New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1919, Page 8

UNARD LINE L GREAT AR RECORD Lost Thirty Big Boats 80 Sailors May 2.—While mslhip companies whose NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 2. 1919 the seven seas are in line | 1euished vice decor: sort for their invaluable win the war, there is re worthy of any honor be Dbestowed than the , Ltd. Co- | operating with S numerous peace-time competitors. the Cunard ltne put in ery ton afloat at the time of the beginning of the conflict and la thousands of tons more that were cn the ways, with the re- it that when peace is officially de- ed figurss will show that damage done to tr at fleet amounts to 60 per cent of the total acily che variety and extent of | some of the cervices rendered by the : NG Exclusive Agents o | = LA HOSIERY CO. Ctrard lnc are dificult to realize ! until a detailed account is made Wiiile it does not tell all, the latest | chronicle of the war activities of the vessels of the company is published in ‘the Journal of Commerce of Liv- erpool, the tish headquarters of | the compauy. Excerpts from fhis publication throw great light on just | how at has been the contribution | of ‘the Cumuard line to the successtul Issue of the war. At the outbreak of war the | 8 Cunard fleat consisted of steam- | ships, of which fifteen were lost, with | § two exceptions, by enemy action. Of | ships acquired subsequently, eight | were lost. They comprised 56 per cent of the fleet’s total of 330,000 tons. The loss of chartered tonnage brought the number of Cunard ves- sels lost during the war to thirty and 650 amen gave their lives Cunard line steams ved as armed cruisers, transports hos- i 1 pital ships and steamed 3,500,000 | mil or more than 140 times the circumference of the earth. They | transported just under a million sol- | § diers and more than 10,000.000 tons of foodstuffz and war supplies. Near- | Iy 500,000 Amerf soldiers were | taken overscas on Cunard line ve sels, being 40 per cent of those car- ried on board British vesscls from America to France Not only did the Cunard transport troops and supplies but it fitted out vessels for the British government, asgpmirled 1s, artillery wheels, | patts of sutmarines and mines. To | dismantle the Aquitania and the | § Coronia in the first week of the war after thev had been requisitioned as armed cruisers. required 5,000 men The Cunard steamships carried en England and the Dar- Jzrpt, South Africa and | part of essential food- | mitions of war came and the North Atlantic | bmarine infested ap- | reat Britain's coasts | wore never tree of Cunard ships. | The Aquitenia, whieh is Britain's | latest mship, has been an armed | merek cruiser, hospital ship and | a transpor In the ing of 1918, | in nine trips, she carried 60,000 troops to ope i Very similar was the experience of | the Mauretania. Skillful navigation, | combined with their high speed, put | both the Aquitania and Mauretania saf through. o the Carmania belongs the high hoaor of being the only British armed | suxiliary crriser to destroy a German essel in smgle armed combat. In ember, 1914, she sank the Ger- man convertsd cruiser Cap Trafalgar lasting nearly two hours. 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