Thomas Wilson Sons & Co.
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Thomas Wilson Sons & Co. was a British shipping company, founded in 1840, It evolved from a joint venture formed by merchants Thomas Wilson, John Beckinton and two unrelated partners named Hudson in 1
Orlando at sea around 1870
Ellerman Lines
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Ellerman Lines was a UK cargo and passenger shipping company that operated from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century. It was founded in the late 19th century, and continued to ex
Thomas Wilson Sons & Co.
…in the ailing local firm Earle's Shipbuilding and ordered ships from them. The company was sold to Sir John Ellerman in 1916, owner of the successful Ellerman Line and supposedly the richest man in Britain at the time. There can be little doubt that the loss of three of its largest and most prestigious ships to…
Ellerman Lines' four-masted sail-steamer barquentine City of Cambridge, launched in 1870
Hall Line's City of Naples, launched in 1908
Branksome Hall, launched in 1904. The photo shows it between 1906 and 1911, when it was with Glen Line and called Glenavon.
Calypso, launched in 1897. Ellerman Wilson Lines acquired her in 1920 as World War I reparations.