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MERCHANT FLEETS An excellent series of company histories with fully-worked careers of all ships owned or managed by the company:- Andrew Weir Shipping (AWS) includes Bank Line, United Baltic Corporation, MacAndrews & Co. Ltd. and the Mediterranean and Deep-Sea services of Ellerman. A current large modern fleet of containerships, ro-ros and fast cargoliners is operated. The book features 450 ships and is beautifully illustrated with 140 profiles. 176 pages £20.00 Italia Line 1881 - 2001 parallels the history of modern Italy and is a truly national institution. Seven fleets including Lloyd Sabaudo, Cosulich, N.G.I., La Veloce, Lib, Triestina and Veneziana. 204 pages 493 ships £22.00 China Navigation Company (Swire) No name is better known in Far Eastern waters than this company which was set-up by the sons of John Swire in 1872 and which continues to the present day. 98 pages 256 ships £11.50 Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd (Parent) was undoubtedly the greatest British shipping enterprise ever established, having been created by Christopher Furness in West Hartlepool in 1892 although he owned ships prior to this date. 264 pages 682 ships £22.00 Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd (Subsidiaries) includes Houlder Brothers, Manchester Liners, Alexander Shipping Co. Ltd, Prince Line, Ore Carriers Ltd and Ocean Gas Transport Ltd and the Seabridge consortium. 288 pages 632 ships £23.00 Messageries Maritimes - one of the world's most outstanding shipping companies, established in1835 by the French Government as the L'Administration des Postes. 157 pages 363 ships £16.00 Rotterdam Lloyd Willem Ruys & Zonen and Rotterdam Lloyd are among the outstanding names in Dutch maritime history. 146 pages 208 ships £14.25 Lamport + Holt Line/ Booth Line Liverpool's main connection with South America over 150 years rested with two magnificent companies: Lamport & Holt and Booth Line. 180 pages 442 ships £16.00 Clan Line/ Houston Line Charles Cayzer began shipowning in 1877 and by 1939 his sons controlled a fleet of over 600,000 tons, including Houston Line and the Scottish Shire Line of Turnbull, Martin. 144 pages 380 ships £15.00 Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand This company must surely have held the accolade for having owned the largest number of truly beautiful passenger liners both large and small, resplendent in green hulls and red funnels. 170 pages 315 ships £16.00 French Line The celebrated Compagnie Generale Transatiantique was formed in 1861 and built up a fleet of the world's best loved Transatlantic passenger liners including Normandie of 1935 and France of 1961. 196 pages 482 ships £15.00 Henderson Line/Bibby Line The 'Burma' Boats of Henderson and Bibby Lines were known to everyone in Liverpool and Glasgow, and included a flotilla of river and coastal steamers on the Irrawaddy. Current Bibby fleet of large gas tankers. 168 pages 333 ships £4.50 Holland America Line Founded in 1873 to open a Transatlantic passenger service from Amsterdam to New York, it earned for the Dutch seafaring nation a reputation that was second to none, Currently a fleet of giant cruise liners lives on owned by Carnival Cruises of Miami. 114 pages 160 ships £11.50 Britain's Railwav Steamers I covers Western and Southern companies, together with French and Stena Cross Channel ferries. 230 pages 466 ships £15.00 Britain's Railway Steamers II covers Eastern and North Western companies, together with Dutch and Stena North Sea ferries. 220 pages 572 ships £15.00 Britain's Railway Steamers III covers Scottish and Irish companies together with Caledonian MacBrayne and the Irish Sea services of Stena. 196 pages 400 ships £13.00 Canadian Pacific Line The railway of Canadian Pacific links the two greatest oceans and spans them with a fleet unmatched in maritime history including the famous white-hulled 'Empress' liners. 160 pages 307 ships £14.00 Glen & Shire Lines The red funnels of Glen Line were almost as familiar in Far Eastern waters as those of Blue Funnel, and belonged to the same Holt family. The Welsh-owned Shire Line also served the Far East. 85 pages 145 ships £I0.00 Elder Dempster The greatest company ever to trade with West Africa and initially began by MacGregor Laird in 1832. The fleets of the African Steamship Company and the British & African S.S. Company existed in 1869, and both came under the control of Elder Dempster in 1891. 174 pages 514 ships £16.00 White Star Line was one of the greatest British shipping companies and merged with Cunard Line in 1934. It's livery continues to be well-known today through the huge interest in the loss of the Titanic in 1912. 104 pages 98 ships £10.00 Aberdeen Line owned one of Britain's foremost sailing ship fleets. Aberdeen Commonwealth Line owned five large 'Bay' class passenger liners serving Australia during the inter-war years. 72 pages 94 ships £8.00 British India Line The greatest passenger and cargo fleet ever to serve India and East Africa, this giant fleet amalgamated with the famous P. & 0. in 1914. 187 pages 527 ships £13.75 Anchor Line The greatest Transatlantic passenger fleet ever to sail out of Glasgow with services also to India, and until recently they owned gas tankers. 100 pages 174 ships £19.00 Union-Castle Line owned the greatest fleet ever to serve South Africa through the 1900 merger of Union Line and Castle Line. Their last pink-tunnelled passenger liner Windsor Castle was withdrawn in 1977. 142 pages 168 ships £11.50 WORLD CRUISE SHIPS The history and development of cruising over the last 150 years with 100 passenger liner and cruise company histories, European, American and World cruising. Alphabetical + chronological listing of all 250 current Cruise ships. 224 pages with 180 illustrations including 16 pages in full glorious colour. £20.00 THE NAVVIES The General Steam Navigation Co. Ltd was the oldest shipping company in the world to start directly with steamships in 1821. Full careers of this huge coastal liner fleet and its four subsidiaries including Moss-Hutchison Line, New Medway Steam Packet Co. Ltd (pioneers of the Thames day excursion trades along with G.S.N.C.). 160 pages with 125 photographs. £18.00 COAST LINES The world's largest coastal liner Group including the parent Coast Lines, Belfast S.S. Co. Ltd, B + I Steam Packet Co. Ltd, Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Company, coastal tramp companies and the fleets serving the Channel Isles, Orkney + Shetlands Islands, and South African coasts. Based in Liverpool this (group owned many passenger liners, the fleet Lists give the careers of over 400 coastal passenger and cargo ships. 144 pages with 80 photographs. £16.50 |