[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.