Aberdeen
& Commonwealth Line (Est. 1825) |
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Set up in
1825 by George
Thompson of In 1905
the company came
under the joint control of White Star Line and Shaw, Savill &
Albion Line,
but retained it's own identity. White Star Line purchased the
Australian
Government owned Australian Commonwealth Line and it's fleet in 1928,
but in
1931 the Kylsant shipping group which owned White Star Line, collapsed.
In 1932,
the Aberdeen Line
was purchased by Shaw, Savill & Albion and in 1933 the fleet of the
former
Australian Commonwealth Line which had not been fully paid for, was
also acquired
and the Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line formed. In 1936 Furness Withy
&
Co. took control of Shaw Savill & Albion, in 1938 the |