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Cunard-White Star Line, Ltd, was a British shipping line which existed between 1934 and 1949. [1] 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.
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White Star merged in 1934 with its chief rival, the Cunard Line, operating as Cunard-White Star Line until Cunard purchased White Star's share in the joint company in 1950. Cunard then operated as a single company until 2005 and is now part of Carnival Corporation & plc.
On the 10th May 1934 the former rivals Cunard and White Star merged together, so that the British government would give around 10 million pounds to them to finally complete Cunards Queen Mary. The new merged company was called Cunard White Star.
Jun 15, 2023 · The Oceanic would be the first of six ships ordered by White Star Line in the 1870s, the others would include the Adriatic, Baltic, Republic, Celtic and Atlantic. Here, WSL would begin its tradition of the names of its ships ending in -ic, a tradition for many lines, such as Cunard, whose names ended in -ia.
Steamship Line: Cunard White Star. Class of Passengers: Cabin Class. Date of Departure: 5 October 1935. Route: Liverpool to Boston and New York via Belfast and Galway. Commander: Captain E. Edkin, O.B.E., R.D., A.D.C., R.N.R.
Cunard purchased White Star's share in 1947; the name reverted to the Cunard Line in 1950. [5] Upon the end of the Second World War, Cunard regained its position as the largest Atlantic passenger line. By the mid-1950s, it operated 12 ships to the United States and Canada.
Sep 27, 2019 · The steam-powered ocean liner RMS Queen Elizabeth, constructed by the shipbuilding firm John Brown & Company for Cunard-White Star Line (renamed Cunard Line in 1949), was launched at a shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland.
The Cunard White Star Line (1934-1949) was formed as a merger of the two once giant steamship lines - The Cunard Steam Ship Company and the White Star Line. The depression years had taken their toll on a number of transatlantic steamship lines.
Cunard-White Star Line. Established on the North Atlantic by Thomas Henry Ismay in the 1860s as a main competitor to Cunard Line, the famed White Star Line (trading name of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company) built up a fleet of modern, comfortable ocean liners.
