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Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company

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The Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company provided shipping services in the United Kingdom from 1904 to 1943.[4]

Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company
IndustryShipping
Founded1904[1]
Defunct1944[2]
SuccessorCoast Lines
Headquarters
Newcastle upon Tyne
Area served
Newcastle upon Tyne, London
Footnotes / references
House Flag in 1947[3]

History

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Hotel du Vin, City Road Converted in 2007-8 from the Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Company offices of 1908 (commonly known as Allan House)
 
Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Company sign in King Street, on the side of what is now Sabatini's restaurant

Tyne Steam & Tees Union Shipping Companies

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The main Newcastle coastline service in the 19th century was provided by the Tyne Steam Shipping Company, which was formed in 1864 as a joint stock company when it consolidated smaller local companies.[5]

The Middlesbrough route to London was served by the Dione, operated by the London & Middlesbrough Steamship Company, which was bought by the Tees Union Shipping Company in 1880.[6]

Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Co.

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In 1903 Tyne Steam Shipping acquired Tees Union, and in 1904, with the further acquisition the Furness Withy & Co., Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company was formed.[2][1] The funnels were painted black with red top and dividing white band.[7]

Passenger services were operated between Teesside, Tyneside and London, as well as to the continent.[8] By 1914 it was the number 7 coastal company in terms of ton-mileage worked, in the country, with 244,040,472 ton mileage per year.[9]

The company was severely impacted by the Great Depression in the United Kingdom with its vessels and interests being purchased by Coast Lines in 1944.[10][2]

The former Headquarters building is now the Hotel du Vin.[11]

Routes : Passenger / Cargo and Cargo only

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Newcastle and Sunderland to London / Antwerp / Rotterdam / Amsterdam / Dordrecht / Hamburg / Bremen / Ghent / Northern French Ports.

Middlesbrough to Bremen / Hamburg.

Passenger / Cargo ships operated

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Ship Launched Tonnage
(GRT) 		Notes and references
Diome 1868 849 Built for the Tees Union Shipping Co. and sold in 1908.[12][6]
Juno 1882 1,311 Built for the Tyne Steam Shipping Co. Detained at Hamburg and abandoned to insurers.[12]
Tynesider 1888 1,378 Built for the Tyne Steam Shipping Co. and sold to the Hellénique de Navigation à Vapeur de Syra, Greece, and renamed Neilos.[12]
Grenadier 1895 1,004 Built by Wigham Richardson and Co. for Tyne Steam Shipping Co. and transferred into the new joint venture and served Rotterdam with occasional voyages to Hamburg and Cuxhaven.

Grounded in July 1908 on Frisian coast and was re-floated and repaired in West Hartlepool.
Sunk by torpedo on 23 February 1917 with the loss of 8 crew members, including the Master.[7]

Sir William Stephenson 1906 1,540 Built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company at Yarrow. Employed mainly on continental services from the River Tyne but also occasionally on the London service. She struck a mine on 29 August 1915, causing the death of 2 crewmembers.

The vessel was towed to Great Yarmouth roads where she later sank.[13]

Newmister/Dorian Coast 1925 967 Delivered by Hawthorn Leslie in 1925 as Newmister, and renamed Dorian Coast in 1946. Sold to the Eastern Navigation Company of Bombay and renamed Azadi, being broken up in 1951.[14]
Alnwick 1929 1,400 Built by Swan Hunter,Wigham Richardson for the River Tyne - Rotterdam service. Switched to London service in 1932 but competition from motor coaches ended this trade in 1935 when the vessel was sold to Fred. Olsen & Co.

Renamed Bali, she initially operated from Oslo / Kristiansand to Rotterdam. She survived World War II and was transferred to Olsen's service between Oslo and Newcastle until 1951 when she moved to an Antwerp service from Oslo /Kristiansand.
Sold to the Burmese Shipping Board in 1952 and renamed Pyidawtha. She operated coastal passenger/cargo services out of Rangoon until 6 May 1955 when she grounded on a voyage to Akyat. The grounding led to her being declared a total loss.[15]

Caster/Caspian Coast 1935 733 Built by Swan Hunter and delivered as Caster in 1939. Renamed Caspian Coast in 1946. Sold to London Scottish Line in 1947 and then to Maldives Interests in 1959, being renamed Maldive Crescent. She was wrecked, in 1967, on trip between Rangoon and East Pakistan, carrying a cargo of jute, near Cape Negrais, and was abandoned.[14]

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b Robins 2011, p. 63.
  2. ^ a b c Armstrong, John (December 2006). "Some Aspects of the Business History of the British Coasting Trade". International Journal of Maritime History. 18 (2): 1–16. doi:10.1177/084387140601800202.
  3. ^ Collard 2015, p. 17.
  4. ^ Shipbuilding & shipping record: a journal of shipbuilding, marine engineering, dock, harbours & shipping, Volume 44. 1935
  5. ^ Robins 2011, p. 30.
  6. ^ a b Robins 2011, p. 31.
  7. ^ a b Greenway 1986, p. 76.
  8. ^ Armstrong, John (June 1994). "Coastal Shipping: The Neglected Sector of Nineteenth-Century British Transport History". International Journal of Maritime History. 6 (1): 175–188. doi:10.1177/084387149400600109.
  9. ^ Armstrong, John (1 January 2009). "An Estimate of the Importance of the British Coastal Liner Trade in the Early Twentieth Century". The Vital Spark: 223–242. doi:10.5949/liverpool/9780986497308.003.0012. ISBN 978-0-9864973-0-8.
  10. ^ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
  11. ^ "Hotel du Vin Newcastle".
  12. ^ a b c Robins 2011, p. 142.
  13. ^ Greenway 1986, p. 77.
  14. ^ a b Collard 2015, p. 145.
  15. ^ Greenway 1986, p. 78.

Bibliography

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  • Collard, Ian (2015). Coast Lines: Fleet List and History. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-4456-4675-6.
  • Greenway, Ambrose (1986). A century of North Sea passenger steamers. London: I. Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1338-1.
  • Robins, Nick S. (2011). Coastal passenger liners of the British Isles. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-112-0.
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