DP&L was The Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Limited And Associated Shipping Companies in Scotland,UK
The DP&L was The Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Limited And Associated Shipping Company which was founded by contract of co-partnery in 1826. Trading links by sea from Tayside have always been a vital part of the region's economy and DP&L has been a part of these links for 175 years. DP&L is a direct descendant of an amalgamation of The Dundee & Perth Shipping Company and The Dundee & Perth Union Shipping Company who were fierce rivals on the important Dundee to London route. The new company had a total of 23 vessels, 13 of which were principally employed on the London sailings whilst the others traded to Glasgow via Grangemouth, and the Forth & Clyde Canal, to Leith and to Liverpool. The company's earliest venture into steamship ownership came in 1830 when delivery was taken of the wooden paddle tug "Sir William Wallace" and in 1833 orders were placed for two wooden paddle steamers from the famous Clydeside engineer, Robert Napier. These were to be named "Dundee" and "Perth" and a shipbuilder's model of the paddle steamer "Perth," completed in 1834, remains in the company's offices to this day. These were the most luxurious and fastest steamers on the east coast and their Masters took great pleasure in outpacing their Leith and Aberdeen rivals. Gradually the era of paddle steamers gave way to that of screw steamers and the company took delivery of its first, another "London," iron built and engineered by Napier in 1854. Its successor, a larger "London," built in the Dundee yard of Gourlay Brothers proved to be one of the most successful vessels to fly the company flag, remaining with the fleet for 53 years and serving not only on the London run but also to St. Petersburg. In 1857 she sailed there loaded mainly with machinery and cured fish, returning with a memorable cargo of flax, tallow, caviar, cranberries and hams! These early voyages demonstrated the possibilities of using a fast steamer on longer distance runs.
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Location: Dundee, Angus, Tayside, Scotland, United Kingdom
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