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Died. Frank H. Hannigan, 57, head of Cunard White Star's ecclesiastical department; after a brief illness; in Caldwell, N. J. He encouraged transatlantic steamship traffic by promoting yearly pilgrimages to Croagh Patrick, the holy mountain of St. Patrick in Ireland...
...most extraordinary passenger on the Aquitania as that Cunard-White Star liner steamed out of Southampton for New York last week was a pretty Scottish nursemaid whose name was not printed in the passenger list. She was whisked incognito to her cabin, where a stalwart British stewardess was posted before the door to keep out undesirable visitors. Nurse Betty Gow, from whose care the world's most famed baby was snatched on the windy night of March 1, 1932, was returning to the U. S. Surrounded by all the melodrama of a penny-dreadful, Nurse Gow, it was whispered...
...Cunard-White Star Line officers must do on reaching 60, Captain John W. Binks of the S. S. Olympic prepared last week to quit the sea after 45 years in steam & sail. Memorable indeed was the last westbound trip of the Olympic's florid, stocky skipper from Southampton to New York. Over the North Atlantic raged a winter's storm that brought many a vessel distress, twice sent the barometer from 30 in. to 28 in.-lowest Captain Binks had ever seen. So rough was New York's almost landlocked harbor that mail boats could take...
Start. Conceived by the Cunard Line as the world's biggest ship, the keel of No. 534 was laid in February 1931, at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank. Her tonnage was 73,000, her cost $30,000,000. Eleven months after her keel was laid, work was suspended for lack of funds. For two years and four months No. 534 was an empty, half-finished hull. Then the Cunard and White Star Lines merged. The Government came to No. 534's rescue with a three-million-pound loan. Some 3,800 workmen went back...
Name. Old as the Cunard Line is the tradition that its ships must bear names ending in ia. No. 534 may become Britannia, because it was the name of the first Cunarder. Another possibility was Victoria, and a third was Columbia. Princess Elizabeth, often suggested, was losing ground as launching day drew near. Last-minute rumor said the name would be Queen Mary, in honor of England's Queen. Because Cunard with its ia and White Star with its ic have been merged, such a name, it was argued, would favor neither of the old companies...