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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 1f2mg 2,598gt 1885
nlnz photos uw (Akaroa
1909)
Dumbarton
No. 1/2-141099-G
No. 1/2-141098-G
slv photo uw Image No.
bs004077
slv watercolour by A.C. Green uw
Image
No. b45802
Photo, P.51, 'Passenger
Ships of
Australia and
New Zealand"
Vol. I 1876-1912
by Peter
Plowman
(Doubleday, Sydney
1981)
Photo, P.30, Farquhar
op. cit.
Monowai
– stscs 1f2m3,433gt 1890
slv watercolour uw
Dumbarton
by A.C. Green
Image No. b45804
slv
coloured postcard print uw
Image No. a12780
slv photos uw Image No. b37826
slq photo uw Image No. 133712
Photo, P81, Plowman op. cit.
Photo, P.40, Farquhar
op. cit.
Arawa
1884 –
See Shaw Savill, Albion (SS)
Moana
– stscs 1f2m 3,915gt 1897
slv photo
uw Image No. b41253
Dumbarton
slq photo
uw Image No. 179780
Photo, P.89, Plowman,
op. cit.
Photo, P.56, Farquhar op. cit.
Aorangi
– 1883: 1910 acqd. from
See New
Zealand Shipping Co.(NZ)
New Zealand Shipping Co.
Photo, P.88, Farquhar op. cit.
Maitai
(ex-Miowera) – stscs 1f3m
nlnz
photos
3,393gt 1892 Wallsend
uw No. 1/1-002224-G (1911)
aq No.
1/2-015120-F
aq No.
1/1-003358-G
slv photos uw :
Image No. mp010712
Image No. bs004074
Photo, P.71, Plowman op. cit.
Photo, P.84, Farquhar
op. cit.
Manuka
– sttwscs 1f2m 4,505gt 1903
nlnz photo uw
Dumbarton
No. 1/2-015024-G
sln coloured postcard print
uw
Digital Order No. a638368
sln photo uw
Digital Order No. a638367
slv coloured postcard
print uw
Image No. a12781
slv photo uw Image No. b41245
Photo, P.133, Plowman op. cit.
Photo, P.70, Farquhar
op. cit.
Maheno
- sttrscs 2f2m 5,282gt 1905
nlnz photos uw:
Dumbarton
No. PA5-037
No.
PAColl-3713-2118-1
No.
1/2-014988-G
(1917,
as
hospital ship)
No. 1/1-002212-G
(hospital
ship)
slv watercolour by
Dickson.Gregory uw
Image No.b28445
slv photo uw Image No. b43286
Photo, P.149, Plowman op. cit.
Photo, P.76, Farquhar
op. cit.
Tahiti
(ex-Port Kingston) – sttwscs 1f2m
nlnz photos uw:
7,585gt 1904 Glasgow acqd. 1911
No. 1/2-016376-G (c.1910
Wellington)
No.
1/2-014611-G (c.1915
as troop transport)
sln photos uw:
Digital Order
No. a639755
Digital Order No. a639756
sln postcard print uw
Digital Order No. a639757
slv photo am
Image No. bs004046
Photo, P.205, Plowman, op.
cit.
Photo, P. 90, Farquhar op. cit.
Willochra
– sttwscs 1f2m 7,784gt 1913
nlnz photo aq
Glasgow (ch. Adelaide Steam Ship Co)
No. 1/2-014614-G
sln coloured photo am
Digital
Order No. a640328
sln coloured postcard print uw
Digital
Order No. a640327
sln photos:
aq Digital Order No. a640330
uw Digital Order No. a640331
(‘dazzle’
painted in WW I)
Photo, P.243, Farquhar op. cit.
Marama
– sttwscs 1f2m 6,437gt 1907
nlnz photos uw
Greenock
uw No. 1/1-002241-G (1907)
ut No. 1/4-012612-G
(Wellington)
am No.
MNZ-0960-1/4-F
(as hospital
ship WW I)
sln
coloured photo aq
Digital Order No.
a638383
sln photos uw:
Digital Order No. a638384
Digital Order
No.
a638385
Digital Order
No.
a638386
sln photo am
Digital
Order No.
a638387
(as
hospital ship WW I)
slv photos uw:
Image No. mp010713
Image No. mp010735
slsa photo
uw No. B 68366
Photo, P.167, Plowman op. cit.
Photo, P.82, Farquhar
op. cit.
Paloona
(ex-Zealandia) – stscs 1f2m
slv
photos uw:
2,771gt 1899 Dundee acqd. 1908
Image No. b39418
Image No. b40110
Image No. b36342
Photo, P.103, Plowman
op. cit.
Photo, P. 86,
Farquhar op. cit.
Tofua
– sttwscs 1f2m 4,395gt 1908
nlnz
photo uw
Dumbarton
No. PAColl-0053-01
slv photos:
uw Image No. b37822
aq Image No. bs004049 (at
Nelson,
‘dazzle’ painted)
Photo, P.177, Plowman op. cit.
Photo, P. 84,
Farquhar op. cit.
Maunganui
– sttwscs 1f2m 7,527gt
sln photos uw:
1911 Govan
Digital Order No. a638453
Digital Order No.a638455
Digital Order No. a638458
sln coloured photos uw:
Digital Order No.
a638454
Digital Order No.
a638456
Digital Order No. a638457
slv photos uw:
Image No. b36771
Image No.
bs004058
(leaving
Wellington, 1916)
awm photo aq
ID
No. 302807 (Fremantle,
as hospital
ship, WW II)
nmm photos:
aq No. P.19528 (1939)
am No. N35644
(Suez
Bay,
as
hospital
ship)
Photo, P.209, Plowman, op. cit.
Photo, P. 90,
Farquhar op. cit.
Makura –
sttwscs 1f2m 8,075gt 1908
sln photos uw:
Glasgow
Digital Order No. a638278
Digital Order
No. a638279
sln postcard print uw
Digital Order No. a638280
Photo, P.181, Plowman op. cit.
Photo, P.86,
Farquhar op. cit.
Zealandia –
sttwscs 1f2m 6,660gt 1910
sln coloured postcard print uw
Glasgow (ch. Huddart, Parker Ltd.)
Digital
Order No.a640421
sln coloured photo uw
Digital Order No. a640420
sln photos:
uw Digital Order No. a640414
uw Digital
Order No. a640415
aq Digital Order No. a640416
uw Digital
Order No. a640417
uw Digital
Order No. a640418
uw Digital
Order No. a640419
uw Digital
Order No. a640422
(WW I
‘dazzle’
painted)
uw Digital Order No. a460423
(WW I ‘dazzle’
painted)
slv photos
uw Image
No. b43381
aq Image No. b38924
uw Image No. b38926
slt photo uw (Port Davey,
1933)
AUTAS001126253871
Photo, P.197, Plowman op. cit.
awm photo (Zealandia
burning
after first
Japanese air raid
on Darwin 19 Feb. 1942)
ID No.134959
Niagara - sttrscs 2f2m 13415t 1913 Glasgow sln photos uw:
Digital
Order No. a638732
Digital
Order No. a638734
Digital
Order No. a638736
(at Auckland)
Digital
Order No. a638737
slv photo uw Image No.
b39419
(Melbourne)
Photo, P.27, 'Passenger
Ships
of Australia
and New Zealand',
Vol II,
1913-1980, by Peter
Plowman
(Doubleday, Sydney
1981)
Photo, P.96,
Farquhar op. cit.
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.
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