Catalogue description Prince Line Ltd, Shipping Line

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Details of DT.PR
Reference: DT.PR
Title: Prince Line Ltd, Shipping Line
Description:

Company Records

 

Note: some of the records are in Spanish.
Date: 1892-1901
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Prince Line Ltd.

River Plate Agency, Buenos Aires
Physical description: 17 SERIES
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession 1220 (part) 1629, 2493, 2953
Subjects:
  • Sea transport
Administrative / biographical background:

Founded by James Knott (1855 - 1934) , later Sir James Knott, in the 1870s, the company's first steamship was the Saxon Prince in 1881. The River Plate Agency based in Buenos Aires with depots also in Rosario and Montevideo was established in the 1890s.

 

Two of Knotts three sons were killed in the First World War and the company was subsequently sold to Furness Withy, Knott retiring abroad.
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