Cunard Steam Ship Company Limited
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content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Steamboats [Ships, Boats, and Vessels]
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Steamboats [Ships, Boats, and Vessels] / Business Records and Marketing Material / Shipping Lines/Conglomerates
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Cunard has a long, well-documented but complex history that researchers should explore independently. 

A few time-line points: was established in 1840 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company. In 1879, re-organized as the Cunard Steamship Company Ltd. In 1934, merged with chief rival White Star Line to form Cunard-White Star Line. In 1949, reverted to the name Cunard Line.

Multiple name variants exist and locations world-wide were served.  Early fleets included wooden hulls and paddle wheels.  Fleets were numerous, renamings were common, and select ships were pressed into service in war-time eras.  Some of the more well-known ships include the Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria, Caronia, Mauretania, Lusitania.