Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
IndustryShipping
Founded1839
FounderJames Macqueen
Defunct1932
FateLiquidated
SuccessorRoyal Mail Lines Ltd
Headquarters,
Key people
Lord Kylsant
RMS Asturias in a 1930 poster by Kenneth Shoesmith, who created a number of images advertising Royal Mail Lines ships

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen. The line's motto was Per Mare Ubique (everywhere by sea). After a troubled start, it became the largest shipping group in the world in 1927 when it took over the White Star Line.[1] The company was liquidated and its assets taken over by the newly formed Royal Mail Lines in 1932 after financial trouble and scandal; over the years RML declined to no more than the name of a service run by former rival Hamburg Süd.

  1. ^ "Royal Mail Steam Packet Company". Shipping Lines. Plimsoll.org. Archived from the original on 20 February 2004. Retrieved 17 April 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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