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Notes:

          The Glasgow and New York Steam Ship Company started with the idea of running a regular service from the Clyde to New York. It had been projected in 1849, the British Sponsors being Langlands, the coasting ship-owners. The first ship they intended for service was laid down when there was an interesting event expected in the Royal Family and she was provisionally named the Prince of Wales. Unfortunately thinks did not turn out as they were expected and she had to be renamed Princess Royal in rather a hurry.

          The plans for te transatlantic line not being ready, she was put on coasting service, and it was not until 1851 that the Glasgow was launched by Tod & Macgregor, the firm closely associated with the Inman Line. Captain N. Stewart was persuaded to leave the Cunard Line to take charge of her.

          She was soon afterwards joined by the Edinburgh and the New York. The company lasted until the end of the decade when the New York was lost and the other two ships were sold to the Inman Line.