Burnett Steamship Co.

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The Burnett Steamship Company was an English shipping company based in Newcastle upon Tyne . It existed from 1900 to 1980.

history

The shipping company was founded in 1889 with the purchase of the first small ship and was registered on January 1, 1900. It initially focused on transporting coal from Yorkshire ports to London and Western Europe and expanded rapidly. In 1908 she was already sailing with larger freighters as far as the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean . Main supplier of its ships was the yard of Wood, Skinner & Co. in Bill Quay , Gateshead , which until its liquidation in 1925 a total of 30 vessels, most of them coal freighter, built for Burnett.

The First World War brought the shipping company considerable ship losses. Seven of their freighters were lost to enemy action in 1914–1918, and at the end of the war their fleet consisted of only five of their own and three ships managed for foreign owners.

In 1929 Burnett tried to get into the global trampoline business with several new 4000 BRT freighter , but the global economic crisis forced the shipping company to sell these ships almost immediately.

In World War II, four ships were lost.

In the 1960s, the shipping company was involved in traffic to the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes . This led to a takeover offer from the Canadian Federal Commerce & Navigation Ltd. which was accepted in 1969. Burnett thus became a subsidiary of the FedNav Group, with sea transport between Great Britain and Canada as a business field. In 1974 Burnett bought Chapman & Willan in Newcastle and their fleet of bulk carriers .

The End

In 1980, FedNav sold the last two Burnett ships, the car carriers and sister ships Avon Forest and Laurentian Forest , ending Burnett's shipping business.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/WoodSkinner.html
  2. ↑ http://mariners-list.com/site_pages.php?section=Shipping+Companies&category=English&page_name=R.Chapman+%26+Son
  3. ↑ http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/54/545077.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/4718.asp?view=text

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