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Cunard Line

British cruise line

17 dated entries naming Cunard Line, drawn from 14 separate years between 1787 CE and 1950 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Cunard, Cunard Steamship Company in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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18th century

  • 1787November 21 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian businessman, prominent Nova Scotian, founder of the Cunard Line (died 1865)source

19th century

  • 1840July 4 – The Cunard Line's 700-ton wooden paddlewheel steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool, bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the first steam transatlantic passenger mail service.source
  • 18404 July – the Cunard Line's 700-ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia, launched by Robert Duncan & Company at Greenock on 5 February, departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the first steam transatlantic passenger mail service. Scottish marine engineer Robert Napier is a major partner in the venture and has supplied the ship's engine.source
  • 185525 July – Robert Napier and Sons launch RMS Persia on the River Clyde, the first iron-hulled ship for the Cunard Line and the world's largest at this date (3300 grt, 398 ft (121 m)).source
  • 1856April 29 – The iron-hulled paddle steamer RMS Persia concludes a 9-day 16 hour westbound transatlantic crossing, at an average 13.11 knots (24.28 km/h), regaining the Blue Riband for the Cunard Line.source
  • 1881March 1 – The Cunard Line's SS Servia, the first large steel transatlantic liner, is launched at Clydebank in Scotland.source
  • 18928 September – Cunard liner RMS Campania is launched by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govansource

20th century

  • 1901June 15 – RMS Lucania is the first Cunard Line ship to receive a wireless radio set.source
  • 1906June 7 – Cunard liner RMS Lusitania is launched in Glasgow, as the world's largest ship.source
  • 19067 June – Cunard liner RMS Lusitania is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank as the world's largest ship.source
  • 1907September 7 – British Cunard Line passenger liner RMS Lusitania sets out on her maiden voyage, from Liverpool (England) to New York City.source
  • 1912April 18 – Cunard Line vessel RMS Carpathia arrives in New York with the 705 RMS Titanic survivors.source
  • 1913April 21 – Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, built by John Brown & Company, is launched on the River Clyde.source
  • 19185 November – Clydebuilt former Cunarder HMS Campania sinks in an accident in the Firth of Forth.source
  • 19494 January – RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage.source
  • 1949January 4 – RMS Caronia (1947) of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York City on her maiden voyage.source
  • 1950February 21 – Cunard liner Aquitania arrives at the scrapyard in Faslane at the end of a 36-year career, the longest of any in the 20th Century.source

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