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.
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.
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. [1]
It was established with capital of £100,000 (equivalent to $10,460,000in 2021) [2] 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.... [3] The directors were:
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 and all 19 of its steamers transferred to the new owner. [4]
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
The Aire and Calder Navigation is the canalised section of the Rivers Aire and Calder in West Yorkshire, England. The first improvements to the rivers above Knottingley were completed in 1704 when the Aire was made navigable to Leeds and the Calder to Wakefield, by the construction of 16 locks. Lock sizes were increased several times, as was the depth of water, to enable larger boats to use the system. The Aire below Haddlesey was bypassed by the opening of the Selby Canal in 1778. A canal from Knottingley to the new docks and new town at Goole provided a much shorter route to the River Ouse from 1826. The New Junction Canal was constructed in 1905, to link the system to the River Don Navigation, by then part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation.
Associated Humber Lines (AHL) was created in 1935 to manage the services of various railway controlled shipping lines including port activities in the Humber area of the United Kingdom. The ownership of the respective vessels did not transfer to A.H.L and similarly the ports concerned, Hull, Goole and Grimsby, also remained under the control of the railway companies and their successors.
SS Berlin was a freight vessel built for the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company in 1891.
SS Douglas was a freight vessel built for the Clyde Shipbuilding and Engineering in Port Glasgow for Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1907.
SS Humber was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1903.
SS Colne was a freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1903.
SS Nidd was a freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1900.
SS Equity was a freight vessel built for the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited in 1888.
SS Hebble was a freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company Limited in 1891.
SS Aire was a cargo steamship built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1886.
SS Calder was a freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1887.
SS Ouse was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1884.
SS Derwent was a passenger and cargo ship built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1888.
SS Wharfe was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1890.
SS Ralph Creyke was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1878.
SS Ralph Creyke was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1879.
SS West Riding was a freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1894.
SS Cuxhaven was a cargo ship built for the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company in 1882.
SS Altona was a freight vessel built for the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company in 1877. The ship was scrapped in 1927.
SS Dresden was a freight vessel built for the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company in 1877.