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CUNARD, SIR SAMUEL

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 629 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CUNARD, See also:SIR See also:SAMUEL , See also:Bart. (1787–1865), See also:British See also:civil engineer, founder of the Cunard See also:line of See also:steam-See also:ships, was See also:born at See also:Halifax, Nova See also:Scotia, on the 21st of See also:November 1787. He was the son of a See also:merchant, and was himself trained for the pursuits of See also:commerce, in which, by his abilities and enterprising spirit, he attained a conspicuous position. When, in the See also:early years of steam See also:navigation, the See also:English See also:government made known its See also:desire to substitute steam vessels for the sailing ships then employed in the See also:mail service between See also:England and See also:America, Cunard heartily entered into the See also:scheme, came to England, and accepted the government See also:tender for carrying it out. In See also:con-junction with Messrs See also:Burns of See also:Glasgow and Messrs Maclver of See also:Liverpool, proprietors of See also:rival lines of See also:coasting steamers between Glasgow and Liverpool, he formed a See also:company, and the first voyage of a Cunard steamship was successfully made by the " Britannia " from Liverpool to See also:Boston, U.S.A., between See also:July 4 and 19, 1840 (see STEAMSHIP LINES). In See also:acknowledgment of his energetic and successful services Cunard was, in 1859, created a See also:baronet. He died in See also:London on the 28th of See also:April 1865.

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