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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
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 ...
RMS Mauretania was a British ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson on the River Tyne, England for the Cunard Line, launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906.
RMS Queen Mary [3] is a retired British ocean liner that operated primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line.Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, she was subsequently joined by RMS Queen Elizabeth [4] in Cunard's two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York.
RMS Ivernia was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line, built by the company C. S. Swan & Hunter of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and launched in 1899.The Ivernia was one of Cunard's intermediate ships, that catered to the vast immigrant trade between Europe and the United States of America in the early 20th century.
RMS Campania was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan, Scotland, and launched on Thursday, 8 September 1892. Identical in dimensions and specifications to her sister ship RMS Lucania, Campania was the largest and fastest passenger liner afloat when she entered service ...
RMS Antonia and her sister ship Andania were the first two of the six 14,000 ton "A" ocean liners built for Cunard in the early 1920s. Antonia was built by Vickers Ltd ., and launched in 1921. She made her maiden voyage from London to Montreal on 15 June 1922.
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]