African Steamship Company information

The African Steamship Company was a British shipping line in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The company was founded in 1852 by Macgregor Laird, the...

renamed to National African Company in 1881 and to Royal Niger Company in 1886. In 1929, the company became part of the United Africa Company, which came under...

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The Los Angeles Steamship Company or LASSCO was a passenger and freight shipping company based in Los Angeles, California. The company, incorporated on...

West African Line. In 1945 Barber Steamship Lines was renamed the Wilhelmsen Lines, as it was acquired by Wilh. Wilhelmsen, a Norwegian company, later...

was built in 1861 as No 14. Macgregor Laird was built for the African Steamship Company. Other ships soon followed, and the business moved to a new yard...

Steamship Company, Kerr Company, ran passenger and cargo ships from New York City the Dutch East Indies, Ceylon, Egypt and other ports. Kerr Company was...

A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more...

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., also called Lykes Lines, was a cargo shipping company acting from the beginning of the 20th century to 2005 having its main...

with the African Steamship Company, and the British & African Steam Navigation Company, came under the Elder Dempster Lines name. The company operated...

The Bromport Steamship Company was a British shipping line in the early 20th century. It was established in 1916 by the Lever Brothers by purchasing the...

performers in the critically acclaimed all-African-American revue Blackbirds of 1928. They were the first African American act at the Copacabana in 1929....

and Pacific steamships. Many immigrants travelled on CP ships from Europe to Canada. In 1914 the sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship RMS Empress...

May 2022. Haws, Duncan (1990). White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company). TCL Publications. ISBN 0-946378-16-9. Cameron (2011), p. 183. Chirnside...

East Africa Company (IBEAC) was a commercial association founded to develop African trade in the areas controlled by the British Empire. The company was...

Navigation Company ( SS Sirius was the first holder of the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean) founded African Steamship Company. Rickie...

Nashville, Tennessee; and Chicago. The Alcoa Steamship company was a subsidiary of ALCOA since the company was formed in 1917. List of ships: SS Alcoa...

Amerika Line 1878-1901 SS Teutonia (1881) - in service with the African Steamship Company 1881-90 SS Teutonia (1889) - in service with the Hamburg Amerila...

the New York and Liverpool United States Mail Steamship Company. Under Edward Collins' guidance, the company grew to be a serious competitor on the transatlantic...

West Africa. She was launched in 1929 in Scotland and sunk in 1942 in the North Atlantic. Henry Stanley was built for the African Steamship Company Ltd...

operated by the Union Steamship Company SS Nubia (1878), a cargo ship, built by Harland and Wolff in 1878 for African Steamship Company SS Nubia (1882), a...

New Orleans, Louisiana. With time, however, the company established lines to all continents. The company built a large ocean liner terminal at Cuxhaven...

of the African Steamship Company at Liverpool on the recommendation of the ship's master, making several voyages to the west coast of Africa. By the...

facilitate the transportation of goods and eventually African Americans throughout the African global economy. It derived its name from the White Star...

Macgregor Laird (1808–1861) and Hamilton Laird in a firm called the African Steamship Company. In 1844 he married Louisa Helen Lister and the couple had four...