Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co
A private company owned by Shell Transport and Trading and Royal Dutch Petroleum
c.1898 The company became responsible for the ships of Shell Transport and Trading.[1]
1907 Continued to be responsible for the trade in oil by-products when the Dutch Petroleum Company was established to take over the petroleum business of the Dutch state authorities and the Shell company[2]
1908 Shell Transport and Trading had placed all of its assets in Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co and Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij which also held all of the assets of Royal Dutch Shell[3]
The company owned and ran the oil transport and storage activities of the Shell group of companies.
1920 With Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co and a group of individual investors, the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co bought the Chepstow shipyards[4]; they formed Monmouth Shipbuilding Co to acquire the yards.
1923 Ordered a large, shallow draft river steamer for use in China, from Yarrow and Co[5]
1925 Baldwins, in conjunction with Anglo-Saxon Petroleum, built a new tinplate works at Crymlyn Burrows, Swansea[6]
1926 Placed order with Harland and Wolff for 4 vessels[7]
1934 Ordered 12,000 t tank motor-ship from Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, the 18th that yard had built for the company[8]. Harland and Wolff also constructed a motor tanker for the company[9]
1934 Elba Tin Plate Co, jointly owned with Baldwins, had been fully occupied[10]
1938 Cammell, Laird and Co built a tanker for the company[11]
1951 Experimented with use of a gas-turbine propulsion unit when one of the 4 diesel engines in the tanker Auris was replaced by a gas turbine[12]
1955 Shell acquired the assets of Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co, essentially bringing its fleet of ships in-house[13]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Jan 15, 1908
- ↑ The Times, Aug 05, 1907
- ↑ The Times, Jul 01, 1908
- ↑ The Times, Feb 05, 1920
- ↑ The Times, Nov 08, 1923
- ↑ The Times, Dec 19, 1925
- ↑ The Times, Apr 22, 1926
- ↑ The Times, Mar 21, 1934
- ↑ The Times, May 26, 1934
- ↑ The Times, Mar 31, 1934
- ↑ The Times, Mar 30, 1938
- ↑ The Times, November 10, 2003
- ↑ The Times, November 10, 2003