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| Industry | Shipping |
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| Founded | 1901 |
| Founder | Charles W. Morse |
| Defunct | 1955 |
Eastern Steamship Lines was a shipping company in the United States that operated from 1901 to 1955.[1] It was created through successive mergers by Wall Street financier and speculator Charles W. Morse.[2][3][4] The line sailed along the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada, operating out of Boston and New York. Much of its fleet was sold to the US government for use in World War I. After the war the company ordered additional ships for the post-war period. Eastern Steamship Lines served as operator for the War Shipping Administration in World War II. The United States government requisitioned all of the fleet's vessels for military duty on both the Atlantic and Pacific.
- ^ "Sale of Liner Evangeline Furls House Flag of Eastern Steamship; Lowering of Her White 'E' Foreshadows End of Coastal Fleet Touching Ports From Norfolk to Yarmouth". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
- ^ Druett, Joan (2000). She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea. [Simon and Schuster. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-7432-1437-7. Retrieved December 17, 2008.
- ^ Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr, The Panic of 1907. Lessons Learned From the Market's Perfect Storm, pp. 39-40. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. ISBN 978-0-470-15263-8
- ^ Walter Lord, The Good Years. From 1900 to the First World War, pp. 182–183. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960.