Depredations or Overend Gurney & Co and the Greek & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
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- Author(s) Xenos, Stefanos
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1869
- Pages 377pp
- Publisher The author
- Place Published London
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- County Greater London
- Country England
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An account by the owner and operator of the Greek & Oriental Steam Navigation Co of the establishment and operation of his shipping line in the 1850s and early 1860s and its financing, notably by Overend, Gurrney & Co prior to their collapse. Structured in 48 chapters including: 'The first chartered steamers'; 'Galway Steam Co'; 'The first mortgages'; 'Overend Gurney & Co; 'Zachariah Pearson'; 'Insolvency of Messrs Overend Gurney & Co'; Anglo Greek Steam Navigation & Trading Co'