Alfred Holt and Company, trading as Blue Funnel Line, was a UK shipping company that was founded in 1866 and operated merchant ships for 122 years. It...
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Blue Funnel May refer to: Blue Funnel Line, A UK Shipping company operating from 1866 to 1988 Blue Funnel Group, A UK pleasure and ferry boat company...
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For example, the shipping line actually registered as 'Alfred Holt & Company' was more widely known as the Blue Funnel Line. The Southampton, Isle of...
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Yellow Fleet at Ships on Stamps Ian Russel. "Melampus in Suez". The Blue Funnel Line 1866–1986. Archived from the original on 13 November 2010. Retrieved...
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SS Meriones (category Ships of the Blue Funnel Line)
a Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo steamship. She was launched in 1921 on the River Tyne as one of a class of 11 ships to replace many of Blue Funnel's...
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logo is a funnel shaped like a whale's tail, with a red, white, and blue color scheme. This trademark funnel design is built onto the line's ships. Carnival...
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to drop. In 1941 by Hahn and Lawrence Holt with the support of the Blue Funnel Line, founded Outward Bound, based on the educational approach of Gordonstoun...
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shipping firm of Richard Durning Holt and Alfred Holt and Company (the Blue Funnel Line) partly for its own use, and partly for letting offices to other businesses...
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the majority of the company's vessels. Alfred Holt & Co later became Blue Funnel Line. One of his other brothers, George Holt, was also a noted Liverpool...
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MV Deucalion (category Ships of the Blue Funnel Line)
MV Deucalion was a Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo ship that was built in England in 1930 and sunk in the Second World War in 1942. She survived being...
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service known as the Blue Funnel Line, between the United Kingdom and China. It was generally known as Holts and had a trademark blue funnel on its ships. For...
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Outward Bound (section Blue Peter nautical flag)
Aberdyfi, Wales in 1941 by Lawrence Holt with financial support from the Blue Funnel Line shipping company based on the initiative of Kurt Hahn. The name Outward...
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HMS Agamemnon (M10) (category Ships of the Blue Funnel Line)
HMS Agamemnon was originally the Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo ship Agamemnon. She was built in 1929, traded between the United Kingdom and the Far...
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Customs and traditions of the Royal Navy (redirect from Grey Funnel Line)
colours such as Cunard's red and black or the eponymous Blue Funnel Line, while the Royal Navy's funnels are plain grey. Originally subordinates would remove...
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HMS Menestheus (category Ships of the Blue Funnel Line)
HMS Menestheus was originally the Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo ship Menestheus. She was built in 1929, and traded between the UK and the Far East...
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SS Sarpedon (1923) (category Ships of the Blue Funnel Line)
sister ships built for Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool, who owned Blue Funnel Line and other shipping lines including the Ocean Steam Ship Company. Her...
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SS Patroclus (1923) (category Ships of the Blue Funnel Line)
sister ships built for Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool, who owned Blue Funnel Line and other shipping lines including China Mutual Steam Navigation Company...
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after, bringing culture from all over the world. Examples include the Blue Funnel Line that brought the first Chinese community to Europe, to a million Irish...
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Victoria Drummond (1894–1978): first female marine engineer for the Blue Funnel Line and its associated company Ocean Group plc Toni Duggan: footballer...
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MV Calchas, cargo ship for Blue Funnel Line, launched 27 August 1946, completed 17 January 1947. MV La Hague, cargo ship for French Line, launched 12 September...
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HMS Hector (F45) (category Ships of the Blue Funnel Line)
sister ships built for Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool, who owned Blue Funnel Line and other shipping lines including the Ocean Steam Ship Company. Her...
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installed in the twin-screw M. V. Dolius, of the Blue Funnel Line. The trial was successful and in 1928 Blue Funnel commissioned a larger and faster ship, the...
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AHS Centaur (category Ships of the Blue Funnel Line)
early 1923, the Ocean Steamship Company (a subsidiary of Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel Line) decided that a new vessel would be required to replace the ageing...
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Indonesian independence and went as a ship's doctor on the "Polodarus" (a Blue Funnel Line ship) to the Netherlands for six months and then to London in 1949...
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fire. Her career included service at sea with Blue Funnel Line, Manchester Liners, and Cunard-White Star Line, and ashore at Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering...
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September 2023, Red Funnel announced the acquisition of Blue Funnel Ferries which operates the Hythe Ferry service. Blue Funnel Ferries will be renamed...
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SS Automedon (category Ships of the Blue Funnel Line)
a Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo steamship. She was launched in 1921 on the River Tyne as one of a class of 11 ships to replace many of Blue Funnel's...
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of the Blue Funnel Line SS Sarpedon (1877), a 2,036-ton ship of the Blue Funnel Line SS Sarpedon (1894), a 4,663-ton ship of the Blue Funnel Line SS Sarpedon (1923)...
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King George V Dock The Blue Funnel Line cargo liner Menestheus in King George V Dock around 1940 Location London Coordinates 51°30′13″N 0°03′35″E / 51...
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Steam Navigation Company Bank Line Ben Line Bibby Line Blue Anchor Line Blue Funnel Line (Alfred Holt) Blue Star Line Booth Steamship Company Bolton...
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