Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Victoria Sealing Company Limited
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Victoria Sealing & Trading Company Limited
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1898 - 1925
History
Joint stock company established in 1898 out of the Victoria Shipping Owners and Masters Sealers Association that had been formed in 1889. Sealing schooner owners contributed their vessels to the company. Its first shareholders were William Grant, Thomas Earle, John G. Cox, William Munsie, Richard Hall, A.J. Bechtel, and R. Seabrook. It was disbanded in 1925.