RMS Samaria Ephemera Collection

All Digitized Ephemera for the RMS Samaria available at the GG Archives. Common items of ephemera in our maritime collection include passenger lists, brochures, event and entertainment programs, and other memorabilia produced for a voyage or ship.

Cunard to Liverpool via Cobh (Queenstown) - 1920s

Superb interior photographs of the Cunard steamships Carinthia, Franconia, Laconia, Samaria, and Scythia makes this an excellent brochure from the 1920s. The uniqueness of this booklet is greatly improved by the inclusions of context with photo captions.

Front Cover, Cunard Tourist Third Cabin Accommodations Brochure. Undated, Circa Late 1920s

Cunard Tourist Third Cabin Accommodations - 1920s

Tourist Third Cabin replaced the old Third Class on the Cunard Steamships, the refinished accommodations attracted students, professors, young business people, and bargain-hunters filling the cabins left mostly empty from the decline of the immigrant trade. This is a photo journal of the accommodations found in the new Tourist Third Cabin class. Ships Featured: Andania, Antonia, Aquitania, Ascania, Aurania, Ausonia, Berengaria, Caronia and Carmania, Laconia, Samaria, Scythia, Tuscania, and Lancastria.

Front Cover - Cunard To Boston. Published by the Cunard Steam Ship Company Limited - 1922

Cunard To Boston - 1922

The re-opening of the Liverpool-Queenstown-Boston Service with the “ Samaria,” one of the finest and largest of the new post-War Cunarders, emphasizes the importance which the Cunard Company attaches to this Service.

Front Cover, Cunard RMS Samaria Second Class Passenger List - 26 July 1923.

1923-07-26 RMS Samaria Passenger List

Steamship Line: Cunard Line
Class of Passengers: Second Class
Date of Departure: 26 July 1923
Route: Liverpool to Boston via Queenstown (Cobh),
Commander: Captain G. S. Horsburgh, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.

Front Cover, Cunard RMS Samaria Second Class Passenger List - 23 August 1923.

1923-08-23 RMS Samaria Passenger List

Steamship Line: Cunard Line
Class of Passengers: Second Class
Date of Departure: 23 August 1923
Route: Liverpool to Boston via Queenstown (Cobh)
Commander: Captain G. S. Horsburgh, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.

Front Cover, Second Class to Europe fromn Boston to Queenstown and Liverpool.

Cunard Line Second Class to Europe - 1927

12-Page brochure covers the Boston to Europe route of the Cunard Line in 1927. Interior photographs help to illustrate the second class accommodations available on the Samaria, Scythia, and Laconia.

Front Cover, "Samaria" Jockey Club Horse Racing Program from the 1930s.

1930s - Horse Racing Program - RMS Samaria

The ever-popular "Horse Racing" program from the 1930s, this one on the RMS Samaria of the Cunard White Star Line. Presented by the "Samaria Jockey Club, race entries included Headache by Cocktails out of Various, Slender by Diet out of Vanity, and many more.

Front Cover, Cunard Line RMS Samaria Cabin and Tourist Class Passenger List - 29 August 1931.

1931-08-29 RMS Samaria Passenger List

Steamship Line: Cunard Line
Class of Passengers: Cabin and Tourist Class
Date of Departure: 29 August 1931
Route: Southampton to New York via Le Havre and Cobh
Commander: Captain R. G. Malin, R.N.R.

Front Cover, Cunard Line RMS Samaria Third Class Passenger List - 27 July 1935.

1935-07-27 RMS Samaria Passenger List

Steamship Line: Cunard Line
Class of Passengers: Third Class
Date of Departure: 27 July 1935
Route: Liverpool to Boston and New York via Belfast and Galway
Commander: Captain J. McRostie

1936-07-24 Passenger Manifest for the RMS Samaria II

1936-07-24 RMS Samaria Passenger List

Steamship Line: Cunard Line
Class of Passengers: Cabin
Date of Departure: 24 July 1936
Route: Liverpool to Boston and New York via Belfast and Greenock
Commander: Captain J. McRostie

Front Cover, Cabaret Concert Program on Board the RMS Samaria, Thursday, 30 July 1936.

1936-07-30 Cabaret Concert Program - RMS Samaria

A Cabaret Concert in the Tourist Class Smoking Room onboard the RMS Samaria of the Cunard White Star Line on 30 July 1936. This charity concert benefited British, American, and Canadian Seamen’s charitable organizations.

1936-08-21 Passenger Manifest for the RMS Samaria

1936-08-21 RMS Samaria Passenger List

Steamship Line: Cunard Line
Class of Passengers: Tourist
Date of Departure: 21 August 1936
Route: Liverpool to Boston and New York via Belfast and Greenock
Commander: Captain J. McRostie

Ephemera contained in the GG Archives collection represent the souvenirs provided to the passengers of each voyage. Many of these souvenir ephemeral items have disappeared over the years.

Our selection varies considerably by ship, and likely contains only a sampling of what was originally produced and printed by the steamship lines.

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The RMS Samaria, Launched on 27 November 1920 at Birkenhead, is one of Cunard Line's new 21,000-Ton Class.

The RMS Samaria, Launched on 27 November 1920 at Birkenhead, is one of Cunard Line's new 21,000-Ton Class. She will be an oil burner and will be driven by double-reduction geared turbines. She will have luxurious accommodations for about 2,500 passengers. GGA Image ID # 1421356bf2