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The Cunard Line was founded in 1839 as a transatlantic Royal Mail carrier from Great Britain to Canada and the United States, and by the early 20th century had expanded to become one of the world's leading shipping lines.
Cunard lost 22 ships during World War I, including the Lusitania.
The golden age of transatlantic shipping came in the 1920s and 1930s, and Cunard remained one of the leading companies in the industry.
In 1934, Cunard's Queen Mary became the first ship launched by a member of the British royal family, Her Majesty RMS Queen Mary (wife of the then King George V), and the RMS Queen Elizabeth was unveiled in 1938, named for the Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI.
In the 1950s, Cunard carried a third of all passengers crossing the Atlantic, but towards the end of that decade commercial passenger jets began to make the transatlantic journey.
Although Cunard's Queen Elizabeth 2, launched in 1969, continued to make transatlantic voyages, the company underwent several ownership changes and struggled to reinvent itself for a new era.
Cunard was purchased in 1998 by cruise ship giant Carnival, which hoped to leverage the brand's rich legacy and luxury reputation in a bid to return the venerable line to profitability.
Among the centerpieces of Carnival's attempt to revive Cunard was the construction of the largest and most luxurious passenger ship in existence, the RMS Queen Mary 2.
The Cunard line is still in operation and has one of the largest passenger ships in the world, the Queen Mary 2, which has been in service since January 2004, the Queen Victoria, which entered service in 2007, the Queen Elizabeth, which entered service in 2010 and the future Queen Anne ship due to enter service in 2023
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