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4 unusual facts about Anchor Line


Anchor Line

The Anchor Line (steamship company), a transatlantic steamship company founded in 1856 and acquired by Cunard Line in 1911.

Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

Sir Alexander became Fairfield chairman in 1930 and remained so until after Fairfield was taken over by Lithgows of Port Glasgow in 1935, after Fairfield became entangled with the insolvency of the Anchor Line.

RMS Campania

On her return to Liverpool, she was chartered to the Anchor Line to do voyages from Glasgow to New York.

SS Cambria

SS Cambria (1869), An Anchor Line ship wrecked off the north west coast of Ireland in 1870 with the loss of 179 lives.



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