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Cunard Line, from New York to Liverpool, from 1875 In 1850 the American Collins Line and the British Inman Line started new Atlantic steamship services. The American Government supplied Collins with a large annual subsidy to operate four wooden paddlers that were superior to Cunard's best, [ 21 ] as they demonstrated with three Blue Riband ...
Aurania was constructed in 1881 at the J. & G. Thomson & Co. shipyard in Glasgow, United Kingdom for Cunard Line.She was completed in 1883 and made her first voyage on 23 June 1883 from Liverpool to Queenstown to New York.
Commonwealth and Dominion was taken over by the Cunard Line in June 1916, at the initiative of Thomas Royden, who was already a director of Cunard. Several Cunard directors joined the board of Commonwealth and Dominion, now renamed Cunard Line Australasian Service, Commonwealth & Dominion Line Ltd, and in exchange several Commonwealth and Dominion directors joined Cunard's board.
After leaving Cunard in 1845, she briefly served as a corvette in the Portuguese Navy. [5] She was bought by Samuel Cunard in January 1849, given to his son in February, and sold in October 1849. From 1849 to 1853, she operated under the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. and would make trips from San Francisco to Panama .
1906–1934: Cunard Line 1934–1935: Cunard White Star Line: Operator: Cunard Line: Port of registry: Liverpool: Route: Liverpool–Queenstown–New York (1907–1919) Southampton–Cherbourg–New York (1919–1934) Ordered: 1904: Builder: Swan Hunter, Northumberland, England: Yard number: 735: Laid down: 18 August 1904: Launched: 20 ...
Launched on 1 March 1881, Servia was the first of Cunard's new breed of ocean liners. She was the third largest ship in the world at 515 feet long and 52.1 feet wide, [ 2 ] surpassed only by Brunel 's SS Great Eastern and Inman Line 's SS City of Rome .
RMS Etruria was a transatlantic ocean liner built by John Elder & Co of Glasgow, Scotland in 1884 for Cunard Line. Etruria and her sister ship Umbria were the last two Cunarders that were fitted with auxiliary sails. [1]
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.