Cunard Yanks

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The Cunard Yanks (also known as the Boat Boys or Hollywood Boys) were the young working class British male Cunard Line household crew, who worked on the transatlantic shipping routes from Liverpool to New York and Montreal, from the late 1940s to the 1960s.{{cite web|url=https://www.brh.org.uk/site/events/the-cunard-yanks-gi-babes/|title=The Cunard Yanks & GI Babes|work=Bristol Radical History Group|date=2 November 2006 |accessdate=30 December 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cunardyanks.org/|title=Cunard Yanks|accessdate=30 December 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/jun/25/guardiansocietysupplement1|title=The dream boats |work=The Guardian|first=Deborah|last=Mulhearn|date=25 June 2003|accessdate=30 December 2018}}

The Cunard Yanks are associated with the importation of 1950s American fashion and musical culture to Liverpool, influencing Merseybeat and the Beatles.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2007/04/03/cunard_yanks_feature.shtml|title=Cunard Yanks|work=BBC Liverpool|first=Paul|last=Coslett|accessdate=30 December 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://ymliverpool.com/cunard-yanks-exhibition-opens-shipping-forecast/20809|title=Cunard Yanks exhibition opens at Shipping Forecast|work=YM Liverpool|first=Dave|last=Booth|date=14 October 2016 |accessdate=30 December 2018}}