Catalogue description Records of the Whitby and London Steam Shipping Company Ltd

This record is held by Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society

Details of WHITM:1994/5.5
Reference: WHITM:1994/5.5
Title: Records of the Whitby and London Steam Shipping Company Ltd
Description:

This collection consists of the first annual report and accounts of the Whitby and London Steam Shipping Company Ltd.
Date: 1877
Held by: Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Whitby and London Steam Shipping Company Ltd
Physical description: 1 item
Access conditions:

Open
Subjects:
  • Whitby, North Riding of Yorkshire
  • Sea transport
Administrative / biographical background:

This item was deposited by Elizabeth Smailes in March 1994. It is held in the Museum Shipping Wing.

 

The Whitby and London Steam Shipping Company Ltd was established in 1877. The only vessel it appears to have owned was the Lady Hilda, built for the company by Thomas Turnbull and Son, Whitby, in 1877 and sold in 1881.

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