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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Eagle Line

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c.1851 The Eagle shipping line, sailing clippers from Liverpool to Australia, was established.[1]House of Commons</ref>

Agents were Gibbs, Bright and Co

1855 Commissioned construction of the Royal Charter

1864 White Star Line merged with the Black Ball and Eagle Lines to form a conglomerate called the Liverpool, Melbourne and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd (or Australian and Eastern Navigation Company). [2]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Reports from the Select Committee on the Passenger Acts, 1851
  2. The Age of Cunard: A Transatlantic History 1839-2003