Cunard Gallery

RMS Carpathia

The Cunard RMS Carpathia on her maiden voyage in 1903. She was the first vessel built by Cunard exclusively for second and third class passengers. The Carpathia would later find fame as the liner that helped to rescue the surviving passengers from the sunken Titanic

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RMS Carpathia, 1903

Photograph of the Cunard Line's RMS Carpathia, launched by the Swan Hunter Shipyard, in 1902. She was the first vessel built for the Cunard Line which was exclusively for second and third class passengers. In 1912 she was the first vessel to attend the sinking of the Titanic'. The Carpathia was sunk by a German U-boat in 1918, off the Fastnet, Southern Ireland

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R.M.S. Queen Mary under construction, 1934

Photograph of Queen Mary, then known as 534, under construction at John Brown's shipyard, Clydebank. Work on the massive liner had been halted between 1931 and 1934 due to lack of funds, but the merger of Cunard and White Star Line and a nine-and-a-half million pound government loan saved the vessel. She was launched in September 1934 by Queen Mary

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