* 1929 – is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.

Even the Cunard Line, founded by Haligonian Samuel Cunard, stopped making more than a single ceremonial voyage to Halifax each year.

These were the sole immigration records for entering the country and were prepared not by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration but by steamship companies such as the Cunard Line, the White Star Line, the North German Lloyd Line, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, the Italian Steam Navigation Company, the Red Star Line, the Holland America Line, and the Austro-American Line.

Nova Scotia was also the birthplace and home of Samuel Cunard, a British shipping magnate, born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line.

The most recent of these were Commodore Ronald Warwick, a former Master of the Cunard Line's RMS Queen Mary 2, who has traversed the Canal more than 50 times, and Captain Raffaele Minotauro, Master Senior Grade, of the former Italian governmental navigation company known as the " Italian Line ".

It is operated by the Cunard Line.

* January 4 – RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage.

* is the first Cunard Line ship to receive a wireless radio set.

* April 28 – Sir Samuel Cunard, Canadian business man & founder of the Cunard Line ( b. 1787 )

* November 21 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian business, prominent Nova Scotian, founder of the Cunard Line ( d. 1865 )

*, a Cunard Line cargo liner in service 1948-61

* RMS Queen Mary, a Cunard Line ocean liner launched in 1934, now retired as a hotel in Long Beach, California, USA

The Cunard Line, formerly the Cunard White-Star Line, is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England, and operated by Carnival UK.

By January 1963 the relationship with BOAC was almost non-existent, as British United Airways took over general sales agent duties for the airline in the United Kingdom and Cunard Eagle was responsible for major maintenance on the airlines ' aircraft.

However it was unacceptable to the State Department, which was well aware that unlike transatlantic sea traffic, then largely in the hands of the British line Cunard, American airlines were likely to win the largest share of the air traffic provided they were not unduly restricted by the agreement.

Similarly, the Cunard Line's and, of approximately 81, 000 – 83, 000 GT, but displacements of over 80, 000 tons, do not differ significantly in displacement from their new 148, 528 GT successor,, which has been estimated to displace approximately 76, 000 tons With the completion in 2009 of Oasis of the Seas, the first of the Oasis Class ships, the Cunard Queens of the 1930s have clearly been passed in displacement, as the Oasis vessels were projected to displace about 100, 000 tons.

In an era when the fledgling film industry saw actors and other film studio personnel frequently pitch in to do multiple tasks, Cunard was no exception, and wrote close to one hundred screenplays.

The British government, concerned about the threat of unemployment in the shipbuilding industry, had put through a bill to give Cunard loans and grants totaling $50,400,000 toward the $84,000,000 cost of a new 75,000-ton passenger liner.

In 1839, Canadian-born Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company to operate the line's four pioneer paddle steamers on the Liverpool – Halifax – Boston route.

Cunard withdrew from its year round service in 1968 to concentrate on cruising and summer transatlantic voyages for vacationers.

RMS Britannia Class | Britannia of 1840 ( 1150 GRT ), the first Cunard liner built for the transatlantic service.

Cunard went to the United Kingdom, where he set up a company with several other businessmen to bid for the rights to run a transatlantic mail service between the UK and North America.

The only dedicated transatlantic ocean liner in operation as a liner, as of February 2010, is the Queen Mary 2 of the Cunard fleet.

Ocean liner services aimed at passengers ceased in 1986, with the notable exception of transatlantic crossings operated by the Cunard Line, catering to the niche market who appreciated the several days at sea.

* Queen Mary 2, the latest in a line of ' Cunard Queens ', the prestigious transatlantic ocean liners ( Cunard Line )

In 2004 Cunard commissioned the RMS Queen Mary 2 ( QM2 ), which took over the transatlantic routes and relegated the QE2 to cruise ship duty, thereby making the QM2 the largest superliner in service.

It also built many transatlantic liners, including record breaking ships for the Cunard Line and Canadian Pacific, such as the Blue Riband winning sisters RMS Campania and RMS Lucania.

In 1849 the Cunard Company started a service between Le Havre and Liverpool to connect with their transatlantic service.

* 1914 – The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45, 647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

Two different ocean liners of the Cunard Steamship Lines have been named RMS Laconia.

* RMS Britannia, the first steam ocean liner owned by Samuel Cunard in 1840.

Cunard acquired the Norwegian America Line in 1983, with two classic ocean liner / cruise ships.

His views on slavery in the 19th century were not known but his statements regarding Fredrick Douglass's segregated passage arranged by a Cunard Agent in Liverpool on one of his ocean liners in 1845 strongly suggests he was against any form of racial prejudice.

* RMS Queen Elizabeth, Cunard ocean liner launched 1938, retired 1968

* RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, Cunard ocean liner launched in 1969, retired 2008

The only comparable ocean liner to be completed in recent years has been Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2 in 2004.

Cunard Line ships maintain the class tradition of ocean liners and have separate dining rooms for different types of suites, while Celebrity Cruises and Princess Cruises have a standard dining room and " upgrade " specialty restaurants that require pre-booking and cover charges.

The only comparable ocean liner to be completed in recent years has been Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2 in 2004.

* RMS Aquitania, a Cunard Line ocean liner

*, a Cunard ocean liner

* RMS Campania, Blue Riband-winning British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line

Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2, the world's largest ocean liner, as she made her first visit to mainland U. S. from the UK, by arriving at Port Everglades, her U. S. winter home port.

Two ocean liners of the Cunard Line have been named RMS Mauretania, after the ancient territory of Mauretania:

White pine from Booth's lumber yards was used to build the decks on the ocean liners of the Cunard Line.

In 1934, the Cunard Steamship Company merged with the White Star Line to form Cunard White Star Line, which became the largest passenger steamship company in the world, helping to make Liverpool one of the most important centres of the British trans-Atlantic ocean liner industry.

During both World Wars, former ocean liners owned by British steamship companies such as Cunard Line were re-commissioned as an integral part of the British war fleet.

* In August 1992, the Cunard Lines ocean liner, Queen Elizabeth 2 badly damaged her hull by running aground on a previously uncharted shoal about south southwest of Cuttyhunk.