Laing Steamship Co
Deptford Yard, Sunderland
1865 The Laing family were shipowners as well as builders (Sir James Laing and Sons). They had a two-masted auxiliary sailing ship Hiogo launched on 19th December. Sadly, she was wrecked on her maiden voyage.
The family had many other ships built for them, including eight tramps for their Laing Steamship Co Ltd between 1886 and 1905 and the Turret built by Doxford.
1903 The Laing Steamship Company Limited was incorporated, with a capital of £150,000, to acquire the steamship Swaledale, built by Sir James Laing & Sons Limited, Sunderland, with a view to adopt an agreement with the said firm to build, charter, or acquire any other steamships and other vessels of any kind, to acquire shares in shipping companies, to establish and maintain lines or regular services of steamship or other vessels, and generally to carry on the business of shipowners, managers of shipping property, forwarding agents, contractors for the carriage of mails, troops, passengers, minerals, goods, livestock, and munitions of war, wharf, pier, dock, railway and tramway and tramway owners. There was no initial public issue.[1]
1908 The company went into voluntary liquidation.[2] The liquidation of the shipping company, which incurred a loss of £60,000 for the shipbuilding concern, contributed to the temporary failure of the latter business.[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette 21 April 1903
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28115/page/1535
- ↑ Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette 17 November 1908
- The National Archives BT 31/10258/77045