Quote Originally Posted by SteH View Post
Hi Marie, Cunard's headquarters were in Liverpool till the 1960s as many of its routes went from Liverpool to USA and Canada, but the ships were built elsewhere.
Thanx for replay. I was reading now about White Star Line Company and say it:

The original company bearing the name White Star Line was founded in Liverpool, England by John Pilkington and Henry Threlfall Wilson, and focused on the Australian trade, which had increased following the discovery of gold there. The fleet initially consisted of chartered sailing ships, the Blue Jacket (later renamed White Star), the Red Jacket, the Ellen and the Iowa but it acquired its first steamship in 1863 with the Royal Standard. One notable ship was Tayleur, whose fate would haunt the company



(...) and then, Cunard acquired this company. I was thinking that Pool have special connections with these boats. Thanx Steh!!

And...

Anyone or u know, where is now this boat "SS Naronic"? Coz the original company saids some years ago, they like to put this boat in a big maritime museum in Belfast.
SS Naronic was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line. The ship was lost at sea after leaving Liverpool on February 11, 1893 bound for New York, with the loss of all 74 people on board. The ship's fate is a mystery that remains unsolved to this day.