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Caledonian Steam Packet Company

Dissolved 1973

Headquarters: United Kingdom
Founded: 1889
Employees: —

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

2,032

Summed over 4 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Caledonian Steam Packet Company is

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The Caledonian Steam Packet Company provided a scheduled shipping service, carrying freight and passengers, on the west coast of Scotland. Formed in 1889 to complement the services of the Caledonian Railway, the company expanded by taking over rival ferry companies. In 1973, they were merged with MacBraynes as Caledonian MacBrayne.

Quoted from Caledonian Steam Packet Company on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: —
Formed in: —
Founded: 1889
Dissolved: 1973
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: —

Ships on record here: 5
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 2
Average vessel age: 77.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1933
Newest vessel on record: 1953
Largest vessel by tonnage: 508
Average tonnage: 508
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 5 vessels this registry attributes to Caledonian Steam Packet Company. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Unclassified5

By flag state

United Kingdom4

Italy1

By shipbuilder

A. & J. Inglis2

William Denny and Brothers1

Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited1

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	—	5
2018	—	5
2019	—	5
2020	—	5
2021	—	5
2022	—	5
2023	—	5
2024	—	5
2025	—	5
2026	—	5

Vessel records

Ships on record

5 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MV Maid of Argyll	5217490	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1953	508	—	49.7 m	A. & J. Inglis
MV Maid of Ashton	5217505	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1953	508	—	—	Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited
MV Maid of Cumbrae	5217529	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1953	508	—	50.3 m	—
MV Maid of Skelmorlie	5217555	Unclassified	Italy	1953	508	—	50.6 m	A. & J. Inglis
TS Queen Mary	5287952	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1933	—	—	—	William Denny and Brothers

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 Caledonian Steam Packet 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 5 vessels attributed to it here, Caledonian Steam Packet Company is the 174th 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 Caledonian Steam Packet Company ranks 11th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 1889, Caledonian Steam Packet Company is 137 years old. This directory holds 41 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.