Allan Line

The Allan Shipping Line was founded in 1819, by Captain Alexander Allan of Saltcoats, Ayrshire, trading and transporting between Scotland and Montreal, a route which quickly became synonymous with the Allan Line. By the 1830s the company had offices in Glasgow, Liverpool and Montreal. All five of Captain Allan's sons were actively involved with the business, but it was his second son, Sir Hugh Allan, who spearheaded the second generation. In 1854, Hugh launched the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company as part of the Allan Line, and two years later ousted Samuel Cunard to take control of the Royal Mail contract between Britain and North America. By the 1880s, the Allan Line was the world's largest privately owned shipping concern.

In 1891, the company took over the State Line (founded 1872) and was often referred to as the Allan & State Line. In 1897, Andrew Allan amalgamated the various branches of the Allan shipping empire under one company, Allan Line Steamship Company Ltd., of Glasgow. The company by then had added offices in Boston and London. In 1917, under Sir Montagu Allan, who represented the third generation of the Allan family, the company was purchased by Canadian Pacific Steamships, and by the following year the Allan name had disappeared from commercial shipping.

Notable collisions In 1891, the Allan Line steamship Carthaginian collided with the York River Line steamship Charlotte in the shipping channel at Baltimore, Maryland. Among those aboard Carthaginian was the Danish-American composer Asger Hamerik. Both ships were damaged, but neither sank.

In 1905, the Allan Line ship was involved in a collision with the Hamburg America Line ship Albano off of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Exchequer Court of Canada found Albano to be fully at fault, according to Reports of Cases Relating to Maritime Law. The case was later appealed to Canada's supreme court.

List of steamships The Allan Line fleet evolved over the course of decades, changing as new ships were added, lost at sea, sold, or scrapped:

RMS AlsatianShips List: Allan Line, Steamships SS America Norway Heritage: Allan Fleet List SS Assyrian SS Austrian SS Australasian (1857) SS Australasian (1901) SS Bavarian (1899) SS Belgian (1855) SS Bohemian (1859) SS Brazilian SS Buenos AyreanGjenvick-Gjønvick Artchives: "Allan Line Steamship Fleet List, 27 Vessels (1908)"

SS Californian SS Canadian (1854) (1859) SS Canadian (1872) SS Carthaginian SS Caspian SS Castilian SS Circassian SS City of Vienna SS City of Bombay SS Corean SS Corinthian SS Corsican SS Damascus SS Diamant SS European SS Gallia SS Germany SS Grampian SS Grecian SS Hanoverian SS Hesperian

RMS Hesperian SS Hibernian (1861) SS Hibernian (1888) SS Hibernian (1902) (1859) SS Hungarian (1902) SS Huronian SS Indian SS Ionian SS John Bell SS Jura SS Lake Erie SS Laurentian SS Livonian SS Lucerne SS Manitoban SS Melita SS Mersey SS Mongolian SS Monte Videan SS Moravian SS Nestorian (1866) SS North American SS North Briton SS Norway SS Norwegian (1861) SS Norwegian (1865) SS Nova Scotian SS Numidian SS Ontarian SS Orcardian SS Ottawa SS Palestine

SS Prussian SS Peruvian SS Phoenician SS Polynesian SS Pomeranian SS Roacian SS Roumanian SS Saint Andrew SS Saint David SS Saint George SS Saint Patrick SS Samaritan "The Steamer Sardinian; She Passes Queenstown in Tow -- The Story of the Voyage by a Passenger," The New York Times. February 22, 1882. SS Scandinavian (1869) (1898)

SS Siberian (1946) SS Sicilian SS Southwark SS State of California SS State of Georgia SS State of Indiana SS State of Nebraska SS State of Nevada SS State of Pennsylvania SS Sweden SS Tainui SS Tower Hill SS Tunisian SS Turanian

SS Waldensian

References

Bibliography Appleton, Thomas E. (1974). Ravenscrag: The Allan Royal Mail Line. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. (cloth) "C.P.R. Gets Allan Line; Report Declared to be Correct in Spite of Official Denials," The New York Times. August 17, 1910.

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