Cunard-White Star Line, Ltd, was a British shipping line which existed between 1934 and 1949. The company was created to control the joint shipping assets...
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1870s Cunard fell behind its rivals, the White Star Line and the Inman Line. To meet this competition, in 1879 the firm was reorganised as the Cunard Steamship...
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Depression. White Star merged in 1934 with its chief rival, the Cunard Line, operating as Cunard-White Star Line until Cunard purchased White Star's share in...
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The following is a list of ships operated by the Cunard Line. The Cunard fleet, all built for Cunard unless otherwise indicated, consisted of the following...
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headquarters of White Star Line. In 1914 the Cunard Steamship Company commissioned the construction of new headquarters for their company. Cunard's expansion...
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the White Star Line. List of Cunard Line ships "SV White Star (+1883)". Wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 May 2022. Haws, Duncan (1990). White Star Line (Oceanic...
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MV Britannic (1929) (category Ships of the White Star Line)
in 1961. She was the penultimate ship built for White Star Line before its 1934 merger with Cunard Line. When built, Britannic was the largest motor ship...
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MV Georgic (1931) (category Ships of the White Star Line)
MV Georgic was the last ship built for the White Star Line before its merger with the Cunard Line. Built at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, she...
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RMS Caronia (1947) (category Ships of the Cunard Line)
tons (GRT) passenger ship of the Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line). Launched on 30 October 1947, she served with Cunard until 1967. She was nicknamed...
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White Star Line, to be the largest and most luxurious ships afloat. The group consisted of Celtic, Cedric, Baltic and Adriatic. In 1899, White Star Line...
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competition, the White Star Line, owners of the successful RMS Olympic and former owners of the ill-fated Titanic. After that, Cunard dominated the Atlantic...
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RMS Mauretania (1938) (category Ships of the Cunard Line)
built for the newly formed Cunard-White Star company following the merger in April 1934 of the Cunard and White Star Line. On the withdrawal of the first...
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career included service at sea with Blue Funnel Line, Manchester Liners, and Cunard-White Star Line, and ashore at Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering...
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Carnival Corporation & plc (section Cunard Line)
form Cunard-White Star Line in 1934. Cunard later purchased the remaining White Star shares in 1947, reverting to the name Cunard Line in 1949. Cunard continued...
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A cruise line is a company that operates cruise ships and markets cruises to the public. Cruise lines are distinct from passenger lines which are primarily...
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1909 to 1929. The White Star Line knew that their Big Four, a quartet of ships built for size and luxury, were no match for the Cunard's new liners in terms...
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RMS Majestic (1914) (category Ships of the White Star Line)
been taken from them by the liners of the Cunard Line and the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (White Star Line), in particular RMS Lusitania, RMS Mauretania...
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SS Imperator (category Ships of the Cunard Line)
the U.S. Navy, Imperator was purchased jointly by Britain's Cunard Line and White Star Line as part of war reparations, due to the loss of the RMS Lusitania...
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at Glasgow by J&G Thomson & Co and launched as Algeria for Cunard Line. Sold to Red Star Line, renamed Pennland, and refitted in 1881. Went into Antwerp...
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RMS Homeric (1913) (category Ships of the White Star Line)
at the Blohm & Voss Shipyard. This was equally sold to the White Star Line and Cunard Line and renamed Majestic. Another was the 34,000-ton Columbus at...
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RMS Adriatic (1906) (category Ships of the White Star Line)
cruises, which became her main services in the 1930s. When Cunard Line and White Star Line merged in 1934, she was quickly deemed unnecessary and sold...
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Robert Irving (naval officer) (category Ship captains of the Cunard Line)
Chief of Clan Irving and ended his naval career as Commodore of the Cunard-White Star Line. The son of Colonel John Beaufin Irving, of Kirtlebridge, Dumfriesshire...
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James Gordon Partridge Bisset (category Ship captains of the Cunard Line)
was a British merchant sea captain who served as Commodore of the Cunard White Star Line (1944–47). He documented his fifty-year sea career in a three volume...
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RMS Mauretania (1906) (category Ships of the Cunard Line)
acquired Britain's other major transatlantic line, the White Star Line. In the face of these threats the Cunard Line was determined to regain the prestige of...
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International Mercantile Marine Co. The White Star Line faced a growing challenge from its main rivals Cunard, which had just launched Lusitania and Mauretania...
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SS Lavia (category Ships of the Cunard Line)
caught fire and sank in Hong Kong Harbour in 1989. She was built for Cunard White Star Line in 1947 as the cargo liner Media. In 1961 she was sold to Italy...
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26 kilograms (57 pounds; 4 stone 1 pound). Cunard's father was Sir Bache Cunard, an heir to the Cunard Line shipping businesses, interested in polo and...
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SS Laurentic (1927) (category Ships of the White Star Line)
Liverpool and Canada from 1927 to 1936. After the merger of the White Star Line with Cunard Line, she was used mainly as a cruise ship. From December 1935 to...
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and France. Thirteen were Cunarders (plus Queen Mary of Cunard White Star), five White Star liners, with four owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd, two by Collins...
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RMS Queen Elizabeth (category Ships of the Cunard Line)
RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line. Along with the Queen Mary, she provided a weekly transatlantic service between Southampton...
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