Author: Janette McCutcheon

Queen Elizabeth 2: The Last Great Liner tells the story of the Cunard liner. It is a story of superlatives – QE2 has travelled further than any other ocean liner ever built, she can travel backwards …

No other moving object has carried as many people in one voyage (over 16, 000). After the war, she became the most profitable vessel in the Cunard fleet and the 1950s were a golden era for ocean line …

Many rare images are used, telling the story of these important royal occasions from the twelfth century to the present day. Royal Weddings are always a time for public celebration; the build-up, the …

In 1871, a bright new star appeared on the Liverpool shipping scene. Like a phoenix, the White Star Line grew out of the ashes of a bankrupt sailing ship line to become the fastest-growing and most f …

In 1908, the White Star Line announced it was constructing a pair of sister ships at the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast. The new behemoths would dwarf even the largest ships of the time, being fully …

Built at the end of the Depression and launched on the weekend of the Munich Crisis, the Queen Elizabeth’s maiden voyage was a wartime dash to New York to escape the Luftwaffe’s bombs. After a wartim …

In 1839, Samuel Cunard, a wealthy Haligonian, sailed from Nova Scotia to England with the idea of setting up a transatlantic steamship company. His talks with the British government were successful a …