Cunard Is A Very English Ship
On the contrary though Cunard is owned by Carnival it is still managed and run independently from England. There is an office in Liverpool still. I saw it with my own eyes. The British are still in charge of making up the sailing schedule. If you call the reservations office in Long Beach, California they are always telling you that they take orders from England and have to wait for England to announce the schedule, the pricing, the new rules, etc. When you are onboard it feels like a very British ship. More of the passengers are British than any other nationality. Americans are in a minority. The captain is British. The entertainment director is British. The crew are British from the British Merchant Marine even if the staff is largely from the Phillipines and from Eastern Europe.
There is a speaker series aboard the Cunard ship, Queen Mary 2. Most all the speakers are British, too. And what isn’t British is clearly Anglo. For instance they had a speakers series this summer on WW2 and were giving discounts to passengers who could show they were veterans but only if you were a veteran in: 1)British army 2)Canadian army 3)Australian army 4)American army. They are very aware of the Germans being aboard and have a separate speakers’ series for the Germans. I’ve heard jokes about the Germans, too. If Americans were running the show I don’t think they would be so aware of the Germans. They would assume that everybody aboard spoke English and the Germans would become invisible.
Cunard is the cruise line that figures in the Edward Ware Thrillers at War Series. See it in Captive at the Berghof parts 1 and 2.
