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Passenger and cargo ship (also schooner rigged) built for the Union Steam Ship Company and operated in New Zealand coastal waters until May 1949. Hulk sunk as a target in 1952. 1905 SS Maheno: 5282 746 Passenger ship owned by Union Company of New Zealand. Washed ashore on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia while under tow to be scrapped in ...
By 1823 the company name had changed to William Denny & Son. The first ship it built under this name was the paddle steamer Superb. From 1845 the company became Denny Brothers (this being William jnr, Alexander and Peter), and in 1849 the firm was reconstituted as William Denny & Brothers, this being William, James and Peter Denny.
The ship was built by William Denny and Brothers in Dumbarton and launched on 1 May 1934 [2] by Mrs E.J. Missenden, wife of the manager for the Southern Railway Company Docks at Southampton. [3] Costing £39,850, she was one of two ships placed by the railway company, the other being Ryde. [4] She was deployed on the Portsmouth to Ryde ferry ...
SS Parthia (1870–1956) was an iron-hulled transatlantic ocean liner built for the Cunard Line by William Denny and Brothers in Dumbarton, Scotland. Her sister ships were the Abyssinia and Algeria. Unlike her two sisters, Parthia was smaller, built in a different shipyard and had a slightly different funnel arrangement.
Lochfyne was built by William Denny and Brothers for David MacBrayne Ltd, [3] the last of four vessels built following the restructuring of the company in 1928. [4] Lochfyne was the first British coastal passenger ship with diesel-electric propulsion [1] [3] and the first in the fleet to have the option of bridge-controlled engines.
Princess Victoria was launched on 27 August 1946 and completed in 1947 by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). She was the first purpose-built ferry of her kind to operate in British coastal waters and the fourth ship to bear the name, her 1939 predecessor, on minesweeping duties, having been sunk during World War II in the Humber Estuary by ...
King George V was built by William Denny and Brothers for the Turbine Steamers Ltd [2] as a pioneering turbine powered vessel intended for longer routes. She passed to the ownership of David MacBrayne Ltd in October 1935, when plans to rename her were never enacted. [ 3 ]
Anglo Saxon was built by William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1856, and operated on the Liverpool-Canada route. On her final voyage she was commanded by Captain William Burgess. She sailed from Liverpool for Quebec on 16 April 1863, with a total of 445 aboard; 360 passengers and 85 crew.