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Bibby Line is a UK company concerned with shipping and marine operations.
Its parent company, Bibby Line Group Limited, can be traced back to John Bibby who founded the company in 1807. The company along with the group is based in Liverpool. Since 2007, Bibby Line Group and its employees have donated over £10 million and thousands of volunteering hours to over 1,000 charitable causes.
The Bibby Line was founded in 1807 by the first John Bibby (1775–1840). It has operated in most areas of shipping throughout its 200-year history, and claims to be the oldest independently owned deep sea shipping line in the world.
It was one of the first business in the world to fit its entire fleet with radio, by the British based
Bibby Line Group
and is a £800 million global business, operating in 14 countries, employing 4,000 people in sectors including retail, financial services, distribution, shipping, marine and infrastructure. In 2002
Bibby Line Group
– official website *{{cite web , url= http://fp.redduster.f9.co.uk/BIBBY.htm , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20031204165942/http://fp.redduster.f9.co.uk/BIBBY.htm , url-status= dead , archive-date= 2003-12-04 , title=Bibby Line , work=The Red Duster – unofficial history Companies based in Liverpool Shipping companies of England Shipping companies of the United Kingdom British companies established in 1807 Transport companies established in 1807
Bibby Line is a UK company concerned with shipping and marine operations.
Its parent company, Bibby Line Group Limited, can be traced back to John Bibby who founded the company in 1807. The company along with the group is based in Liverpool. Since 2007, Bibby Line Group and its employees have donated over £10 million and thousands of volunteering hours to over 1,000 charitable causes.
History
The Bibby Line was founded in 1807 by the first John Bibby (1775–1840). It has operated in most areas of shipping throughout its 200-year history, and claims to be the oldest independently owned deep sea shipping line in the world.
It was one of the first business in the world to fit its entire fleet with radio, by the British based Radio Communication Company
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmi ...
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Along with other British ship owners, it endured hard economic conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, but survived through diversification into floating accommodation. The group diversified in the 1980s into separate divisions, including Bibby Financial Services which was formed in 1982. The parent company is now calleBibby Line Group
and is a £800 million global business, operating in 14 countries, employing 4,000 people in sectors including retail, financial services, distribution, shipping, marine and infrastructure. In 2002
Sir Derek Bibby
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...
, 2nd baronet, and great-great-grandson of the founder and past chairman and president of the firm, was aged 80 and terminally ill with leukaemia. He committed suicide at home on 9 October 2002 by taking the poison aluminium phosphide. Hours later the poison caused his body to emit dangerous fumes that forced the evacuation of Arrowe Park Hospital where his body was being held.
Ships
Bibby Line currently has no ships.Former fleet
Vessels that have previously operated for Bibby Line include: * * - Lost on 9 September 1980 during Typhoon Orchid with all 44 hands onboard. Largest British vessel ever lost at sea. * * – wrecked on Cardigan Island in 1934 while on the way to be scrapped * * * * * ''Leicestershire'' – sold, renamed and sunk in the Aegean Sea in 1966. * * ''Somersetshire'' * * ''Worcestershire'' * – sunk by in September 1939 with the loss of 58 livesSee also
* Bibby baronets * Bibby Financial Services * Costcutter *Sir Derek Bibby
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...
References
External links
Bibby Line Group
– official website *{{cite web , url= http://fp.redduster.f9.co.uk/BIBBY.htm , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20031204165942/http://fp.redduster.f9.co.uk/BIBBY.htm , url-status= dead , archive-date= 2003-12-04 , title=Bibby Line , work=The Red Duster – unofficial history Companies based in Liverpool Shipping companies of England Shipping companies of the United Kingdom British companies established in 1807 Transport companies established in 1807