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A British based association of merchant navy and naval veterans who sailed on the convoys to North Russia during WWII.
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1873 -
A shipyard established in 1873 on Point Hope and owned, in 1917, by William Turpel and his sons Samuel and Emerson. In 1917, The company was leased to the Foundation Company, Victoria BC, an offshoot of the Foundation Group of Montreal to build five wooden cargo ships.
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1872 - present
Shipping Company now based in Singapore. Originally established by British entrepreneurs to operate paddle seamers on the lower Yangtze, the company grew to become a large shipping company run out of Shanghai and Hong Kong that operated vessels between the China coast and Philippines, Southeast Asia, Australia, Japan, and the far east of Russian. After the communist victory of the Chinese revolution in 1949, the company management was consolidated in Hong Kong and then relocated to Singapore. China Navigation Company is the shipping arm of the Swire Group. It is a major operator in shipping in the Southeast Asia.