Bibby Brothers and Co
The Bibby Line.
1872 The partnership owning John Bibby and Sons ended; the Bibby family sold their shipping interests to F. R. Leyland.
1889 The Bibby family returned to the shipping business when they started Bibby Brothers Ltd. which later changed its name to the Bibby Steamship Company. It worked in partnership with Paddy Henderson’s British and Burmese Steam Navigation Co providing passenger services to Burma, cruises in the Mediterranean, and troop transports.
1891 Services in large steamships to Burmah, Ceylon, and Southern India. The steamers carried French and Egyptian Mails between Marseilles and Egypt, and between Suez and Colombo, and supplementary English Mails between Rangoon and Colombo and England. Three steamers on the Rangoon service had been built by Harland and Wolff, advertised as Bibby Line[1]
1910 The Line traded between Liverpool, London, and Burmah, with intermediate calls in the Mediterranean and other ports
1931 The name of the shipping company was changed to the Bibby Line Ltd.
1933 Bibby Brothers and Co, of Martins Bank Building, Liverpool, were bankers and shipowners[2]
See Also
Sources of Information
- Bibby Line [1]