New York and Liverpool United States Mail Steamship Company
Company type
Ocean-going transport
Founded
1818; 206 years ago (1818)
Founder
Israel Collins, Edward Knight Collins
Defunct
1858; 166 years ago (1858)
Fate
Bankrupt following recession and termination of government subsidy
Headquarters
New York
Area served
Routes: Transatlantic, Gulf of Mexico Ports of call: Liverpool, New Orleans, Veracruz
Key people
Bankers: Brown Bros. & Co.
Services
Shipping company
Ships owned
Arctic, Baltic, Pacific, Atlantic, and Adriatic
Competitors
Cunard Line
Govt contracts
Mail contract
Govt subsidies
$385,000 annually (occasionally more)
The Collins Line was the common name for the American shipping company started by Israel Collins and then built up by his son Edward Knight Collins, formally called 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 routes to the British Cunard shipping company.
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opposition to the heavily subsidized CollinsLine, headed by Edward K. Collins. Vanderbilt eventually drove the CollinsLine into extinction. During the 1850s...
abandoned as the transatlantic line was built first, making the Collinsline redundant. Despite the fact that the Collinsline would not be completed, surveyors...
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to two ships of the same names which had belonged to the now defunct CollinsLine, both of which were lost at sea with large losses of life. In the cases...
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United States Mail Steamship Company (the "CollinsLine") to compete with Britain's Cunard Line. The new Line's inaugural voyage took place in April 1850...
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abandoned because the transatlantic line was built first, making the Collinsline redundant. Despite the fact that the line would not be completed, surveyors...
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