.
.
From
Lubbock's "Colonial Clippers"
(AW) ABERDEEN WHITE STAR
(GEORGE THOMPSON)
ABERDEEN –
iscs 3bk 3,616gt 1881 Glasgow
(after 1892 refit to bkn rig)
Marischal Murray's "Ships and South Africa"
AUSTRALASIAN –
iscs3bkn 3,650gt
1884 Glasgow
Dickson Gregory's
"Australian Steamships"
.
DAMASCUS (II)
– stscs 3bkn 3,609gt 1887 Glasgow
Ronald
Parsons' "Steamers in the South"
THERMOPYLAE (II) – stscs 3bkn 3,711gt 1891 Aberdeen
"The Advent of Steam" ed. Robert Gardiner
.
NINEVEH
(II) – stscs 3bkn 3,808gt 1894 Glasgow
.
State Library of Victoria
(H99.22059)
MORAVIAN
(II) – stscs 3bkn
4,573gt
1899 Glasgow
.
Painting by Charles Dickson Gregory
State Library of Victoria
(H13759)
SALAMIS
(II) – stscs 3bkn 4,508gt
1899 Aberdeen
.
Marischal Murray's "Ships and South
Africa"
SOPHOCLES
(II)
(ex-Ionic) – stscs4m
4,673gt 1883 Belfast (acqd.
1900)
Ronald
Parsons' "Steamers in the South"
MILTIADES
(II) –
sttwscs 2m
6,793gt
1903 Glasgow (1912
lengthened
funnel added 7,814gt)
Dickson Gregory" Australian
Steamships"
.
MARATHON
– st2scs 2m
6,793gt 1904 Glasgow
(before being lengthened
in 1912)
Marischal Murray's "Ships and South Africa"
.
PERICLES
(II) –
st2scs 4m 10,925gt 1908 Belfast
Dickson Gregory's "Australian
Steamships"
.
THEMISTOCLES – st2scs 2m 11,231gt 1911 Belfast
Photographer: Allan C. Green
State Library of Victoria
(H91.108.29)
.
DEMOSTHENES – st3scs 2m 11,223gt 1911 Belfast
Website of "The Old Ship Picture Gallery"
:
.
EURIPIDES
– st3scs 2m
14,947gt 1914 Belfast
State Library of New South Wales
(Digital Order No. a637432)
.
Ship
details
from “Merchant Fleets: The Aberdeen and Aberdeen and Commonwealth
Lines of George
Thompson” by David Savill and Duncan
Haws (TCL Publications,
Hereford 1989)
(RETURN)