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Ramón Alonso R.
''Ramón Alonso R.'' was a Merchant navy, merchant steamship that was built in Scotland in 1898 and scrapped in Spain in 1959. Its original name was ''Montclair''. It was renamed ''José Gallart'' in 1901, ''Balmes'' in 1911 and ''Ramón Alonso R.'' in 1929. Its first owner was the British Elder Dempster Lines, but it spent most of its career with a succession of Spanish owners. It was built as a Transatlantic crossing, transatlantic ocean liner with some cargo capacity, but in 1927 it was refitted as a cargo ship. In 1913, when it was called ''Balmes'', the ship survived a serious cargo fire in mid-Atlantic. ''Valetta'' and ''Montclair'' Archibald McMillan and Son built the ship at Dumbarton, launching her 22 February 1898 as ''Valetta'' for Gow, Harrison and Company. Her registered length was , her beam was and her depth was . Her tonnages were and . She had a single Propeller, screw, driven by a three-cylinder Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion, triple-expansion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Steamship Company
The African Steamship Company was a British shipping line in the 19th and early 20th centuries. History The company was founded in 1852 by Macgregor Laird, the younger son of the shipbuilder William Laird, and based in Birkenhead. The main focus of the company at first was trading with the Niger River area and other west African ports, bringing west-African palm oil back to Britain. The monthly mail steamer to the then Gold Coast (now Ghana), appointed by Royal Charter, came with a subsidy of 30,000 pounds sterling per year from the British government, starting from 1852. In 1864 the African Steamship Company was taken over by Fletcher & Parr of Liverpool and, in turn, in 1891 absorbed into Elder Dempster & Co. The company proved sufficiently successful that in 1869 a rival company, the British and African Steam Navigation Company, was founded, but both companies later came to an arrangement on sailing times. The business of the African Steamship company was purchased by El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
