The Cunard line has under consideration replacing the Queen Mary with a ship smaller than 75,000 tons.

The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.

In 1934 the British Government offered Cunard loans to finish the Queen Mary and to build a second ship, the Queen Elizabeth, on the condition that Cunard merged with the then ailing White Star line to form Cunard White-Star Ltd. Cunard owned two-thirds of the new company.

Upon the end of the war, Cunard regained its position as the largest Atlantic passenger line.

Rather than match the new German speedsters, White Star-a rival which Cunard line would acquire later-commissioned four very profitable Celtic-class liners of more moderate speed for its secondary Livepool-New York service.

In 1911 Cunard entered the St Lawrence trade by purchasing the Thompson line, and absorbed the Royal line five years later.

By 1971, when the line was purchased by the conglomerate Trafalgar House, Cunard operated cargo and passenger ships, hotels and resorts.

Also in 1983, the Trafalgar attempted a hostile takeover of P & O, another large passenger and cargo shipping line, which was formed the same year as Cunard.

After Cunard reported a US $ 25 million loss in 1995, Trafalgar assigned a new CEO to the line, who concluded that the company had management issues.

Study of a particular shipping line like, Cunard, P & O, Danube steamers, South American packets or American steamboat mail are a few options as are ; Ship Letter marks, mail between a mother country and its colonies or mail between two countries separated by seas or oceans.

*, according to shipping legend, initially supposed to be called Victoria in line with the naming of Cunard Steamship Lines liners, with an ending in-ia, as with the Lusitania, Mauritania, and the like

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

* Queen Elizabeth 2 was the flagship of Cunard Line when Carnival acquired the line.

In 1934 the line merged with its chief rival, Cunard Line, which operated as a separate entity until 2005 and is now part of Carnival Corporation & PLC.

It is sited at the Pier Head and along with the neighbouring Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building is one of Liverpool's Three Graces, which line the city's waterfront.

After several years that scheme, too, came to nothing, and in 1913 the Cunard shipping line announced its intention to build a new headquarters in Liverpool.

It is sited at the Pier Head and along with the neighbouring Liver Building and Cunard Building is one of Liverpool's " Three Graces ", which line the city's waterfront.

* Joseph Cunard ( 1799 – 1865 ) of Halifax, a prosperous businessman who was the brother of Samuel, founder of the famous steamship line.

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.

* 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.

Cunard officials, who were responsible for the security at the dock, said they had never seen anything like it, although they had experienced past visits by Marlon Brando and Robert Redford.

It is operated by the Cunard Line.

He lived in Paris for years, living with Brigit Patmore, and being fascinated by Nancy Cunard whom he met in 1928.

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

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.

In 1998 Cunard was acquired by the Carnival Corporation, and accounted for 8. 7 % of that company's revenue in 2012. and five years later QE2 was replaced on the Transatlantic runs by the Queen Mary 2 ( QM2 ).

By 1845, steamship lines led by Cunard carried more saloon passengers than the sailing packets.

The next year, Cunard put pressure on Collins by commissioning its first iron-hulled paddler, the Persia, which won the Blue Riband with a Liverpool – New York voyage of 9 days 16 hours, averaging.

RMS Berengaria | Berengaria of 1913 ( 51, 950 GRT ), originally Hapag's Imperator, was acquired by Cunard in 1921 to join Mauretania and Aquitania in the three-ship express service.

The headquarters were used by Cunard until the 1960s.

The merger was accomplished by forming a new company, Cunard White Star, Ltd with Cunard owning about two-thirds of the capital.

Cunard tried operating scheduled air services to North America, the Caribbean and South America by forming BOAC-Cunard Ltd in 1962 with the British Overseas Airways Corporation, but this venture lasted only until 1966.

During the Falklands War, the QE2 and the Cunard Countess were chartered as troopships while Cunard's container ship Atlantic Conveyor was sunk by an Exocet missile.

In 1859 Cunard was created a baronet by Queen Victoria.

Due to the poor economic conditions, the British government amalgamated Cunard Line and White Star Lines.

Also under consideration is an increased investment in Cunard Eagle Airways which has applied to serve New York.

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 ".

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

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

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.

It consists mainly of the former P & O Princess brands and has executive control of P & O Cruises and Cunard Line.

Also, the Cunard Line has introduced the White Star Service as the name of the brand of services on its ships RMS Queen Mary 2, MS Queen Victoria and the MS Queen Elizabeth.

The company has also created the White Star Academy, an in-house programme for preparing new crew members for Cunard ships.

Savage has also served as General Manager of S. Cunard & Co., a home and heating retailer in Nova Scotia, and later became the Director, Residential / General Business Marketing and Sales for Nova Scotia Power.

Marjorie is pregnant with Walter's child, but their relationship is disintegrating, largely because Walter has fallen desperately in love with the sexually aggressive and independent Lucy Tantamount ( based on Nancy Cunard, with whom Huxley had a similarly unsatisfactory affair ).

Since its completion in 1911, it has overlooked the River Mersey from its waterfront location on the Pier Head and forms one of the ' Three Graces ' along with the Port of Liverpool Building and the Cunard Building.

The Cunard Building stands six storeys tall and has two basement levels.

It has been suggested that he was engaged at one point to Nancy Cunard.

On 16 February 2008 the Port was visited by the longest vessel it has ever received, the MS Queen Victoria cruise ship belonging to Cunard.

Quite a fitting coincidence now he has such a close tie with Cunard.

He has conducted six royal concerts: a dance gala with The Royal Ballet Sinfonia in the presence of Diana, Princess of Wales, two concerts with the Royal Philharmonic in the presence of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and the naming ceremony for the world ’ s largest liner The Queen Mary 2 ; and two with the London Philharmonic in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales in aid of Farmers and the Naming Ceremony for Cunard Line ’ s liner the Queen Victoria ( ship ).

In addition to extensive performing on Princeton's campus, the group frequently tours the United States and the world, and has traveled across the United States, Europe, and Asia to perform in such storied venues as New York City's Carnegie Hall, London's Barbican Centre, and aboard Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth 2.

Lady Cunard, who held that Artist Lavery had been " insulted " when her offer to present the portrait to the Tate Gallery was rejected, has given it to the Guildhall Gallery, London.