The Bristol General Steam Navigation Company provided shipping services between Bristol and ports in southern Ireland, principally Cork from 1821 to 1980...
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Barrow Steam Navigation Company, acquired by the Midland Railway in 1907 Bristol General Steam Navigation Company (1821–1980), between Bristol and ports...
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Milford Haven, Swansea, Cardiff and Newport operated by the Bristol General Steam Navigation Company from Broad Quay in St Augustine's Reach.[citation needed]...
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The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation...
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1797, a shipbroker and merchant, agent in London for the Bristol General Steam Navigation Company. In 1851 Felix William sailed to Melbourne to join the...
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Holyhead, Anglesey on 30 January 1875. She was sold to the Bristol General Steam Navigation Company in 1889 and used for a couple of years before being sold...
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1871 and operated her until 1877. The Bristol General Steam Navigation Company ordered the ship from Caird & Company of Greenock. She was launched on 31...
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computer systems. A major boiler fire in 1974 destroyed the steam plant however Bristol was able to operate for a further three years using only her...
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Orient Steam Navigation Company (Anderson, Green and Company) Palm Line Pacific Steam Navigation Company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)...
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including the Australasian Steam Navigation Company, Australasian United Steam Navigation Company and Howard Smith Company. City of Adelaide ship was...
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The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen. The line's motto was Per Mare...
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Brunswick A paddle steamer launched in 1847 by the Bristol General Steam Navigation Company for the Cork–Bristol route, on which Michael Doheny fled after the...
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SS Great Western (category Ships built in Bristol)
discussion by several groups and the rival British and American Steam Navigation Company was established at the same time. Great Western's design sparked...
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Mayflower (tugboat) (redirect from Mayflower steam tug 1861)
Mayflower is a steam tug built in Bristol in 1861 and now preserved by Bristol Museums Galleries & Archives. She is based in Bristol Harbour at M Shed...
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Type 82 destroyer (redirect from Type 82 Bristol class destroyer)
1006) navigation 1 × sonar Type 170 search 1 × sonar Type 184 target indication Despite introducing various new systems, the role for which Bristol was...
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Orion (redirect from Orion (company))
MV Orion, a cruise ship RMS Orion, an ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company SS Orion, a Swedish steel steamship decommissioned in 1979, now...
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she was chartered for two voyages by the British and American Steam Navigation Company. By arriving in New York a day ahead of the Great Western, she...
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passenger-carrying steam vessels to be registered and inspected annually by a competent engineer. The General Steam Navigation Company, initially established...
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approached the directors of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company with the new design plan. The James Watt Company would design the ship's screw, Professor...
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to create Sichuan Steam Navigation Company, serving as Captain of SS Shutung and SS Shuhun, providing the first regular merchant steam service on the Upper...
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Retrieved 17 December 2009. "Feeder Lines - Eastern & North Western Companies + Zeeland & Stena Lines". The Ships List. Archived from the original on...
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John Arnott (category Scottish company founders)
Macroom Direct Railway, Passage Docks Shipbuilding Company, the Bristol General Steam Navigation Company and Arnotts Brewery Cork. He acquired the Irish...
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History of steamship lines (category Company histories)
trade with the continent. The St George Steam Navigation Company and the British and Irish Steam Packet Company soon followed. The former was crushed in...
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Coast Lines (category Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom)
(1928) Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company (1943) North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Steam Navigation Company (1961) By 1951, the company operated a fleet...
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Patrick herself also stopped at Bristol. The company was in fierce rivalry with the War Office Steam Packet Company, particularly against their PS Hibernia...
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Empire Mariner (category Bristol City Line)
027 NRT. She had two AEG two steam turbines, which drove her single shaft via double-reduction gearing. Her navigation equipment included submarine signalling...
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SS Wiltshire was a passenger ship built for the Federal Steam Navigation Company by John Brown's of Clydebank in 1912 to run between Britain, Australia...
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The Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) was an English railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter. It was built on the broad gauge and its engineer...
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John Allen (trade unionist) (category General secretaries of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers)
boilermaker, but after some years, he returned to Bristol, finding work with the Steam Navigation Company. In 1836, he joined the Friendly Society of Boilermakers...
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Sentinel Waggon Works (redirect from Sentinel DG-series steam waggons)
Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd was a British company based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire that made steam-powered lorries (steam wagons), railway locomotives, and later...
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