Stewart Taylor Williamson (1888-1950) was unusual among shipowners in starting his working life as neither a master mariner nor as a ship broker, but rather as a marine engineer. As such he visited Shanghai in 1915 as Chief Engineer with the Union Steamship Company, and evidently saw opportunities there, as he joined Moller and Co and quickly became their Marine Superintendent. Probably because he was chartering ships on his own account, he fell out with his employers, but had become wealthy enough to open a coal bunkering operation in Hong Kong. To serve this business he began buying ships in 1922, but evidently saw other opportunities than carrying coal. The most spectacular of these was conversion of the former German steamer Feldmarschall, which had been captured by the British in East Africa in 1916.
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机译：斯图尔特·泰勒·威廉姆森（Stewart Taylor Williamson，1888-1950年）在船东中既不是水手大师也不是船舶经纪人，而是以海洋工程师的身份开始工作，这与众不同。因此，他于1915年作为联合轮船公司的总工程师访问了上海，并在那里加入了Moller and Co，并迅速成为他们的海军陆战队总监，显然在那里看到了机会。可能是因为他以自己的名义租船，他与雇主失散了，但已经足够富有，可以在香港开设一家煤炭加油站。为了服务这一事业，他于1922年开始购买轮船，但显然除了运输煤炭以外，还看到了其他机会。其中最壮观的是1916年英国人在东非捕获的前德国轮船Feldmarschall。
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