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From Wedge's "Brown's Flags and Funnels" 1940
(UN) UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY
OF NEW ZEALAND
(TRANS PACIFIC
SERVICES TO SAN FRANCISCO
AND VANCOUVER WITH
CANADIAN-AUSTRALASIAN
LINE 1893-1914)
Ian Farquhar's "Union
Fleet" (New Zealand Ship &
Marine Society (Inc.),
Wellington, edition
2001) has photographs of all the ships listed below except
the Arawa
and Zealandia.
MARAROA
– stscs 2bg 2,598gt 1885 Dumbarton
.From a postcard
MONOWAI
– stscs 2bgn 3,433gt 1890 Dumbarton
Dickson Gregory's "Australian
Steamships"
.
ARAWA
1884 –
See Shaw Savill, Albion (SS)
MOANA
– stscs 3,915gt 1897 Dumbarton
From a postcard
.
AORANGI–
1883: acquireed IN 1910. from New Zealand Shipping Co.
Dickson Gregory's "Australian Steamships"
.
MAITAI
(ex-MIOWERA) – stscs 3,393gt 1892 Wallsend
Painting by Dickson Gregory
State
Library of Victoria
.
MANUKA
– st2scs 4,505gt 1903 Dumbarton
From a postcard
.
MAHENO
- st2scs 5,282gt 1905 Dumbarton
From a postcard
.
TAHITI
(ex-PORT KINGSTON) – st2scs 7,585gt 1904 Glasgow
acquired.IN 1911
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
.
WILLOCHRA
– st2scs 7,784gt 1913 Glasgow (ch.
Adelaide Steam Ship Co)
Website of the "Old Ship Picture
Galleries"
.
MARAMA
– st2scs 6,437gt 1907 Greenock
Dickson Gregory's "Australian Steamships"
PALOONA
(ex-ZEALANDIA) – 2scs 2,771gt 1899 Dundee acqd.
1908
Ian
Farquahar's
"Union Fleet"
.
TOFUA
– st2scs 4,395gt 1908 Dumbarton
From a postcard
.
MAUNGANUI
– st2scs 7,527gt 1911 Govan
Dickson Gregory's
"Australian Steamships"
MAKURA–
st2scs 8,075gt 1908 Glasgow
From a postcard
.
ZEALANDIA–
st2scs 6,660gt 1910 Glasgow (ch. Huddart, Parker
Ltd.)
Dickson Gregory's "Australian Steamships"
.
.
NIAGARA - st2scs 13415t
1913 Glasgow
Dickson Gregory's
"Australian Steamships"
.
Ships
details
from Duncan Haws’ “Merchant Fleets: Union Steamship Company
of New Zealand“, TCL
Publications, Pembroke 1997. List of ships from John M.
Maber’s “North
Star to Southern Cross” as well as Duncan Haws’ book.
(RETURN)