Knitting line

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The British shipping company Strick Line Ltd. existed from 1913 to 1972.

history

The Shahristan , 1938 on the test drive

The businessman Frank Clarke Strick moved from Swansea to London in 1885 and opened Frank C. Strick & Co. Ltd. on October 20, 1885 . as a shipping agency and coal export trade. Strick built up a trade to export coal to western Italy and to load iron ore from Béni Saf on the return journeys . To raise the necessary capital for a ship, he founded the shipping company London and Paris Steamship Company Ltd. in 1887 . and the shipping company Anglo-Algerian Steamship Company Ltd. In 1892, Strick also founded the Anglo-Arabian and Persian Steamship Company Ltd. to expand trade in the Persian Gulf and Dwina Ltd. to lighten the ships before passing the bar in Shatt al-Arab off Basra . In 1896, Strick also founded the Anglo-Algerian Steamship Company (1896) Ltd. to expand trade in the Mediterranean. By 1900 the knitting fleet had already expanded to 15 ships, which were mainly engaged in trade with the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

In 1903, Stricks Anglo-Arabian and Persian Company concluded a six-year agreement with Bucknall Steamship Line and JE Guthe & Company's West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Company in the Strick and Bucknall each a cargo share of 23 sixtieth and Guthe 14 sixtieth Golf was enshrined. In 1913, Stricks companies La Commerciale Steam Navigation Company , Anglo-Arabian and Persian Steamship Company and Anglo-Algerian Steam Ship Company became Strick Line Ltd. united.

The Armanistan , under construction in 1948

After the fleet was almost completely lost in the First World War, Strick sold his company and the remaining fleet to Gray, Dawes and Company in 1919. Four years later, the P&O subsidiary Hain Steamship Company took over in Strick Line (1923) Ltd. renamed company. In 1928, Strick acquired a 49% stake in Strick Line (1923) Ltd. using his London & Paris Steamship Company. back.

From 1946 the company operated again under the name Strick Line Ltd. In 1972 P&O took over the Strick Line completely and incorporated it into the existing P&O General Cargo Division.

literature

  • Norman L. Middlemiss: Strick Line , In: Shipping today and yesterday , November 2017
  • Norman L. Middlemiss: Travels of the Tramps, Twenty Tramp Fleets, Volume IV . Shield Publications, Newcastle upon Tyne 1993, ISBN 1-871128-09-9 .

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