Host Hattie Posted December 3, 2020 Author #1826 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Liverpool was definitely considered part of Lancashire when I was born there ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted December 3, 2020 #1827 Share Posted December 3, 2020 I think we could use another contribution for today from some of our regulars (or anyone else for that matter). The way I see it, there are several dozen more candidates for former Cunard ships named for places visited by Cunard ships. To review since we've started a new browser page of posts here, I think these are the names we've identified so far. Lusitania Mauretania Albania Caledonia Zealandic Australian Australasian Aquitania Campania Lancastria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted December 3, 2020 Author #1828 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Catalonia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted December 3, 2020 #1829 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Perhaps a bit too obvious, but how about Britannia / Britannic Capturing both the Cunard version, and also the White Star Line version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted December 3, 2020 #1830 Share Posted December 3, 2020 (edited) Lancastria was Tyrrhenia in its previous incarnation. Cunard also had an Etruria and a Tuscania (I had to look the last up). All three refer to the Tuscany area of Italy, which I imagine includes Livorno. A triple whammy. 😀 Edited December 3, 2020 by exlondoner Punctuation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray66 Posted December 3, 2020 #1831 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Africa (last Cunard wooden paddle steamer to cross the Atlantic) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExArkie Posted December 3, 2020 #1832 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Assuming that anything after 1840 counts as being a Cunard ship: America Wooden hull, paddle wheel, active 1848 - 1863 (couple years before I was born) The America class was replacement for the Britannia class of similar design and included the Africa (from the previous post). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted December 4, 2020 #1833 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Morning everyone. They had a few Ivernias. Ivernia seems to be another version of Hibernia, so Ireland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted December 4, 2020 #1834 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Caronia. Part of Sicily which, from memory, included Messina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted December 4, 2020 #1835 Share Posted December 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Colin_Cameron said: Caronia. Part of Sicily which, from memory, included Messina. I think it may be the other way round. Messina province includes Caronia, but it still counts, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted December 4, 2020 #1836 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Acadia That’s the region of Canada including the present-day provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Several Cunard ports are there, most notably, Halifax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted December 4, 2020 #1837 Share Posted December 4, 2020 7 hours ago, Colin_Cameron said: Caronia. Part of Sicily which, from memory, included Messina. This is interesting. Wikipedia says of the original RMS Caronia (1904), "She was the only ship in the Cunard fleet to be named after an American, being named after Caro Brown, granddaughter of Cunard's New York agent." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted December 4, 2020 #1838 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Just think what an opportunity Wallis Simpson missed. 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted December 4, 2020 #1839 Share Posted December 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, exlondoner said: Just think what an opportunity Wallis Simpson missed. 😀 If there had been an "RMS Wallonia" that could have had us wondering about that name, couldn't it? There's a Maritime Quest panel discussing Cunard ship names in one of the stairways on QM2. Does anyone else recall that panel mentioning something along the lines of no Cunard ship has had a name starting with "W", "X", "Y" or "Z"? That could have taken care of the "W" anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted December 4, 2020 #1840 Share Posted December 4, 2020 45 minutes ago, bluemarble said: If there had been an "RMS Wallonia" that could have had us wondering about that name, couldn't it? There's a Maritime Quest panel discussing Cunard ship names in one of the stairways on QM2. Does anyone else recall that panel mentioning something along the lines of no Cunard ship has had a name starting with "W", "X", "Y" or "Z"? That could have taken care of the "W" anyway. According to my book, they managed something called Westernland for the Ministry of Transport just after the war. Also various ships with names beginning with War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted December 4, 2020 #1841 Share Posted December 4, 2020 10 hours ago, exlondoner said: Morning everyone. They had a few Ivernias. Ivernia seems to be another version of Hibernia, so Ireland. Also in the early days they did actually have a Hibernia. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted December 4, 2020 #1842 Share Posted December 4, 2020 1 minute ago, exlondoner said: According to my book, they managed something called Westernland for the Ministry of Transport just after the war. Also various ships with names beginning with War. Ah, thanks. That Maritime Quest panel may have only mentioned "X", "Y" and "Z" then. Can't say I recall precisely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray66 Posted December 4, 2020 #1843 Share Posted December 4, 2020 15 minutes ago, exlondoner said: According to my book, they managed something called Westernland for the Ministry of Transport just after the war. Also various ships with names beginning with War. My book doesn't have any beginning with W. Westernland was built for red Star Line. I don't know if a Cunard ship has visited Algeria so I'll skip to Asia (the largest ship built on the Clyde before 1850) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted December 4, 2020 #1844 Share Posted December 4, 2020 16 minutes ago, Ray66 said: My book doesn't have any beginning with W. Westernland was built for red Star Well, as I say, it was only managed. i wonder if any borrowed Cunard ships were involved in Operation Torch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted December 5, 2020 #1845 Share Posted December 5, 2020 For today's offering, they seem to have had both a Malta and a Melita. They went through so many names that I wondered whether they might, from sheer carelessness, have named something Malaria, but it seems not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted December 5, 2020 #1846 Share Posted December 5, 2020 After offering Acadia yesterday, I'll add the whole country today by contributing Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted December 6, 2020 #1847 Share Posted December 6, 2020 I'll add Arabia today. I think there have been two of those over the years. The region of Arabia includes several Cunard ports, perhaps most notably, Dubai in the UAE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted December 6, 2020 #1848 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Have we had California yet? I'm losing track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted December 6, 2020 #1849 Share Posted December 6, 2020 18 minutes ago, exlondoner said: Have we had California yet? I'm losing track. No we haven't had California yet. Do tell me more about the Cunard ship named California. One mention I see on the Cunard Line wikipedia page is that the 1920 Albania was renamed California after being sold to Libera Triestina in 1930. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted December 6, 2020 #1850 Share Posted December 6, 2020 15 minutes ago, bluemarble said: No we haven't had California yet. Do tell me more about the Cunard ship named California. One mention I see on the Cunard Line wikipedia page is that the 1920 Albania was renamed California after being sold to Libera Triestina in 1930. Yes, you are completely right. She wasn't California while a Cunarder. Sorry. I shall ponder anew. I don't think Lucania (=Puglia) is an area with Cunard ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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