| LC control no. | n 85215280 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company |
| Variant(s) | Union-Castle Line (Firm) Union-Castle Mail SS Co. |
| See also | Mergee: Union Steam Ship Company Predecessor: Castle Line (Firm) |
| Beginning date | 1900 |
| Found in | Year book and guide to East Africa, 1950 ed.: t.p. (Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited) Porter, A.N. Victorian shipping, business, and imperial policy, 1886: CIP galley (Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company; formed 1900 when Castle Line took over Union Steam Ship Company [no publs. in LC data base]) Encyc. brit., c1978: Micropaedia, v. 3, p. 305 (Union-Castle Line) The Ships list website, viewed June 2, 2013 (Union Steamship Company; formed in 1853; became the Union Steam Collier Co the same year; started developing routes, in 1857 were awarded the mail contract between the UK and South Africa; in 1876 a joint mail contract with the Castle Line was awarded by the Colonial Govt. with the proviso that the two companies not amalgamate; after that contract expired in 1899, they merged to become the Union-Castle Mail SS Co and received the new mail contract) |
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