Pacific Steam Navigation Company

Victoria, built in 1902 and scrapped in 1923

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company (Spanish: Compañía de Vapores del Pacífico) was a British commercial shipping company that operated along the Pacific coast of South America, and was the first to use steam ships for commercial traffic in the Pacific Ocean.[1] At one point in the 1870s, it had the world's largest merchant steamship fleet. The company continued in business until 1965, when it was purchased by another company, but it survived in name through a succession of ownership changes until at least the 1980s.[2]

  1. ^ SÍNTESIS HISTÓRICA DE ALGUNOS NAUFRAGIOS OCURRIDOS EN EL ESTRECHO DE MAGALLANES Y CANALES ADYACENTES DESDE SU DESCUBRIMIENTO HASTA 1900 Archived 14 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 6.December 2011
  2. ^ "PSNC, Pacific Steam Navigation Company, shipowners". National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved 13 June 2024.