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The Cunarders THE MOST FAMOUS OCEAN LINERS IN THE WORLD
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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
many great ships such as Mauretania, Lusitania, Aquitania, Caronia and
of
course the legendary Cunard Queens. Many of its ships have given
sterling service through war and peace. But not to be forgotten is the
Carpathia and her epic role in the rescuing of the survivors from the
ill fated Titanic. As a result her story lives on and she has become a
legend. Today the Carpathia and her story is forever intertwined with
that of the Titanic and her tragic sinking on her maiden voyage in the
early hours of the 15th April 1912 after hitting an iceberg in the
North Atlantic. Indeed with its long and illustrious history, it
is fitting that Cunard Line has for many years
celebrated its inspiring, legendary and illustrious past and promoted
the remarkable fact that it has "The Most Famous Ocean Liners in the
World". 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. <> 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 was made when these legendary ships were joined by another Queen - the Queen Victoria - giving Cunard Line for the first time ever a trio of Cunard Queens. In 2008 the legendary QE2 was retired from service and sailed off into preservation in Dubai as a hotel, restaurant and entertainment complex. Meanwhile Cunard Line has ordered another ship, to be named Queen Elizabeth, for introduction in 2010. This will bring the fleet back up to a trio of Cunard Queens once again. |
MENU: Sir Samuel Cunard (1787 - 1865) Cunard Firsts Cunard Signatures The Story of Cunard Line (Est. 1840) RMS Britannia (1840) The Speed Queens RMS Campania & RMS Lucania (1893) RMS Carpathia (1903) The Grand Dames of the Atlantic RMS Caronia & RMS Carmania (1905) The Great Edwardian Cunarders RMS Laconia (1921) RMS Mauretania (1938) The Cunard Queens RMS Caronia (1947) - The Green Goddess (This is an external website) The Saxonia Sisters "The Cunarder" Boat Trains The Southampton Ocean Terminal (Berths 43/44 Southampton Eastern Docks) The QEII Cruise Terminal (Berths 38/39 Southampton Eastern Docks) The Cunard Building, Pier Head, Liverpool The Cunard Building, 25 Broadway, New York  |
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If you have any comments about this website please feel free to contact me, Alex Naughton, via e-mail at: ajnaughton@hotmail.com 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. Main
sources include Simplon Postcards, Reuben Goossen's SS Maritime,
Maritime Matters, Shipping Companies and the author's own collections.
We are most grateful
to them for giving us permission to use their collections on our
website. 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.
This website does not intend to infringe any copyright and all reasonable steps are taken to ensure this to the best of our ability with limited resources. It is believed that all the information contained in this website, apart from those articles written by the author, are freely available within the public domain (on websites and in other media) or freely given for use on this website. All information on this website is purely intended to help promote the story of Cunard Line and its ocean liners and cruise liners to a wider audience and to maritime enthusiasts and is entirely not-for-profit and is not intended for commercial gain. We warmly welcome any donations of photographs or information to this website on the basis that no financial reward is asked for or given as this website is purely for charitable not-for-profit purposes. If you have any comments or wish anything removed from or added to the website then please contact ajnaughton@hotmail.com and we will be delighted to oblige where appropriate. |
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