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==History==
[[File:Sea Containers House (geograph 3183137).jpg|thumb|[[Sea Containers House]] on the [[River Thames]] in [[London]]]]
[[Yale University]] graduate and retired [[United States Navy]] officer [[James Sherwood]] founded Sea Containers in 1965, with initial capital of [[United States dollar|$]]100,000.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Sea-Containers-Ltd-Company-History.html| title=Sea Containers Ltd. - Company History| publisher=Funding Universe| accessdate=31 March 2009}}</ref> It was later listed on the [[New York Stock Exchange]]. In May 1989, UK based [[Tiphook]] launched an unsuccessful takeover bid for the company.<ref name=Observer>[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/may/07/theobserver.observerbusiness Sea Containers grabs at a lifeline] ''[[The Observer]]'' 7 May 2006</ref>
Over 40 years, Sherwood expanded Sea Containers from a supplier of leased cargo containers, into various shipping companies, as well as expanding the company into luxury hotels and railway trains, including the [[Venice-Simplon Orient Express]] and the [[Great North Eastern Railway]] train operating company.
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