The Goole Steam Shipping Company was a company based in
Goole, England from 1864 to 1905 which operated steamship services from
Goole to northern European ports.
Career
The Goole Steam Shipping Company was established in 1864 to take over the failed business of ''Watson, Cunliffe and Company'', who had been operating a regular steam boat service from Goole to West Continental Ports.
It was established with capital of £100,000 () with the object of ''continuing the several Trades already existing between the Port of Goole and Antwerp, Rotterdam, Ghent and Dunkirk, and to extend them not only to those Ports, but to other places....''
The directors were:
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Walter Spencer Stanhope Esq, JP, Cannon Hall, Barnsley (Trustee of the
Aire and Calder Navigation Company)
*George Anderton Esq JP, Cleckheaton (Managing Director of the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping. It was incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways. It was the third-largest railway system based in northern ...
)
*John Wells Esq JP, Eastoft Hall, near Goole
*Richard Moxon Esq JP, Pontefract (Director of the Leeds and County Bank Limited)
*John Banks, jun., Esq., Howden Hall, near Goole, (Timber Merchant)
*George Herring Esq., Maitland House, Kensington
*Captain John Moody, Goole and London, Shipowner (also Managing Director)
The company had the distinctive funnel-colouring of dark buff with red bank and black top.
In 1895 the company took over two other shipping concerns, the Humber Steam Shipping Company which owned 3 vessels, and the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company which owned 11 vessels.
In 1905 the company was acquired by the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping. It was incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways. It was the third-largest railway system based in northern ...
and all 19 of its steamers transferred to the new owner.
Ships operated by the Goole Steam Shipping Company
Ships ordered new by the Goole Steam Shipping Company
Ships acquired from the Humber Steam Shipping Company in 1895
Ships acquired from the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company in 1895
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1864 establishments in England
British companies established in 1864
1905 disestablishments in England
Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom
Defunct companies based in Yorkshire
Goole
British companies disestablished in 1905