Shaw, Savill & Co.

34, Leadenhall Street,
London.

Fleet List

1865-1866 Cossipore (1851), 707 tons, wooden ship.
1866-1873 Monarch (1844), 1415 tons, wooden ship.
1866-1868 Strathallan (1857), 548 tons, wooden ship.
1867-1869 Matoaka (1853), wooden ship.
1867-1874 Wild Duck (1863), wooden ship.
1868-1880 Chilé (1856), iron ship.
1868-1869 Mermaid (1853), wooden ship.
1869-1873 Caduceus (1854), wooden barque.
1869-1873 Charlotte Gladstone, wooden ship.
1869-1898 Crusader (1865), iron ship.
1869-1903 Zealandia (1869), iron ship.
1870-1890 Merope (1870), composite ship.
1871-1873 Ballarat (1852), wooden barque.
1871-1881 Dover Castle (1858), wooden ship.
1871-1899 Euterpe (1863), iron ship.
1871-1872 Robert Henderson (1857), wooden ship.
1871-1883 St Leonards (1864), iron ship.
1872-1881 Bulwark (1862), wooden ship.
1872-1877 Edward P. Bouverie (1864), composite ship.
1872-1896 Helen Denny (1866), iron ship.
1872-1899 Pleiades (1869), iron ship.
1873-1882 Adamant (1858), iron barque.
1873-1886 Anazi (1865), 468 tons, composite barque.
1873-1883 Chaudière (1863), 470 tons, composite barque.
1873-1874 Cospatrick (1856), iron ship.
1873-1884 Edwin Fox (1853), wooden barque.
1873-1885 Elizabeth Graham (1869), composite barque.
1873-1895 Forfarshire (1867), composite ship.
1873-1898 Glenlora (1864), iron barque.
1873-1898 Hudson (1869), iron ship.
1873-1895 Langstone (1869), iron ship.
1873-1877 Queen Bee (1859), wooden ship.
1873-1888 Trevelyan (1863), iron ship.
1874-1877 Avalanche (1874), iron barque.
1874-1880 Golden Sea (1864), wooden ship.
1874-1897 Himalaya (1863), iron ship.
1874-1879 Schiehallion (1809?), iron barque.
1874-1899 Soukar (1864), iron ship.
1875-1883 Bebington (1859), iron barque.
1876-1906 Hermione (1876), iron ship.
1876-1900 Margaret Galbraith (1868), iron ship.
1876-1899 Pleione (1876), iron ship.
1879-1906 Lutterworth (1868), iron barque.
1881-1904 Akaroa (1881), iron barque.
1881-1887 Electra (1866), composite ship.
1882-1899 Lady Jocelyn (1852), iron ship.

References:

Memorandum and Articles of Association of Shaw Savill and Albion Company, Limited.
Shaw Savill & Albion Co Ltd., London, 1970. 4to, 40 pp Reprinted with amendments from the 1882 original.
Bowen, Frank C.: The flag of the Southern Cross. The history of Shaw Savill & Albion Co Limited 1858-1939.
Shaw Savill & Albion, London, 1939. 8vo, 122, xxvii pp, ill.
Brett, Henry: White Wings. Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade 1850-1900.
The Brett Printing Company, Auckland, 1924. 8vo, 368 pp, ill.
Brett, Henry: White Wings. Founding of the Provinces and Old-Time Shipping Passenger Ships from 1840 to 1885.
The Brett Printing Company, Auckland, 1928. 8vo, 259 pp, 12 pl.
Bryant, Arthur: One Hundred Years Under the Southern Cross, Shaw Savill Line.
1958.
Davies, A.G.: Re R.W. Leyland & Co.'s Fleet (Roll of Honour, June and July).
Sea Breezes Vol. XIX (1934-35), p 59.
Haws, Duncan: Shaw, Savill & Albion. Merchant Fleets series. Vol. 10.
TCL, Burwash, 1987. 8vo, 85 pp, ill.
Kerbrech, Richard P. de: The Shaw Savill Line; Images in Mast, Steam and Motor.
Ship Pictorial, Coltishall, 1992. 8vo, 144 pp, ill.
Kerbrech, Richard P. de: Shaw Savill & Albion. The post-war fortunes of a shipping empire.
Conway Maritime Press, London, 1986. 8vo, 178 pp, ill.
Leek, B.M.: These Splendid Ships: The Shaw Savill & Albion Motorship Canopic of 1935.
Sea Breezes Vol. 65, Liverpool, 1991. pp 790-796, ill.
Lille, Sten & Grönstrand, Lars: Finlands djupvattenseglare.
Etelä-soumen kustannus oy, Lieto, 1979. 4to, 224 pp, ill.
Mallett, Alan S.: Twentieth Century Shipowners: Basil, Baron Sanderson of Ayot.
Sea Breezes Vol. 58, Liverpool, 1984. pp 676-685, ill. Basil Sanderson is a name which is inseparable from the history of the Shaw Savill and Albion Co. Ltd.
Mitchell, Alan: Splendid sisters. A story of the planning, construction and operation of the Shaw Savill liners Southern Cross and Northern Star.
Harrap, London, 1966. 8vo, 192 pp.
Savill, David: Sail to New Zealand. The Story of Shaw Savill & Co. 1858-1882.
Robert Hale, London, 1986. 8vo, 185 pp, ill, 21 pl.
Waters, Sydney D.: Shaw Savill Line. One hundred years of trading.
Whitcombe & Tombs, Christchurch & London, 1961. 8vo, 158 pp.

Updated 1999-05-18 by Lars Bruzelius

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