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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flew both the Cunard and White Star Line house flags until 4 November 1968, when the last White Star ship, Nomadic was withdrawn from service.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]
RMS Mauretania was a British ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson on the River Tyne, England for the Cunard Line, launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906.
RMS Caronia was a 34,183 gross register tons (GRT) passenger ship of the Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line). Launched on 30 October 1947, she served with Cunard until 1967. She was nicknamed the "Green Goddess" [1] after her light green hull livery. She was one of the first "dual-purpose" ships, built both for 2-class transatlantic ...
The company was created to control the joint shipping assets of the Cunard Line and the White Star Line after both companies experienced financial difficulties during the Great Depression. Cunard White Star controlled a total of twenty-five ocean liners (with Cunard contributing fifteen ships and White Star ten).
Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 ship broke from its moorings due to strong winds in Italy on Friday.. The cruise line had anticipated adverse weather and was “in the process of taking precautionary ...
RMS Queen Mary [3] is a retired British ocean liner that operated primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line.Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, she was subsequently joined by RMS Queen Elizabeth [4] in Cunard's two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York.
Aquitania was the third in Cunard Line's grand trio of express liners, preceded by RMS Mauretania and RMS Lusitania, and was the last surviving four-funnelled ocean liner. [6] Shortly after Aquitania entered service, the First World War broke out, during which she was first converted into an auxiliary cruiser before being used as a troop ...
More than 125 Cunard Line passengers got sick in an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness.. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 128 of the 1,824 passengers on the line’s Queen ...