.
(EU) EUROPEAN &
AUSTRALIAN ROYAL
MAIL CO. LTD. subsequently the
ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET CO.
.
Ships which provided the Suez to Melbourne
service, 1857-1859
ONEIDA -
iscs 2,293gt 1855 Glasgow
State Library of New South Wales
(Ref: Frame Order GPO 1 16770)
SIMLA
– iscs 1f3bkn 2441gt 1854 Glasgow (chartered from
P&O)
Stephen Rabson &
Kevin O/Donoghue's " P&O -
A Fleet History"
.
EUROPEAN
– iscs 2189gt 1855 Greenock
Artust: Frederick
Garling
National Library
of Australia
(nla.pic-an13544372)
COLUMBIAN
– iscs 2,379gt 1855 Renfrew
Artist: Frederick Garling
Australian National
Maritime Museum
(00004617)
.
EMEU–
iscs 1,538gt 1854 Glasgow (Chartered in 1858 purchased 1859. Sold
1873 Subsequently
purchased by P&O)
Under P & O flag
Stephen Rabson & Kevin
O'Donoghue's "P&O - A Fleet History"
AUSTRALASIAN – iscs
2,902t 1857 Glasgow
Capt. H. Parker
& Frank C. Bowen's "Mail and
Passenger
Steamships of the Nineteenth Century"
TASMANIAN
–iscs 2,956gt 1858 Glasgow (Did not see service to
Australia.)
"The Advent of
Steam" (Editor: Robert Gardiner)
Ship details from John M. Maber's
"North Star to Southern Cross"
(T. Stephenson & Sons Ltd.
Prescot, Lancs. 1962)
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