Cunard’s business is devastated by the advent of the passenger jet airliner. The company’s unlikely savior is Basil Smallpeice, a senior airline accountant who moves to Cunard in the hopes of rescuing the ship he helped hole beneath the waterline. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy...

In the 19th Century, Samuel Cunard wins a contract to deliver mail from Britain to North America by steamship - a new technology that will make transatlantic travel faster than ever before. His company goes on to become the Cunard Line. It will carry millions of immigrants to the new world, serve...