Kawai jiya nake rubutu akan sa Britannia.AMusamman, labarin shine cewa a ranar 10 ga Maris, Sarauniya Elizabeth ta II ta kaddamar da kaddamar da jirgin. Kuma menene mamakin lokacin da nake neman bayanai game da shi, cewa ni ma na sami wani jirgin ruwa, tare da wannan suna, kawai an gina shi a cikin 1840. Shi ne jirgi na farko da Cunard ya gina.
Ranar 6 ga Fabrairu, 1840, an ƙaddamar da ita a cikin Robert Duncan & Kamfanin jirgin ruwa a Greenock, Scotland, Jirgin ruwan Britannia, jirgi na farko da kamfanin jigilar kayayyaki na Cunard ya gina, lokacin da har yanzu aka san shi da Kamfanin Kamfanin Bayanai na Steam Packet na Burtaniya da Arewacin Amurka.
Matar Robert Napier, Isabella Napier, ita ce ke jagorantar ƙaddamar da Britannia (na wannan Britannia), wanda ke kula da injunan jirgin kuma shi ne ya kafa kamfanin jigilar kayayyaki tare da Samuel Cunard, James Donaldson, Sir George Burns da Dauda. Mac Iver.
Jirgin, wanda ya yi nasa tafiya rantsuwa Ya fara aiki a watan Yuli na wannan shekarar, ya auna tsayin mita 63 kuma yana da tarin tan 1150. Kafin ƙarshen 1840 wasu 'yan'uwa mata biyu na Britannia za su yi balaguron su na farko, Acadia da Caledonia. Shekarar 1841 zata fara ajin Britannia na ƙarshe, Columbia.
Un gaskiya Abin da na gani game da wannan jirgin shi ne Charles Dickens ya yi tafiya a kan shi a kan balaguron balaguron da ya fara a Liverpool kuma ya ƙare a Halifax, Nova Scotia.