Monthly Archives: October 2024

COVID UPDATE

The activities of this Society, much like everyone’s lifestyle and movements were severely curtailed with first the arrival of COVID, and then its prolonged effects which are still being felt today in the form of different variants of the virus. … Continue reading

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PRESERVING CUNARD HISTORY AND HERITAGE- A CUNARD TRILOGY

In September of 2024 arrangements were concluded with the Public Archives of Nova Scotia to transfer fifty years of accumulated Cunard research materials from the CSS Chairman’s personal collection into what now will form ‘the Langley fond’ at PANS. During … Continue reading

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QUEEN ANNE JOINS CUNARD FLEET

Following years of great anticipation, Cunard’s fourth ship and another Royal Monarch, Queen Anne joined the fleet in January and began service with three inaugural cruises in May, the second of which was a fourteen day ‘British Festival Voyage’ – … Continue reading

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OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS IN 2023

CUNARD FOUNDER ASSUMES A GREATER PRESENCE ABOARD FLAGSHIP Cunard’s QM2 resumed normal service with a World Cruise in 2023. Just prior to departing Southampton arrangements between Cunard and the Society culminated in the placement of an eight- foot portrait of … Continue reading

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SAMUEL CUNARD PRIZE

Each year since 2015 Cunard Line in conjunction with the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and the Canadian Maritime Heritage Foundation has hosted an event aboard Queen Mary 2 in Halifax, the ‘ancestral home’ of the company to honour its … Continue reading

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