Shipbuilders, ship designers, shipping line founders and maritime entrepreneurs whose vessels and companies built ocean and coastal transport, from early steam navigation through the container shipping revolution. Belongs here: ship designers, shipping company founders and figures whose chief transport legacy is a vessel type or shipping enterprise. Does not belong here: canal or waterway engineers, grouped under road, bridge and cycling engineers only where the built work rather than the vessel is the legacy, or figures from other modes.
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1. Wikipedia: Samuel Cunard
WikipediaSamuel Cunard, first steamship BritanniaQuote, Samuel Cunard, first steamship Britannia
In 1840 the company's first steamship, the Britannia, sailed from Liverpool to Halifax, Nova Scotia
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