General Merchant Ships > The Blue Funnel Line
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CONDITION -- Good
HISTORY -- 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.
CONDITION -- Very Good
HISTORY -- Alfred and Philip Holt established the Blue Funnel Line in 1865 to run steamers, equipped with Alfred's own design of compound engines, from Liverpool to Asia. After initial difficulties the company achieved success when the Suez Canal was opened in 1869. The Suez reduced the long voyage and gave Blue Funnel steamships an advantage over their sailing contemporaries, to which the Suez Canal was not accessible.
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CONDITION -- Very Good
HISTORY -- 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.
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- To many, Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel Line was the finest shipping company of them all. It certainly did build fine ships, had noble traditions of service in war and peace, and set standards by which other companies were judged. But adulation needs to be tempered with realism, as the company had times of brilliant achievement and periods when it seemed to have lost the plot.
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CONDITION -- Very Good
HISTORY -- Alfred Holt and Company, marketed as the Blue Funnel Line, was founded by Alfred Holt on 16 January 1866. The main operating subsidiary was the Ocean Steam Ship Company, which owned and operated the majority of the company's vessels. A Dutch subsidiary, the Nederlandsche It covers the various ships of the time from the fleet of the Blue Funnel Line shipping company. Stoomvaart Maatschappij Oceaan, was founded in 1891, as was the East India Ocean Steam Ship Company, operated from Singapore.
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CONDITION -- Unused
HISTORY -- 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.
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