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Elder Dempster Lines was one of the UK’s largest shipping companies, and during its
150 year history it operated more than 500 ships.
Based in the historic port of Liverpool it was the major shipping line to serve West Africa. As
well as its cargo liners Elder Dempster Lines operated three passenger liners on a scheduled
service to Ghana and Nigeria.
It employed many people, from its seagoing staff
to those personnel in its UK offices and Elder Dempster Agencies branches in West Africa.
The company had its own Cadet Department to train the deck,
engineer, purser, and catering officers of the future.
There was a cadet training ship, and Elder Dempster Lines was the first
British shipping company to open a purpose-built cadet residential establishment.
This website tells something of the story of EDs in the 1960s when the company was at its
postwar peak,
and is in many ways a unique social and historical archive of just one shipping company half
a century ago.
Its comprehensive photographic record - only possible through the generosity of many
former Elder Dempster seagoing
staff - grows by the month, and at the last count there are now 1,450 photographs to
view, together with 900 other images including badges, flags, menus, posters, cargo papers, and Elder
Dempster ephemera
ranging from beer mats to brochures.
The pages which form ElderDempster.org provide a snapshot - literally - of the ships, ports,
and crews in
those heady days when the world was young, and when so many followed a tradition and
went to sea.
They show a time and a way of life which have gone forever.
Elder Dempster Lines
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Homeward Bound
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an introduction | company history |
photographs | ships of the fleet |
ranks and uniforms | cadet training |
funnels and flags | ephemera |
pursers | liverpool shipping |
model ships | railways |
other fleets | little ships |
Merchant Navy | links |
nautical glossary | a personal view |
ex EDs? | what’s new? |
Elder Dempster Pensioners Association
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website last updated 21 October 2024 | |
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THANK YOU
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successors
all text and photographs © Mike Ingham except where indicated
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