Wales to New York with Cunard!

 

If I told you that Cunard were offering a transatlantic crossing from Wales to New York, what would you think? Would you think that I’m talking rubbish, or maybe that Cunard are looking to make things convenient for the welsh? Well on recent visit to see family in Pembrokeshire west Wales, I was having a walk around Fishguard harbour with my girlfriend and daughter. Half way around I come across, various signs, containing small snippets of information about the history of Fishguard. On one of these plagues, it told of how since August 1909 the famous Cunard liner 'Mauritania' inaugurated a transatlantic service and up until the outbreak of the 1st World War in 1914.......
 Various other Cunard Vessels called in regularly at the port as Fishguard is the nearest British port to New York. When Britain declared war on Germany, the admiralty sent out an order requisitioning the Mauritania and Lusitania as armed merchant cruisers. After the war however, Cunard had decided that they would no longer be using Fishguard as a base of operations, and that was that. So who knows, maybe if not for the outbreak of world war 1, then the "Classic" Cunard transatlantic crossing would be Fishguard to New York.