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4A St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh
Steamship owners.
1882 The Scottish Oriental Steamship Company Limited was incorporated.[1]
1899 The Norddeutscher Lloyd Steamship Company, of Bremen, bought the company's fleet of 14 steamers, with a total registered tonnage of 24,942, with the intention of carrying on the service between Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong and Swatow.[2] Many of the company's ships had been built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co specially for service in Chinese waters.[3]