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    Manchester Liners was a cargo and passenger shipping company founded in 1898, based in Manchester, England. The line pioneered the regular passage of...
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    was also the first vessel registered at Manchester; the CWS operated a weekly service to Rouen. Manchester Liners established regular sailings by large...
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    the canal. Manchester Liners was established on 3 May 1898, to provide a fortnightly transatlantic service between the Port of Manchester and North America...
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  • in the Second World War. She was the second of three Manchester Liners to be named after Manchester City F.C. The first was a steamship that was built in...
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    needed]. Dock 9 is the largest of the docks and was the site of the Manchester Liners container service to Montreal, Quebec. Today the upper reaches contain...
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    OOCL (section Liner Services)
    well-known shipping lines. These include Furness Withy, Houlder Brothers, Manchester Liners, Shaw Savill, PSNC, Prince Line & the Alexander Shipping Company....
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  • enemy fire. Her career included service at sea with Blue Funnel Line, Manchester Liners, and Cunard-White Star Line, and ashore at Caledon Shipbuilding &...
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    Group, a company with offshore oil interests. Furness Withy bought Manchester Liners in 1970. The company was acquired by the Orient Overseas Container...
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  • was formed by Orient Overseas Container Line (though its subsidiary Manchester Liners), Compagnie Maritime Belge and CP Ships, and Halifax was dropped for...
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    British-built and owned container ship, Manchester Challenge of 12,039 gross register tons, for operation on Manchester Liners new container service to ports on...
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