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    Ellerman Lines was a UK cargo and passenger shipping company that operated from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century. It was founded...
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    1953 for Ellerman Lines' service between London and South Africa. Originally named MS City of York, she was sold in 1971 to Karageorgis Lines, converted...
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    group Ellerman for £45m. They later sold its brewing division (for £240m), and in late 1985 its shipping business (to its management). The Ellerman deal...
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  • as sole stakeholder. His shipping interests were combined into the Ellerman Lines, and he also invested in newspapers, breweries, coal, and London property...
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    Ellerman Lines Cricket Ground was a cricket ground at the end of Carr Lane in Hoylake, Cheshire, now in Merseyside. The ground was surrounded by countryside...
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  • Sinking of the SS City of Benares (category Ships of the Ellerman Lines)
    to the British Government in the summer of 1940 by her owners—Ellerman City & Hall Lines—for use as an evacuation ship for children, accompanied by the...
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  • father had disapproved. He oversaw Ellerman Lines for many years, and was often said to be Britain's richest man. Ellerman's main interest was the study of...
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    portion of its fleet was withdrawn from service and transferred to the Ellerman Lines. The company was liquidated in 1935 after a period of declining influence...
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  • Moon Ellerman bombs, micro solar flares named after Ferdinand Ellerman Ellerman Lines, cargo and passenger shipping company that operated from the late...
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    profile: Ellerman Lines Cricket Ground, Hoylake". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 July 2012. "Supporting Planning Statement: Former Ellerman Lines Social Club...
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  • experience of pub and brewery management. Camerons lost its independence to Ellerman Lines in 1974, and was acquired by the Barclay Brothers in 1983 and then Brent...
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    In 1988, Cunard acquired Ellerman Lines and its small fleet of cargo vessels, organising the business as Cunard-Ellerman, however, only a few years...
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  • SS City of Benares (category Ships of the Ellerman Lines)
    City of Benares was a British steam turbine ocean liner, built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936. During the Second World War...
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  • SS Lesbian (1923) (category Ships of the Ellerman Lines)
    Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1923 for Ellerman Lines Ltd. She was seized in 1940 by the Vichy French forces. Lesbian was...
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  • Turner v. Memphis 369 U.S. 350 1962 Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. 369 U.S. 355 1962 Rusk v. Cort 369 U.S. 367 1962 In re Zipkin...
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  • SS Sardinia (1888) (category Ships of the Ellerman Lines)
    Italy, who renamed the vessel Paolo V. In 1902, she was acquired by Ellerman Lines of Liverpool, and she was renamed Sardinia. On 25 November 1908, the...
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    HMS Baralong (category Ships of the Ellerman Lines)
    over-extended, so JR Ellerman stepped in to support the company. In January 1914 Bucknall became a subsidiary of his Ellerman Lines shipping group, and...
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  • and operated by Ellerman Lines. She was sunk by a submarine in 1918. SS City of Adelaide, launched in 1920 and operated by Ellerman Lines. She was sunk...
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    numbered 21C151 by the Southern Railway and 34051 by British Railways. Ellerman Lines was built by British Railways to an earlier Southern Railway design...
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    described in Ellerman's 1917 paper, Ellerman bombs are intense brightenings in the wings of the Hα, Hβ, and Hγ hydrogen spectral lines with no brightening...
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  • SS Castilian (1890) (category Ships of the Ellerman Lines)
    (1890- SS Castilian Operator Bullard, King & Co., London(1890-1909) Ellerman Lines Ltd., London (1909-1917) Builder William Gray & Company, West Hartlepool...
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    Later she was transferred to the UK Shipping Controller, who contracted Ellerman Lines to manage her. In the first week of January 1920 in New York Harbor...
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  • exhibition garden in Kowloon, Hong Kong SS City of Salisbury (1943), an Ellerman Lines ship Solsbury Hill Solsberry, Indiana Salsburgh, North Lanarkshire,...
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    to the Allies under Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles. In 1921 Ellerman Lines acquired her and renamed her City of Bagdad. In 1940, the German merchant...
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  • SS City of Cairo (category Ships of the Ellerman Lines)
    built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd, Hull in 1915 for Ellerman Lines Ltd of London. It was 449.9 ft (137.1 m) long, had two decks, two masts...
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  • SS Castilian (1919) (category Ships of the Ellerman Lines)
    Laurance Line, a subsidiary of Ellerman Lines. She was the second of three Ellerman ships to bear the name. Ellerman's first Castilian had been Bullard...
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  • SS Florian was an Ellerman Lines cargo steamship that was launched in 1939 and completed in 1940. A U-boat sank her with all hands in 1941 in the Battle...
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  • It was the worst disaster for Ellerman Lines in the First World War. SS City of Paris (1920), operated by Ellerman Lines; used as a troopship in the Second...
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  • SS City of Paris (1920) (category Ships of the Ellerman Lines)
    steam passenger ship launched in 1920 and completed in 1922 for the Ellerman Lines. She was requisitioned for service by the British government during...
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  • SS City of Oxford (category Ships of the Ellerman Lines)
    gross register tons she entered service with the Ellerman and Papayanni subsidiary of Ellerman Lines, and served during the Second World War. On her final...
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