A Cunard steamer; one of a line of steam-ships between Liverpool and New York.
This line of steamers was founded by Sir Samuel Cunard, of Halifax, N.S., in conjunction with others.
1841. Macon Georgia Telegraph, 28 Dec., 2/6. Sterling and French bills have been unsettled since the sailing of the Cunarder from Boston.
1881. S. G. W. Benjamin, in Century Mag., XXIII. 184/1. The great Cunarder gradually drew toward us.
1882. Athenæum, 16 Dec., 806/2. On June 4th, 1840,… a year before the Britannia, the first Cunarder, sailed from Liverpool.
1890. Times, 30 Dec., 7/4. The arrival of a Cunarder in the Mersey.
