Irrawaddy Flotilla Company
- Irrawaddy Flotilla Company
The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company was a passenger and cargo ferry company, which operated services on the Irrawaddy River in Burma, now Myanmar. The company operated from 1865 until the late 1940s and, at its peak around 1930, had a fleet of over 600 vessels, the largest fleet of ships in the world. The Company was British-owned, and was managed by P Henderson & Company from Glasgow, Scotland.
The ships, which were paddle steamers, were built in Scotland, before being dismantled and transported to Burma for reassembly. Many of the ships were destroyed by their owners or crew in 1942 in advance of the Japanese invasion of Burma. In 1948 the company was reconstituted as the Government Inland Water Transport Board.
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The paddle steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company inspired the famous lines penned by Rudyard Kiplingcquote|Come you back to Mandalay
Where the old Flotilla lay
Can't you hear the paddles chunkin'
"From Rangoon to Mandalay"
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