Cunard (/ ˈ k j uː n ɑː r d /) is a British shipping and cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. Since 2011, Cunard and its three ships have been registered in Hamilton, Bermuda.. In 1839, Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year …

History. 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). Both Cunard and White Star were in dire …

Créée en 1838 par Samuel Cunard, la Cunard a exploité la première ligne transatlantique à vapeur pour passagers en 1840.Dans un premier temps, en 1840 également, elle assure le service de courrier transatlantique entre la Grande-Bretagne et le Canada [5] puis les États-Unis.. Aussi est-elle autorisée, comme sa future concurrente la White Star Line, spécialiste des …

Maud Alice Burke (3 August 1872 – 10 July 1948), later Lady Cunard, known as Emerald, was an American-born, London-based society hostess.She had long relationships with the novelist George Moore and the conductor Thomas Beecham, and was the muse of the former and a champion of and fund-raiser for the latter.She was a supporter of Wallis Simpson during the …

Cunard ontving in deze periode subsidie van de Britse regering, aangezien de concurrentie ook een prestigestrijd tussen landen was geworden. In de Eerste Wereldoorlog deden Cunard-schepen dienst als troepentransportschepen of hospitaalschepen. Na de oorlog kreeg Cunard de Imperator van HAPAG als oorlogsbetaling van de Duitsers.

MS Golden Iris was a cruise ship, previously owned an operated by the Israel-based Mano Maritime. She was built 1975 by the Burmeister & Wain shipyard in Copenhagen, Denmark for Cunard Line as MS Cunard Conquest, but her interior fittings were subsequently installed at the Navali Mechaniche Affini in La Spezia, Italy. Following re-delivery from Navali Mechaniche …

Cunard (/ ˈ k j uː n ɑː r d /) is a British shipping and cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. Since 2011, Cunard and its three ships have been registered in Hamilton, Bermuda.. In 1839, Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year …

RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line.With Queen Mary she provided weekly luxury liner service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States, via Cherbourg in France.. While being constructed in the mid-1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, the build was known as Hull 552. She was …

Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November 1787 – 28 April 1865), was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line, establishing the first scheduled steamship connection with North America. He was the son of a master carpenter and timber merchant who had fled the American Revolution and settled in Halifax.

Nancy Cunard. Nancy Clare Cunard (10 marzo 1896 – 17 marzo 1965) è stata una scrittrice, poetessa e anarchica inglese.. Nancy Cunard nacque in Inghilterra da una famiglia benestante ma quasi subito rinnegò i valori della famiglia dedicando gran parte della sua vita alla lotta contro il razzismo e il fascismo.Divenne la musa ispiratrice di diversi grandi artisti del XX secolo fra …