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12 unusual facts about Cunard Line


Anchor Line

The Anchor Line (steamship company), a transatlantic steamship company founded in 1856 and acquired by Cunard Line in 1911.

Bristol F.2 Fighter

A total of 5,329 aircraft were eventually built, mostly by Bristol but also by Standard Motors, Armstrong Whitworth and even the Cunard Steamship Company.

James Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde

James Cleland Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde, (14 February 1864 – 16 August 1919) was second son of John Burns, the first Lord Inverclyde, and grandson of Sir George Burns, 1st Baronet, the founder of the Cunard Line.

His grand-uncle, James, and his grandfather, Sir George Burns, Bart., were founders not only of the service of Irish steamers and of the West Highland service, but of the Cunard Line.

Joanna Eden

Eden and Price formed a jazz trio with Dan Boutwood, and this unit worked cruises for Cunard Line and Royal Caribbean International.

Magyarization

The Hungarian government made a contract with the English-owned Cunard Steamship Company for a direct passenger line from Rijeka to New York.

Max Heindel

As Chief Engineer of a trading steamer, he traveled extensively, and eventually found himself working on one of the large passenger steamers of the Cunard Line plying between America and Europe.

Nautical chart

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

Philip Connard

Connard was given a number of important decorative commissions: murals at Windsor Castle; two panels for a ballroom in New Delhi; and a large panel on the subject of England for the Cunard liner, RMS Queen Mary.

SS Servia

Launched on 1 March 1881, Servia was the first of Cunard's new breed of ocean liners.

Thomas Royden, 1st Baron Royden

The younger Thomas inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1917, went on to become chairman of the Cunard Line.

William Henry Rideing

Rideing's father was an officer in the service of the Cunard Line.


Atlantic Steam Navigation Company

The company was originally founded in 1934 by Frank Bustard, the Passenger Traffic Manager for the White Star Line when the latter was merged with the Cunard Line the same year.

Chelsea Piers

Under contracts let by the New York City Department of Dock and Ferries, the Chelsea Section Improvement, as it was officially called, replaced a hodgepodge of run-down waterfront structures with a row of grand buildings embellished with pink granite facades and formed the docking points for the rival Cunard Line and White Star Line.

Clan Irvine

Colonel John Irving of Bonshaw fought in the British Expedition to Abyssinia and his son, Sir Robert Irving of Bonshaw, was commodore of the Cunard Line and was captain of HMS Queen Mary.

Dagmar Nordstrom

With the exception of their October trips to Bad Gastein for the baths, they regularly performed either in clubs in New York City or on board transatlantic ocean liners, most commonly on the Cunard Line and Norwegian America Line.

John Wigham Richardson

This Company became the most technically advanced ship building facilities anywhere and built the RMS Mauretania for Cunard which was launched in 1906 and held the Blue Riband as the fastest liner across the Atlantic for 26 years.

Queen Mary trailer

The name is presumed to derive from its length, a reference to the RMS Queen Mary of the Cunard Line.

Sea lane

A number of international conferences and committees were held in 1866, 1872, 1887, 1889, and 1891 all of which left the designation of sea lanes to the principal trans-Atlantic steamship companies at the time; Cunard, White Star, Inman, National Line, and Guion Lines.

Taskers of Andover

Subsequently nick named the Queen Mary trailer after the great RMS Queen Mary of the Cunard Line, the company gained 300 orders in the build up to World War II.