Prudential Steamship Corporation

Prudential Steamship Corporation was a shipping company founded in 1933 in New York City by Stephan Stephanidis.

Prudential Steamship Corporation operated US charter ships during World War II.

Prudential Steamship Corporation made a number of management errors starting in the 1950s that kept it near bankruptcy.

Fellow Greek, Spyros Skouras, loaned Stephanidis money to keep Prudential Steamship Corporation in operations.

When Stephan Stephanidis died in 1960, Spyros S. Skouras became the owner of Prudential Steamship Corporation due to the large loan he had made to the firm.

Spyros S. Skouras had founded Admiralty Enterprises, Inc. for ships owned by the family and as the management firm of the Prudential Lines.

In 1966 Admiralty Enterprises founded the SMC Shipping Corporation to aid the troubled Prudential Lines.