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Glasgow based shipping companies

PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:12 am
by glasgowken
Anyone have a list of shipping companies which had their head offices in Glasgow or nearby.
So far I only know of,

Anchor Line
Clan Line
Clyde Shipping Co
Loch Line

Re: Glasgow based shipping companies

PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:58 pm
by Targer
To add a few: Burns & Laird, Donaldson.

Re: Glasgow based shipping companies

PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:07 pm
by viceroy
Also:

P. Henderson & Co. Ltd. [Blue Funnel Line]

William Robertson Shipowners Ltd. [Gem Line]

There are probably some more that I have forgotten.

Quite a few shipping lines used to have branch offices in Glasgow. Others used Glasgow based firms of shipbrokers to act as their local agents.

In the 1970's I worked for a firm called Roxburgh Henderson & Co. Ltd. This firm came into being as a result of an amalgamation between P. Henderson & Co. and an old Glasgow company called Roxburgh, Colin Scott who I think had originally been the operators of the Loch Line. The Blue Funnel Line by this time was owned by the Ocean Group in Liverpool. I remember also being told that the Loch Line was still operating sailing ships into the first decade of the 20th Century, long after just about everybody else had long since gone over to steam.

By the 1970's general cargo shipping on the Clyde was pretty much on the way out, with regular liner sailings operating from King George V Dock only. Containerisation would soon prove to be the final nail in the coffin.

Re: Glasgow based shipping companies

PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:24 pm
by retired tiger
Harrisons (Clyde) who had Stirling Shipping and Western Ferries.

Re: Glasgow based shipping companies

PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:11 pm
by onyirtodd

Re: Glasgow based shipping companies

PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:11 pm
by duck
There's also
William Sloan & Co Ltd
and Coast Lines Ltd
I think also City of Glasgow Steam Packet Co

Re: Glasgow based shipping companies

PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:59 pm
by glasgowken
Thanks all :)

Re: Glasgow based shipping companies

PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:47 am
by robertpool
The Allan Shipping Line

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Re: Glasgow based shipping companies

PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:09 pm
by robertpool
Other non interesting shipping related items, well It's Sunday and l have nothing better to do so here goes:

Gavel used to launch Motor Trawler ORSINO in 1966 at Yarows shipyard
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Clyde Navigation Ferry Token
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Clyde Shipping Co Ltd
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David McBraynes
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The Navy League
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The British Sailors Society
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Ships Menu. The ship was originally built at Fairfield, Govan
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Ship Insurance Broker
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Ship Insurance Broker
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Launch & Engine company
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Shipping company
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McBryanes
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Tuxedo Princess
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Tuxedo Princess
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Glasgow & South Western Railways
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Waverley
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Fairfield
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Yarrows
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Re: Glasgow based shipping companies

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:29 pm
by glasgowken
Nice selection there Robert :)
That wee 2nd hand furniture place next to Morrison's at Partick had a full size ship's steering wheel in it. I was tempted to buy :wink:

Re: Glasgow based shipping companies

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:10 am
by robertpool
here is another one

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