On today’s date in 1840, Samuel Cunard arrived in Halifax, N.S. on his first steamship, a paddle steamer known as Britannia. The RMS Britannia was the first flagship of the British North America Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, which was later known as the Cunard Line. She left Liverpool, England on her maiden voyage on July 4, 1840. […]
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