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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". 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 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. |
MENU: Sir Samuel Cunard (1787 - 1865) Cunard Firsts The Story of Cunard Line (Est. 1840) RMS Britannia (1840) The Speed Queens RMS Campania & RMS Lucania (1893) The Grand Dames of the Atlantic RMS Caronia & RMS Carmania (1905) The Great Edwardian Cunarders 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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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
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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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