Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Wilson Steamship Co

From Graces Guide

of Liverpool

1927 New company registered. Directors: J. Beattie; T. W. Dixon.[1]

1935 'I, JOHN BIRKETT MOFFAT, Secretary of the Wilson Steamship Company Limited, hereby Notice, in consequence of a change of Ownership and in memory of a late Director, I hare applied to the Board of Trade, under Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act. 1864, in respect of our ship "LIGHTNING." of Newcastle, official number 140.106, of greet tonnage 365 tons, of register tonnage 136, heretofore owned by the Wilson Steamship Company Limited, of North Wall, Whitehaven, for permission to change her name to "HERBERT W. WALKER," to be registered in the new name at the port of Whitehaven, as owned by the Wilson Steamship Company Limited.'[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Newcastle Journal - Tuesday 20 September 1927
  2. Liverpool Journal of Commerce - Thursday 11 April 1935