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|name = Cosens & Co Ltd |logo = |type = |genre = |foundation = 1848 |founder = Joseph Cosens |location = Weymouth, United Kingdom |locations = |area_served = South Coast |key_people = |industry = shipping |products = |services = Tourism, ship repair and marine engineering |revenue = |operating_income = |net_income = |assets = |equity = |owner = |num_employees = |parent = |divisions = |subsid = |homepage = |footnotes = |intl = }} Cosens & Co Ltd was a British excursion steamer and marine engineering company based in Weymouth. HistoryThe company was founded in 1848 by Joseph Cosens and incorporated in 1876. It operated a fleet of paddle steamers on excursions along the south coast of England and on cross channel trips to Cherbourg and Alderney. It also operated a number of launches offering "trips round the bay" as well as tugs serving ships using Weymouth harbour. Up to the end of World War I the company held the Admiralty contract to operate liberty boats for naval ships at Portland.[2] The engineering side of the company was a major ship repair and marine engineering facility. The company also had a cold storage and ice-making facility adjacent to the port. In 1851 Joseph Cosens was operating the steamer Princess between Weymouth and Portland, when he found that a rival organisation, the Weymouth & Portland Steam Packet Company, owned by Philip Dodson, intended placing its own steamer Contractor on the same route. Cosens' response to this was to expand the company by going into partnership with wealthy local newspaper proprietor, Joseph Drew, in order to obtain a new ship. The new ship, named Prince, was designed and built by John Scott Russell, famous later as the builder of the ill-fated {{SS|Great Eastern||2}}.[3] Joseph Cosens died at the end of 1873 and Joseph Drew became chairman.[4] In 1946 Cosens was taken over by its Southampton based rival Red Funnel which continued to operate the pleasure steamers, in conjunction with its own, until 1966 when the last surviving paddle steamer was withdrawn from service. The engineering division continued however, finally being sold in a management buy-out in 1990. Renamed Cosens Engineering Ltd it had a brief independent career that ended in receivership.[5] Fleet
References1. ^Photograph courtesy of Richard Clammer, from Views & Reviews, Weymouth & Portland, 1895 2. ^{{cite book|last1=Gladwell|first1=Andrew|title=Cosens Pleasure Steamers|date=2013|publisher=Amberley|location=Stroud|isbn=978-1-4456-1450-2|page=32}} 3. ^Clammer, Cosens of Weymouth, 1848–1918, pp 30–33 4. ^Clammer, Cosens of Weymouth, 1848–1918, p 72 5. ^{{cite book |last=Adams |first=Keith |year=2010 |title=Red Funnel 150 |place= |publisher=Richard Danielson |isbn=978-0-9513155-5-2 |page=163}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Gladwell|first1=Andrew|title=Cosens Pleasure Steamers|date=2013|publisher=Amberley|location=Stroud|isbn=978-1-4456-1450-2|page=68}} 7. ^1 {{cite book |last1=Lenton |first1=HT |last2=Colledge |first2=JJ |year=1962 |title=Warships of World War 2 |volume=Part 4 – Auxiliary Fighting Vessels |place= |publisher=Ian Allan Publishing |page=341}} 8. ^{{cite book |last=Divine |first=David |year=1959 |title=The Nine Days of Dunkirk |place= |publisher=Pan Books |page=295}} 9. ^{{cite book|last1=Gladwell|first1=Andrew|title=Cosens Pleasure Steamers|date=2013|publisher=Amberley|location=Stroud|isbn=978-1-4456-1450-2|page=15}} 10. ^{{cite book|last1=Gladwell|first1=Andrew|title=Cosens Pleasure Steamers|date=2013|publisher=Amberley|location=Stroud|isbn=978-1-4456-1450-2|page=125}} Bibliography
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