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Cunard-White Star Line, Ltd. was a British shipping line which existed briefly between 1934 and 1949, due to the merger between the Cunard Line and the White Star Line after both companies experienced financial difficulties. Cunard-White Star controlled a total of twenty-five ships (with Cunard contributing fifteen ships and White Star ten). Both Cunard and White Star were in dire financial trouble, and were looking to complete enormous liners: White Star had Hull 844 - RMS ''Oceanic III'' and Cunard had Hull 534, which would later become . Cunard shareholders owned 62% of the new company Cunard-White Star, while White Star shareholders owned the remaining 38%. Being in a better financial and operating state than their White Star counterparts, Cunard Line shareholders began absorbing all White Star assets and as a result, most White Star Liners were quickly disposed with or sent to the breakers' yard. White Star's Australia and New Zealand service ships were donated to the Shaw, Savill & Ablion Line in 1934 with the Olympic being sent to Jarrow from breaking the following year.. In 1947, Cunard shareholders acquired the 38% of Cunard-White Star they didn't already own and in 1949 bought out the entire company, operating individually as the Cunard Line. However, both the Cunard and White Star house flags were flown on the company's liners at the time of the merger and thereafter. However, the Cunard flag was flown above the White Star flag, even on the last two original White Star Liners, and RMS ''Britannic''. ''Georgic'' was scrapped in 1956. ''Britannic'' made the final Liverpool-New York crossing of any White Star Liner from New York on November 25, 1960, and returned to Liverpool for the final time under her own power to the ship breakers and was the last White Star Liner in existence, this left the passenger tender SS ''Nomadic'' (which was also owned by the company until 1934) as the last White Star Line ship still afloat. Despite this, all Cunard Line ships flew both the Cunard and White Star Line house flags on their masts until 1968. This was most likely because ''Nomadic'' remained in service with Cunard until this year, and was sent to the breakers' yard, only to be bought for use as a floating restaurant. After this, all remnants of the company were dissolved. Cunard Line from that point on operated as a separate entity until 2005, when it was absorbed as a subsidiary into Carnival Corporation. ''Nomadic'' which left White Star service in 1934 is undergoing restoration work in her city of birth, Belfast, Northern Ireland. She and the ''Queen Mary'' are the only surviving Cunard-White Star Line ships. ''Queen Mary'' is permanently berthed in Long Beach, California as a hotel and tourist attraction. ==Fleet== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cunard-White Star Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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