Who secured the contract from the British government in 1838 to carry mail between Liverpool Halifax and Boston and formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company with 4 ships?
Cunard Line Cunard Line Cunard Line is a British-American cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. Since 2011, Cunard and its three ships have been registered in Hamilton, Bermuda. In 1839 Samuel Cunard, a Halifax, Nova Scotia shipowner, was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company together with Robert Napier, the famous Scottish steamship engine designer and builder, to operate the line's four pioneer paddle steamers on the Liverpool–Halifax–Boston route. For most of the
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Kong shipowner C.Y. Tung, and later sold on to former River Plate rival Hamburg Süd; by the 1990s "Royal Mail Lines" was no more than the name of a Hamburg-Süd refrigerated cargo service from South America to Europe. For conciseness smaller ships such as schooners and lighters are omitted. This list is of the additional ships acquired by RML in addition to those passed directly from RMSP. Royal Mail Steam Packet Company The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen. The line's motto was "Per Mare Ubique"