The Maritime Heritage Project ~~ International Harbors Travel

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Arrived in San Francisco on the Barque Canton,
July 28, 1851

Cunard shipping family.

Nothing other than this arrival has been located on his visit to San Francisco. Presumably, given his background, he was here to scout out new routes for his shipping line.

It was with the birth of the Cunard Line in 1840 that a steamship company could promise to deliver its passengers to their destinations on a regular timetable. Cunard's first four small steamers, all commissioned in 1840-41, had actually launched something completely new in ocean travel: constant, reliable service on a fixed departure schedule.

No one knew it then, but this pioneering company would outlast all its rivals and, in the process, establish an unmatched safety record. The tone was set by the operating instructions laid down by the company's founder, Samuel Cunard of Halifax, to his very first captain: "It will be very obvious to you that it is of the first importance to the Partners of the Britannia that she attains the Character for Speed and Safety." Safety would continue to be the firm's watchword.

Later in the century, an admiring Mark Twain would opine, "The Cunatrd people would not take Noah himself as first mate till they had worked him through all the lower grades and tried him ten years or such matter."

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Page: http://www.maritimeheritage.org/vips/
Date Entered: Between 1998 and 2008
Source: Geographicus, Newspaper Archives, Daily Alta California, Family Papers, Historical Records, Submissions from Researchers

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