.
From Griffin"s "Flags National and Mercantile" 1891
(EA) EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN
MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.
Service Melbourne or Sydney to Brisbane, Singapore, Hong Kong
(1873 -1914)
Somerset - iscs
1fbg 962gt
Photo of painting, P.180, "Pacific
Steamers" by
Will Lawson
(Brown, Son
&
Ferguson Ltd.,
Glasgow 1927)
Brisbane
– iscs 1fbg 1,503gt 1874 Glasgow
Photo, P.3, “Lion of the
China
Sea : A History of the
E&A
Line” by William
Olson
( P&O Australia
Ltd,
1976)
Photo of painting, P.180,
Lawson. op.cit.
Singapore –
iscs 1,540gt 1874 Glasgow
Photoof painting by Dickson
Gregory, P.220, “Australian
Steamships Past and
Present”
by Dickson
Gregory
(Richards Press Ltd.,
London 1928)
Menmuir – iscs 1,940gt 1878 Sunderland Photo,. P.9, William Olson,
op. cit.
slq photo
Image No.133769
Catterthun –
iscs 2,179gt 1881 Sunderland
Photo, P.25, William Olson,
op. cit.
sln similar photo uw
Digital Order No.
a636754
slq photo Image No. 129637
Guthrie – scs 2,337gt 1884 Sunderland - Photo, P.13, William Olson, op. cit.
sln photo of painting
Digital Order No.a637589
nmm photo am No. P10639 (poor
copy negative)
Photo, P137, Vol. I 1876-1912,
“Passenger Ships
of Australia
and New
Zealand” by Peter
Plowman
(Doubleday, Sydney
1981),
Airlie
– scs 2,337gt 1884 Sunderland
slq photo am Image No. 67820
Photo, P.137, Peter Plowman, op.cit.
Eastern (I)
– 3,586gt 1899 Glasgow
anmm watercolour uw
Registration No. 00004609
slq photo uw Image No. 130718
sln photo am
Digital Order No. a637314
slv photo uw Image No. b38678
nmm photo ut No. P.10055
Photo, P.220, Dickson Gregory,
op. cit.
Empire –
4,496gt 1902
Photo, P.21, William Olson, op.cit.
Colour photo of painting uw
between P. 62 - 63,
ibid
.sln photo uw
Digital Order No.
a637377
slv photo uw Image No. b42744
slq photos uw:
Image No.134274
Image No.67819
Aldenham
(ex-Nineveh) – stscs 3,808gt
Colour photo of painting uw
1894 Glasgow (acqd. 1907)
between P.62 - 63,
William
Olson, op. cit.
Photo, P.74, Lawson,
op. cit.
See Nineveh (AW)
St. Albans –
4,119gt 1910
nla photo uw nla.pic-an24331068
slv photo uw Image No. b38689
sln photos uw:
Digital Order No.a639660
Digital Order No. a639661
Photo, P.222, Dickson Gregory,
op. cit.
Ships details from John M.
Maber's "North Star to Soutern Cross" (T. Stephenson &
Sons Ltd,
Prescot, Lancs 1967) and William Olson's "Lion of the China Seas:
A history of the E & A Line" (P&O Australia Ltd. 1976)
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