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 Ubique...
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transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company in Glasgow with shipowner...
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Red Funnel (redirect from The Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. Limited)
Southampton Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Limited, is a ferry company that carries passengers, vehicles and freight...
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Royal Mail Ship (sometimes Steam-ship or Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail...
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The City of Dublin Steam Packet Company was a shipping line established in 1823. It served cross-channel routes between Britain and Ireland for over a...
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liner of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later known as Cunard Steamship Company. She was launched on Wednesday 5 February...
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Union-Castle Line (redirect from Castle Mail Packet Company)
African mail contract jointly to both the Castle Mail Packet Company and the Union Line. The contract included a condition that the two companies would...
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until her owners went out of business. She was sold to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and was scrapped in 1856 after serving as a troopship during...
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The Royal Mail Case or R v Kylsant & Otrs was a noted English criminal case in 1931. The director of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Lord Kylsant...
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RMS Arlanza (1911) (category World War I Auxiliary cruisers of the Royal Navy)
the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. She was built in Belfast in 1912 for RMSP's scheduled route between England and South America. She was a Royal Navy...
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The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service...
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RMS Rhone (category Ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company)
RMS Rhone was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin...
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the Royal Mail Building which was the former quarters of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. During the later 1900s it was operated as the Royal Mail Inn...
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White Star Line (redirect from Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
the owner of the largest fleet in the world thanks to his Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC). The IMM continued to manage the American White Star...
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Asturias was a Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ocean liner that was built in Ireland in 1908 and scrapped in Japan in 1933. She was a Royal Mail Ship until...
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submarine HMS Amazon, nine ships of the Royal Navy RMS Amazon, two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company SMS Amazone (1843), a 3-masted sail corvette...
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Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and by 1902 Owen had become chairman and managing director of the line. Over the next twenty years he and the Royal Mail...
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Packet boats were medium-sized boats designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation in European countries and in North American rivers...
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Georgia, United States Royal Mail Lines, once a major shipping company, the successor to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company All pages with titles containing...
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HMS Tamar (category Royal Navy ship names)
in the South China Sea". Royal Navy Research Archive. Retrieved 11 June 2012. "Royal Mail Steam Packet Company / Royal Mail Lines Limited". The Ships...
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1905 the company sold its London – Sydney route to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, which bought the entire company in 1910. Pacific Steam continued...
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a packet operated between there and Hellevoetsluis. From 1842 to 1854, mail was carried by British packets, and after 1854 by the Royal Mail Steam Packet...
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SS Orduña (category Ships of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company)
Pacific Steam Navigation Company. After two voyages she was chartered to Cunard Line. In 1921 she went to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, then being...
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Horace Taylor (artist) (category Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools)
for the London Underground. He also designed posters for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Vigil Silk, and the Orient Line. He lived at 14 Temple Fortune...
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SS Calgaric (section Royal Mail Steam Packet Company)
refit had been completed at the end of 1922, the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co had full control of Pacific Steam, and Orca and her two sisters were transferred...
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SS Arcadian (category Ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company)
Maxim Ltd for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company as Ortona. She was renamed Arcadian when the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company acquired her in 1906. She...
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The British and Irish Steam Packet Company Limited was a steam packet and passenger ferry company operating between ports in Ireland and in Great Britain...
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RMS Trent (category Ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company)
Trent was a British Royal Mail paddle steamer built in 1841 by William Pitcher of Northfleet for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. She measured 1,856...
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barque, paddle steamer and Royal Mail Ship. She was the first of 5 sister ships commissioned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to serve RMSP's routes...
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Lamport and Holt (category British companies disestablished in 1991)
became a limited company and the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP) took it over. RMSP collapsed as a result of the Royal Mail Case in 1931 but was...
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