Houlder Line

[1] From 1875 to 1880 the company worked with John T. Arundel & Co. in a guano mining business on Flint Island in the Pacific Ocean.

[2] In 1914 Houlder Brothers Ltd and Furness, Withy established a joint venture, the Furness-Houlder Argentine Line.

[4] Furness-Houlder Argentine Lines lost three ships in the Second World War: Canonesa,[5] Duquesa[6] and El Argentino.

Both ships caught fire, killing all 74 people aboard Royston Grange and eight crew members on the tanker.

[9] Houlder Line ceased shipping operations in 1987, when Lord Kelvin was sold to Norwegian buyers.

House flag used by Houlder Line
The first of four Houlder ships to be called Oswestry Grange . This one was a refrigerated cargo ship built in 1902 and sold in 1912
Drayton Grange in Brisbane . She was built for Houlder Brothers in 1901 and sold in 1912.
The second of two Houlder ships to be called Urmston Grange . She was built in 1942 as the Empire ship Empire Pibroch . Houlder Brothers bought and renamed her in 1946 and sold her in 1959.