SHAW SAVILL & ALBION LINE SHIPS 

   YOU MAY NOTICE THAT THE SAME SHIP NAME APPEARS MORE THAN ONCE - SOME SHIPS WERE NAMED AFTER A PREDECESSOR,AND SOME CHARTERED VESSELS WERE GIVEN THE SAME NAME OVER THE YEARS I.E THERE'S BEEN QUITE A FEW VESSELS  NAMED 'ZEALANDIC'. THESE LISTS ARE NOT YET COMPLETE - I'M STILL WORKING AT IT.YOU WILL PERHAPS  WONDER WHY I'VE PUT SOME VESSELS SUCH AS THE 'DRINA' AND 'DURANGO' UNDER THE SSA LISTINGS, BUT I FIND THAT WHEN PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE 'RUTHENIC' THEY STILL REFER TO HER AS THE 'DURANGO'. THE 'CRETIC', ALTHOUGH BUILT FOR SSA , OFTEN GETS REFERRED TO AS THE 'DRINA', PROBABLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT CREW CAME OVER WITH THE SHIP FROM ONE COMPANY TO THE OTHER.

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ALTHOUGH THE ABERDEEN LINE WAS FORMED IN 1825 IT WAS NOT TAKEN OVER BY WHITE STAR / SHAW SAVILL & ALBION UNTIL 1905 THUS THE EARLY ABERDEEN SHIPS ARE NOT REALLY  PART OF WHITE STAR / SHAW SAVILL & ALBION HISTORY. BUT FOR COMPLETENESS A LIST OF EARLY SAILING VESSELS OPERATED BY THE ABERDEEN LINE IS SHOWN HERE.

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A SPECIFIC VESSEL, ITS WORTH BEARING IN MIND THAT PRIOR TO 1906 SEVERAL SHIPS COULD BEAR THE SAME NAME, AFTER THIS DATE THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT WAS MEANT TO BE ENFORCED, THUS PREVENTING THE USE OF DUPLICATE NAMES ON CURRENT VESSELS.THERE WERE A VERY FEW EXCEPTIONS THOU.