City of Cork Steam Packet Co

1871 Incorporated as a Limited Company
1914 Cross-Channel Sea Carriers, Penrose's Quay, Cork. Chairman: Ebenezer Pike. Managing Director: Walter de Foubert. The first operations of the original proprietors (the St. George's Steam Packet Company) commenced early in the nineteenth century. That Company owned the S.S. "Sirius," the first steamer to cross the Atlantic from this side. Present Company have the largest quayside premises in Ireland for dealing with Cross-Channel traffic. Services to Liverpool, Fishguard, Bristol, Cardiff, Newport, Plymouth, Southampton, and London.