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 ".

On his arrival in London in May 1838, Howe discussed the enterprise with fellow Nova Scotian Samuel Cunard ( 1787 – 1865 ), a shipowner who was also visiting London on business.

Cunard, who was back in Halifax, unfortunately did not know of the tender until after the deadline.

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.

Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet ( 21 November 1787 – 28 April 1865 ) was a British shipping magnate, born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line.

Samuel Cunard was the son of Abraham Cunard who was originally from Germany and raised a Quaker and Margaret Murphy, who was raised as an Irish Catholic who were Loyalists to the British Crown who came to Halifax in 1783.

Abraham Cunard was a master carpenter who worked for the British garrison in Halifax and became a wealthy landowner and timber merchant.

Cunard was a highly successful entrepreneur in Halifax shipping and one of a group of twelve individuals who dominated the affairs of Nova Scotia.

The last Napier car was designed by A. J. Rowledge, who also designed the Lion ( and who went to Rolls in 1921 ), a 40 / 50 hp 377 cu in ( 6, 177 cc ) ( 102 × 127 mm, 4 × 5 in ) alloy six with detachable cylinder head, single overhead camshaft, seven-bearing crankshaft, dual magneto and coil ignition, dual plugs, and Napier-SU carburetter ; it was bodied by Cunard, then a subsidiary.

The Age of Steam gallery includes a special display on Samuel Cunard, the Nova Scotian who created the Cunard Line.

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.

Its members included: Lady Diana Manners, the most famous beauty in England ; Duff Cooper who became a Conservative politician and a diplomat ; Raymond Asquith, son of the Prime Minister and a famed barrister ; Maurice Baring ; Patrick Shaw-Stewart, a managing director of Barings Bank and war poet ; Nancy Cunard and her friend Iris Tree ; Edward Horner and Sir Denis Anson.

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 and Howe were associates and Howe also owed Cunard £ 300.

The headquarters were used by Cunard until the 1960s.

Due to the surplus tonnage of the new combined Cunard White Star fleet many of the older liners were sent to the scrapyard, these included the Mauretania and the ex-White Star liners Olympic and Homeric.

All four of the large Cunard express liners, the two Queens, Aquitania and Mauretania survived, but many of the secondary ships were lost.

Cunard was in an especially good position to take advantage of the increase in North Atlantic travel during the 1950s and the Queens were a major generator of US currency for Great Britain.

However, some Cunard stockholders questioned the plan at the June 1961 board meeting because trans-Atlantic flights were gaining in popularity.

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.

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.

The trustees of Hillsboro named in the act were Mahlon Hough, Samuel Purcell, Jr., Thomas Leslie, Josiah White, Jr., Edward Cunard, Mahlon Roach, and Thomas D. Stevens.

13 were Cunarders ( plus Queen Mary of Cunard White Star ), 5 by White Star, with 4 owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd, 2 by Collins, 2 by Inman and 2 by Guion, and one each by British American, Great Western, Hamburg-America, the Italian Line, Compagnie Générale Transatlantique and finally the United States Lines.

When later it toured, the 1934 edition was recorded in its entirety, from the Overture to Play-out music, on a series of 78 rpm discs, which were edited by the record producer David Cunard to form an album of the highlights of the production and which was released as a Compact Disc in 1997.

However, Cunard did regain some independence in 2009 when its headquarters were moved to Carnival House in Southampton.

At the time, these were the largest ships in the Cunard fleet, and the use of the different propulsion methods in otherwise similar ships allowed the company to evaluate the merits of both.

The engines in Carmania were successful and, consequently, in 1907 Cunard introduced the much larger Lusitania and Mauretania, both powered by steam turbines.

The liners QE2 and were requisitioned from Cunard and P & O to serve as troopships, carrying British Army personnel to Ascension Island and the Falkland Islands to recover the Falklands from the invading Argentine forces.

Cunard Line's Mauretania and Aquitania were considered the finest liners of their time, while the superliners like Normandie and Queen Mary became symbols of national pride and important part of western civilization with influences in design, technology, popular culture and standards of international travel.

New floats that joined the 2011 Rose Parade were: Beverly Hills Tournament of Roses Committee, Cunard Line, Dole, Los Angeles County Firemen ’ s Benefit & Welfare: Never Forget 9 / 11 “ Remember, Reflect, Renew ”, UNO 40th Anniversary, " Messina Wildlife Management ", Namco Bandai Games Inc., " Quikrete " Cement & Concrete Products, " Saving America ’ s Mustangs Foundation ", and Shriner ’ s Hospitals For Children.

Successive classes of ever-larger ships were ordered, until the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth was finally dethroned from her 56-year reign as the largest passenger ship ever built ( a dethronement that led to numerous further dethronements from the same position ).

Burns supervised ship construction, McIver was responsible for day to day operations, and Cunard was the " first among equals ' in the management structure.

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.

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

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

The early 20th Century Cunard passenger liner RMS Berengaria was named in her honour, the first Cunard ship to be named for a British queen.

For most of the next 30 years, Cunard held the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic voyage.

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

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 ).

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

During the Crimean War Cunard supplied 11 ships for war service.

To compete, in May 1863 Cunard started a secondary Liverpool-New York service with iron-hulled screw steamers that catered for steerage passengers.

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.

The British Government provided Cunard with an annual subsidy of £ 150, 000 plus a low interest loan of £ 2. 5 million (£ as of ), to pay for the construction of the two superliners, the Blue Riband winners Lusitania and Mauretania, capable of.

Due to First World War losses, Cunard began a post-war rebuilding programme included eleven intermediate liners ; Southampton replaced Liverpool as the British destination for the three-ship express service ; and Cunard acquired the former Hapag Imperator ( renamed the Berengaria ) to replace the lost Lusitania as the running mate for Mauretania and Aquitania.

Cunard started construction on the Queen Elizabeth, and a smaller ship, the second Mauretania, joined the fleet and which also could be used on the Atlantic run when one of the Queens was in drydock for overhaul.

Beginning in 1954, Cunard took delivery of a quartet of new 22, 000-GRT intermediate liners for the Canadian route and the Liverpool-New York route.

During the War of 1812, Cunard volunteered for service in the 2nd Battalion of the Halifax Regiment militia and rose to the rank of captain.

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.