FOR ALL THOSE WITH AN INTEREST IN BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION (BI) BI Associate and Affiliated Companies Information shown here lists the shipping companies owned, affiliated to or associated with BI. The editor would be pleased to hear from anyone who has information on the livery, funnel markings and house flags of these companies and their ships. Contact webeditor@biship.com Company Funnel & House Flag 1856 Calcutta & Burmah Steam Navigation Co Ltd Calcutta & Burmah SN was the forerunner of British In dia Steam Navigation Co. It was incorporated in England on September 29, 1856 and subsequently changed its name to British India SN on December 5, 1862. This badge, copied from a piece of company crockery, is the only known surviving representation of a C&BSN device. 1866 Netherlands Indies SN Company (Nederlandsch Indische Stoomvaart Maatschappij) 1873 British India Associated Steamers 1881 Queensland Steam Shipping Company Some doubt has arisen over the design of the QSS house flag.The company was is existence for only a short period and records are difficult to find. From information received (see the Logbook on this site for March 15, 2010) it appears that the plain rectangular flag with reversed BI saltire colours is the correct version, rather than the burgee shape (inset) which was previously displayed here. 1885 Eastern Steamship Company (Ducal Line) 1885 British India & Queensland Agency Company 1887 Australasian United SN Co 1895 Ceylon Steamship Company "On the coast of Ceylon is a small, but well regulated, service of local steamers, known as the Ceylon Steamship Company. The Prince Arthur of 103 tons and 45 HP, was succeeded by the Lady Gordon of 513 tons, joined in 1891 by the Lady Havelock of 607 tons. Fate and senility having disposed of these three, Messrs Walker have lately replaced them with two new vessels. Though small, they are excellently appointed and keep up a regular service around the island." (Source: "The Old Country Trade of the East Indies" by W.H.Coates, Cornmarket Press Ltd., London. 1969.) (Note: Part of the text of this book reveals that the original would have been published about 1910.) 1901 Eastern Coal Company 1912 Apcar & Company 1913 Archiblad Currie & Company 1915 Mazagon Dock Company 1916 Garden Reach Workshops 1917 Hain SS Co House flag later changed to: 1917 James Nourse 1919 F C Strick & Company 1919 Eastern & Australian SS Company 1928 Arracan Flotilla Company 1934 Asiatic Steam Navigation Company 1962 Trident Tankers Ltd 1965 Mauritius Steam Navigation Company With acknowledgements to David Mitchell, Bill Laxon, David Harvey, David James, Henk Jungerius, Henry Leighton and others for their help in assembling this information Other history pages: Timeline | Companies | Routes | BI News | Mercantile Empire | BI/P&O Merger document | Gairsoppa & Mantola | Dara wreck | Rohilla disaster | Calabria | Abhona trials | E Africa Shipwrecks | Today in History

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