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	Cunard Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cunard Line formerly Cunard White Star Line is the British cruise line that operates the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) and RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2) ocean liners.
		Cunard had its beginnings in 1838 when Canadian shipping magnate Samuel Cunard, along with engineer Robert Napier, and businessmen James Donaldson, Sir George Burns, and David MacIver formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
		Cunard ships were usually not the largest or the fastest but they earned a reputation for being the most reliable and the safest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cunard_Line (872 words)

	180-183 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cunard initiated the system of sailing with green lights to starboard, red to port, and white on the masthead; this became the standard for the entire maritime world and is just one example of how well-managed his shipping operations were.
		In 1859 Cunard was honoured by Queen Victoria with a knighthood.
		Cunard dominated the Atlantic passenger trade to the end of the era of superliners.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/180-183.htm (825 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Samuel Cunard
		Sir Samuel Cunard (November 21, 1787 – April 28, 1865) was a Canadian-born British shipping magnate.Cunard was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of a master carpenter and timber merchant who had fled the American Revolution and settled in Halifax.
		Samuel's business skills were evident at an early age and by age 17 he was managing his own general store.
		In 1859, Samuel Cunard was knighted by Queen Victoria.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Samuel_Cunard (301 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
		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.
		Samuel Cunard was only one of over 200 shareholders (including his brothers Henry and Joseph) from Quebec and the Maritimes in the Quebec and Halifax Steam Navigation Company formed in 1830 and incorporated the next year.
		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.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=38502 (9639 words)

	Cunard, Sir Samuel
		Cunard joined his father in the timber business and with interests that expanded into whaling, lumber, coal and iron as well as shipping, he amassed a large personal fortune by the 1830s.
		The first Cunard sailing was made in May 1840, but the paddle steamer Britannia began regular mail service by steam that July by crossing from Liverpool to Halifax and then Boston in 14 days and 8 hours.
		Cunard moved to England to supervise his shipping interests, was made a baronet in 1859 for the services of his vessels in the Crimean War and died in London.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0002076 (426 words)

	Ships of State - The Cunard Steamship Company Limited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Before the time of luxury and extravagance on the blustery Atlantic, ocean travel was once a rough and primitive shadow of its current self, without the amenities and conveniences which have become the modern standard aboard all passenger vessels.
		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)

	Cruise Critic Reviews: Cunard Line
		Cunard applied for and received a contract from the British government to carry the Royal Mail from Britain to North America on a fleet of steamships that would maintain a weekly service.
		At the beginning of the 20th century, Cunard applied for and received a subsidy from the British government to build a pair of ships that would not only be the largest in the world, but the fastest.
		In 1998, Cunard was acquired by Carnival Cruises, which merged the management of Cunard with Seabourn, their other luxury brand.
	www.cruisecritic.com /reviews/cruiseline.cfm?CruiseLineID=13 (2065 words)

	Cunard, QE2 and QM2 cruises
		Cunard carries more than one million troops and ten million tons of cargo for the war cause.
		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)

	Sir Samuel Cunard - Canadian History
		(17871865), shipowner, was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on November 21, the son of Abraham Cunard.
		He became a successful merchant of Halifax, was one of the founders of the Halifax Banking Company in 1825, and in 1831 was appointed a member of the Council of Twelve in Nova Scotia.
		In 1838 he founded the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, from which originated the Cunard line of steamships; and he was thus the pioneer of regular trans-Atlantic steam navigation.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/SirSamuelCunard-CanadianHistory.htm (173 words)

	Cunard: The Most Famous Ocean Liners In The World
		The project recognizes the far-reaching impact of Sir Samuel Cunard's contributions to the city of Halifax, province of Nova Scotia, Canada and the world.
		Cunard Line is the lead sponsor of the memorial, contributing a $75,000 donation, and The Halifax Foundation has now raised $100,000 to support the $275,000 project.
		His first command was of the Cunard Princess when she was sailing in Alaskan waters in 1986.
	www.cunard.co.uk /news?Cat=&View=ViewArticle&Mode=News&ContentID=4860&Active=News (568 words)

	Cunard Steamship Society: Cunard Steamship Line, Samuel Cunard, British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet ...
		The Cunard Steamship Society was incorporated as a nonprofit, membership based association under the provisions of the Societies Act for the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1998.
		It was conceived by John G. Langley, Q.C. of Halifax, Nova Scotia, birthplace of Sir Samuel Cunard.
		It was the first film to focus on the early life of Samuel Cunard providing the viewer with considerable insight into Cunard's formative years in his native Province of Nova Scotia.
	cunardsteamshipsociety.com (610 words)

	Nova Scotian Samuel Cunard : IMC Maritimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nova Scotian Samuel Cunard, master mariner, was one of the key pioneers of the age of steam.
		John is chairman of the Cunard Steamship Society, a group devoted to the life and times of the 19th-century entrepreneur who made his fortune in shipping and mining.
		Even there, Cunard is such a presence that John has named a room after him and filled it with memorabilia.
	maritimes.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=4191 (830 words)

	Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1839 Samuel Cunard, in partnership with George Burns of Glasgow and David MacIver of Liverpool, formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company.
		The English poet and satirist Samuel Butler is famous as the author of Hudibras, the most memorable burlesque poem in the English language and the first English satire to make a notable and successful attack on ideas rather than on personalities.
		The English novelist Samuel Richardson explored the dramatic possibilities of the novel by his use of the letter form, known as the epistolary technique.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028207 (698 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Samuel Cunard was one of the small shareholders in the Annapolis Iron Mining Company, incorporated by the legislature of Nova Scotia in 1825 to smelt and manufacture iron in Annapolis County; the largest shareholder was Cyrus Alger of Boston.
		After the Miramichi fire of 1825, Joseph and Henry Cunard used the capital of the family firm for the aggressive building of a timber empire over the south bank of the Miramichi in rivalry with Alexander Rankin*.
		Samuel was elected head of the Halifax committee of the shareholders.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38502 (9639 words)

	cunard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cunard supplied eleven of his sixteen ships to the Admiralty during this war for the purpose of troop transport.
		Cunard also prepared a memo for the company which outlined their obligations in the agreement,
		Cunard was effectively under the control of the British Government by way of the Admiralty.
	www.lusitania.net /cunard.htm (2125 words)

	Cunard: The Most Famous Ocean Liners In The World
		Samuel Cunard was a highly successful and enterprising Canadian businessman and one of a group of 12 individuals who directed the affairs of Nova Scotia.
		In order to successfully carry out his contract, Cunard solicited the assistance of Robert Napier, an engineering genius who was responsible for creating the engines of some of the best new ships of his day.
		In 1981, Sir Samuel Cunard was inducted in ASTA's Travel Hall of Fame in honor of his contribution to developing transatlantic travel.
	www.cunard.com /AboutCunard?Active=Heritage&Sub=Samuel (265 words)

	CANOE -- TRAVEL: - Museum inn shipshape
		A visionary who foresaw the day when steam power would replace sailing on the North Atlantic, Cunard's ships were long associated with many maritime firsts including the first to use navigation lights and the first ship to be lit by electricity.
		Cunard was a prominent businessman involved in the development of the coal and timber industries, and ship building in the Maritimes.
		Cunard on Canvas -- The Langley Collection at Pier 21 in Halifax is an art exhibit that provides an historic perspective of Samuel Cunard and the Cunard Line.
	www.canoe.ca /Travel/Canada/AtlanticCanada/2005/10/12/pf-1259503.html (802 words)

	Sir Samuel Cunard
		Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet, British civil engineer, founder of the Cunard line of steamships, was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 21st of November 1787.
		MacIver of Liverpool, proprietors of rival lines of coasting steamers between Glasgow and Liverpool, he formed a company, and the first voyage of a Cunard steamship was successfully made by the "Britannia" from Liverpool to Boston, Massachusetts, between July 4 and 19, 1840.
		In acknowledgment of his energetic and successful services Cunard was, in 1859, created a baronet.
	www.nndb.com /people/320/000096032 (185 words)

	TGOL - Britannia
		The newspapers were not exactly hysterical about her as only two lines were spared for her in the local press at the day of her arrival.
		1840 (Samuel Cunard’s birthday as well as the American day of independence), 63 passengers including Cunard himself along with his daughter embarked the Britannia who was to leave England on her maiden voyage towards Boston in the New World.
		Cunard Line’s reputation of reliability was threatened, but the citizens of Boston were obviously very emotionally attached to the ship as some of the city’s leading inhabitants put the money up to cut the ice up and free the liner.
	www.greatoceanliners.net /britannia.html (1097 words)

	Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet - Britannica Concise
		Cunard, Sir Samuel, - British merchant and shipowner who founded the first regular Atlantic steamship line.
		Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton, - English writer and genealogist chiefly important as the editor of rare Elizabethan and 17th-century texts, notably the 17th-century writer Edward Phillips' critical miscellany Theatrum Poetarum (1800; “Theatre of Poets”) and Robert Greene's autobiographical pamphlet Greenes groatsworth of witte.
		Search for "Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet" at Encyclopædia Britannica Online for all this plus dictionary definitions, magazine articles, and more.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9362023 (401 words)

	Cunard Family Crest
		The surname Cunard is derived from the Old English word cumb, which means valley.
		The surname Cunard belongs to the large class of Anglo-Saxon topographic surnames, which were given to people who resided near physical features such as hills, streams, churches, or types of trees.
		In the Cunard coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/cunard-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224 (544 words)

	Steamer Trunk Merchants: Cunard Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By the time Samuel Cunard founded the British and North American Royal Mail Steamer Packet Company in 1839, he was barely 25, but his destiny as the father of "Queens" was already molded.
		A "bright, tight little man with keen eyes" according to one of his friends, he was also unstoppable—without much more ado, the mail steamer Britannic made it into Boston harbor via Halifax in 15 days.
		She became the Cunard flagship, despite her German origin.
	www.steamertrunkmerchants.com /Salon/SteamshipLines/cunardinfo.htm (226 words)

	Sir Samuel Cunard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cunard sailed from Canada to England in 1838 where he formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later known as the Cunard Line, Ltd.
		Samuel Cunard, pioneer of the Atlantic steamship (1967) by Kay Grant.
		Cunard: 150 glorious years (1989) by John Maxtone-Graham.
	particle.physics.ucdavis.edu /bios/Cunard.html (170 words)

	Sir Samuel Cunard
		CUNARD, Sir Samuel, founder of the Cunard steamship line, born in Halifax, N. S., 15 November 1787; died in England, 28 April 1865.
		In 1838 he formed the Cunard Company, and made a contract with the British government to carry the mails fortnightly for seven years between Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston.
		Cunard was created a baronet, 9 March 1857.-His son, Sir Edward, born in Halifax, N. S., 1 January 1816; died in New York, 6 April 1869, was educated in his native province, and was for thirty years agent of the Cunard line of steamers at New York.
	www.famousamericans.net /sirsamuelcunard (346 words)

	cunard home page
		The Cunard Line was begun by Samuel Cunard in 1840 as the North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, though always known as the Cunard Line.
		These four ships began, what was to become, over of 100 years of leadership and constant competition to all who tried to operate service between the continents.
		Cunard's dream was to operate a weekly service using only two grand liners.
	home.pacbell.net /steamer/cpage.htm (322 words)

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		Originally spearheaded by the Master of Queen Mary 2, Commodore Ronald Warwick, the Sir Samuel Cunard Memorial Project is being realized by The Halifax Foundation, the only community foundation in Nova Scotia.
		He was a true visionary who foresaw the day when steam power would replace sailing on the North Atlantic, changing the course of maritime history and creating the "ocean railway." Cunard's ships were long associated with many maritime firsts including the first to use navigation lights and the first ship to be lit by electricity.
		The Cunard celebrations continued today at Halifax's Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, the largest site in Nova Scotia that collects and interprets various elements of Nova Scotia's marine history.
	www.wheretogonext.com /2005release.php?releaseID=1064 (552 words)

	Samuel Cunard - First Atlantic Cruises - Cruises
		Until Samuel Cunard came along, ships to the US were one-off runs to carry certain groups of people.
		This was really the first time that average people could just watch a schedule and decide when they wanted to make that voyage.
		He called his tiny cabin a "coffin" and the main saloon was a tiny wooden room with a stove at one end to huddle around for warmth.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art32094.asp (284 words)

	CUNARD, SIR SAMUEL - Online Information article about CUNARD, SIR SAMUEL
		company, and the first voyage of a Cunard steamship was successfully made by the " Britannia " from Liverpool to See also:
		ACKNOWLEDGMENT (from the old acknow, a compound of on- and know, to know by the senses, which passed through the forms oknow, aknow and acknow; acknowledge is formed on analogy of " knowledge ")
		acknowledgment of his energetic and successful services Cunard was, in 1859, created a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CRE_DAH/CUNARD_SIR_SAMUEL.html (315 words)

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