Outwards. Regular & Direct Line of Steamers to the Red Sea & Persian Gulf.

Oblong folio (ca. 310 x 385 mm). Blank bill of lading for a vessel of the British Strick Line, an operator of cargo liners between the UK and the Mediterranean and (more significantly) the Gulf. It lists the company's consignees and agents with residencies including Bagdad, Bushire, Jeddah, Port Said, Bahrain and Kuwait. With extensive "exceptions, limitations and conditions" in small print. - In 1887 the London shipbroker and coal exporter Frank Clarke Strick (1849-1943) founded the London and Paris Steamship Company Ltd. to raise capital and the Anglo-Algerian Steamship Company Ltd. to operate his ship. It began a pattern of cargo trading which lasted for many years and carried coal from the UK to West Italian ports, and iron ore from Benisaf in North Africa to the United Kingdom or the European continent. A successful voyage to the Gulf in 1892 with coal and general cargo prompted Strick to enter the Gulf trade and to found a new company, the Anglo-Arabian and Persian Steamship Company Limited. By the beginning of the 20th century, Strick had 15 ships sailing under his flag, primarily in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf trades. - Some tears; one long vertical tear repaired with tape.