Not to be confused with Blue Funnel Group, Blue Funnel Cruises, Blue Funnel Ferries, or Blue Star Line.
Alfred Holt and Company (Blue Funnel Line)
House flag
Company type
Subsidiary of the Ocean Steam Ship Company
Industry
Shipping, transportation
Founded
16 January 1866
Founder
Alfred Holt
Defunct
1988
Fate
Bankruptcy; assets sold
Successor
Ocean Group plc
Headquarters
United Kingdom
Area served
global
Key people
Victoria Drummond (Engineer)
Parent
Ocean Steam Ship Company
Subsidiaries
Nederlandsche Stoomvaart Maatschappij Oceaan
East India Ocean Steam Ship Company
China Mutual Steam Navigation Company
Alfred Holt and Company, trading as Blue Funnel Line, was a UK shipping company that was founded in 1866 and operated merchant ships for 122 years. It was one of the UK's larger shipowning and operating companies, and as such had a significant role in the country's overseas trade and in the First and Second World Wars.
Alfred Holt and Company, trading as BlueFunnelLine, was a UK shipping company that was founded in 1866 and operated merchant ships for 122 years. It...
Yellow Fleet at Ships on Stamps Ian Russel. "Melampus in Suez". The BlueFunnelLine 1866–1986. Archived from the original on 13 November 2010. Retrieved...
a BlueFunnelLine refrigerated cargo steamship. She was launched in 1921 on the River Tyne as one of a class of 11 ships to replace many of Blue Funnel's...
service known as the BlueFunnelLine, between the United Kingdom and China. It was generally known as Holts and had a trademark bluefunnel on its ships. For...
attack. After his retirement from the Royal Navy, Morgan joined the BlueFunnelLine as staff captain in Clytoneus. "Adml. Sir Charles Morgan". The Times...
logo is a funnel shaped like a whale's tail, with a red, white, and blue color scheme. This trademark funnel design is built onto the line's ships. Carnival...
early 1923, the Ocean Steamship Company (a subsidiary of Alfred Holt's BlueFunnelLine) decided that a new vessel would be required to replace the ageing...
HMS Menestheus was originally the BlueFunnelLine refrigerated cargo ship Menestheus. She was built in 1929, and traded between the UK and the Far East...
1941 by Lawrence Holt and Kurt Hahn with financial support from the BlueFunnelLine shipping company. The name Outward Bound was derived from the nautical...
to drop. In 1941 by Hahn and Lawrence Holt with the support of the BlueFunnelLine, founded Outward Bound, based on the educational approach of Gordonstoun...
a BlueFunnelLine refrigerated cargo steamship. She was launched in 1921 on the River Tyne as one of a class of 11 ships to replace many of Blue Funnel's...
ship's engine room. They then hoisted distress signals, which the BlueFunnelLine steamship SS Antenor (1872), sailing from Shanghai to London with 680...
shipping line Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics. She was built as Barber Hector by Hyundai Heavy Industries at Ulsan, South Korea in 1984 for BlueFunnelLine, part...
Victoria Drummond: (1894-1978) The first female Marine Engineer for the BlueFunnelLine and its associated company Ocean Group plc. Toni Duggan: Footballer...
fire. Her career included service at sea with BlueFunnelLine, Manchester Liners, and Cunard-White Star Line, and ashore at Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering...
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colours such as Cunard's red and black or the eponymous BlueFunnelLine, while the Royal Navy's funnels are plain grey. Originally subordinates would remove...
as a Merchant Navy cadet engineer, and was later employed at BP and BlueFunnelLine. He became as a senior engineer in the 1970s, working for BR Shipping...
BlueFunnel Group refers to a related set of companies providing boat charter, cruise and ferry services around the Solent and Isle of Wight in vessels...
Dundee, and went to sea at the age of 16 as an apprentice with the BlueFunnelLine, sailing aboard cargo ships between ports in Europe and East Asia....
MV Deucalion was a BlueFunnelLine refrigerated cargo ship that was built in England in 1930 and sunk in the Second World War in 1942. She survived being...
of the BlueFunnelLine SS Sarpedon (1877), a 2,036-ton ship of the BlueFunnelLine SS Sarpedon (1894), a 4,663-ton ship of the BlueFunnelLine SS Sarpedon (1923)...
"Melampus in Suez (the tale of a soldier on the MS Melampus)". The BlueFunnelLine 1866 - 1986. Archived from the original on 2010-11-13. Retrieved 2011-04-30...
the BlueFunnelLine SS Patroclus (1896), a 5,509-ton ship of the BlueFunnelLine SS Patroclus (1923), an 11,314-ton ship of the BlueFunnelLine, commissioned...
shipping firm of Richard Durning Holt and Alfred Holt and Company (the BlueFunnelLine) partly for its own use, and partly for letting offices to other businesses...
Alfred Holt to expand the cotton trade with China by using Holt's BlueFunnelLine. He entered in a partnership with Richard Shackleton Butterfield, a...