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
Fourth Officer, Captain Cap William Thomas Turner 1878 1915
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Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
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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