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TRINIDAD SHIPPING & TRADING CO.

The origins of the Trinidad Shipping and Trading Co are unknown, except that it must have
been founded some time in the second half of the Nineteenth Century. I have seen notes that say its
Head Office was in Glasgow, but Duncan Hayes says it was Trinidad based. At the time of its
takeover by Furness Withy it had hotels and sugar plantations as well as ships - the “Maraval”
“Matura” and ’’Mayara” plying between Trinidad and New York. The non shipping interests were
hived off and later the sugar plantations sold to Tate & Lyle. After its purchase in 1920 it was
combined with the Quebec Steamship Co to form the Bermuda & West Indies Steamship Co.

“GRENADA”

“Grenada” was owned by the Trinidad Shipping & Trading Co before its acquisition by
Furness Withy and whilst it was managed by G Cristall from Glasgow. She was built in 1896 by A
Stephens in Glasgow and measured 2,158 tons gross. Not included in Hawes or Burrell.

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NEW BRUNSWICK.

A penny postal stationery card from Grenada addressed to Philadelphia that was cancelled
on 20th June 1896. It was struck with a New York “Paid All” hand stamp on 28th June and arrived in
Philadelphia on the same day. Second is a cover franked with a Trinidad Vxd which was presumably
sent Book Post to Sussex, New Brunswick. The adhesive wasn’t cancelled but the cover was back
stamped on arrival on 8th February 1900.