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Cunard White Star "Queen Mary" baggage tag. In 1947, Cunard acquired White Star’s 38% share in the company and on 31 December 1949 the company had dropped the White Star name and was renamed Cunard Line. [3] Both the Cunard and White Star house flags were flown on the company's liners at the time of the merger and thereafter.
All Cunard ships flew both the Cunard and White Star Line house flags until 4 November 1968, when the last White Star ship, Nomadic was withdrawn from service. After this, the White Star flag was no longer flown and all remnants of both White Star Line and Cunard-White Star Line were retired. [63] [64]
From the time of the 1934 merger, the house flags of both lines had been flown on all their ships, with each ship flying the flag of its original owner above the other, but from 1950, even Georgic [156] and Britannic, [157] the last surviving White Star liners, flew the Cunard house flag above the White Star burgee until they were each ...
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In 1949 Cunard bought out White Star's share of the business, and at the end of the year discontinued the White Star name, but Britannic and Georgic continued to fly both house flags. [ 18 ] On 1 June 1950 Britannic and United States Lines' cargo ship Pioneer Land collided head-on in thick fog near the Ambrose Lightship.
Launched in 1927 by Harland and Wolff serves Oceanic Steam Nav Co till sold to Cunard-White Star in 1934 serving trans-Atlantic routes. Sold in 1939 to the Admiralty when torpedoed by U-99 November 3-4, 1940. It was the last steamship built for the White Star Line and the last White Star Line ship to sink.
Built for White Star Line, scrapped 1960: Georgic: 1931: 1949–1956: Intermediate: 27,759: Built for White Star Line, scrapped 1956: Caronia: 1949: 1949–1968: Cruise ship: 34,183: Sold to Star Shipping 1968, renamed Columbia; renamed Caribia in 1969; wrecked 1974 at Apra Harbor, Guam and broke up while being towed to Taiwan to be scrapped
In 1947 Cunard purchased White Star's interest, and by 1949 the company had dropped the White Star name and was renamed Cunard Line, which continued to operate Britannic and Georgic. [18] In 1956, Georgic was sold for scrap, leaving Britannic as the last liner of the White Star Line in service.