Word: lamport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week closed another notorious shipwreck scandal, that of the S. S. Vestris, which went down in a storm with no persons off the Virginia Capes seven years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Decided a Federal Court in Manhattan: The disaster was an "act of God" for which Lamport & Holt Line Ltd., operators, and Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., owners, need pay no more than the $500,000 they have already given claimants...
...shipping were grouped into two new operating subsidiaries, one combining services to Africa's west coast, one to South America's east coast. Lord Essendon became head of the South American group. Famed Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. serving Capetown and Africa's east coast, Lamport & Holt, owner of the ill-fated Vestris, and White Star continued to operate as separate Royal Mail subsidiaries...
Author James Gould Cozzens undoubtedly had in mind the end of Lamport & Holt Line's Vestris which, commanded by a seaman whose brain had been replaced by a fearful vacillation which caused him to delay some six hours before sending out an SOS, dragged 110 people to death three years ago (TIME...
...revenge for that he traces his ancestry back to Vortigern, King of the Britons (who in turn reputedly traced his ancestry back to the Emperor Maximus), and at 40 had made himself master of Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., virtual owner of the Union Castle, White Star, Lamport & Holt and half a dozen other lines, the most powerful figure in the world's mercantile marine...
...Lamport & Holt. More pleased than shocked were Britishers last week when venerable (formed in 1845) Lamport & Holt Ltd. went into a receivership. The Royal Mail Steam Packet group of shipping companies, to which Lamport & Holt belongs, has given many a shock already and last week's receivership merely meant that the management has started a reorganization. Shipping men foresaw some such development when Lamport & Holt withdrew their South American passenger service recently (TIME...