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Shell’s founder Marcus Samuel and his brother Samuel ran a thriving family business in the East End of London, trading in Far Eastern goods, including ornamental jewel boxes studded with seashells.

The Murex, built by William Gray & Co of Hartlepool for Marcus Samuel, became the first laden tanker to transit the Suez Canal.

Shell Shipping and Trading Company Ltd was formed.

Shell joined forces with Anglo-Saxon Petroleum and designed the Vulcanus - which was the world’s first ocean-going motor ship and heralded a new age for diesel engine propulsion.

Agnita, the world’s first purpose-built LPG carrier, is launched. She is designed to carry three different types of cargo— gasoil, sulphuric acid & LPG.

Shell designed the ‘Triple-Twelves’ (12,000 tonnes of cargo at 12 knots, consuming 12 tonnes of fuel per day. Shell’s vessel design was adopted as the standard tanker for the �鶹��ý government’s massive building programme.

Shell’s Marine Department lead planning on converting seven British and two Dutch Triple Twelves to Merchant Aircraft Carriers, which helped them to win the Battle of the Atlantic.

At the end of World War Two, the Shell emblem was added to the funnel and a programme to replace lost tonnage was started.

Auricula becomes the first motor ship to operate its diesel engines on heavy fuel oil.

At Wallsend-on-Tyne, the world’s first “super tanker’, a steam-driven ship of 28,000 deadweight tonnes called the “Velutina” was constructed.

In 1964, the world’s first commercial LNG Carriers “Methane Princess” and “Methane Progress“, were completed and Shell became a world leader in the maritime transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

The Group acquired the complete assets and business of the Canadian Eagle Oil Company unifying Eagle and Shell ships under one flag.

The beginning of a long and successful partnership with Brunei LNG project is marked by the delivery of the Gadinia, the first of seven G-class LNG Carriers.

The closure of the Suez Canal generated more demand for bigger ships. A third Shell Murex, a very large crude carrier, or VLCC, is built to carry up to 200,000 tonnes of oil.

The first floating production storage and offtake facility, the Shell Castellon, was deployed in the Mediterranean.

The product tanker Eburna sails with the British Task force to the Falkland Islands.

The Northwest Shelf project is the first LNG project in Australia. The LNG fleet construction and operations have been actively supported by Shell Shipping and Maritime since the first vessel Northwest Sanderling entered service in 1989.

The collaboration with Nigeria LNG began with the re-activation of the LNG Bonny, LNG Finima, LNG Lagos and LNG Port Harcourt in preparation for the commencement of the plant start-up in 1996.

A partnership with NAKILAT saw Shell Shipping and Maritime taking delivery of 25 of the largest LNG carriers ever built, commencing with the Mozah in 2008.

The Prelude FLNG facility is delivered and is the largest floating structure ever constructed. Shipping and Maritime supported the hull and utilities design and construction.

Shell introduced an LNG bunker vessel into the fleet, continuing its legacy of innovation.

A fifth Murex vessel is launched as part of a new generation of LNG carriers, 126 years after the first Murex in 1892.

Shell Shipping and Maritime, with its partners in the HySTRA project, begin operation of the world's first liquid hydrogen carrier, called the Suiso Frontier.