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The Danube was a steam and sailing ship built for Bibby Line in 1856 and sold to Leyland Line in 1873. Bibby Line is a UK company concerned with shipping and marine operations. Its parent company, Bibby Line Group Limited, can be traced back to John Bibby who founded the company in 1807. The company along with the group is based in Liverpool. [1]
She was the second of five Bibby Line ships to be named after the English county of Shropshire. The first was a steamship that was built in 1891 and sold in 1909. [2] The third was a motor ship that was built in 1959 and sold in 1972. [3] The fourth was built in 1968 as Verdala, acquired in 1974 and renamed Shropshire, and sold in 1977.
Seabridge Shipping was a consortium of British shipowners, founded in the late 1960s to harness economies of scale to secure major bulk cargo contracts. [1] Four members of the consortium - Bibby Line, Furness Withy, Hunting & Son and Thornhope Shipping (controlled by Hilmar Reksten, Norway) [2] - ordered the six Bridge-class OBOs for charter to Seabridge.
SS Derbyshire (also known as HMT Derbyshire) was a passenger steamship built by Harland and Wolff in 1897 for the Bibby Line. It weighed 6,635 tons and cost £130,000 (£18,631,416 in 2024). [1] [2] [3] It operated as a one-class vessel, offering comfortable facilities for its passengers over the longer routes.
This was the second Leyland Line ship that was called Iberian. The first was completed in 1867 for Bibby Line, transferred to Leyland Line in 1873, and lost in 1885. [1]
HMS Cheshire was a passenger ship that was built in Scotland in 1927 and scrapped in Wales in 1957. She belonged to Bibby Line, which ran passenger and cargo services between Rangoon in Burma (now Yangon in Myanmar) and various ports in Great Britain, via the Suez Canal and Gibraltar. [1]
MV Derbyshire was launched in late 1975 and entered service in June 1976, as the last ship of the Bridge-class combination carrier, originally named Liverpool Bridge.She and English Bridge (later Worcestershire and Kowloon Bridge) were built by the Seabridge Shipping Ltd. consortium for Bibby Line.
Once Typaldos Line took ownership, it was refitted as a passenger/car ferry. The ship had an overall length of 498 feet (152 m), a beam of 60 ft (18 m), gross register tonnage of 8,922 tons, propelled by a single propeller, reaching a speed of 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph). The ship's winter capacity was 35 trucks with an average weight of 10 tons.