia in 1963.
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 ...
Around 1900, the Cunard Line faced tight competition from the British White Star Line and the German lines Norddeutscher Lloyd and Hamburg America (HAPAG). Cunard ' s largest liners, as of 1898 RMS Campania and RMS Lucania, had a reputation for size and speed, both being of 12,950 gross register tons (grt) and having held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. [1]
RMS Parthia was the second of two all first class transatlantic passenger cargo liners built for the Cunard Line. She later served on the London to Auckland route for the New Zealand Shipping Company under the name Remuera, and still later as a Pacific cruise ship under the name Aramac. She was scrapped in 1969–70. [1] [2]
RMS Saxonia was a British passenger liner built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Scotland for the Cunard Steamship Company for their Liverpool-Montreal service. She was the first of four almost identical sister ships built by Browns between 1954 and 1957 for UK-Montreal service.
Scotia was a British passenger liner operated by the Cunard Line that won the Blue Riband in 1863 for the fastest westbound transatlantic voyage. She was the last oceangoing paddle steamer, and as late as 1874 she made Cunard's second fastest voyage.
In the face of these threats the Cunard Line was determined to regain the prestige of dominance in ocean travel not only for the company, but also for the United Kingdom. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] By 1902, Cunard Line and the British government reached an agreement to build two superliners, Lusitania and Mauretania , [ 3 ] with a guaranteed service speed of ...