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Company description
SOUTHAMPTON ISLE OF WIGHT AND SOUTH OF ENGLAND ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 10 September 1861; registered for 164 years; registered office reported in HAMPSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 50100 · Sea and coastal passenger water transport, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 4 PSC records, 4 trade marks. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- SOUTHAMPTON ISLE OF WIGHT AND SOUTH OF ENGLAND ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY LIMITED
- Company number
- 00002404
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 142 total · 39 outstanding · 103 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2024Next accounts due
28 September 2026Last statement made up to
7 August 2025Next statement due
21 August 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- -100.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 21.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 81.9%
- Men receiving bonus
- 90.3%
- Women in top quartile
- 17.6%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 33.6%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 51.1%
- Women in lower quartile
- 48.9%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 250 to 49919.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49922.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49922.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49923.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99924.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99935.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99930.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99935.9% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 30 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 45 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £7,715,000
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £11,657,000
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £2,560,000
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £12,225,000
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 58.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 45 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The business's main standard payment terms are "30 Days End Of Month", which has been shown above as 45 Days.
- Dispute resolution process
We value our supplier relationships. In the event of a query, the business and finance teams work with the supplier to ensure all issues are dealt with as quickly as possible.
Earlier payment reports (10 shown)
- 42.0 average days to pay47.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay55.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay57.0% outside terms
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- 29.0 average days to pay47.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay56.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay45.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay68.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
SOUTHAMPTON ISLE OF WIGHT AND SOUTH OF ENGLAND ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY LIMITED
LEI 213800UT5SQMEUTX2U17 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 10 September 1861
- Initial LEI registration
- 2 May 2014
- LEI last updated
- 20 August 2026
- Next renewal
- 19 August 2026
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Other legal names
- SIOW
- Legal address
- 12 BUGLE STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, GB-STH, SO14 2JY, GB
- Headquarters address
- 12 BUGLE STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, GB-STH, SO14 2JY, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
RED JET
Owner Southampton Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Limited · classes 12,39
- Filed / designated
- 5 July 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 July 2027
RED FUNNEL
Owner Southampton Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Limited · classes 12,39
- Filed / designated
- 5 July 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 July 2027
Red Funnel
Owner Southampton Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Limited · classes 12,39
- Filed / designated
- 24 July 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 July 2025
Red Jet
Owner Southampton Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Limited · classes 12,39
- Filed / designated
- 24 July 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 July 2025
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Falcon Acquisitions Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- England And Wales
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- England And Wales
- Registration number
- 06238324
- Notified
- 31 January 2018
Red Funnel Group (Holdings) Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- England And Wales
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- England And Wales
- Registration number
- 05115188
- Notified
- 31 January 2018
- Ceased
- 31 January 2018
Red Funnel Group Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- England And Wales
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- England And Wales
- Registration number
- 03968658
- Notified
- 31 January 2018
- Ceased
- 31 January 2018
Red Funnel Ferries Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- English Law
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Uk Company Register
- Registration number
- 04281782
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 31 January 2018
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Sea and coastal freight water transport
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.