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water transport
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
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited was once the biggest shipping line in the Southern Hemisphere and New Zealand's largest private-sector employer. It was incorporated by James Mills in Dunedin in 1875 with the backing of a Scottish shipbuilder, Peter Denny. Bought by shipping giant P&O around the time of World War I it was sold in 1972 to an Australasian consortium and closed at the end of the twentieth century.
Origin
Union Company was founded in 1875 in Dunedin by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.
Founder
James Mills
1847–1936
New Zealand businessman and politician (1847-1936)
Photo: Photographer unidentified · Public domain · file
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Parent company
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Fleet on record
Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Union Company. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
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 | — | 1 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 1 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5219993 | Passenger vessel | New Zealand | 1953 | — | — | 138.8 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
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, Union 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.
United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which Union Company ranks 38th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.
Founded in 1875, Union Company is 151 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.
Same country
Caledonian MacBrayne
49 on record · est. 1973
Isle of Man Steam Packet Company
17 on record · est. 1830
Cunard Line
14 on record · est. 1840
Thames Clippers
12 on record · est. 1999
P&O Ferries
11 on record · est. 2002
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
10 on record · est. 1837
TechnipFMC
10 on record · est. 2017
Subsea 7
10 on record · est. 1973
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q2152089, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Union Company on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
