Money Wigram & Sons

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Money Wigram & Sons was a British shipbuilding and shipping company based in London. It existed from 1813 to 1894.

history

The shipyard Wigram & Green of Blackwall Yard belonged in 1813 to half Robert Wigram, one quarter his sons Money Wigram Wigram and Loftus and another quarter George Green. In 1819 Robert Wigram gave his share to the other partners. Blackwall Yard had been used to build East Indiamans of the British East India Company and warships of the Royal Navy since the early 17th century . From 1821 onwards, the first steamers were built for third-party accounts, for example on behalf of the General Steam Navigation Company . A few years after the East India Company's trade monopoly ended in 1833, the shipyard began building the famous Blackwall frigates .

In 1824 the Green family built their first ship, the Sir Edward Paget , for their own account. This set the George Cross flag on the main mast in front of Spithead , which indicated an admiral on board. A Royal Navy frigate then sent a pinasse to Sir Edward Paget , but no admiral was present. After the flag was lowered, the captain had a rectangular blue handkerchief sewn into the center of the flag and then put it back in place. From 1829 the Green family operated the first South Sea whalers. In 1829 Richard Green became a partner in what was then called Green, Wigram & Green . After Money Wigram put its first ship into service for the Australia voyage in 1832, the Green family soon followed to put ships into operation for this area as well. During these years, Green, Wigram and Green employed between 500 and 1000 people. From 1834, more and more ships were built for both families - from 1837 to 1862 more than one ship per year with only four ship losses during this period. In 1839, the Vernon, the first East Indiaman with a steam engine, was put into operation.

In 1843 Wigram and Green separated, with their common yard being split in the middle. The western half of the shipyard then traded as Money Wigram & Sons while the eastern part of the company continued its work as R. and H. Green and Co. In the late 1840s, an Australian line service with monthly departures had been established. The shipping companies of both families stayed on the Australian voyage and developed well in the following decades. The Wigrams shipyard, however, was closed in 1876. From 1878 the Green family dominated the Australian voyage after they had converted the Orient Line from Anderson, Anderson & Co. to the steamship shipping company Orient Steam Navigation Company . Money Wigram's shipping business, on the other hand, shrank until the last ship was sold in 1894. In the same year, the liquidated shipping company Money Wigram & Sons and its corporate colors were taken over by Allan Hughes and renamed first to King Steam Navigation and the following year to Federal Steam Navigation Company . This in turn existed until 1983 (the last ten years only as a ship owner company).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HOUSE FLAGS - Federal Steam Navigation Company Limited at rakaia.co.uk ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rakaia.co.uk
  2. ↑ Flag of the Blackwall Line at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich (English)