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COMPANION
for
Travelers to America
with the
Cunard - Line
Founded 1840.
Contents:
Facts and advice concerning the voyage and dictionary.
Issued by
General Agent
OLAF H. SOLEM,
Trondhjem - Norway. |
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THE CUNARD LINE
The Cunard Line must be considered an important participant in the history of trade. In that matter it holds a position of equal importance as the railway companies. The first steamer of the Cunard Line, the Britannia was the pioneer in the transatlantic transportation of passengers as we know it nowadays. The Difference between this famous steamer, which commenced its first voyage across the Atlantic on the 4th of July 1840, and the Cunard Line's new steamers, is a huge gap filled with fantasy and some thousand steamers of varying types, which step by step have accomplished the transatlantic steamers of today.
This company has the honor not only of being the oldest steamship company in the world, but after 63 years of operations, it is also at the height of the branch. The founders of the company was Samuel Cunard, George Burns and David MacIver, and from the first day, and till today the company has been in operation continuously.
When the first steamer of the company arrived at Boston after a 14 days journey, the 63 passengers were welcomed by the inhabitants of the city with great rapture. Nowadays the weekly number of passengers traveling between England and America on the different companies reaches up to 13 000 a week. |
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