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Pacific Steam Navigation Company. Fleet List & History

Door Ian Collard

Categorie
Schepen & Scheepvaart
Boeknummer
#231247
Titel
Pacific Steam Navigation Company. Fleet List & History
Auteur
Collard, Ian
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Amberley Publishing
Jaar van uitgave
2014
ISBN10
1445634848
ISBN13
9781445634845
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

Founded in 1838 in Liverpool, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company was the first to operate steamships in the Pacific and primarily traded from the UK to the Pacific coasts of South America. Its most famous ships included the Reina del Pacifico and the Reina del Mar. With a line of notable firsts to its name, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company name had disappeared by 1984, part of the rationalization of Furness Withy Group. In 1990, Furness Withy itself was sold to Hamburg Sud, another line which had operated on the South Atlantic and Pacific routes. Many in Liverpool and in South and Central America, from Panama to Tierra del Fuego have fond memories of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and this history and fleet list will bring back memories of those vessels of the line, both deep
... (Lees verder) sea and coastal, which once operated on the South American run.
Pagina's
160
Conditie
Nieuw
Prijs
€ 12,50

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