Tod & Macgregor Customers:

Notes:

          The company concentrated on providing a fast passenger service, principally to Liverpool. Services were commenced in 1819 and in 1828 the company changed its name to Langtry and Herdman. The Cork SS Co absorbed the fleet in 1850, but the poor service offered persuaded the Belfast Chamber of Commerce to propose the creation of the Belfast SS Co. in 1852.

           For the next five years conditions were very unsettled with outbreaks of intense competition between five companies which at one time or another competed for the Belfast-Liverpool traffic in this period. In 1857 the two survivors, Messrs Langtry & Herdman and the Belfast SS Co., came to terms. Langtry & Herdman was by then independent of the Cork SS Co, was but taken over by the Belfast SS in 1859; leaving the Belfast SS Co with a complete monopoly.

           Henceforward, the Belfast SS were to have almost an unbroken monopoly of the Belfast-Liverpool crossing.

[Coastal & Short Sea Liners, CV Waine]

[Irish Passenger Steamship Services, D.B. McNeill]