Black Ball Line
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Image:MV Coho.jpg Black Ball Line or Blackball Line can refer to several different things:
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[edit] Trans-Atlantic clipper service
The Black Ball Line was a fleet of clipper ships running between Liverpool and New York, the first scheduled trans-Atlantic service, founded in 1817. In operation for some 60 years, it took its name from its flag, a black ball on a red background. The line was founded by a group of New York Quaker merchants headed by Jeremiah Thompson, and included Isaac Wright & Son, Francis Thompson and Benjamin Marshall.
[edit] British Columbia-Washington ferry service
The Black Ball Line was the name chosen in 1928 by a descendant of the Marshall family for the Puget Sound Navigation Company (PSNC), which operated a fleet of ferries on Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia and Washington.
[edit] Strait of Juan de Fuca ferry service
The current descendant of the Black Ball Line, Blackball Transport, Inc., was founded in 1936 from Black Ball Freight Service, a road transport subsidiary of PSNC. Blackball Transport owns and operates a single ferry, the M/V Coho between Victoria, British Columbia and Port Angeles, Washington.
[edit] References
- Transatlantic WNYC Reading Room
- Black Ball Transport Inc
