Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Baronet
Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Baronet( 13 March 1823 – 22 June 1893) was a Scottish ship- owner and businessman who built up substantial commercial interests in India and East Africa.
He established the British- India Steam Navigation Company and the Imperial British East Africa Company.
V. O. Chidambaram Pillai
Vallinayagan Ulaganathan Chidambaram
( 5 September 1872 – 18 November 1936), popularly known by his initials, V.O.C.( spelled வ.உ. சி in Tamil), also known as Kappalottiya Tamizhan" The Tamil Helmsman", was an Indian freedom fighter and leader of Indian National Congress.
Founder of Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 to compete against the monopoly of the British India Steam Navigation Company( BISNC)..
He was a disciple of Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
He launched the first indigenous Indian shipping service between Tuticorin and Colombo with the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, competing against British ships.
Tuticorin Port Trust, one of India's thirteen major ports, is named after him.
At one time a member of the Indian National Congress, he was later charged with sedition by the British government and sentenced to life imprisonment, and his barrister license was revoked.
Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company
Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company( C& BSN) was formed in 1856 and was the immediate forerunner of British India Steam Navigation Company( BISN).
The company was formed out of Mackinnon, Mackenzie& Co, a trading partnership of the Scots William Mackinnon and Robert Mackenzie, who had set up their business in Calcutta, India.
Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation was founded with initial capital of £ 35,000 to perform a mail contract, which had been won from the Indian government, between Calcutta, Rangoon and Moulmein.
The contract was renewed in 1862, when the service was extended to Singapore, and the same year its name was changed to British India SN Co. Robert Mackenzie had died in 1853, even before the company had been formed but William Mackinnon, who was chairman of the shipowning companies from the earliest years until his death in 1893, is considered the' father' of the company.
He was created baronet in 1889.
At the time of its inauguration and for many years afterwards, C& BSN and then BISN were supervised by Mackinnon, Mackenzie& Co as Managing Agents.
This company acquired many trading interests during its life, including tea, jute and management of BI's coal mines in India.
Arthur Anderson (businessman)
Arthur Anderson( 1792, Shetland – 27 February 1868, London) was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politician.
He was co-founder of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company( P&O).
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited( MDL)( IAST:" Majhagānv Dawk Limiṭeḍ"), formerly called Mazagon Dock Limited, is a shipyard situated Mazagaon, Mumbai.
It manufactures warships and submarines for the Indian Navy and offshore platforms and associated support vessels for offshore oil drilling.
It also builds tankers, cargo bulk carriers, passenger ships and ferries.
The shipyards of MDL were established in the 18th century.
Ownership of the yards passed through entities including the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and the British- India Steam Navigation Company.
Eventually,' Mazagon Dock Limited' was registered as a public company in 1934.
The shipyard was nationalised in 1960 and is now a Public Sector Undertaking of the Government of India.
Edward Hain
Sir Edward Hain( 26 December 1851 – 20 September 1917) was an English shipping magnate and politician from Cornwall, England.
He represented St Ives as a Liberal Unionist from 1900 to 1904, and as a Liberal from 1904 to 1906.
His shipping company, Hain Line, was sold to the recently merged Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and British- India Steam Navigation Company after his death.
British India Steam Navigation Company
British India Steam Navigation Company ("BI") was formed in 1856 as the Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company.
The company had been formed out of Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co, a trading partnership of the Scots William Mackinnon and Robert Mackenzie, to carry mail between Calcutta and Rangoon.
It became British India SN Co in 1862.
Under the hand of Lord Inchcape, who had become chairman in 1913, the company became part of the P&O group of companies in 1914 through a complex amalgamation, but continued with its own identity and organisation for another nearly 60 years until 1972, when it was entirely absorbed into P&O.
As one of the largest shipowners of all time, the company owned more than 500 ships and managed 150 more for other owners.
At its height in 1922, BI had more than 160 ships in the fleet, many built on Clydeside, Scotland.
The main shipping routes of the line were: Britain to India, Australia, Kenya, Tanganyika.
The company ran services from India to Pakistan, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, Singapore, Malaya, Java, Thailand, Japan, Persian Gulf, East Africa and South Africa.
BI had a long history of service to the British and Indian governments through trooping and other military contracts.
In the last decade of its operational existence
BI carried thousands of school children on educational cruises.
The cargo ship , carrying silver bullion, pig iron and tea, which was sunk at great depth by the some southwest of Galway Bay, Ireland, carried the richest cargo of any sunken ship in world history.
Some of the company's better known passenger ships included , , , , "Leicestershire", , the sister ships and , and and , and , which was sunk by a terrorist bomb in 1961.
Brodie McGhie Willcox
Brodie McGhie Willcox( 1786–1862) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament( MP) and the co-founder of the Peninsular& Oriental Steam Navigation Company, one of the United Kingdom's largest shipping businesses.
Sir Robert Mackenzie, 10th Baronet
Sir Robert Ramsay Mackenzie, 10th Baronet (21 July 1811 – 19 September 1873) was a pastoralist and politician in Queensland, Australia.
He was Premier of Queensland, Australia from August 1867 to November 1868.
Apcar and Company
Apcar and Company was a firm founded in 1819 in India that engaged in shipping, import and export.
The most profitable trade was in opium, shipped from India to Hong Kong and the Pearl River.
The Apcar Line also carried Indian and Chinese laborers for work in Malaya and Singapore.
The line was sold to the British- India Steam Navigation Company in 1912.

Question: When did the founder of British India Steam Navigation Company die?
Answer: 19 September 1873