page_title: Lamport and Holt
section_title: Argentine Steam Lighter Co Ltd
hierarchical_section_title: Lamport and Holt / Argentine Steam Lighter Co Ltd
caption_attribution_description: Español: Vapor "Amadeo", primer barco a vapor matriculado en Punta Arenas, en 1892
context_page_description: Lamport and Holt was a UK merchant shipping line. It was founded as a partnership in 1845, reconstituted as a limited company in 1911 and ceased trading in 1991.
  From 1845 until 1975 Lamport and Holt was headquartered in Liverpool. The founders of Booth Line and Blue Funnel Line had family links with the original partners in Lamport and Holt, and worked for them before founding their own steamship lines in the 1860s.
  Lamport and Holt was an independent partnership until 1911, when it became a limited company and the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company took it over. RMSP collapsed as a result of the Royal Mail Case in 1931 but was reconstituted as Royal Mail Lines in 1932. Vestey Group bought Lamport and Holt in 1944 and absorbed it into its Blue Star Line subsidiary in 1991.
  For much of its history Lamport and Holt traded with the east coast of South America, operating liner services there to and from New York, Britain and mainland Europe. from 1902 to 1928 it operated a significant passenger ocean liner service and from 1932 to 1939 it ran cruise ships.
  Lamport and Holt carried cargo for the UK government in the Crimean War, World War I, World War II and Falklands War.
context_section_description: In 1884 Lamport and Holt formed another subsidiary, the Argentine Steam Lighter Co Ltd, to run a feeder cargo service in the River Plate. Its vessels ranged from 300 GRT to 700 GRT. They were registered in Liverpool but their survey port was Montevideo or Buenos Aires. The company operated until about 1900.
  The lighter company's first ship was the 411 GRT Amadeo, built in Liverpool in 1884. In 1892 she was sold to Chilean owners and re-registered in Punta Arenas. In the 1930s she was beached at San Gregorio in the Strait of Magellan. Her rusting hulk survives there to this day.
caption: Amadeo after her sale to Chilean owners
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