Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based in Wallsend, North East England, on the River Tyne. The company was founded by Charles Algernon Parsons in 1897 with £500,000 of capital, and specialised in building the steam turbine engines that he had invented for naval use. The first ship to use a Parsons propulsion system was "Turbinia", launched in 1894; the successful demonstration of this vessel led to the creation of the company and the subsequent construction of the engines for the first two turbine-powered destroyers for the Navy, and , launched
Union Steamship Company of British Columbia Northland Navigation in 1962. The line had a good safety record in an age before satellites and radar. The "Chehalis" sank off Brockton Point in 1913 with a loss of life; the "Cheslakee" capsized on Texada Island; and the "Comox" collided with a ship in fog in Malaspina Strait. It should be remembered that this is over 50 years and a service of dozens of ships. Union Steamship Company of British Columbia The Union Steamship Company of British Columbia was a pioneer firm on coastal British Columbia. It was founded in November 1889 by John Darling, a director of the