Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

For the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, see Cunard Line.

Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
IndustryShipping
Founded1839
FounderJames Macqueen
Defunct1932
FateLiquidated
SuccessorRoyal Mail Lines Ltd
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom
Key people
Lord Kylsant
Share of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, issued 16 February 1920
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)