Tod & Macgregor Customers:

 

G & J Burns

Year:

Ship Name:

Builder

Tonnage:
1837 Rothsay Castle Tod and Macgregor 180
1838 Tarbert Castle Tod and Macgregor 150
1838 Windsor Castle Tod and Macgregor 151
1839 Inverary Castle Tod and Macgregor 311
1845 Windsor Castle Tod and Macgregor 201
1845 Vale of Leven Tod and Macgregor (bought second hand) 112
1846 Dunrobin Castle Tod and Macgregor 110
1873 Owl Tod and Macgregor 915

 

Notes:

          The Burns brothers, James & George, entered shipping as agents for one of the three concerns running the Glasgow - Liverpool route and based themselves in Greenock. Their agency interests extended to a proposed Belfast-Glasgow steamer service and by 1826 they decided to operate this themselves.

 

           The Liverpool route became controlled by the Burns brothers in 1829 and they became associated with David MacIver. Together they founded what later became the Cunard Line.

 

           They also entered the West Highlands trade in 1835, but in 1851 they sold these ships to David Hutchenson, along with the ships of the Castle Line, which they had purchased in 1848.

 

            The companies in this group were:

Name Owners Dates
Castle Steam Packet Company J.McColl, A Patrick 1832-42
Glasgow Castle Steam Packet Company James Ewing 1842-46
  G & J Burns 1846-49
George Burns G Burns 1835-44
Glasgow & Liverpool Steam Shipping Co G Burns 1844-45
G & J Burns (Highland Steamers only) G & J Burns 1845-49
G & J Burns etc G & J Burns 1849-51
Taken over by David Hutcheson & Co   1851