Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers
The Allan Line was a Canadian- British shipping company with headquarters in Montreal and offices in Liverpool and Glasgow. The company was one of the most important lines in the transatlantic liner service between Europe and North America.
History
1854 founded the brothers Andrew and Hugh Allan, along with other Canadian partners, the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company Ltd. , For soon the general name Allan Line naturalized. The new company set up a scheduled service between Canada and the UK. Both brothers were up early, as their three other siblings who come into contact with seafaring, for her father Alexander " Sandy" Allan initiated since 1819 a sailing ship cruise line. The ships of the Allan Line were identifiable by a red chimney with white band below the black cap and the names of the ships usually ended with " .... ian" (eg Canadian).
The Allan taught at the beginning of a direct connection from Liverpool via Moville to Montreal / Quebec City or Halifax / Portland. Starting in 1856 Glasgow, next to Liverpool, Startharbour this route and New York / Boston was started as a further Endhäfen. Due to further expansion of the route network later the ports of Baltimore, Philadelphia and Norfolk by the Allan Line ships were approached. 1876 taught the company a liner service to South America one, from Glasgow to Montevideo and Buenos Aires. In 1902 this service was abandoned again. In 1888, ships of the Allan Line also drove from London to Le Havre to Montreal and Quebec City.
The shipping company used from the beginning of a screw steamer, which were equipped for passenger and freight transport. Speed played for the shipping company no dominant role, economy went before. In size the ships of the line grew slowly but steadily, and in 1899 went with the Bavarian, the first 10,000 -ton truck into service.
1891, the bankrupt State Line was bought, most of the ships of the line but were repelled quickly. 1905 took the sister ships Victorian and Virginian scheduled services, it was the first turbine steamer on the transatlantic route. In 1915 into a joint venture with the Canadian Pacific Line ( CP) under the label of a CP Ocean Service. 1917 Canadian Pacific bought on the Allan Line, the shipping company which ceased to exist and a great name for ever disappeared from the shipping world.