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Our epic adventure,
started over 85 years ago.
Leading the way around the world.
Around 80 years after Cunard established
the first-ever scheduled service across the
Atlantic, another of our ships would change
ocean travel forever. In 1922, the American
Express Company exclusively chartered
Laconia to visit the waters that Magellan’s
fleet had explored four centuries earlier.
The idea was designed with a new type
Laconia
of traveller in mind, one with the time
for leisurely sightseeing voyages and a
taste for the finer things in life. Growing
numbers of British and American guests
wished to discover famous sights even
further afield, across the Pacific, the
Far East, India and ancient Egypt.
The ‘round-the-world’ voyage was born.
