Prince Line Ltd

The records include Director’s Minutes, 1891 1956, and shareholder’s Minutes 1884-1967; Annual Reports and accounts, 1885- 1975; registers of shareholders, 1884- 1959 records of ship’s movement and freight, 1893 – 1980 and papers relating to the work of the Israel – UK Citrus Conference (Prince Line Ltd. as secretaries), 1965- 1971. There are also some papers of the Rio Cape Line Ltd., 1917 – 1956.
Related Material
In addition to the present collection, papers of the Prince line Ltd and Rio Cape Line Ltd may be found in the main Furness Withy collection (see FWS/A and FWS/B). These include ship files from the Naval Architect’s and Superintendent’s Departments, charter parties, vessel building agreements and contracts, accounts and records of board and general meetings.

Tyne and Wear Archives, Newcastle, hold a ledger, 1896-97 and correspondence, 1898 – 99 of Prince Line (1895) Ltd.