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The Ward Line evolved from the freight consignment company established by James Otis Ward in New York in 1841. After Ward's death in 1856, his son James Edward Ward took over and expanded the company, eventually incorporating under the name New York and Cuba Mail
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In the 1920s, service reductions, poor management, and rehabilitation of its aging fleet nearly bankrupted the company, but subsidies from the United States government helped to resuscitate the company. In 1929 government financing help the Ward Line build two new luxury liners,
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name for limited passenger service on converted World War II freighters. This reduced service lasted until 1954, when
Agwilines was liquidated as a result of rising fuel prices and competition from airlines.
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identity and had fired the shots so as to intimidate the smaller steamer to raise her colors. In 1898 all of the Ward Line ships were requisitioned for United States military use during the
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caught fire killing 137, a tally that is still the highest death toll of any U.S.-flagged merchant ship. In the months that followed the company suffered a series of further
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ports. The company had a good reputation for safety until a series of disasters in the mid-1930s, including the
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while visiting small Cuban ports along the way. It was later reported the
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