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	Steamship Lines - LoveToKnow 1911
		In 1826 the " United Kingdom," a " leviathan steamship," as she was considered at the time of her construction, was built for the London and Edinburgh trade, steamship facilities in the coasting trade being naturally of much greater relative importance in the days before railways.
		In 1870 the Cunard Company first fitted compound engines to their steamship " Batavia," and in 1881 the " Servia," the first steel vessel in the service, was the pioneer of the larger type which constitutes the present express fleet.
		In 1868 steamship communication was opened between Tokyo and Osaka; in 1871 the Yubin Kisen Kaisha Steamship Company came into existence under the control of the Imperial Bureau of Communication; and in the same year a private company, called the Mitsubishi Kaisha, was founded.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Steamship_Lines (15965 words)

	Ships of State - The Cunard Steamship Company Limited
		company, whose name in simple utterance, evokes nostalgia and a longing for the luxurious ocean-going liners of the past, the Cunard Line was once merely an upstart competitor in the Atlantic mail trade.
		It was in this year that Cunard reached a new height in excellence with the construction of the Lusitania, by John Brown and Co. Ltd, and the Mauretania, by Messrs.
		Cunard had finally become the undisputed ruler of the Atlantic.
	uncommonjourneys.com /pages/lines/cunard.htm (1994 words)

	RMS Olympic: Another Premature Death? : (2002) by Mark Chirnside - 8 April 2002
		Immediately following the merger, the new company was faced with continued low passenger traffic in the depression, combined with an excessively large fleet of ships, many of which were ageing and serving on similar routes.
		But, upon the merger of the two companies, it was apparent that several of them would soon be sent to the scrap yards.
		All vessels were of a similar size, ranging from 45,000 to 56,000 gross tons; all were of similar speed, with usual averages ranging from 21.5 or 22 to 23.5 or 24 knots; and all had similar facilities, accommodations, and good reputations.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /item/1502 (2441 words)

	Cunard Steamship Lines
		The prosperous company eventually absorbed Canadian Northern Steamships Limited and its principal competition, the White Star Line[?], owners of the ill-fated, RMS Titanic.
		Cunard introduced the first passenger ship to be lit by electricity (Servia, 1881).
		Cunard held the record from 1940-1996 for the largest passenger ship ever built (Queen Elizabeth, 1940).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cu/Cunard_Steamship_Lines.html (236 words)

	J&G Maritime History Society \|
		She was the Cunard's flagship but the Elizabeth was never held in the same esteem as the Queen Mary which was regarded as being more grand.-- or the Eighth Wonder of the world,according to Cary Grant.
		A Cunard Architect reputedly travelled incognito on her rival, the magnificently ornate Normandie,and craftily extracted information on design and performance from unwitting crewmen who thought he was planning a new baking oven.The architect was deeply impressed with the innovative lines and layout which were incorperated in the Elizabeth's graceful interiors.
		She was repainted in the Cunard peacetime livery, and a proper cinema hall, which was not in the original layout was installed.She resumed regular passenger service across the Atlantic on 31st July 1947.
	www.freewebs.com /graham7760/cunardships.htm (4138 words)

	Cunard Steamship Company / Cunard White Star - PortCities Southampton
		In 1840 he was successful in obtaining a contract to carry mail across the Atlantic using steamships, then in their infancy.
		The Cunarders were fast and comfortable (although the comfort did not always extend to the emigrants in steerage), but rarely luxurious.
		In 1916, a company that served Australia was acquired, which became well known as Port Line.
	www.plimsoll.org /OnTheLine/ShippingLines/cunard/default.asp (281 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Cunard and Son had also tendered in 1815 to supply a 100-ton vessel for government service to protect the trade and fisheries and prevent smuggling, to sail to New York for mail in winter, to transport the lieutenant governor on official tours, and to move men or supplies to military outposts.
		Cunard’s escape in March 1842 had been assisted by Duncan Gibb, a timber merchant and for many years Liverpool agent for Pollok, Gilmour, and Company, who had hidden him in a cottage and then provided a boat to row him out after the steamer had left her moorings.
		Cunard and Company were destroyed when the firm’s north pier and the Cunard office building and warehouse were demolished in 1911 and 1917.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38502 (9639 words)

	cunard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Cunard supplied eleven of his sixteen ships to the Admiralty during this war for the purpose of troop transport.
		c) To construct each such steamship to the satisfaction of an inspector to be agreed upon between Admiralty and the company and to be employed at the joint expense of the Admiralty and the company.
		To mortgage or cause to be mortgaged to the trustees the steamships referred to in the schedule of the trust deed and the new fast steamers.
	www.lusitania.net /cunard.htm (2125 words)

	Cunard Company
		Cunard Company, conceived and built by the Haligonian shipowner and entrepreneur Samuel CUNARD.
		The Cunard group became a public company in 1878, adopting the name Cunard Steamship Company Limited.
		Cunard dominated the Atlantic passenger trade with liners such as the Lusitania and Mauretania, and later the legendary Queen ships (including the still-active Queen Elizabeth 2), almost to the end of the era of the superliners.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002077 (209 words)

	Cunard, QE2 and QM2 cruises
		She is the first vessel Cunard intended to rely solely on passenger revenue.
		Cunard is awarded the German liner, Imperator, by the British Government to compensate for the loss of Lusitania.
		Cunard charters Concorde for the first time, thus making use of the company's greatest competitor on the Atlantic, the jet aircraft.
	www.seaview.co.uk /cruiselines/cunard/Cunard_History.html (1243 words)

	RMS Queen Mary - LostLiners.com
		Cunard's directors pleaded with the British Parliament to fund the completion of their new ship.
		Because the new liner was not built to Admiralty specifications (Cunard didn't really believe she would ever be used in war) the government refused to subsidize Cunard.
		Cunard had actually contemplated purchasing its former rival but the board of directors decided that the financial risk was too great and passed.
	www.lostliners.com /Liners/Cunard/Queen_Mary/merger.html (1253 words)

	Cunard Steamship Society: Who We Are
		At this point in his career he made Cunard Line history by sailing in command of the same ship as his father, the late Commodore William E Warwick CBE RD RNR who was the first Master of the QE2 before he retired from active service in 1972.
		Following the arrival of the new Cunard flagship in Southampton on December 26, 2003 Captain Warwick was given a new title - that of Commodore of the Cunard Line.
		Captain Warwick is a Younger Brother of Trinity House, a member of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners, a founder member and Fellow of the Nautical Institute, Governor of the Marine Society and a retired officer of the British Royal Naval Reserve.
	www.cunardsteamshipsociety.com /who.html (834 words)

	Cunard Steamship Society: Who We Are
		At this point in his career he made Cunard Line history by sailing in command of the same ship as his father, the late Commodore William E Warwick CBE RD RNR who was the first Master of the QE2 before he retired from active service in 1972.
		Following the arrival of the new Cunard flagship in Southampton on December 26, 2003 Captain Warwick was given a new title - that of Commodore of the Cunard Line.
		Captain Warwick is a Younger Brother of Trinity House, a member of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners, a founder member and Fellow of the Nautical Institute, Governor of the Marine Society and a retired officer of the British Royal Naval Reserve.
	cunardsteamshipsociety.com /who.html (834 words)

	::Pier21 - Gateway to Canada : : Cunard on Canvas: The Langley Collection::
		Halifax is Samuel Cunard’s hometown, where the ships of his line and their passengers changed the face of Canada forever.
		John G. Langley, Q.C., a native of Halifax and an avid Cunard collector and historian, is the founding director and chairman of the Cunard Steamship Society.
		Cunard on Canvas: The Langley Collection is on display inside the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Theatre for one year, commencing on Saturday, September 25, 2004 in time for the Queen Mary 2 inaugural visit to Halifax.
	www.pier21.ca /index.php?id=3468 (350 words)

	Cunard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Cunard ships were usually not the largest or the fastest but they were the most reliable and the safest.
		Cunard liners such as Lusitania, Mauretania, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, set new standards for comfort and service.
		Yet Cunard began to decline in the 1950s, as air travel began replacing ships as the main transporters of passengers and mail across the Atlantic.
	www.john-edwards.com /cunard.htm (253 words)

	New Jersey Scuba Diver - Dive Sites - Oregon
		Her vessels were not generating enough revenue to enable the company to maintain the payment schedule to the builder, to whom the ship was heavily mortgaged.
		Cunard had full coverage on the Oregon so the only loss the company incurred was unearned future revenues, until a replacement vessel could he purchased or built.
		Cunard's best defense against all claimants was a case then pending in the Supreme Court involving a collision between the Scotland and the Kate Dyer, which occurred in I 866.
	www.njscuba.net /sites/site_oregon.html (13826 words)

	Cunard Steamship Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Steamships like the Servia above and the Saxonia below were part of the Cunard Steamship Line at the turn of the century.
		The circulars of the Hungarian Government circa 1904 made the Cunard Steamship Line the only authorized line to carry emigrants from Hungary to the United States.
		If anyone knows additional information on the Cunard Steamship Line between Fuime and the United States during this time period, please let us know via email to ships@iarelative.com so we can add the information to this page.
	www.iarelative.com /hung1903/cunard.htm (194 words)

	Cruise Critic News: Cunard Honors Retiring Commodore Warwick Onboard QM2
		Cunard's Commodore Ronald Warwick retires this month after 36 years with the line -- a milestone that was celebrated at a luncheon onboard Queen Mary 2 this past Monday at the new cruise terminal in Brooklyn.
		Indeed he's a familiar face to many Cunard fans: He joined the company in 1970 as a third officer, and climbed the ranks to make captain of Cunard Princess (now MSC's Rhapsody) in 1986.
		Cunard President Carol Marlow, however, assured guests they hadn't "seen the last of him," and that he will continue to be involved in the company.
	www.cruisecritic.com /news/news.cfm?ID=1729 (576 words)

	Transport
		Evolution of the Tram Company of a Spanish city, La Coruña, with the evolution of the city.
		Cunard, Samuel, Sir, 1787-1865; Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd.--History.
		Company is Britain's largest independent haulage and distribution organisation with over 2,000 employees and an annual turnover in excess of £150 million.
	www.kipnotes.com /Transport.htm (4365 words)

	Chris' Cunard Page
		She made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Halifax and Boston on 4 July 1840, Samuel Cunard's Birthday, which, being the celebration day of American Independence, was viewed by many as a coincidence indicative of future prosperity.
		The Caronia entered service for Cunard in 1905 and at the time she and her sister, Carmania, were the largest ships in the Cunard fleet.
		The two ships also formed the center of an important experiment for Cunard, one was powered by quadruple-expansion engines and the other by steam turbines.
	members.westnet.com.au /inyoni/cunard/early.htm (1499 words)

	Parthia I (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		She was sold to the Northwestern Steamship Company in 1904.
		In 1908, Northwestern Steamship Company was absorbed by the Alaska Steamship Company.
		She was quickly purchased by the Straits Towage and Salvage Company and, by then the oldest USA steamer (The Marine Digest, 26 Dec 1953), converted into a log carrying barge and renamed Straits No. 27 in 1955.
	www.parthia.com /ships/parthia_01.htm (1277 words)

	Amazon.com: Age of Cunard: Books: Daniel Allen Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Still, the heart and soul of The Age of Cunard is found not in a recitation of ships and statistics, but in the men and women who brought the Line to life.
		The Age of Cunard brings the whole amazing tale vibrantly alive, from the tiny Britannia of 1840, to the Queen Mary 2, the new leviathan which is the ultimate confirmation of all that Samuel Cunard had once striven to achieve.
		The fl-hulled ships with the unique orange-red funnels have set the Cunard seal for all time over passenger travel on the North Atlantic: just as the ships of the Cunard Line were the first to regularly sail the great northern ocean, now they are the last passenger liners still making that crossing.
	www.amazon.com /Age-Cunard-Daniel-Allen-Butler/dp/1577853482 (1303 words)

	Fishguard Harbour Information for Steamship Passengers - Part 1 of 2
		Fishguard is situated on the south-west coast of Wales, and is the nearest British port to New York used by Atlantic liners.
		Then Dinas Head comes into view; and, stretching from the land between, is the long straight breakwater close to which the Cunard steamers anchor.
		The latter has ample saloon accommodation, so that the short journey of a few minutes' duration from ship to shore is made under the most comfortable conditions.
	www.steamships.org /maritime/ports/fishguard/port_of_fishguard_01.html (593 words)

	Cunard Souvenir Steamship Tableware
		In: Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd, Souvenir of the Launching of RMS Aquitania.
		One of the most beautiful patterns ever produced for a steamship line, this pattern was.
		Interesting notice attached to the booklet "The Cunard Steamship Company are.
	cruiseonbudget.com /cunard_souvenir_steamship_tableware.html (571 words)

	Queen Mary's Meet
		In May of 1930, Britain’s Cunard Steamship Company awarded John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland the task of constructing what was hailed as the “ultimate ship”.
		The legend continues that a delegation of Cunard directors went, as was protocol, to ask King George’s blessing of the ship’s proposed name.
		To transform her into a troopship, she was stripped of her signature Cunard red, fl and white and slapped with a coat of camouflage grey.
	www.thequeenmarysmeet.com /QUEENMARY/index.html (1769 words)

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		The White Star Line existed from 1845 to 1934 at which time it was financially forced to merge with the Cunard Steamship Company, White Star's number one competitive rival throughout the years.
		Cunard eventually liquidated White Star's assets and holdings in 1957 and dropped the White Star name returning to the original name; Cunard Steamship Company Inc.
		As the company grew and became more financially sound, a contract agreement was made with Harland and Wolff Shipbuilders to build ships exclusively for White Star.
	www.titanic-whitestarships.com /MGY_Demise.htm (377 words)

	Mosforge :: Cunard
		Cunard Steamship Society: Cunard Steamship Line, Samuel Cunard, British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
		the primary aim is to bring together those who share a common interest in the rich history and proud tradition of the cunard steamship company.
		the queen elizabeth 2, or qe2 as she is commonly known was the flagship of the cunard line for over 30 years.
	www.mosforge.net /page.aspx?id=6110 (145 words)

	The sinking of the Titanic, ch. 16: Carpathia to the rescue (1912) by Jay Henry Mowbray
		Cunarder's Race to Titanic's Aid — Captain Rostrom's Unvarnished but Dramatic Report — Knot in Operator's Shoelace Saved Hundreds of Lives — Was About to Retire, but Slight Delay Enabled Him to Hear Message — Icebergs Defied in Desperate Rush.
		Before the Carpathia sailed once again on her sadly interrupted voyage to the Mediterranean, Captain A.H. Rostrom made public the report he has sent to the Cunard Company telling an unvarnished tale of the rescue of the Titanic survivors.
		Officers of the Cunard and White Star Lines, from their offices on Lower Broadway, informed the anxious hundreds who appealed for information that the boat would not be in until probably one or two o'clock in the morning.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ca /titnch16.htm (1760 words)

	Souvenir of the launching of RMS 'Aquitania', April 1913 : Previous items of the month : The Caird Library : ...
		The cost of construction was £2 million, a large sum for the period, paid for almost entirely by the Cunard company.
		Cunard made sure that Aquitania was provided with highly artistic and costly luxuries.
		Cunard’s Lusitania and Mauretania were the fastest liners on the North Atlantic but Aquitania was designed to express opulence and grandeur and therefore exceeded the Lusitania and Mauretania in size.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /server/show/ConWebDoc.19572 (638 words)

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