Maclay & McIntyre

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The British shipping company Maclay & McIntyre Limited existed from 1885 to 1960.

history

The shipping company was founded in 1885 by Joseph Paton Maclay and Walter McIntyre in Glasgow . The company started with six cargo steamers that were used in tramp shipping . In the following year of establishment, the Glasgow United Shipping Company was founded as the owner company for a large part of the managed fleet and in 1896 the company already had 33 ships, whose use was focused on the coal trade to Algoa Bay and the ore trade from the Mediterranean. Joseph Maclay retired from the business in 1905 and Walter McIntyre ran the shipping company on his own.

At the beginning of the First World War, the shipping company owned 51 tramp ships, 16 of which were lost in the war. In the interwar years, the coal journey from South Wales to the Rio de la Plata with grain returns from Argentina and sugar from Cuba became a focus of business. Seven ships were lost in World War II and Maclay & McIntyre only had five ships at the end of the war. In the 1950s, four Empire ships were again added to the fleet, but the falling freight rates from 1957 made it increasingly difficult to cover costs. In 1960 the last two ships were sold and the company dissolved.

literature

  • Norman L. Middlemiss: Travels of the Tramps. Volume II: Twenty tramp fleets. 1st edition. Shield Publications, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1991, ISBN 1-871128-02-1