In 1884, Cunard purchased the almost new Blue Riband winner Oregon from the Guion Line when that firm defaulted on payments to the shipyard.

In 1947 Cunard purchased White Star's interest, and the company dropped the White Star name and was renamed to Cunard Line.

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

In 1994 Cunard purchased the rights to the name of the Royal Viking Line and its Royal Viking Sun.

In 1985 the shipping business was purchased by its management, then sold to the Trafalgar House conglomerate, who merged it with their ownership of the Cunard Line to form Cunard-Ellerman in 1987.

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.

* On 12 September 1942, Werner Hartenstein commanding the German Navy U-156 sighted and sank the British Cunard White Star passenger liner Laconia, which was serving as a troopship.

The Cunard White Star Line's RMS Queen Elizabeth was named after her.

However, in the 1870s Cunard fell behind its rivals, the White Star Line and the Inman Line.

In 1902, White Star joined the American owned International Mercantile Marine Co. and the British Government provided Cunard with substantial loans and a subsidy to build two superliners needed to retain its competitive position.

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.

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 government offered Cunard a loan of £ 3 million to complete hull 534 and an additional £ 5 million to build the second ship, if Cunard merged with White Star.

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

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.

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.

The shipping companies Cunard and White Star Line ( the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company ) together with the Canadian Pacific Railway formed the " Atlantic Park Hostel Company " to house them temporarily.

In 1947 Cunard acquired the 38 % of Cunard White Star it did not already own, and on 31 December 1949 it acquired Cunard White Star's assets and operations, and reverted to using the name " Cunard.

White Star's main rival was the Cunard 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.

* Jubilee ( also known as Cunard ; 1934 )

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.

Lucas ( RHD Ltd ) 1950 ; All in Due Time by Humphry House ( RHD Ltd ) 1955 ; George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 ( RHD Ltd ) 1957 ; The Letters of Oscar Wilde ( RHD Ltd ) 1962 ; Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner ( RHD Ltd ) 1964 ; More Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1969 ; Last Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1970 ; A Peep into the Past by Max Beerbohm ( Heinemann ) 1972 ; A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm ( Macmillan ) 1972 ; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ( Cape ) 1976 ; Electric Delights by William Plomer ( Cape ) 1978 ; Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Oxford ) 1979 ; Two Men of Letters ( Michael Joseph ) 1979 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries 1920-1922 3 vols.

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.

* Laura Charlotte, artist, married William Cunard, son of the shipping magnate Sir Samuel Cunard at Windsor, Nova Scotia, 30 December 1851 ; three sons, one daughter.

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.

However, his life as a student in London was brief ; in February 1915, with the help of Lady Emerald Cunard ( a mistress of Beecham ) he secured a job as a music critic for the The Daily Mail at a salary of £ 100 per year.

His name lives on today in the Cunard Line, now a prestigious branch of the Carnival Line cruise empire.

*, the name of more than one Cunard Line passenger ship

* RMS Mauretania ( 1965 ) ( second vessel to carry the name for Cunard )

In 1993 the company changed its name to Carnival Corporation, and continued to expand further into the cruise industry with the acquisitions of Cunard Line in 1998 and Costa Cruises in 2000.

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 code name for the new ' Queen ' liner which was planned by Cunard in 1961 to replace the RMS Queen Mary but later abandoned following a shareholder revolt and succeeded by a new plan codenamed Q4, which later became the QE2.

The building was, from its construction until the 1960s, the headquarters of Cunard Line, and the building retains the name of its original tenants.

He operated in North London, as a close associate of Nancy Cunard, sometimes lending his name.

Born Harriet Mildred Jeffries in Columbus, Ohio, by her late teens she was already acting on live theatre and in silent films using the stage name, Grace Cunard.

* 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.

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.