The Cunarders

RMS Britannia (1840) to RMS Queen Mary 2 (2004) and Beyond

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Welcome to our "The Cunarders" website celebrating the great ships of Cunard Line.  The Cunard Line was founded in 1840 by Sir Samuel Cunard and has become one of the most famous British shipping lines and its ships still sail its traditional transatlantic route today in the 21st century thus enabling passengers to continue to enjoy and relive the Golden Age of Ocean Travel. 

Cunard Line over the years has produced some of Britain's greatest ocean liners and is closely associated with great ships such as Mauretania, Lusitania, Aquitania, Caronia and of course the legendary Cunard Queens. Indeed it has for many years celebrated the fact that it has "The Most Famous Ocean Liners in the World".

This renowned shipping line has long been associated with the transatlantic route to New York and the Dominion route to Canada.

In recent years there have been many ownership changes to Cunard Line. In 1971 it was bought by Trafalgar House Investments Ltd, a company with interests in property, civil engineering, hotel ownership, house building and investments. In 1996 Cunard was acquired by the Norwegian company, Knaevner. Finally in 1998 it was bought by Carnival Corporation, the American cruise giant set up by Ted Arison. In 2003 Carnival Corporation merged with the British cruise giant, P&O Princess Cruises PLC, to form a dual listed company as Carnival Corporation and PLC headquartered in both London and Miami. This merger created the largest cruise company in the world.
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Today the line is part of the Carnival Corporation & PLC cruise empire and is now enjoying renewed success and is entering a new Golden Age with a new pair of Cunard Queens gracing the world's oceans in the form of the famous RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 and the new RMS Queen Mary 2. In 2007 history will be made when these legendary ships are to joined by another Queen - the Queen Victoria - giving Cunard Line for the first time ever a trio of Cunard Queens.


Throughout the website any links to external websites will open up in a new window. When this happens you will be leaving the Cunarders website. So when you leave this website we hope you have enjoyed your visit to us today and will return again soon.

If you have any comments about this website please feel free to contact me, Alex Naughton, via e-mail at:

info@thecunarders.co.uk
This Website is developed using historical information researched from a wide variety of sources, including books, magazines and websites etc too numerous to mention or credit individually. While we try our very best to ensure that any apparent "copyrights" are not breached, due to limited time and resources we cannot always guarantee that inadvertently mistakes may occur. But should such inadvertent mistakes come to light we will do our best to cooperate. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee to give credit to all information sources used. We hope you understand.

The Internet was designed and created as a place independent of governments, free from any aspect of control, and where freedom of speech reigns supreme and it will probably always remain like this. Unfortunately we cannot uninvent the internet and we must face facts and accept that in today's globalised modern world, we will have less and less control over what is said and put on the internet. While I do sympathise with those who wish to hold back this technological change and resolutely protect to the full their "copyright" over material. Sadly, with respect, I think that they do not understand the realities of the modern technological, internet dominated world. Frankly it is inevitable that we cannot always guarantee that all copyrights will be protected resolutely on the internet anymore. We can try our very best but to police comprehensively the complete protection of all copyrights on the internet is nigh on impossible. Even global corporations are having trouble controlling the internet, so how us individuals can expect to control and police it I fail to see. For every website that is notified successfully of an inadvertent copyright protection breach there will inevitably be billions out there that continue to use perhaps unauthorised material. I am sorry if that seems a gloomy prediction, but I fear that this is a reality and a fact of life now and we must accept and resign ourselves to the realities of today's modern communication and internet age in the 21st century.


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