Manufacturer: Carr China Company
User: Clyde Steamship Company
Date of sauce boat: circa 1920s – 1930s
Notes: In 1844, Thomas Clyde established the Clyde Line, connecting Philadelphia with other east coast ports. In 1861, Thomas's son, William P. Clyde, took control of the company, and moved the company's headquarters to New York City in 1872. In 1874, he established the Clyde Steamship Company to provide water-based transportation from New York City to southern destinations in Florida, Cuba, New Orleans, and several Keys. The Company also had some northern routes including Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island.
By 1902, the Company was advertising tri-weekly sailings from Jacksonville, Florida to New York with a stop in Charleston, South Carolina.
In 1907, the Company was purchased by the Consolidated Steamship Lines, which collapsed in 1908. Clyde Steamship was then taken over in 1911 by the Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines, a combine of several lines, but the Clyde Line name and flag continued in use until 1932, when Clyde was combined with the Mallory Line name to form the Clyde-Mallory Line. It was sold to the Bull Line in 1949, and the company name disappeared.
An interesting tidbit from Wikipedia notes that a Christmas dinner served aboard the S.S. City of Jacksonville, included pickled peach Indian relish, fruit fritters, macaroni au gratin, mince pie as well as turkey and cranberry sauce and desserts such as fruit cake and demitasse.
White body sauce boat with medium blue stripes around the top and base. On the left side is a drawing of the Company's flag which consists of a white body a with medium blue stripe at the top and bottom and a large red letter "C" in the middle.
It is known that distributor James M. Shaw of New York City provided similar china with this design from an unknown English company.
For additional info:
Clyde Steamship Company 2 by Greenwood Pottery
Source:
Wikipedia – history of the company
Contributors:
Sauce boat photos, postcards, and content – Susan and Ed Phillips