PICTURE
GALLERY OF
STEAMERS IN
THE AUSTRALIA
& NEW
ZEALAND PASSENGER
AND IMMIGRANT
TRADE
UP TO 1914
P.S. Sophia
Jane (256 tons)
– The first steamship (a paddle steamer) to
arrive in Australia. From
a
painting
by Charles
Dickson Gregory, depicting
her arrival at Sydney on 15 May, 1831. in
his book “Australian
Steamships
Past and Present”.
RELATED
WEBSITES with pictures of ships which
carried
people to
AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND:-
1. Where to
find pictures Sail and Steam ships up to 1914:
http://www.findboatpics.com
2.
A
Picture Gallery of Steam and Motor Ships, 1918-1970s:
http://www.findboatpics.net.au
3.
A
Picture
Gallery of Sailing ships from the 1850s to the
1880s:
http://www.findboatpics.net
4. Pictures
of Sailing
ships which went to New Zealand from
Sir
Henry Brett’s
two volumes “WhiteWings”:
http://www.findboatpics.co
5. Watercolours of sailing and
other ships by Jack Spurling and
Antoine Roux and his three sons (Antione-fils,
Frederique and
Francois) of Marseilles:
http://www.spurlingandrouxwatercolours.com
6. 19th Century Ship
Portraits in Aquatints, Lithographs and
Engravings:
http://www.19thcenturyshipportraitsinprints.com
.. S.S. Great Britain (3,443 tons). The first ocean going iron hull screw
steamer built in 1843. From 1852, the Great Britain spent twenty-two
years on the Australian run from the Gold Rush years of the 1850s to
1874. From a painting by Charles Dickson Gregory at the State
Library of Victoria (H25936).
Ships
In the Gallery Are Displayed by
Companies
and most are listed by companies in:
http://www.findboatpics.com
To Find A
Ship You Can Either Go Directly to the
Company Gallery (see below) OR
by finding the
Ship’s name and Company in
the
Alphabetic
INDEX
Ship Name
Beginning With:-
(Click on the letter)
A - B
- C
- D
- E - F
- G - H - I
- J
- K
- L
- M
-
N
- O - P -
Q
- R
- S - T
– U&V
- W - XYZ
TO GO TO A
SHIPPING COMPANY GALLERY
CLICK ON THE
TWO LETTER KEY FOR THE
COMPANY
Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co.- AR
Australind
Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.- AU
Aberdeen
White Star (G. Thompson & Co.)
– AW
Blue Anchor
Line Ltd.(Wm
Lund & Sons - BA
Blue Funnel Line
(Alfred Holt & Co) - BF
British
India Associated Steamers Ltd. - BI
James P. Corry & Co. – CO
China Navigation
Co. (Butterfield & Swire) -CN
Currie Line of
Melbourne - CU
Eastern & Australian Mail Steamship Co.Ltd - EA
European &
Australian Royal Mail
Co, Ltd
– EU
Early
Steamship ES
Federal Steam
Navigation Co. – FE
General Screw
Steam
Shipping Co. Ltd. –GS
Liverpool
& Australian Navigation Co. – LA
Messageries
Maritimes – MM
Norddeutscher
Lloyd - ND
New Zealand
Shipping Co. – NZ
Orient
Steam Navigation Co. including
Joint
Service (1878-1909) with
Pacific
Steam
Navigation Co. - OR
.
Oceanic Steamship
Co. (“Spreckles” line) – OS
Pacific
Mail Steamship Co. - PM
Peninsular
& Oriental Steam
Navigation
Co. Sail
Auxiliary Steamers, 1852-1878 – PO1
Peninsular
& Oriental Steam Navigation
Co., 1879-1914 – PO2
C.T.B. Royden &
Co. – RO
Ships
from
Hamburg -
SL-DA
Australia-Sloman
Line A.G.
Deutsche-Australische Dampfschiffs
Gesellschaft (German-Australian Line)
Shaw Savill
& Albion – SS
Tyser Line – TY
Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand – UN
Money Wigram
& Co. - WG
A. Watts
,
Milburn & Co.( Anglo-Australian
Steam Navigation Co.) - WM
White
Star
Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation
Co.) - WS
World
War 1: Ships in the First (1914) and
Second (1915)
Convoys from Australia,
and other ships requisitioned- W1
S.S. Arawa I
(5,086 tons). An early steamship of Shaw Savill &
Albion
which made its maiden voyage to New Zealand in late 1884.
From a
watercolour by Charles Dickson Gregory at the State Library of
Victoria
(H13771)
How Details of Ships, Images
and their
Sources Are Displayed
A, Above Image, left hand
side:
1. Ship’s
Name;
2. Construction: w-wood, i-iron,
st-steel ;
3. Propulsion: one screw-scs, twin screws-2scs;
4. Sail Auxiliaries: number of masts and rig:
bk-barque-3masts with yards on two masts,
bkn-barquentine-3 masts with yards on
foremast,
br-brig-2masts with yards on both masts,
bgn-brigantine with yards on foremast.
5. Gross tonnage;
6.. Year
of Completion;
7. Place of Construction
B. Below
Image, left hand side
If known, the
name of the artist, engraver,
lithographer or
photographer who created
the image.
C. Below
Image, right hand side:
The source of
the image – museum, library,
book, periodical
or website.
S.S. Chusan (700 tons) .
The first P
& O liner to open a service
to Australia. Arrived in Sydney in
August, 1852. From a watercolour
by Charles Dickson Gregory at the State Library of
Victoria (H.13782)
SOURCES
A. Museums & Libraries
Picture
Australia -
http://www.pictureaustralia.org
(Provides
access to pictures from all
Australian
National and State
Libraries and
Museums.)
National
Library of
Australia,
Canberra
http://www.nla.gov.au
Australian National Maritime Museum
http://www.anmm.gov.au
National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich,
UK
http://www.nmmimages.com
State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au
State
Library of Victoria, Melbourne
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au
State
Library of South Australia,
Adelaide
http://images.slsa.sa.gov.au
S.S Orient (5,390 tons),
Orient liner which made its maiden voyage to
Australia in 1879. From a lithograph after
T.G. Dutton at the National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich, U.K. (PAH5285)
B.
Internet
"Old Ship Picture
Galleries”
http://www.photoship.co.uk
Messageries Maritimes
http://www.es-conseil.fr
Shaw Savill & Albion
http://www.shawsavillships.co.uk
R.M.S. Niagara
(built
in 1913)-
Transpacific liner of Union S.S. Co. of
New Zealand. From a card.
C. Artists
& Photographers
Allan C.
Green, Australia,
photographer,
1878-1954
Charles
Dickson Gregory,
Australia.
artist, 1871-1941
Frederick
Charles Gould,
Great Britain, photographer
c.
1840 - 1914
David
Alexander de Maus,
New Zealand, photographer,
1847-1925
Harold John Graham, Great
Britain, artist, 1858-1929
Thomas Goldworthy Dutton,
Great
Britain, artist
and
lithographer,
1819-1891
Samuel Walters,
Great Britain,
artist and
lithographer.
1811-1882
W.
Blanchard, Great Britain,
artist
William
Clark, Great Britain,
artist, 1803-1883
William Livermore, Australia,
photographer, c. 1850 -
1925
S.S. Natal (4,106 tons). The
Messageries Maritime liner which
inaugurated a service from Marseilles to
Australia in 1882. From a
postcard.
D.
Books
Arnold Kludas’ “Die
Geschichte Der Deutschen
Passagier-Schiffarht", Vol. 1,
1850-1890 &
Vol.2, 1890-1900
(WeltbildVerlag,
Augsburg 1994)
“The
Advent of Steam – The
Merchant
Ship
Before
1900” Editor –
Robert Gardiner
(Conway
Maritime Press
1993)
Charles
F. Morris’ “Origins, Orient
And Oriana”
(Toredo
Books Ltd, Brighton, England 1980)
Dickson Gregory's
"Australian Steamships Past
and Present"
(The Richards Press Ltd, London
1928)
Edwin
Drechsel’s “Norddeutscher
Lloyd, Bremen:
1857-1970”, Vol. I (Cordillera
Publishing Co.,
Vancouver 1994)
Frank C.
Bowen’s
“The Flag of the Southern Cross –
The
History of Shaw Savill &
Albion Co. Limited
1858 – 1939” (Shaw Savill
& Albion Ltd.,
Nov. 193)
.
Ian
Farquhar's "The Tyser Legacy.
A History of the
Port Line
and its Associated Companies. (New
Zealand Ship & Marine Society (Inc),
Wellington
1949)
Ian Farquhar's "Union Fleet" (New
Zealand Ship &
Marine Society Inc. ,
edition 2001)
John M. Maber’s “North Star To Southern
Cross”
(T. Stephenson &
Sons Ltd.
Prescot, Lancs
1967)
W.A.
Laxon, I.J. Farquhar, N.J. Kirby & F.W.
Perry's "The
Histories of the New
Zealand Shipping
Company, Federal Steam Navigation Company
And
Their
Subsidiaries" (World Ship Society, Gravesend,
England
1997)
W.A.
Laxon
& F.W. Perry's "The British India Steam
Navigation Company Limited" (World Ship
Society,
Kendal, England 1994)
Otto J. Seiler's "Australien
Fahrt" (E.S. Mitler &Sohn
GmbH,
Herford-Bonn 1985)
Marischal Murray's "Ships and South
Africa"(Oxford
University Press 1933)
Captain H. Parker &
Frank
C. Bowen's "Mail And
Passenger Steamships Of The
Nineteenth
Century”
(J.B.
Lippincott
Co., Philadelphia 1928)
Stephen
Rabson & Kevin O'Donoghue's
"P&O: A
Fleet
History"(World Ship Society, Kendall,
England
1988)
Ross
Gillett’s “Australian Ships”(Child & Associates,
Sydney,
1989)
Captain
R. McDonell’s “Build A Fleet
Lose A Fleet”
(Hawthorn Press, Melbourne 1976)
Ronald
Parsons’ “Steamers In The South” (Rigby,
Adelaide
1979)
James Taylor's "Ellermans A Wealth of
Shipping"
(Wilton House
Gentry, London 1976)
W.A. Laxon’s
“The
Currie Line Of Melbourne”
(Nautical Association
of Australia, Melbourne 2002)
Will
Lawson’s
"Pacific Steamers" (Brown, Son &
Ferguson,
Ltd,
Glasgow 1927)
William
Olson’s “Lion Of The China Sea – A
History
Of The E & A Line” (P & O Australia Limited,
Sydney
1976)
Norddeutscher
Lloyd opened a monthly mail service to Australia in 1886.
Three of the Barossa Class - Friedrich der
Grosse,
Barbarossa and
Koenigin Luise - each of over 10,500 tons and twin
screw
propulsion, were
used interchangeably between the North
Atlantic,
Australian and Far
East routes from the time of their completion in
1896. From Otto J. Seiler's
"Australien Fahrt" (VerlagE.S. Mittler & Sohn
Gmbh, Herford-Bonn1985)
E.
Periodicals
Illustrated
London
New
(year/volume/page)
Illustrated Sydney News
(year/volume/issue/page)
Ships
in Focus Record
(Issue No. 1, 1996 – Fleet in Focus:
Australind Steam Shipping Co. Ltd.)
Ships
in Focus Record
(Issue
No. 23, 2003 - Photographer in
Focus: William Livermore of Sydney
by Ian Farquhar)
Ships in Focus Record (Issues No.
35,
2006,
& No.36, 2007, Pts. I & II.
Photographer
in
Focus: “David de
Maus”
by Ian Farquhar
S.S.
RIMUTAKA I (4.474 tons). In New Zealand Shipping Co. service
to New Zealand with
emigrants and carrying lamb carcasses to Great
Britain on the
return journey. Made its maiden voyage in 1885 and was
sold in 1899. From a
watercolour by Jack Spurling.in Warren Moore's
"Spurling Sail and Steaam"(Grosset &
Dunlap, New York 1980)
CONTACT
The author can be contacted by email
at:
roy@findboatpics.com.au
Jack Spurling's "Hail and
farewell" in L. Cope Cornford's "A Century
of Sea Trading" (A & C Black Ltd, London
1924)
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