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Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - Built with Pride at the Penarth Shipbuilding Company - s.s. 'Aira Force' - 1890 . . .

1905 - The London Gazette edition of 25th July gave notice of General Meetings at Liverpool for Members to enable them to wind-up the entities i.e. the Limited Companies associated with four steamships and two sailing vessels.
   
The houseflag of W. S. Kennaugh & Company, otherwise the West Coast Shipping Company, which continued in operation until c.1959.

The companies associated with the vessels were dissolved and our Penarth built vessel, the s.s. 'Aira Force' was registered at the Port of Glasgow.

1906 - The vessel's name was changed to s.s. 'Seaforth' and she was registered to Mrs. A. J. Webster of G. Webster & Company at Glasgow.

1905-1906 - The Post-Office annual Glasgow directory [928] had the following entries : -

Webster, George, & Co., shipbrokers, shipowners and agents, Waterloo chambers, 19 Waterloo street.

Webster, George (of G. Webster & Co.), house, 35 Leven street, Pollokshields.

1908 - Ownership of the s.s. Seaforth changed to Alfred J. Smith J.P. of Queen-square, Bristol. The lease for the building occupied as its offices in Queen-square was dated between August 1886 and May 1899. [142]

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