Cunard Steam Ship Co
of Water Street, Liverpool.
1838/40 The British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Co was formed.
1878 the firm became Cunard Steamship Company Ltd. The company was registered on 23 May.
1907 The company entered into an agreement with his Majesty's government, by which it undertook to build two large steamers, the agreement to be in force for twenty years from the date of the sailing of the second vessel; these two steamers, the Lusitania and the Mauretania, were completed this year. [1]
1911 Cunard purchased Anchor Line to gain access to Anchor’s lucrative emigrant trade.
1934 merged with the White Star Line. The company was known as Cunard White Star Line and was renamed Cunard Line in 1950.
1934 - 1946 Percy Elly Bates was the Chairman.
See Cunard Line: Ships and read its history summarised in The Engineer 1893/03/03.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908