Blue Funnel Line
Alfred Holt & Co.
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Alfred Holt & Co.
Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
17,975
Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Alfred Holt and Company, trading as Blue Funnel Line, was a UK shipping company that was founded in 1866 and operated merchant ships for 122 years. It was one of the UK's larger shipowning and operating companies, and as such had a significant role in the country's overseas trade and in the First and Second World Wars.
Origin
Blue Funnel Line was founded in 1866 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.
Founder
Alfred Holt
1829–1911
British businessman (1829-1911)
Photo: Robert Edward Morrison (1851-1924) · Public domain · file
Corporate profile
Fleet on record
Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Blue Funnel Line. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By flag state
By shipbuilder
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2020 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5273298 | Unclassified | United Kingdom | 1949 | 10,093 | — | 157.2 m | Cammell Laird | |
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In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 2 vessels attributed to it here, Blue Funnel Line is the 341st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which Blue Funnel Line ranks 26th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.
Founded in 1866, Blue Funnel Line is 160 years old. This directory holds 43 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
Same country
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q468385, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Blue Funnel Line on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
| 0 |
| — |
| 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 2 |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 2 |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 2 |
| 5264687 |
| General cargo |
| — |
| 1926 |
| 7,882 |
| — |
| 459.6 m |
| Workman, Clark and Company |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
