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water transport

Shaw, Savill & Albion Line

Headquarters: London
Founded: 1882
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

15,902

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Shaw, Savill & Albion Line is

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Shaw, Savill & Albion Line was the shipping line of P Henderson & Company, a British shipping management that operated trans-British, Australian and New Zealand cargo and passenger routes when P Henderson's Albion Line merged with Shaw Savill Line in 1882, lasting till 1970 when Elder Dempster Lines chartered P Henderson fleets in 1947 till 1965 when Ocean Group plc acquired Elder, Dempster, till the Suez Crisis when the last 3 Henderson ships were transferred to Elder, Dempster and the Henderson label phased out.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: water transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: London
Formed in: —
Founded: 1882
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 51.5072, -0.1275

Ships on record here: 2
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 71.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1948
Newest vessel on record: 1962
Largest vessel by tonnage: 15,902
Average tonnage: 15,902
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Shaw, Savill & Albion Line. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Cruise ship2

By flag state

United Kingdom1

By shipbuilder

Swan Hunter1

Vickers1

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	—	2
2018	—	2
2019	—	2
2020	—	2
2021	—	2
2022	—	2
2023	—	2
2024	—	2
2025	—	2
2026	—	2

Vessel records

Ships on record · Cruise ship

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Gothic	5134088	Cruise ship	United Kingdom	1948	15,902	—	171.0 m	Swan Hunter
SS Northern Star	5257543	Cruise ship	—	1962	—	—	198.1 m	Vickers

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 Shaw, Savill & Albion Line compares

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, Shaw, Savill & Albion 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 Shaw, Savill & Albion Line ranks 26th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 1882, Shaw, Savill & Albion Line is 144 years old. This directory holds 39 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.