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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 ...
SS Cuba was a passenger and cargo steamship that was wrecked in 1923 off the coast of California.Her remains are now a wreck diving site. She was launched in Germany in 1897 as Coblenz for Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), who owned and operated her until the United States seized her in 1917.
SS Abyssinia; RMS Alaunia (1913) RMS Alaunia (1925) SS Albania (1920) SS Aleppo; America-class steamship; RMS Andania (1913) RMS Andania (1921) RMS Antonia; RMS Aquitania; SS Arabia (1852) RMS Ascania (1923) HMS Audacity; HMS Artifex; RMS Aurania (1882) RMS Aurania (1916) RMS Aurania (1924) RMS Ausonia
Cunard offered Parry a fortnightly service beginning in May 1840. While Cunard did not then own a steamship, he had been an investor in an earlier steamship venture, Royal William, and owned coal mines in Nova Scotia. [13] Cunard's major backer was Robert Napier whose Robert Napier and Sons was the Royal Navy's supplier of steam engines. [17]
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.
Thus in 1884, the much larger and modern SS Skirmisher was built to act as a tender. Satellite was used less as a passenger tender, after the completion of Skirmisher and began to be used to transport workers from ship to shore more often. [3] [8] By October 1902, Satellite was sold to Alexander Gordon of Newry for £410 to be broken up.
RMS Caronia was a Cunard Line transatlantic steam ocean liner. She was launched in 1904 and scrapped in 1932. In World War I she was first an armed merchant cruiser (AMC) and then a troop ship. RMS Carmania was launched in 1905 as her sister ship, although the two had different machinery. When new, the pair were the largest ships in the Cunard ...
SS Java was a British and French ocean liner built in 1865 at Glasgow by J. G. Thompson & Co. It served for the Cunard Line. One passenger, the musician Philo Adams Otis, noted: [1] There were only four good ships of the Cunard Company in the Liverpool service in 1873: Russia, Scotia, Cuba, and Java. The two former were side-wheelers and were ...