Booth line

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The British shipping company Booth Line existed from 1866 to 1975.

history

The shipping company goes back to the shipping company operating as Alfred Booth & Company since 1866 . Under this name, Alfred Booth operated liner services from northern Brazil and the Amazon to Europe. From 1881 the company operated under the name Booth Steamship Company . Twenty years later, in 1901, Booth joined Singlehurst's Red Cross Line and operates as Booth Steamship Co. (1901), Ltd. further. At the same time, tug shipping and lighter operations on the Amazon were combined under the name Booth & Co., which also took on other smaller units of the shipping company. The then President of the Booth Line, Paul Crompton , was killed in 1915 when the RMS Lusitania was sunk . Another ten years later, Booth took over the Iquitos Steamship Company and the associated fleet. After the Second World War, the Vestey Group , whose best-known subsidiary was the Blue Star Line , took over the Booth Line. From 1946 to 1975, Booth remained present with its ships in South America as an independent shipping company, after which Blue Star Ship Management combined all of the group's ships in a common pool and Booth ceased to exist as an independent shipping company. Ships under the Booth's colors were used until 1992.

literature

  • Heaton, PM: Booth Line . 1st edition. The Starling Press, Risca, Newport, Gwent 1987, ISBN 0-9507714-8-1 .

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