Agwilines Inc was a passenger and cargo shipping company of
New York City
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. Agwilines is short for Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Inc.
AGWI Lines group operated four main lines in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s:
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Ward Line
The New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, commonly called the Ward Line, was a shipping company that operated from 1841 until liquidated in 1954. The line operated out of New York City's Piers 15, 16, and 17—land which later became the site ...
*
Clyde line
Clyde Steamship Company was a steamship transportation company connecting New York City to Florida as well as routes to Boston and Providence, Cuba, New Orleans, and various Keys. William P. Clyde organized the company in 1874 and acquired vario ...
* Mallory Line
* Porto Rico Line
* Later the Clyde-Mallory Lines
Agwilines Inc had offices in: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and Washington and was founded in 1908. In 1949, Graham-Newman Corporation (1926–1956), an investment corporation, purchased 70,000 shares of Agwilines Inc to become the controlling interest. Graham-Newman Corporation was founded by
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham (; né Grossbaum; May 9, 1894 – September 21, 1976) was a British-born American economist, professor and investor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of the founding texts in neoclassical inves ...
and Jerome Newm in 1926.
Mallory Line
Mallory Line, also called New York & Texas Steamship Company of New York City was founded in 1866 and closed in 1932. Mallory Line was an early family-owned passenger line, started by Charles Henry Mallory ''C. H. Mallory'' (1818–1890), in the coastwise trade. Mallory established C.H. Mallory & Company with his partner Elihu Spicer (1825–1993). Mallory Line served New York, Galveston, Texas, New Orleans, Havana, and Mobile. In 1907 Mallory Line was sold to
Charles W. Morse
Charles Wyman Morse (October 21, 1856 – January 12, 1933) was an American businessman and speculator who committed frauds and engaged in corrupt business practices. At one time he controlled 13 banks. Known as the "Ice King" early in his career ...
who with the
Ward Line
The New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, commonly called the Ward Line, was a shipping company that operated from 1841 until liquidated in 1954. The line operated out of New York City's Piers 15, 16, and 17—land which later became the site ...
started the Consolidated Steamship Lines.
[Steamships of Jacksonville](_blank)
/ref> In 1908 Consolidated Steamship went bankrupt and was sold to the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies (AGWI) SS Company. AGWI continues the Mallory Line until 1932. The Metropolitan Steamship Company The Metropolitan Steamship Company was for 75 years one of the chief transportation links between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts. It was closely associated with the Whitney family until its acquisition by Charles W. Morse in 1906. Even af ...
and Eastern Steamship Company
Eastern Steamship Lines was a shipping company in the United States that operated from 1901 to 1955. It was created through successive mergers by Wall Street financier and speculator Charles W. Morse.Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr, ''The Panic ...
that were part of Consolidated Steamship Company were not sold to Agwilines Inc. In 1934 Mallory Line merged with Clyde Line to be the Clyde-Mallory Line. In 1949 the Clyde-Mallory Line was sold to the Bull Line, the line was ended by Bull Line. C. H. Mallory served one term in the Connecticut Senate in 1862. C. H. Mallory father was Patriarch Charles Mallory (1796–1882), he had a fishing fleet in Mystic, Connecticut. The Mallory family had a shipyard in Mystic, that built ships for the Union Navy during the Civil War. Henry H. Raymond was president and general manager of the Clyde Steamship and Mallory Steamship Companies from 1908 to 1923. Clyde-Mallory Lines main ports were: Jacksonville, New York, Miami, Boston, Wilmington, Charleston, Key West, Galveston, Tampa, New Orleans and Mobile.
Clyde Line
Clyde line ran from 1844 to 1907 under the Clyde Steamship Company. Thomas Clyde started the company in New York in 1872. The line ran between the US northeast and southeast. Later added were routes to the Dominican Republic and other West Indies. In 1908 the Clyde line ran under the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies (AGWI) SS Company. In 1932 Mallory Line merged with Clyde Line. Thomas Clyde (1812–1885) was the founder and owner of the Clyde Line, Clyde Steamship Company. Main ports were New York City, Florida, Florida Keys, Boston, Providence, Cuba, and New Orleans. In 1861 Clyde's son, William P. Clyde
William Pancoast Clyde (October 11, 1839 – November 18, 1923) was an American businessman who was the owner and president of the Clyde Steamship Company, a steamship and canal boat mercantile and passenger transportation business founded by h ...
took ownership till the 1906 sale. Clyde line ended in 1932, in the merger with Clyde-Mallory Line that ran from 1932 to 1949. Clyde Santo Domingo Line was a subsidiary of Clyde Line with service from New York City to West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater A ...
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Porto Rico Line
Porto Rico Line of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company was founded in 1895 in a partnership with Archibald H. Bull and Juan Ceballos. Bull later founded the A. H. Bull and Company. The Porto Rico Line ran from New York to Red Hook's Atlantic Basin's Pier 35 to Puerto Rico. The Porto Rico Line was a cargo and tourists line, also Puerto Ricans migrated to New York's Red Hook, Brooklyn
Red Hook is a neighborhood in northwestern Brooklyn, New York City, New York, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. It is located on a peninsula projecting into the Upper New York Bay and is bounded by the Gowanus Expressway and the Car ...
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Ward Line
Ward Line was started by the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company founded in 1877. Ward Line's first route was service to and from New York, Nassau and Havana. Ward purchased the Alexandre Line in 1888 adding service to the east coast of Mexico. In 1907 Charles W. Morse purchased the Ward Line. In 1908 Morse company went bankrupt and the Ward Line combined with several other Morse companies to form the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Line, Agwiline, each division ran under independent management. In 1908 was owned by Agwilines Inc, in 1954 became Ward-García Line.
Consolidated Steamship Company
Consolidated Steamship was founded by Charles W. Morse. On January 1, 1907 Charles W. Morse joined the Mallory Line, Porto Rico Line, the Ward Line, the Metropolitan Steamship Company and Eastern Steamship Company to form the Consolidated Steamship Lines. The financial crisis panic of 1907
The Panic of 1907, also known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic or Knickerbocker Crisis, was a financial crisis that took place in the United States over a three-week period starting in mid-October, when the New York Stock Exchange fell almost 50% from ...
put Consolidated Steamship Company into bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor ...
in 1908. Out of the bankruptcy the Consolidated Steamship Company was sold to the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies SS Company (AGWI Inc.). The Metropolitan Steamship Company and Eastern Steamship Company that were part of Consolidated Steamship Company were not sold to Agwilines Inc.
World War II
During World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
Agwilines Inc. was active with charter shipping with the Maritime Commission
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and War Shipping Administration
The War Shipping Administration (WSA) was a World War II emergency war agency of the US government, tasked to purchase and operate the civilian shipping tonnage the United States needed for fighting the war. Both shipbuilding under the Maritime Co ...
. During wartime, the Agwilines Inc operated Victory ships and Liberty ships. The ship was run by its crew and the US Navy
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supplied United States Navy Armed Guards to man the deck guns and radio. The most common armament mounted on these merchant ships were the MK II 20mm Oerlikon autocannon and the 3"/50, 4"/50, and 5"/38 deck guns.[Armed Guard - Sea Lane Vigilantes, Project Liberty Ship, 2014](_blank)
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Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Inc ships
Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Inc ships:
*''Satilla'' (1912), sunk in 1917 by a U-boat as SS ''Hans Kinck''.
*''Agwimoon'' (1920), sank as ''Altair'' in 1943 :
*''Agwihavre'' (1921), sank as ''Gulfpenn'' in 1942
*''Manata'' (1916), sank as ''Trym'' in 1837
*''Ozama'' (1919), sank in 1928
*''Panuco'' (1917), sank in fire at dock in 1941
*''Choctaw'' (1917), sank as ''Syoka Maru'' in 1945
*''Agwipond'' period (1921), sank in 1930 as SS ''Cities Service Boston''
*''Agwibay'' (1921), sank as SS ''William F. Humphrey'' in 1942
*''Agwisea'' (1920), sank in 1933
Clyde Line ships
Clyde Line ships:
*''Apache''
* ''Mohawk'' (1908)
* ''Lenape'' (1912)
* ''Huron'' (1896)
*''Comanche''
*''Arapahoe''
*''Cherokee'' (1925), sunk by U-boat June 16, 1942
* ''Chippewa'' (1905), (freight only)
*''Philadelphia'' (1916)
Clyde Santo Domingo Line ships
Passenger and cargo from New York City to Monte Cristi, Puerto Plata, Samana, Sanchez, La Romana, Macoris, Santo Domingo City Azua and Barahona.
Clyde Santo Domingo Line ships:
* ''Algonquin'' (1926)
*''Iroquois''
Mallory Line ships
Mallory Line ships:
*''Comal''
* ''San Jacinto'' (1903)
*''Concho'' (1903)
*''Sabine''
*''Lampasas''
*''Alamo''
* ''Medina'' (1914)
*''Nueces'' (1887)
* ''West Cawthon'' (1919), manager
*''City of Houston'' (1871)
*Barges: ''Chas. E. Goin'', ''C. F. Deering'', ''P. C. Golder'', ''Samuel Walker'', ''O. M. Hitchcock'' (1881)
*''Annie M. Smull'' (1868), sank in 1906
Porto Rico Line ships
*Porto Rico Line ships:
*''Coamo'' (1925), sunk by U-boat in 1942
* ''Brazos'' (1889), sunk by U-boat 1941
* ''Carolina'', sunk by U-boat 1918
*''San Juan'' (1900)
*''San Lorenzo''
*''Porto Rico''
*''Ponce''
* ''Borinquen'' (1930), sank in 1970
*''San Jacinto''
*''Mariana'' (1915), sunk by U-boat in 1942
Ward Line ship
Passenger steamships of the Ward Line:
* (1869) sank in 1870
* (1877)
* (1877)
* (1877)
* (1879)
* (1879)
* (1879)
* (1880)
* (1883)
* (1884)
* (1889)
* (1889)
* (1889)
* (1890)
* (1890)
* (1897) – Chartered from the Red D Line.
* '' SS Havana'' (1898)
* (1898)
* (1900)
* (1901)
* (1901)
* (1903)
* (1906)
* (1906)
* (1906)
* (1907)
* (1917)
* (1918)
* (1930)
* (1930)
* (1933)
* (1933)
* (1941)
Clyde-Mallory Line ships
Clyde-Mallory Line ships:
Ship and year built
*''Agwistar'' 1919
*''Alamo'' (1) 1883
*''Alamo'' (2) 1919
*''Ansonia'' 1919
*''Brazos'' (1) 1899
*''Brazos'' (2) 1907
*''Carondelet'' 1873
*''Carib'' 1882, sank in 1915
*''City of Dallas'' 1872
*''City of Galveston'' 1870, sank in 1876
*''City of San Antonio'' 1872
*''City of Waco
''City of Waco'' was an American steamship which sank with much loss of life on November 9, 1875, in the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston, Texas.
Ship history
The ship was built in 1873 by John Roach & Sons at their Delaware River Iron Ship Buildin ...
'' 1873
*''Colorado'' (1) 1879
*''Colorado'' (2) 1920
*''Comal'' 1885
*''Concho'' 1891
*''Denver'' 1901
*''Edward S. Atwood'' 1911 (tug)
*''Glendaruel'' 1917
*''Guadalupe'' 1881
* ''Henry R. Mallory'' 1916
*''Lake Ellithorpe'' 1919, sank as ''Empire Kestrel''
*''Lampasas'' 1883
*''Kiowa'' 1903, sank in 1903
*''Leona'' 1889
*''Malabar'' 1914
*''Malacca'' 1919
*''Malamton'' 1918
*''Malang'' 1920
*''Malantic'' 1918 (M.J. Scanlon) sank in 1943 by Uboat
*''Malay''
*''Malchace'' 1920
*''Mallard'' 1917
*''Mallemak'' 1919
*''Malsah'' 1920
*''Malton'' 1923
*''Maltran'' 1920
*''Medina'' 1914
*''Minotaur'' 1918, sunk in 1943 by U-boat
* SS ''Mohawk'' (1925)
*''Mohican'' (1904), sank 1925
*''Neches'' (1) 1914
*''Neches'' (2) 1919, sank 1930
*''Norfolk'' (1916)
*''Nueces'' 1887
*''Ormidale'' 1917
*''Oneida'' (1919), sank in 1943 in storm
*''Osceola'' 1920
*''Onondaga'' 1905, sank in 1918
*''Pecos'' 1899
*''Rio Grande'' 1876
*''Sabine''
*''San Jacinto'' 1903
*''San Marcos'' 1881
*''San Saba'' 1879, sank as ''Magnolia'' in 1918
* ''Shawnee'' 1927
*''State of Texas'' 1873
*''Swiftarrow'' 1921
*''Swifteagle'' 1921, sank in 1934
*''Swiftlight'' 1921
*''Swiftscout'' 1921, sunk in 1945 by U-boat
*''Swiftstar'' 1921, sank in 1923
*''Swiftsure'' 1921
*''Swiftwind'' 1921
*''Western Texas'' 1877
*''Victor 1864, sank in 1872
World War II ships
World War II chartered ships operated by Agwilines Inc.:
*''Anne Bradstreeet''
*''Beatrice Victory''
*''Berwyn Victory''
* ''Coastal Archer''
* ''Bucknell Victory''
* ''Durham Victory''
* ''Dorchester''
*''Ethiopia Victory''
*''Elwin F. Knowles''
*''Fisk Victory''
* ''Frontenac Victory''
* ''George Wythe''
*''James Guthrie''
* ''James Iredell'', sank after attack in 1943
*''James Rolph''
*''Jeremiah Van Rensselaer'', sunk in 1943 by U-boat
*''John Harvey''
*''Jonas Lie''
*''Joseph K. Toole''
* ''Joseph Stanton''
* ''Joseph R. Lamar''
* ''H. H. Raymond''
* ''C. Francis Jenkins''
* ''St. Lawrence Victory''
*''Louis Pasteur''
* ''Lake Elsmere''
* ''Marine Fiddler''
*''Morris Hillquit''
* ''Luther Martin''
*''Montclair Victory''
* ''Oliver Ellsworth''
* ''Richard Montgomery''
* ''Robert Treat Paine''
* ''Elihu Root''
* ''Raymond V. Ingersoll''
* ''Robert Trimble''
* ''Robert Y. Hayne''
*''Samuel W. Williston''
*''Theodore Parker''
* ''Trakai''
* ''Thomas Sim Lee''
*''Thomas Hill''
File:103 MALLORY STEAM SHIP LINES. NEW-YORK AND TEXAS STEAM SHIP CO. PIERS 20 AND 21 EAST RIVER.jpg, 1893 Mallory Line
Roosevelt's Rough Riders leaving Tampa aboard the transport "Concho" headed for Santiago de Cuba (3464894443).jpg, Roosevelt's Rough Riders leaving Tampa aboard the transport SS ''Concho'' headed for Santiago de Cuba
Onondaga-on-beach.jpg, SS ''Onondaga'' on Orleans Beach after running aground on January 13, 1907
The SS Morro Castle of the Ward Line at sea, 1901.jpg, SS ''Morro Castle'' of the Ward Line at sea in 1901
References
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