The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen. The line's motto was Per Mare Ubique. After a troubled start, it became the larg
Share of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, issued 16 February 1920
RMS Asturias in a 1930 poster by Kenneth Shoesmith, who created a number of images advertising Royal Mail Lines ships
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Lamport and Holt was a UK merchant shipping line. It was founded as a partnership in 1845, reconstituted as a limited company in 1911 and ceased trading in 1991.
George Holt, senior, in 1851
Sudley House in Liverpool, the former home of George Holt, junior
Alfred Holt before 1903
Alfred Holt Ltd's Agamemnon, the first steamship to use the benefits of a compound engine by running at a higher boiler pressure