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| Swire Shipping & Swire Bulk | |
| Type | Liner & dry bulk shipping |
| Industry | shipping |
| Founded | 1872 |
| Founder | John Samuel Swire |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | Asia-Pacific |
Key people |
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| Parent | Swire Group |
| Website | www |
Swire Shipping Pte. Ltd. is registered in Singapore — with parent entity The China Navigation Company Limited (CNCo), trading as Swire Shipping & Swire Bulk — is a merchant shipping company based in Singapore. It is part of the Swire Group and wholly owned by John Swire & Sons Limited. It was called The China Navigation Company until October 2021, when it was renamed Swire Shipping.[1]
The Swire flag is also the house flag of CNCo.
The China Navigation Company was founded by John Samuel Swire to offer paddle steamer services on the Yangtze River.[2]
History
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Fleet
MULTI-PURPOSE VESSELS
MIHOS
- Melanesian Chief (Ex-Coral Chief)[4]
- Melanesian Pride (Ex-Highland Chief)[4]
- Kokopo Chief[4]
- Forum Samoa4 (Ex-Papuan Chief)[4]
CHALLENGERS
- Changsha[4] - likely named for MS Changsha (1947), a passenger ship built for CNC by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering in Greenock; sold in 1969 to Pacific International Lines and renamed MS Kota Panjang until being sold in 1981 for scrapping in Karachi.[5]
- Chekiang[4]
- Chenan[4]
- Chengtu[4]
- Kwangsi[4]
- Kwangtung[4]
- Kweichow[4]
- Kweilin[4]
B170s
S-CLASS
CHIEF-CLASS - New Chief-Class Vessels, delivery 2015
BULK CARRIERS
Notable former vessels
A. & J. Inglis of Glasgow built the sidewheel river steamship PS Hankow for the China Navigation Co in 1874
John Swire's subsidiary Taikoo Dockyard in Hong Kong built SS Whang Pu for China Navigation Co in 1920
Anshun lying on her side in Milne Bay, New Guinea 1942.
Taikoo Dockyard built the riverboat MV Wulin for the China Navigation Co in 1935
- SS Anhui (3,494 GRT built 1925 was one of only three large vessels, the others being Coast Farmer and Dona Nati, to actually deliver supplies early in the Pacific war to the Philippines from Australia arriving in Cebu City on 20 March 1942. Anhui later operated under U.S. Army control as part of the Southwest Pacific Area permanent local fleet as X-6 from 4 March 1942—September or December 1945.)[6][7][8]
- MV Anshun
- MS Changsha
- SS Hanyang (2,876 GRT built 1940 was involved in early Pacific war efforts to supply the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies from Australia and later operated under U.S. Army control as part of the Southwest Pacific Area permanent local fleet as X-8 from 24 March 1942—August 1945.)[9][10]
- MV Eredine (sold)
- MV Erradale
- SS Shengking
- SS Shuntien (sunk by enemy action)
- MV Soochow (also known as Maersk Asia Decimo)
- MS Taiyuan
- SS Wang Phu
- SS Wu Chang
- MV Wulin
- SS Yochow (2,810 GRT built 1938 was involved in early Pacific war efforts to supply the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies from Australia and later operated under U.S. Army control as part of the Southwest Pacific Area permanent local fleet as X-7 from 11 April 1942—December 1945.)[11][12]
Note
References
- ↑ "Our Journey". Swire Bulk. Retrieved December 13, 2023.
- ↑ The archives of John Swire & Sons Ltd (including the papers of the China Navigation Company Ltd) are held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/
- ↑ Marriner, S; Hyde, F (1967). 'The Senior' John Samuel Swire 1825–1898. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 "The China Navigation Company Fleet". China Navigation Co. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2013.
- ↑ "The China Navigation Co - MS Changsha & Taiyuan".
- ↑ Lloyds (1942–1943). "Lloyd's Register 1942—43, Anhui" (PDF). Lloyd's Register (through PlimsollShipData). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 27, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
- ↑ Morton, Lewis (1993). The War in the Pacific: The Fall Of The Philippines. United States Army In World War II. Washington, D.C.: Center Of Military History, United States Army. p. 395. LCCN 53063678. Archived from the original on October 24, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
- ↑ Masterson 1949, pp. 27, 320, 324, 326, 383, 338, Appendix 30 p. 1.
- ↑ Lloyds (1942–1943). "Lloyd's Register 1942—43, Hanyang" (PDF). Lloyd's Register (through PlimsollShipData). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 26, 2014. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
- ↑ Masterson 1949, pp. 27, 320, 324, 326, 332, 338, Appendix 30 p. 3.
- ↑ Lloyds (1942–1943). "Lloyd's Register 1942—43, Yochow" (PDF). Lloyd's Register (through PlimsollShipData). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 26, 2014. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
- ↑ Masterson 1949, pp. 27, 320, 324, 326, 332, 338, 381, Appendix 30 p. 6.
Bibliography
Masterson, Dr. James R. (1949). U. S. Army Transportation In The Southwest Pacific Area 1941-1947. Washington, D. C.: Transportation Unit, Historical Division, Special Staff, U. S. Army.
External links
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