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From
http://flagspot.net/flags/au-hfa.html
(CU) CURRIE
LINE (Archibald Currie & Co.)
With steamships in the Australia-India service
,1883-1912.
In January 1913, the Currie Line was acquired by British
India S.N. Co..
BUCEPHALUS –
iscs 2bgn
1,818gt
1884 Jarrow
W.A Laxon's "The
Currie Line of Melbourne"
.
CLITUS – stscs 2435gt 1885 Jarrow
W.A. Laxon's "The
Currie Line of Melbourne
.
ARGUS– stscs 2bgn 2,792gt 1889 Jarrow
W.A. Laxon's "The
Currie Line of Melbourne"
.
DARIUS
– stscs 3,283gt
1892 Sunderland
W.A. Laxon's "The Currie Line of
Melbourne"
.
EURYALUS – stscs 2bgn 3,570gt 1898
Jarrow
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Gallery"
FORTUNATUS – stscs 2bgn 3,425gt 1901
Newcastle
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Gallery"
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GRACCHUS
– stscs 3,760gt 1902 Jarrow (with B.I. Funnel Markings)
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Gallery"
HYMETUS
–
stscs 4,606gt 1906
Jarrow (with B.I. funnel markings)
W.A. Laxon & F.W. Perry"s "The Briotish India Steam
Navigation Company"
ITONUS–
st2scs 5,340gt
1898 Barrow-in-Furness (completed
as the
cable steamer
‘Anglia’ acquired by the Currie Line /renamed
1907)
With B.I. funnel markings
W.A. Laxon & F.W.
Perry's "The British India Steam
Navigation Company Limited"
JANUS – stscs 4,824gt 1910 Jarrow
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Gallery"
Ship
details from Duncan Haws “Merchant Fleets 11: British India S.N.
Co.”
(TCL Publications, Hereford, Reprinted and Updated 1991)
& W.A. Laxon’s
"The Currie Line of Melbourne" (Nautical Association of Australia Inc
2003)
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