Belfast Steamship Company Limited
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Reference code
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TRA.BSCL
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Level of description
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Fonds
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Title
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Belfast Steamship Company Limited
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Scope and content
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The Belfast Steamship Company provided shipping services between Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Liverpool, England, from 1852 to 1975. The company started in 1824 as the Liverpool and Belfast Steam Packet Company, operated by Langtry & Herdman. They then began a steamship service from Belfast to Liverpool.
Detailed contents: various documents from the Belfast Steamship Company Limited; a leaflet from 1924 commemorating 100 years of service of the company; three small books of the company's history in Belfast and Liverpool (1950); two leaflets on the Ulster Monarch ship (unknown); photocopies of text and images on the Clydeway ship; Coast Lines Limited history, picture books, and brochures; the British and Irish Steam Packet Co. Ltd. book (1936); Silver Jubilee Royal Naval Review (1910-35); news cuttings book (1959-68); folder of correspondence, minutes of proceedings for formal investigations, printout of Acts; cuttings book on various companies (1969-79); Lloyd's London Shipping Company insurance premiums for the Ulster Prince vessel (1948-50); premiums for the Lady Killarney (1949); berthing plans for motor vessels, Munster, Leinster, Ulster Monarch, Ulster Queen, Ulster Prince, Royal Scotsman (1st class), Royal Ulsterman (1st class); Ulster Prince postcard and postcards of different vessels; Liverpool- Belfast ferry service brochure (1967); various Belfast to Liverpool berthing fees brochures (1961); Ulster Prince magazine clipping (1961); memorandum of ship faring from Belfast (1946); container service brochure; Ulster Prince table plan (1966); menu and toast list for the launch of the Ulster Prince (1966); black and white photographs of a BSC business stall; colour photos of a BSC float; black-and-white photos of BSC furniture on a vessel; black and white photos of the TSMV Lion; photographs of the Liverpool and Belfast loading decks and Ulster Queen; interior and exterior photographs of Ulster Prince and the Leinster; interior photographs of the TSS Patriotic; large photographs of the Ulster Monarch interior; SY Killarney photos; TSMV Irish Coast and Scottish Coast photos from different periods; TSMV Royal Scotland photos; passenger sailings cut-out (1946); a book of rates applicable to merchandise by passenger train or similar (1934) with Belfast Steamship Company loose communications.
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