The Shipping Murphys: The Palgrave Murphy Shipping Line, 1850-1926.
Author: SMITH, Cornelius F.
Blackrock: Albany Press, 2004. 192 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
“This is the saga of Charles Palgrave from affluent Great Yarmouth in Norfolk and Michael Murphy of Dublin’s working-class Ringsend. They formed an unlikely partnership which lasted until their deaths some forty years later. Their steamships were launched out onto the seas to Britain and the Continent. The ‘Black Gold’ of coal and steam was quickly exploited, leaving a prosperous business for three wealthy Murphy sons - John, Sir James and Sir Michael. The evolving society which they so enjoyed was already destroyed when the Murphy businesses were taken over by major corporations after the maritime calamities of the Great War 1914-1918.”
ISBN: 0954034015
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