Queen mary boat biography of abraham
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Cunard in Boston
By: Bradford Hudson, Ph.D.
The steamship Britannia arrived in Boston Harbor on a July evening in 1840. This concluded the inaugural voyage for the flagship of the newly established Cunard Line, which has since become one of the oldest and most distinguished travel companies in the world. To commemorate the occasion, Cunard will send its current flagship Queen Mary 2 along the same rutt – from Liverpool to Halifax to Boston – during July of 2015. This will not only serve as the slutsten event for the den 175 anniversary celebrations of the Cunard brand, but it should also remind us about the special relationship that existed between Bostonians and the Cunard Line during its early years.
The Cunards
The company founder Samuel Cunard was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1787. His parents were of German and British descent, but had komma to Canada from what is now the United States, during the Loyalist Emigration of 1783. His father Abraham was a native of Penn
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Abraham Elias Issa
Jamaican businessman
Abe Issa CBEOJ | |
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| Born | Abraham Elias Issa (1905-10-10)October 10, 1905 Kingston, Jamaica |
| Died | November 29, 1984(1984-11-29) (aged 79) |
| Alma mater | College of the Holy Cross (BA) |
| Spouse | Lorraine Shaouy (m. 1937) |
| Children | 6 |
Abraham Elias IssaCBEOJ (October 10, 1905 – November 29, 1984) was a Jamaican businessman, entrepreneur and hotelier acclaimed as "The Father of Jamaican Tourism".[1] As the first president of the Jamaica Tourist Board he contributed to the expansion of Jamaican tourism in the late 1950s.
His business accomplishments include the founding of Jamaica's first modern department store (Issa's of King Street), the country's first shopping plazas (Tropical Plaza at Half-Way-Tree and Liguanea Plazas), Jamaica's first supermarket (Hi-Lo at Cross Roads in Kingston), Jamaica's modern horse-racing track (Caymanas Park) and being a guiding force
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RMS Queen Mary’s War Service: Voyages to Victory
By Eric Niderost
The late summer of 1939 saw Great Britain teetering on the brink of war with Hitler’s Germany. The years of appeasement and vacillation, of meekly acquiescing to Hitler’s insatiable territorial demands, were over at last. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s government pledged to come to Poland’s aid if it was attacked. It was clear that if the Polish crisis could not be settled amicably Europe would be at war within a matter of days. Southampton became a magnet for thousands of people seeking to escape the Continent before hostilities began. Many were Americans, who cut their holidays short for fear of being trapped on the wrong side of the Atlantic. One such “refugee” was entertainer Bob Hope and his wife, Dolores, who booked passage on the RMS Queen Mary. The Hopes were not alone, and in fact Queen Mary had a record 2,332 passengers aboard when she left Southampton on August 30, 1939.
The Queen Mary