The Dominion LINE was a British shipping company with head office in Liverpool. The enterprise operated a transatlantic airline service after new Orleans, later then to the Canadian ports of the west coast Quebec etc.).

History

1870 became the shipping company as Mississippi Steamship Company Ltd. to maintain based around an airline service of Liverpool after new Orleans. 1872 with opening of the services to Canada became the shipping company name in Mississippi & Dominion Steamship Company Ltd. changed, with the time however the designation Dominion LINE was patriated in. The ships were to be recognized by a red chimney with black cap and a white volume in the upper red part.

At first the society operated the route Liverpool-new Orleans with intermediate stops in Bordeaux, Lisbon and Havanna, this service to 1914 was operated. 1872 opened the shipping company the service to Canada, the route passed from Liverpool to Queenstown Quebec and starting from 1886 also to Belfast and Londonderry were on the way started, but however Queenstown omitted. Also the services into the USA were developed and the ports by Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore the linear network were inserted.

The ships of the line were usually medium sized passenger liners, in addition, some cargo ships ranked among the fleet. Starting from the 1890er years began then the ships from the tonnage to grow, so 1898 those new England with 11394 BRT and the Commonwealth from the year 1900 with 12097 BRT were signs of a positive development. 1902 became the Dominion LINE through the US banker J.P. Morgan bought up and 1904 the IMMC Schifffahrtstrust attached.

Within the IMMC Trusts however the White star LINE was developed to the only passenger shipping company, so that the Dominion LINE had to deliver their largest passenger liners to the White star. Until 1914 the shipping company was represented only with small ships and lost ever more at meaning. 1914 was adjusted the passenger services and on the freight sector was subordinated one the Leyland LINE. 1915 went transferring IMMC in bankruptcy and into the trusteeship to the US Government.

1920 was separated the British shipping companies, among them also the remainders of the Dominion LINE. The Leyland LINE took over the Dominion cargo ships and the White star LINE operated its service to Canada under the label name White star Dominion. 1926 were painted the Dominion name and heard the shipping company exist on.

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