Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company

The Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company provided shipping services in the United Kingdom from 1904 to 1943.

Tyne Steam & Tees Union Shipping Companies
The main Newcastle coastline services in the 19th c. was provided by the Tyne Steam Shipping Company, which was formed in 1864, as joint stock company, which consolidated other smaller local companies.

The Middlesbrough routes to London, where operated by a variety of companies including the London & Middlesbrough Steamship Company, with there ship Diome. In 1880 these were mainly amalgamated into the Tees Union Shipping Company.

Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Co.
In 1903 Tyne Steam Shipping acquired Tees Union, and in 1904, with the further acquisition the Furness Withy & Co., Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company was formed. The funnels were painted black with red top and dividing white band.

Passenger services were operated between Teesside, Tyneside and London, as well as to the continent. By 1914 it was the number 7 coastal company in terms of ton-mileage worked, in the country, with 244,040,472 ton mileage per year.

The company was severely impacted by the Great Depression in the United Kingdom with its vessels and interests being purchased by Coast Lines in 1944.

The former Headquarters building is now the Hotel du Vin.

Routes : Passenger / Cargo and Cargo only
Newcastle and Sunderland to London / Antwerp / Rotterdam / Amsterdam / Dordrecht / Hamburg / Bremen / Ghent / Northern French Ports.

Middlesbrough to Bremen / Hamburg.