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Ship Built In service for Cunard Type GRT Notes Image Assyria: 1950: 1950–1963: Cargo ship: 8663: Sold to Greece as Laertis: Alsatia: 1948: 1951–1963: Cargo ship: 7226: 1951 ex Silverplane purchased from Silver Line, 1963 sold to Taiwan, renamed Union Freedom: Andria: 1948: 1951–1963: Cargo ship: 7228
Cunard owned two-thirds of the new company. Cunard purchased White Star's share in 1947; the name reverted to the Cunard Line in 1950. [5] Upon the end of the Second World War, Cunard regained its position as the largest Atlantic passenger line. By the mid-1950s, it operated 12 ships to the United States and Canada.
The first ship, RMS Saxonia was delivered in 1954, with RMS Ivernia following in 1955, RMS Carinthia in 1956, and finally Sylvania in 1957. [6] As was the tradition for Cunard Line vessels, all ships were named after Latin names of provinces of the Roman and Holy Roman Empires.
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.
RMS Ivernia was a Saxonia-class ocean liner, built in 1955 by John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Scotland for Cunard Line, for their transatlantic passenger service between the UK and Canada. In 1963 she was rebuilt as a cruise ship and renamed RMS Franconia, after the famous pre-war liner Franconia (1922). She continued to sail for Cunard ...
RMS Carinthia was an ocean liner built in 1956 as one of the four Saxonia-class ships. [4] She sailed for Cunard Line from her completion until 1968 when she was sold to Sitmar Line, rebuilt into a full-time cruise ship and renamed SS Fairsea. She sailed with Sitmar until 1988, when Sitmar was sold to P&O.
RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line.Along with the Queen Mary, she provided a weekly transatlantic service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States, via Cherbourg in France.
Ships operated by Cunard Line. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. L. RMS Laconia (1921) (4 P) RMS Lusitania (2 C, 10 P, 1 ...