British-Canadian shipping magnate who won the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract and founded what became the Cunard Line. Its first ship, the Britannia, sailed from Liverpool to Halifax and on to Boston in 1840, establishing regular, scheduled passenger and cargo steamship service across the North Atlantic where sailing ships had kept only an unreliable schedule. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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In 1840 the company's first steamship, the Britannia, sailed from Liverpool to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and on to Boston, Massachusetts...marking the beginning of regular passenger and cargo service.
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Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November 1787-28 April 1865), was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line, establishing the first scheduled steamship connection with North America.
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