 The Company at WarMalcolm Falkus
Chapter 10 in The Blue Funnel Legend, 1990, pp 235-249 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The Company entered the war in a sound financial position, with an ageing though still largely robust fleet, and an ageing though still largely robust management. As far as the Blue Funnel ships were concerned, fleet development had been virtually stagnant since the last pre-depression orders, Memnon and Ajax, were delivered in 1931. The only exceptions were the little Gorgon (1933) and Charon (1936), built for the Singapore-West-Australian trade. The major building programme had belonged to Glen. Of the eight Glenearn class vessels ordered under the programme initiated in 1936, only three had been delivered by the outbreak of the war, but others soon followed under the spur of national emergency, four more being launched before the end of 1939 and the last one, the Glenartney, was completed in 1940. These were fast, powerful ships, and not surprisingly, four were requisitioned by the Royal Navy within the first few months of war to be converted into Fleet supply ships under the White Ensign. The Breconshire became one of the best known of the heroic ships which sustained Malta during the seige of 1942. Keywords: Freight Rate; Merchant Ship; Senior Partner; Powerful Ship; Hospital Ship (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11476-4_10 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11476-4_10 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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