But the Cunard line, influenced by unpleasant economic facts and not sentiment, has decided to keep the Queen Mary in service until next Spring at least.

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.

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.

Cunard's cargo fleet was sold off between 1989 and 1991, with a single container ship, the second Atlantic Conveyor, remaining under Cunard ownership until 1996.

Among sixteen responses that Cunard, in her eventually published compendium, grouped under the skeptical heading " Neutral?

John Burns ( 1829 – 1901 ), his eldest son, succeeded him in the baronetcy, became head of the Cunard Company and was created a peer, under the title of Baron Inverclyde, in 1897.

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

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

* RMS Queen Mary 2, a Cunard passenger ship that entered service in 2003

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 ).

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.

In 1859 Cunard was created a baronet by Queen Victoria.

* MS Queen Elizabeth, Cunard cruise ship launched in 2010

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

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

The Queen Elizabeth 2, the famous Cunard liner, paid its final visit to the Mersey on 3 October 2008.

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 company bid unsuccessfully tendered against Chantiers de l ' Atlantique for the construction of Cunard line's new Queen Mary 2.

A similar incident involving a passenger ship occurred in 1992 when the Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 struck a submerged rock off Block Island in the Atlantic Ocean.

* 2000: A Harrods shop opens on board the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, owned by the Cunard Line.