Elder Dempster Lines was a UK shipping company that traded from 1932 to 2000, but had its origins in the mid-19th century. Alexander Elder was born in...
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Yukon for the Ministry of War Transport. Likomba was managed by the Elder Dempster Lines, which renamed it Malakel in 1947 and then sold it to Liberia in...
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a mid-sized British ocean liner, originally put into service for Elder Dempster Lines of Liverpool in 1951. She was constructed on the River Clyde in Glasgow...
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Company Ltd, a subsidiary of Elder, Dempster & Company Ltd. In 1932 the parent company was reorganised as Elder Dempster Lines and in 1935 the African Steamship...
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Shaw, Savill & Albion Line (category Defunct cruise lines)
lasting till 1970 when Elder Dempster Lines chartered P Henderson fleets in 1947 till 1965 when Ocean Group plc acquired Elder, Dempster, till the Suez crisis...
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shipping company Elder Dempster Lines, the original owners of the building in which the museum is now housed. Elder Dempster Lines was founded in 1878...
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P Henderson & Company (section Elder, Dempster Lines)
members of the crew. Elder, Dempster Lines chartered P Henderson's fleet from 1947 and took over the company in 1952. Under Elder, Dempster modernisation of...
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were to be named after ships operated by the companies Cunard Line, Elder Dempster Lines, and Canadian Pacific Steamships, as they hauled express trains to...
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Charles Lightoller contracted malaria c. 1897 during his tenure in Elder Dempster Lines. In his autobiography, he describes suffering from severe complications...
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both the United Kingdom and United States. She was the first of two Elder Dempster Lines ships that were named after the town of Falaba in Sierra Leone. The...
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Achimota, she was acquired by Huddart Parker after the original sale to Elder Dempster Lines fell through. Renamed Wanganella, the ship sailed between New Zealand...
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MV Abosso was a passenger, mail, and cargo liner, the flagship of Elder Dempster Lines. In peacetime she ran scheduled services between Liverpool and West...
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the 50th anniversary of its partnership with Elder Dempster Lines. The end for the Elder Dempster Lines name came to in 1989 when it was bought by the...
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MV Seaforth was an Elder Dempster Lines cargo motor ship that traded between Liverpool and West Africa. She was launched in 1938 in Scotland and sunk in...
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(BASN), which was part of Elder, Dempster & Co. She was the hospital ship HMHS Ebani from 1914 until 1919. Elder, Dempster sold her to Italian owners...
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services. The Royal Navy captured her in 1914, and renamed her Lucia. Elder Dempster Lines managed her until 1916, when she was converted into the submarine...
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which the Nigerian government was the major shareholder (51%), and Elder Dempster Lines and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) held the balance...
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Packet, was built in 1941 and 29 followed, the last being 35030 Elder Dempster Lines. The West Country and Battle of Britain slightly smaller light Pacifics...
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Company Eagle Oil and Shipping Company Elder Dempster Lines, including Glen Line and Shire Line Ellerman Lines, including many companies taken over Evan...
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beginning of air transport (1945). Once a month, a mail steamer of the Elder Dempster Lines from Liverpool docked in the capital Lagos/Apapa and in Calabar/Port...
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contact with Great Britain was mainly maintained by mail ships of the Elder Dempster Lines. Until the end of 1967, such a mail ship sailed from Liverpool to...
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the Southern Railway in highlighting the names of Merchant Navy shipping lines that used Southampton Docks, which were served by the Southern Railway....
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part of Alfred Holt and Company, she sailed from 1972-1977 for Elder Dempster Lines under Blue Funnel colours, and for Blue Funnel Bulkships Limited...
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James Hackman Tachie-Menson (section Elder Dempster)
various ships in the fleet of the Liverpool-based shipping company, Elder Dempster Lines, while simultaneously pursuing prescribed courses and maritime studies...
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Eastern Province Cooks' and Stewards' Union Elder Dempster Lines Dockworkers' Union Elder Dempster Lines Workers' Union Ghana Maritime Workers' Union...
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Alfred Lewis Jones (section Elder, Dempster & Co.)
of which grew into an empire that included over 100 ships of the Elder Dempster Lines. By the mid 1890s, Jones was not only the pre-eminent figure in the...
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Irving became the member for Lagos on 1 February and H S Feggetter of Elder Dempster Lines became the shipping representative on 4 April. Nigeria: Report for...
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August 1958 the Nigerian government in partnership with BOAC and Elder Dempster lines formed the West African Airways Corporation (Nigeria) limited (which...
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tons[which?] of cargo on board. CCAL aimed to compete with the British Elder Dempster Lines of Liverpool, which operated a liner service between South Africa...
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of whether he had retained his US citizenship. On 27 March 1915 Elder Dempster Lines' Falaba left Liverpool for West Africa. She had a crew of 95 and...
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