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Pacific Mail Steamship Company

Headquarters: United States
Founded: 1848
Employees: —

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

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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 Pacific Mail Steamship Company is

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The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was founded April 18, 1848, as a joint stock company under the laws of the State of New York by a group of New York City merchants. Incorporators included William H. Aspinwall, Edwin Bartlett (American consul at Lima, Peru and also involved with the Panama Railroad Company), Henry Chauncey, Mr. Alsop, G.G. Howland and S.S. Howland.

Quoted from on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin

Who founded it

Pacific Mail Steamship Company was founded in 1848 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

William Henry Aspinwall

1807–1875

American businessman (1807-1875)

Photo: Daniel Huntington · Public domain · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: —
Formed in: —
Founded: 1848
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
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Ships on record here: 0
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Vessel records

Ships on record

0 vessels

No individual ships attributed to this company yet

The company is on record, but no vessel in the registry currently names it as operator or owner. Nothing is invented to fill this space.

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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 Pacific Mail Steamship Company compares

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

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Pacific Mail Steamship Company ranks 111th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 1848, Pacific Mail Steamship Company is 178 years old. This directory holds 23 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 2 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.