Elder Dempster Ships List. Burutu sank on 3rd October 1918 with heavy loss of life. M
Burutu sank on 3rd October 1918 with heavy loss of life. Mike Martin and 120 others 121 The Elder Dempster steam ship S. Elder Dempster & Company, Limited, was formed in 1852 as the African Steam Ship Company, Limited, with a contract Elder Dempster Shipping Limited was formed in 1899. Due to the fact that the ship was not sunk by enemy action, very few of those on board were Elder Dempster Lines was a British shipping company headquartered in Liverpool that specialized in passenger, mail, and cargo services to West Africa, operating formally from 1932 until its sale in The purpose is to describe and analyse the economic history of the Elder Dempster shipping company and its predecessors, and provide an account of West African and British . She carried the same name as an earlier Elder Dempster ship, SS Abosso, which had been In 1903, Elder Dempster sold Beaver Line to Canadian Pacific, providing a springboard for an ambitious plan that would dominate transatlantic passenger In March 1949 Elder Dempster ordered the third and final passenger ship to enable a fortnightly service from Liverpool to West Africa to be maintained. Among their ships were the liner SS Monterey and the steamer SS Montezuma, which in early 1900 were both chartered as transport ships for This website tells something of the story of EDs in the 1960s when the company was at its postwar peak, and is in many ways a unique social and historical Elder Dempster suffered the loss of a total of 42 ships during the period covering the First World War (4th August 1914 to 11th November 1918), and 30 of these ships were lost as a direct result of enemy In 1989, Elder Dempster Lines divested its remaining fleet of ships and was sold by its parent company, Ocean Transport and Trading—a division of the Ocean Group—to the French shipping firm Delmas Browse through the dates on the Elder Dempster timeline to learn more about the history of the Elder Dempster Lines shipping company. Many thanks to Ted Finch for his assistance in collecting this data. S. The cargo ship was the SS Charma, at 1979 tonnes, In 1951, Elder Dempster Lines was one of the major shipping lines serving West Africa. For further details see the attached catalogue or contact The Archives Centre for a copy of the catalogue. * * * Browse through the dates on the Elder Dempster timeline to learn more about the history of the Elder Dempster Lines shipping company. The following list was extracted Elder Dempster suffered the loss of a total of 42 ships during the period covering the First World War and 30 of these ships were lost as a direct result of enemy Abosso was built in 1935 and sunk by German submarine U-575 in 1942, killing 362 of the 393 people aboard. By 1913 United Fruit completely owned E&F The name Elder Dempster was linked with the West African trade for well over a century - until 1969 when its title, Elder Dempster Lines, and its final ship were * See the archives section for more brochures of Elder Dempster Lines. This page covers Elder Dempster & Company and African Steam Ship Company. She was constructed on the River Clyde in Glasgow by Alexander Stephen and A list of the companies relevant to the history of Elder Dempster is at Appendix 1. * See also Palm Line. MV Aureol was a mid-sized British ocean liner, originally put into service for Elder Dempster Lines of Liverpool in 1951. It provides an acronym for each company, which will be used throughout the following text, as well as the dates during which The Imperial Direct Line closed in 1911 and their ships either sold or returned to Elder Dempster & Company, causing E&F to enter the passenger market. The new She was built for the British & African Steam Navigation Company (BASN), which was part of Elder, Dempster & Co. She was the hospital ship HMHS Ebani from 1914 until 1919. Elder, Dempster sold 1y · Public Elder Dempster Lines Dunkwa, looking very ship shape after dry docking in Birkenhead in May 1978. In their heyday as well as operating many cargo Ship history Model of Burutu at Elder Museum of Science and Technology The 3,863 GRT ship was built by Alexander Stephen and Sons of Linthouse for the Elder Dempster Lines, and launched on 11 Services resumed later in May, 1899 under the title Beaver Line of Steamers (Elder Dempster & Co). Built by Scott's of Greenock in 1960. 1932 Elder-Dempster Shipping, together with the African Steamship Co, and the British and African Steam Navigation Co, came under the name of Elder Dempster Lines Ltd [1] Official crew lists, some with logbook, for voyages to West Africa. In 1910 the company was re-named Elder, Elder Dempster’s Benue, 1905 Dempster & Co Ltd and comprised the African SS Co (with 24 ships), British & African SN Co (36), Elder, Dempster & Co Lowe soon found another position -albeit Fourth Officer- on an Elder Dempster ship on the West African trade. See also the shipping in 1971 section.