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Jardine Matheson has been called the "most successful opium smuggling company in the world". [15] Both Jardine and Matheson became members of Parliament in Britain, and Matheson also bought the entire Scottish island of Lewis, clearing over 500 families off the land and shipping them to Canada in order to build Lews Castle. [15]
Sylph was a clipper ship built at Sulkea, opposite Calcutta, in 1831 for the Parsi merchant Rustomjee Cowasjee. [2] After her purchase by the Hong Kong–based merchant house Jardine Matheson, in 1833 Sylph set a speed record by sailing from Calcutta to Macao in 17 days, 17 hours.
William Jardine and James Matheson. Jardine, Matheson & Co., later Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., forerunner of today's Jardine Matheson Holdings, was a Far Eastern company founded in 1832 by Scotsmen William Jardine and James Matheson as senior partners.
On 1 July 1832, Jardine, Matheson & Co., a partnership between Jardine and Matheson as senior partners, and Magniac, Alexander Matheson, Jardine's nephew Andrew Johnstone, Matheson's nephew Hugh Matheson, John Abel Smith, and Henry Wright, as the first partners, was formed in China, taking the Chinese name 'Ewo' (怡和) pronounced "Yee-Wo" and ...
The Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, Limited (ICSNC), was established in 1873 as a subsidiary of Hong Kong–based Jardine, Matheson & Co., one of the largest trading companies in the Far East at that time.
The second Red Rover Clipper ship, her sailing card A second clipper named Red Rover , active in the California trade, was built by Fernald & Pettigrew in 1852. [ 4 ] Between January 22 - May 2, 1854, the ship sailed from New York to San Francisco in 120 (122) days.
However, a different source refers to Nimrod as belonging to Jardine, Matheson & Co, of Hong Kong, and Larkins as an employee of theirs. The two are not necessarily contradictory, and Nimrod does not return to Lloyd's Register .
Matheson and Company expanded under Hugh Matheson. [2] The company's primary business in China on behalf of Jardine-Matheson was the importation of tea and silk. [2] Hugh Matheson expanded these products as the company started shipping coal and boilers. [2]