The Waterford Steamship Company provided shipping services between Waterford and Bristol and Liverpool from 1836 to 1912.[1]
![]() | |
Industry | Shipping |
---|---|
Founded | 1836 |
Founder | Joseph Malcolmson |
Defunct | 1912 |
Successor | Clyde Shipping Company |
Headquarters | |
Area served | Waterford, Liverpool, Bristol |
History
editThe Waterford Steamship Company ran 13 steamers to Bristol, Liverpool, and Irish ports. Services had been operating before 1836, but it was reorganized and registered as a new company this year.[2]
In 1870 the services operated from Waterford to London were taken over by the British and Irish Steam Packet Company.[citation needed]
In 1901, in a heavy fog, RMS Oceanic of the White Star Line was involved in a collision when she rammed and sank the small Waterford Steamship Company ship SS Kincora, killing 7 people.[3]
It was absorbed by the Clyde Shipping Company in 1912.
References
edit- ^ Irishmen or English soldiers?: the times and world of a southern Catholic Irish man (1876–1916) enlisting in the British army during the First World War, Thomas P. Dooley, Liverpool University Press, 1995
- ^ Waterford Standard. 20 November 1901
- ^ "RMS Oceanic". Darrel R. Hagberg. Archived from the original on 27 February 2009. Retrieved 12 December 2008.