The Cunard Steamship Co, Ltd
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The Cunard Steamship Co was the a leading English transatlantic shipping agency. - AsNotedIn
Notable Position | Person | From | To |
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Fourth Officer, Captain | Cap William Thomas Turner | 1878 | 1915 |
The Cunard Steamship Co was the a leading English transatlantic shipping agency. - AsNotedIn
Notable Position | Person | From | To |
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Fourth Officer, Captain | Cap William Thomas Turner | 1878 | 1915 |
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1840/00/00 | Samuel Cunard commissions his initial fleet of wooden paddlers BRITANNIA, ACADIA and CALENDONIA and soon establishes the first year round scheduled Atlantic steamship service. | Owner | |||||
1840/05/00 | Helmed by Captain Douglas, the 648 gross ton coastal paddle steamer SS UNICORN carries 24 passengers, including Edward Cunard (Samuel's son) across the Atlantic for the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. | Owner | |||||
1840/07/04 | Inaugurating the first regular passenger and cargo service by steamship, the paddle steamer BRITANNIA (lost) sails from Liverpool to Halifax, arriving in 12 days, then to Boston in 2 days 8 hours more. | Owner | |||||
1840/08/00 | E P Peabody ... is prepared to receive orders on England, and the Continent, for Books, Periodicals, Newspapers, Stationary, and Artists' materials.... Orders will be answered by Cunard's Line of Steamers, within six weeks of the date generally. - Ad | Carrier | Peabody Residence and Book Room | Boston | |||
1906/06/07 | RMS Lusitania launched | Owner | RMS Lusitania (shipwreck) | Sinking of the RMS Lusitania | |||
1906/09/20 | RMS Mauretania is launched. She was designed by Leonard Peskett and built (with a government grant so she could be use as an armed auxiliary cruiser in case of war) by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson in Wallsend for the British Cunard Line. | Owner | Interiors from RMS Mauretania | ||||
1915/05/01 | Just past noon, RMS LUSITANIA departs New York, New York, bound for Liverpool, England. | Owner | Pier 54, NYC | New York City | Sinking of the RMS Lusitania | ||
1917/10/20 | William Edward Willink and Philip Coldwell Thicknesse design the Cunard Building as the headquarters of The Cunard Steamship Co, built between 1914-1917. | Owner | Cunard Building | Liverpool | |||
1929/04/03 | At Cunard annual meeting, Thomas Royden makes the announcement that the question of new tonnage is one constantly in our minds. The Cunard Line begins plans to design a new pair of super ocean liners to replace the Mauritania, Aquitania and Berengaria. | Owner | Interiors from RMS Mauretania | RMS QUEEN MARY | Long Beach | ||
1929/04/03 | At Cunard annual meeting, Thomas Royden makes the announcement that the question of new tonnage is one constantly in our minds. The Cunard Line begins plans to design a new pair of super ocean liners to replace the Mauritania, Aquitania and Berengaria. | Owner | Interiors from RMS Mauretania | Cunard Building | Liverpool | ||
1934/01/01 | The the assets of the Cunard Steamship Company and the White Start Line are transferred to the newly formed Cunard White Star, Ltd. Cunard is credited with 62 percent of the share capital and White Star with 38. | End |
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