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rail transport

Reid Newfoundland Company

Headquarters: St. John's
Founded: 1901
Employees: —

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

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

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Summed over 0 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Reid Newfoundland Company is

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The Reid Newfoundland Company was incorporated in September 1901 and was the operator of the Newfoundland Railway across the island from 1901 to 1923. For a time it was the largest landowner in the Dominion of Newfoundland, today the modern Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The company was founded by Sir Robert Gillespie Reid of Scotland, a businessman who had interests in the development of the pulp and paper industry and mining industry. The company was also the owner and operator of the coastal boat service, known as the Alphabet Fleet, the telegraph line and the electrical service in St. John's.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: rail transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: Canada
Headquarters: St. John's
Formed in: —
Founded: 1901
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 47.5614, -52.7119

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: —
Average vessel age: 113.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1913
Newest vessel on record: 1913
Largest vessel by tonnage: —
Average tonnage: —
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Reid Newfoundland Company. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Unclassified1

By shipbuilder

Swan Hunter1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

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	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record

1 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
SS Kyle	5198852	Unclassified	—	1913	—	—	—	Swan Hunter

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.

In context

How Reid Newfoundland Company compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Reid Newfoundland Company is the 492nd 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.

Canada is the country of registration for 23 commercial operators in this directory, among which Reid Newfoundland Company ranks 9th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 92 vessels here. See every operator registered in Canada.

Founded in 1901, Reid Newfoundland Company is 125 years old. This directory holds 47 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.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q7309974, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Reid Newfoundland Company on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.