British India Steam Navigation Company information

British India Steam Navigation Company ("BI") was formed in 1856 as the Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company. The Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation...

Chidambaram Pillai to compete against the monopoly of the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISNC). It sailed ships between Tuticorin and Colombo until...

The Orient Steam Navigation Company, also known as the Orient Line, was a British shipping company with roots going back to the late 18th century. From...

Steam Navigation Companies became widespread during the 19th century after the development of steam-powered vessels, both steamboats, which were generally...

Burmah Steam Navigation Company (C&BSN) was a British steamship company formed in 1856 and absorbed into the British-India Steam Navigation Company in 1862...

work in Malaya and Singapore. The line was sold to the British India Steam Navigation Company in 1912. Arratoon Apcar was an ethnic Armenian born in 1779...

was a passenger steamer of the British India Steam Navigation Company which was built for service between the UK and India, and as a troopship. After becoming...

Auxiliary (RFA). Hebe was built by Henry Robb of Leith for the British-India Steam Navigation Company and was bare-boat chartered to the RFA in 1962. Hebe was...

transportation of thousands of "enemy aliens" to Australia. The British India Steam Navigation Company had operated a previous Dunera (1891), which served as a troopship...

transferred to the British-India Steam Navigation Company. In April 1954 ASN was nationalised and came under the auspices of the British Transport Commission...

shipping company, including as captain of HMHS Britannic. Born in London, Bartlett served six years with the British-India Steam Navigation Company before...

1924 by Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland for the British India Steam Navigation Company. She was converted to a hospital ship during the Second...

SS Tilawa was an ocean liner of the British India Steam Navigation Company launched in 1924. She was sunk by a submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy...

HMT Rohna was a British India Steam Navigation Company passenger and cargo liner that was built on Tyneside in 1926 as SS Rohna and requisitioned as a...

three ships were operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company. SS Nevasa, also known as HMT Nevasa, was a British troopship built on the River Clyde...

law case, concerning the definition of a debenture. The British India Steam Navigation Company had undertaken on paper to pay the holder £100 on 30 November...

served by European shipping companies including Scottish-owned British-India Steam Navigation Company and Irrawaddy Flotilla Company. The port was important...

The company operates under the auspices of the Chinese Ministry of Transport. Founded in 1872 as the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company in Shanghai...

aircraft Braniff International Airways, a former airline British-India Steam Navigation Company, former ship owner and ship operator Royal Brunei Airlines...

April 1871. She was a single-screw passenger ship owned by British India Steam Navigation Company Glasgow & London and scrapped at Bombay in 1901. 1764 tons...