"the location, the wreck was the Hamburg-America Line's ""Isis"", sunk on 8 November 1936. In 2000, the American author and diver Clive Cussler announced that his organisation, NUMA, had found the true wreck of ""Carpathia"" in the Spring of that year, at a depth of . After the submarine attack, ""Carpathia"" landed upright on the seabed. NUMA gave the approximate location of the wreck as west of Fastnet, Ireland. The wreck is owned by Premier Exhibitions Inc., formerly RMS ""Titanic"" Inc., which plans to recover objects from the wreck. RMS Carpathia RMS ""Carpathia"" was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship"
"elegant 1912 appearance under the auspices of the Nomadic Preservation Society along with the assistance of her original builders, Harland and Wolff. She is intended to serve as the centerpiece of a museum dedicated to the history of Atlantic steam, the White Star Line, and its most famous ship, the ""Titanic"". The historic ""Nomadic"" was opened ceremoniously to the public on 31 May 2013. Cunard Line itself has, since 1995, introduced White Star Service as the brand of services on their ships ""RMS Queen Mary 2"", ""MS Queen Victoria"" and the ""MS Queen Elizabeth"". The company has also created the"
"likely belonged to one of the ship's female passengers. RMS Laconia (1911) RMS ""Laconia"" was a Cunard ocean liner built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, launched on 27 July 1911, with the wife of the U.S. Ambassador Mrs. Whitelaw Reid christening the vessel. ""Laconia"" was delivered to the Cunard Line on 12 December 1911, and began service on 20 January 1912. She was the first Cunard ship of that name. ""Laconia"" was intended for the Liverpool-Boston service with cruising from New York to the Mediterranean off season. The ship was the first British ship and first North Atlantic liner"
"RMS Laconia (1911) RMS ""Laconia"" was a Cunard ocean liner built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, launched on 27 July 1911, with the wife of the U.S. Ambassador Mrs. Whitelaw Reid christening the vessel. ""Laconia"" was delivered to the Cunard Line on 12 December 1911, and began service on 20 January 1912. She was the first Cunard ship of that name. ""Laconia"" was intended for the Liverpool-Boston service with cruising from New York to the Mediterranean off season. The ship was the first British ship and first North Atlantic liner to be equipped with anti-roll tanks. On the outbreak"
"competitors. Following the merger of White Star Line and Cunard Line in 1934, ""Olympic"" was taken out of service in 1935, and scrapped between 1935 and 1937. Second in line of the ""Olympic"" class, ""Titanic"" was launched on 31 May 1911, and her commissioning was slightly delayed due to ongoing repairs of ""Olympic"". The ship left the port of Southampton 10 April 1912 for her maiden voyage, narrowly avoiding a collision with SS ""New York"", a ship moored in the port pulled by the propellers of ""Titanic"". After a stopover at Cherbourg, France and another in Queenstown, Ireland, she sailed"
"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. Most of the major trans-Atlantic liners of the day docked at the piers and they played pivotal roles in the RMS Titanic and RMS Lusitania disasters. The two most memorable moments for the pier were with the ""Lusitania"" and ""Titanic"". The RMS ""Lusitania"" left her Cunard Pier 54 in 1915 before"
"be outdone, both White Star and Hamburg–America each ordered a trio of superliners. The White Star ""Olympic""-class liners at and the Hapag ""Imperator""-class liners at were larger and more luxurious than the Cunarders, but not as fast. Cunard also ordered a new ship, ""Aquitania"", capable of , to complete the Liverpool mail fleet. Events prevented the expected competition between the three sets of superliners. White Star's ""Titanic"" sank on its maiden voyage, both White Star's ""Britannic"" and Cunard's ""Lusitania"" were war losses, and the three Hapag super-liners were handed over to the Allied powers as war reparations. In 1916 Cunard"
"the space"" and noting that much effort is put into promoting the ship as a “haunted attraction"", while efforts to explain or preserve the factual history of the ship are ""somehow pushed to the wayside"". RMS Queen Mary The RMS ""Queen Mary"" is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line – known as Cunard-White Star Line when the vessel entered service. She was the flagship of the Cunard and White Star Lines, built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, ""Queen Mary"", along with ,"
"RMS Queen Mary The RMS ""Queen Mary"" is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line – known as Cunard-White Star Line when the vessel entered service. She was the flagship of the Cunard and White Star Lines, built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, ""Queen Mary"", along with , were built as part of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. The two ships were a British response to the express superliners built by German, Italian and French companies"
"RMS Pannonia (1902) The RMS ""Pannonia"" was a transatlantic passenger steamship for the Cunard steamship company. She was originally ordered by Sir Christopher Furness' company, and purchased by Cunard prior to her launch on 5 September 1902. Like many other Cunard ships, she had refrigerating machinery made by the Liverpool Refrigeration Company. She started her maiden voyage on 28 May 1904, which was from Trieste to Fiume to Palermo to New York City. The captain of the ""Pannonia"" from 1 January 1911 until January 1912 was Arthur Rostron, who later rescued the survivors of the ""Titanic"". In May 1916 she"
"rescue mission. She arrived only two hours after ""Titanic"" had sunk and rescued 705 survivors from the ship's lifeboats. ""Carpathia"" herself was sunk on 17 July 1918 after being torpedoed by the German submarine SM U-55 off the southern Irish coast with a loss of five crew members. Around 1900, the Cunard Line faced tight competition from the British White Star Line and the German lines Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd) and Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). Cunards largest liners, as of 1898 and , had a reputation for size and speed, both being of 12,950 gross register tons (GRT) and"
"tow lines were cut, she repeatedly crashed on the rocky breakwater outside Apra Harbor, Guam and broke into three sections. After World War II, the Cunard White Star Line operated three ships on the Southampton—New York run. The famous RMS ""Queen Mary"" and RMS ""Queen Elizabeth"" operated a weekly express service, with the smaller and slower RMS ""Mauretania"" sailing as the third ship on the route. The company placed an order for a running mate to the ""Mauretania"", a ship of similar speed and proportions for the transatlantic run. Ultimately this was not to be the role of the new"
"which was to be maintained by ""Teutonic"", ""Majestic"", ""Oceanic"" and the newly completed ""Adriatic"". ""Celtic"" was returned to the Liverpool service after the second crossing, and her place taken on the new run by ""Adriatic"", which sailed from Southampton for the first time on 5 June, followed by ""Teutonic"" on 12 June, ""Oceanic"" on 19 June and ""Majestic"" on 26 June. The Cunard Line was the chief competitor to White Star. In response to Cunard's ""Lusitania"" and ""Mauretania"", White Star ordered the ""Olympic"" class liners: ""Olympic"", ""Titanic"", and ""Britannic"". While Cunard was famed for the speed of their ships, the"
"for outrunning submarines and enemy cruisers in war. even rammed and sank a U-boat during one of its wartime crossings. Individual liners capable of exceptionally high speed transited without escorts; smaller or older liners with poorer performance were protected by operating in convoys. Most major naval powers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries provided their domestic shipping lines with subsidies to build fast ocean liners capable of conversions to auxiliary cruisers during wartime. The British government, for example, aided both Cunard and the White Star Line in constructing the liners , RMS ""Aquitania"", and RMS ""Britannic"". However, when"
"RMS Titanic RMS ""Titanic"" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS ""Titanic"" was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three s operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff"
"Cunard Line then operated as a separate entity until 2005 and is now part of Carnival Corporation & plc. As a lasting reminder of the White Star Line, modern Cunard ships use the term ""White Star Service"" to describe the level of customer care expected of the company. The first company bearing the name ""White Star Line"" was founded in Liverpool, England, by John Pilkington and Henry Wilson in 1845. It focused on the UK–Australia trade, which increased following the discovery of gold in Australia. The fleet initially consisted of the chartered sailing ships RMS ""Tayleur"", ""Blue Jacket"", ""White Star"","
"the Cunard Line, while leaving the port of New York, following the error of a coast pilot. ""Republic"" was sufficiently damaged for the journey to be cancelled, and the ship was put into dry dock. In 1888, the ""Republic"" underwent a redesign, and a second class was added. In January 1889, the ship began its final voyage with White Star Line under the command of Edward Smith, who later became the captain of the ""Titanic"". On 27 January, the ship was grounded a few hours before its arrival in New York; an incident near the boilers killed three trimmers and"
"by Cunard Line in 1917 and was used as a troop transport between the United States and Europe and between Great Britain and Malta. In 1920 she returned to Arkhangelsk, this time with the Allied expeditionary forces. In January 1921 she was bought by Danish Baltic-American Line and was renamed to SS ""Lituania"". She operated on various trans-oceanic lines, including a circulary Halifax-New York-Copenhagen-Gdańsk-Liepāja. In 1930 she was bought by the Polish Transatlantic Ship Association and renamed SS ""Kościuszko"". She arrived at Gdynia on 8 June 1930 and on 20 June the Polish banner was raised. Initially with a mixed"
"was the British-backed Cunard Line, which began operating on July 4, 1840, with the departure from Liverpool of RMS ""Britannia"", bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Boston. As the principal transatlantic mail carrier, the Cunard Line received subsidies from the British government and from the United States Post Office Department; many Americans, however, thought that an American line should benefit from these subsidies. Thus, in 1845, the United States Postmaster General asked shipowners to tender for the right to operate a subsidized passenger and mail service between the U.S. to Europe. The successful bidder, announced on March 3, 1847, was"
"RMS Carpathia RMS ""Carpathia"" was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in their shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. ""Carpathia"" made her maiden voyage in 1903 from Liverpool to Boston (Massachusetts), and continued on this route before being transferred to Mediterranean service in 1904. In April 1912, she became famous for rescuing the survivors of rival White Star Line's after the latter struck an iceberg and sank with a loss of 1,517 lives in the North Atlantic Ocean. ""Carpathia"" braved dangerous ice fields and diverted all steam power to her engines in her"
"entered service by 1932; they were the last liners White Star had built. RMSPC ran into financial trouble, and was liquidated in 1932. A new company, Royal Mail Lines Limited, took over the ships of RMSPC and their subordinate lines including White Star. In 1933 White Star and Cunard were both in serious financial difficulties because of the Great Depression, falling passenger numbers and the advanced age of their fleets. Work was halted on Cunard's new giant, Hull 534 (later the ""Queen Mary"") in 1931 to save money. In 1933 the British government agreed to provide assistance to the two"
"what is now the Cunard Line. She made runs across the Atlantic between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York City in partnership with ""Queen Elizabeth"". The ""Queen Mary"" was used as a troop ship in the Second World War, carrying 16,082 people on one voyage. After the war she resumed Atlantic runs but these became loss making. She was withdrawn from service in 1967 and is now in Long Beach California as a hotel and tourist attraction. ""HMY Britannia"" is the former Royal Yacht of the British royal family, the 83rd such vessel since the restoration of King Charles II in"
"very quickly lowering boats to rescue the crew, which was confirmed by an injured crewman. In 1934, the White Star Line merged with the Cunard Line at the instigation of the British government, to form Cunard White Star. This merger allowed funds to be granted for the completion of the future and . When completed, these two new ships would handle Cunard White Star's express service; so their fleet of older liners became redundant and were gradually retired. ""Olympic"" was withdrawn from the transatlantic service, and left New York for the last time on 5 April 1935, returning to Britain"
"RMS Niagara RMS ""Niagara"" was an ocean liner launched on 17 August 1912 and owned by the Union Steam Ship Company intended for the Australia-Vancouver, Canada service. She was nicknamed ""the ""Titanic"" of the Pacific"", but after the sinking of the real this was dropped in favour of ""Queen of the Pacific"". She should not be confused with an earlier RMS ""Niagara"", an ocean liner built in 1848 for the Cunard Line. At the start of World War II, RMS ""Niagara"" was operated by the Canadian-Australasian Line, maintaining a service from Auckland, New Zealand, to Suva and Vancouver. On 19"
"to the transport of mails, thus ensuring regular services on a given schedule. The company's vessels operated the routes between the United Kingdom and the United States. Over time, the paddle wheel, impractical on the high seas, was abandoned in favour of the propeller. In 1840, Cunard Line’s began its first regular passenger and cargo service by a steamship, sailing from Liverpool to Boston. As the size of ship increased, the wooden hull became fragile. Beginning with the use of an iron hull in 1845, and then steel hulls, solved this problem. The first ship to be both iron-hulled and"
"originally comprised only American shipping companies. The trust then absorbed Leyland Line and White Star Line. The British government then decided to intervene in order to regain the ascendancy. Although German liners dominated in terms of speed, British liners dominated in terms of size. RMS ""Oceanic"" and the Big Four of the White Star Line were the first liners to surpass as the largest passenger ships. Ultimately their owner was American (as mentioned above, White Star Line had been absorbed into J. P. Morgan's trust). Faced with this major competition, the British government contributed financially to Cunard Line's construction of"
"brass relief plaque with a fish motif from the first , and an Art Deco bas-relief titled ""Winged Horse and Clouds"", by Norman Foster from RMS Queen Elizabeth. There is also a vast array of Cunard postcards, porcelain, flatware, boxes, linen, and Lines Bros Tri-ang Minic model ships. One of her key pieces is a replica of the figurehead from Cunard's first ship, RMS Britannia, carved from Quebec yellow pine by Cornish sculptor Charles Moore, and presented to the ship by Lloyd's of London. On the Upper Deck sits the silver Boston Commemorative Cup, presented to ""Britannia"" by the City"
"British Cunard Line. The next year, Cunard's SS ""Servia"" became the first major ocean liner to be lit up by the incandescent light bulb. In service, the ""Columbia"" was greatly appreciated for its reliability. During a major overhaul in July 1895, the original Edison generators were removed in favor of modern counterparts. The dynamos were donated to the Smithsonian Institution and The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. Three years later, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company was taken over by the Union Pacific Railroad. On January 30, 1898, the ""Columbia"" broke the speed record between San Francisco and Portland. Under"
"that the Cunard Line, supported by the British government, specified turbine propulsion for its great ocean liners ""Lusitania"" and ""Mauretania"", vastly larger than ""King Edward"". TS King Edward TS ""King Edward"" was an excursion steamer built at Dumbarton for service down the River Clyde to the Firth of Clyde and associated sea lochs on the west coast of Scotland, as far as Campbeltown. The first commercial vessel to be driven by steam turbines, ""King Edward"" was remarkably successful for a prototype, serving as a Clyde steamer for half a century from 1901 until 1951, interrupted only by service in the"
"the first Cunard ship to transport Canadian troops. She was sent in the Gallipoli campaign by the summer of 1915. Then she worked on carrying troops to Bombay later the same year. She returned to the North Atlantic and carried troops from Canada and America in 1916. During a voyage from London to New York, she struck a mine on 19 October 1916 in the English Channel off the Royal Sovereign Lightship of Hastings, East Sussex. laid earlier that day by After attempts to beach the ship and tow her to shore with tugs, her captain realized the ship was"
"were ordered, until the Cunard liner ""Queen Elizabeth"" was finally dethroned from her 56-year reign as the largest passenger ship ever built (a dethronement that led to numerous further dethronements from the same position). Both the RMS (""QE2"") (1969) and her successor as Cunard's flagship (""QM2""), which entered service in 2004, are of hybrid construction. Like transatlantic ocean liners, they are fast ships and strongly built to withstand the rigors of the North Atlantic in line voyage service, but both ships are also designed to operate as cruise ships, with the amenities expected in that trade. ""QM2"" was superseded by"
"June. While other ships of the Northern Patrol were in the vicinity – HMS ""Derbyshire"" was actually within visual range – they had strict orders not to risk rescue when a submarine was suspected nearby. However, the entire crew on the ""Andania"" was rescued by the Icelandic fishing vessel ""Skallagrimur"". RMS Andania (1921) RMS ""Andania"" was a British ocean liner launched in 1921. She was the first of six 14,000 ton ""A""-class liners built for the Cunard Line in the early 1920s. The other ships were , ""Ausonia"", , ""Ascania"", and ""Alaunia"". The ship was constructed in Hebburn, England by"
"Arthur Rostron Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD, RNR (14 May 1869 – 4 November 1940) was a captain for the Cunard Line. He is best remembered as the captain of the ocean liner RMS ""Carpathia"", at the time which rescued hundreds of survivors of the RMS ""Titanic"" when it sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. Rostron won wide praise for his energetic efforts to reach the ""Titanic"" before she sank, and his efficient preparations for and conduct of the rescue of the survivors. He was awarded a Congressional Gold"