CUNARD VS. WHITE STAR

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Across
  1. 4. — Senior rank given to a shipping line's most experienced captain
  2. 8. — Irish city where Harland and Wolff built White Star's ships
  3. 9. — Lusitania's record-breaking sister ship
  4. 11. — Cunard liner sunk by a German U-boat in 1915
  5. 12. — Shipping line founded in 1840 by a Nova Scotian businessman
  6. 13. — English port city that was Cunard's original home
  7. 14. — Government payment that funded Cunard's fastest ships
Down
  1. 1. — First of the three Olympic-class liners, retired in 1935
  2. 2. — Harland and Wolff chairman who conspired with Ismay to build bigger ships
  3. 3. — White Star's most famous loss, sunk in 1912
  4. 5. — Economic crisis that forced the 1934 merger
  5. 6. — Smokestack feature used to identify ships by their colours
  6. 7. — Cheapest class of passage, mostly used by emigrants
  7. 9. — What happened to Cunard and White Star in 1934
  8. 10. — Surname of the man who bought White Star Line in 1868