.
From Wedge's "Brown's Flags and Funnels" 1940
(FE) FEDERAL STEAM NAVIGATION
CO. LTD.
Fleet
history and
photos of all the ships listed below in "Crossed Flags: The
Histories of the
New Zealand Shipping Company Limited and the Federal
Steam Navigation
Company Limited and Their Subsidiaries" by W.A. Laxon
with I.J. Farquhar and
N.J. Kirby based on the draft by the late F.W. Perry
(World Ship Society,
England 1997)
CELTIC
KING - stscs 3,807gt 1891
Belfast
.
Website of the Old Ship Picture Galleries"
MAORI KING -
stscs 3,738gt 1890 Sunderland
.
"Crossed Flags", op. cit.
.
CORNWALL
– stscs 5,490gt 1896 Hebburn on Tyne
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
.
DEVON –
stscs 5,489gt 1897 Hebburn on Tyne
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
.
KENT
– stscs 5,464gt 1899 Hebburn on Tyne
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
.
SURREY –
stscs 5,455gt 1899 Hebburn on Tyne
Website of the
"Old Ship Picture Galleries"
.
NORFOLK
– stscs 5,310gt 1900 Sunderland
"Crossed Flags", op. cit.
.
SUSSEX
(ex-KARAMEA)– stscs 5,490gt 1900 Hebburn
on Tyne
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
ESSEX
– st2scs 7,530gt 1902 Glasgow
Website of the
"Old Ship Picture Galleries"
SUFFOLK
– st2scs 7,573gt 1902 Glasgow
Website of the "Old
Ship Picture Galleries"
.
DORSET
- st2scs 7,630gt 1903 Glasgow
Website of the
"Old Ship Picture Galleries"
SOMERSET –
st2scs 7,150gt 1903 Glasgow
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
DURHAM
– stscs 5,760gt 1904 Hebburn
"Crossed Flags", op. cit.
SHROPSHIRE – st2scs 11,911gt
1911 Glasgow
Website of the
"Old Ship Picture Galleries"
.
WILTSHIRE
– st2scs 1f5m 12,160gt 1912 Glasgow
Dickson
Gregory's "Australian Steamships"
.
MIDDLESEX (ex-KNIGHT
BACHELOR) - stscs
1f2m 7,265gt 1914
Glasgow
.
.
Website of the "Old Ship
Picture Galleries"
Ship details
from Duncan Haws’ “Merchant Fleets: New Zealand Shipping
Co.
&
Federal S. N. Co.” (TCL Publications, Hereford - reprint 1988)
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