.
From
Griffin's "Flags National and Mercantile" 1891
(AA) Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation
Co.
(est. 1883 by William
Milburn & Co.)
(The nine vessels marked with asterisks below became part of the Commonwealth &
Dominion Line when it was established in 1914.)
Reference is made below to some photos from Ian Farquhar's "The
Tyser Legacy -
A History of the Port
Line and its associated companies", New Zealand Ship and
Marine Society (Inc), Wellington 1994
Port Phillip – iscs 1f2bg
2,671gt 1883 Photo am, P.13, Farquhar
Newcastle
op. cit.
Tiverton
– iscs 1f2bgn
2,581gt
1883
nmm photos:
Newcastle No.
G.1505 (1884)
No. G.1710 (1884)
am No. P.13402
(1884)
Port Adelaide (I) – iscs 1f2bg
2,751gt Photo am, P.264, Farquhar
1884
Newcastle
op. cit.
Port
Jackson (I)
– iscs 1f2bg
2,644gt
slq photo am Image No.127939
1883
Newcastle
nmm photo am
No. P.12473 (1883)
Photo am, P.57, Farquhar
op. cit.
Port
Victor (I) – stscs
1f3bk
2,793gt
nmm photo ut No. G.1950
1885 Newcastle
Photo am,
P.265, Farquhar
op. cit.
Port Augusta (I) – stscs 1f3bk
2,883gt Photo uw, P.266, Farquhar
1886
Newcastle
op.
cit..
Port Pirie(I)
– stscs
1f3bk
3,109gt
nmm photo No.
G.2030
1886
Newcastle
Photo am, P.265, Farquhar
op. cit.
Port Denison (I) – stscs
1f3bk 3,506gt Photo am,
P.267, Farquhar
1887
Newcastle
op. cit.
Port
Fairy – stscs 1f3bkn
2,581gt
nmm photo No. G.2022
1887
Newcastle
Photo am, P.267, Farquhar
op. cit.
Port
Albert (I) – stscs
1fbgn
4,370gt
slv photo am
Image No. b38530
1891
Newcastle
nmm photo No. G.571
Photo am, P.268, Farquhar
op. cit.
Port
Chalmers
(I) – stscs 1f2bgn 4,154gt Photo am, P.269, Farquhar
1891
Sunderland
op. cit.
Port Melbourne (I) – stscs
1f2bgn
Photo uw, P.270, Farquhar
4,670gt
1892 Hebburn-on-Tyne
op. cit.
(the first without clipper bow)
Port Elliot (I) – stscs 1f2m
3,556gt
Photo aq, P.271, Farquhar .
1894
Newcastle
op. cit
Port Stephens (I) – stscs 1f2m
3,554gt
Photo, P.59, Farquhar
1894
Sunderland
op.
cit.
Port
Denison (II) – stscs
1f2m
3,435gt
nmm photo uw No.
P.12449
1896
Newcastle
Photo
aq, P.272, Farquhar
op. cit.
Port Albert (II) – stscs 1f2m
3,514gt
Photo aq, P.273, Farquhar
1897
Newcastle
op. cit.
Port Victoria – stscs 1f2m
3,378gt
Photo aq, P.274, Farquhar
1897
Sunderland
op. cit.
Port
Caroline (II) – stscs 1f2m
4,076gt
sln photos:
1905
Newcastle
aq Digital Order No. a639197
aq Digital Order
No. a639198
slq photo aq Image No. 134589
Photo aq, P.275, Farquhar
op.
cit.
Port
Hunter (III)* – stscs 1f2m 4,062gt
slv photos:
1906
Newcastle
uw
Image No. b37290
uw Image No. pc000612
(as S.S. Dargan ex-Port
Hunter)
ut Image No.
b37314
sln
photo am
Digital Order No.
a639228
Photo am, P.276, Farquhar
op. cit.
Port
Augusta (II)* –
stscs 1f2m
4,063gt
sln
photo aq
1906
Newcastle
Digital Order
No. a639192
nmm photo
ut No. P.12433
Photo aq, P.58, Farquhar
op. cit.
Port Phillip (III)* – stscs
1f2m 4,060gt Photo am, P.277, Farquhar
1906
Newcastle
op. cit.
Port Pirie
(II)* – stscs
1f2m
4,068gt
sln photo
am
1907 Newcastle
Digital Order No. a639259
Photo uw, P.278, Farquhar
op. cit.
Port
Curtis (I)*– stscs
1f2m
4,710gt
slv photo ut Image
No. b37312
1910
Newcastle
sln photo of
painting
(Port Curtis
in rough weather)
Digital Image No.
a639204
Photo aq. P.279, Farquhar
op. cit.
Port Kembla (I)*
– stscs
1f2m
4,700gt
slv
photo uw Image No. b37288
1910
Newcastle
sln photo
aq
Digital Image No.a639230
Photo, P.81, Farquhar
op.
cit.
Port
Macquarie
(I)* –
stscs
1f2m
awm photo of painting uw (as
7,236gt 1912
Newcastle
WWI transport ‘A29’)
ID No. P00591.007
sln photo ut
Digital Order No. a639243
slq photo aq Image No. 134491
slv photo ut
Image No.
b37319
Photo am, P.280, Farquhar
op. cit.
Port
Lincoln
(I)* – stscs 1f2m
7,243gt
sln postcards
1912
Newcastle
uw Digital Order No. a639231
aq Digital
Order No. a639232
aq Digital
Order No.
a639233
(wartime ‘dazzle’ paint)
aq Digital Order No.
a639234
(wartime
‘dazzle’ paint)
uw
Digital Order No. a639235
(as WW I transport
‘A17’)
awm
picture uw
(as troop transport)
ID No.
H15982
nmm photos:
ut No. P.12477
No. P. 29923 (1923 –
in dock, London)
Port
Albany (I)*– stscs
1f2m
5,714gt
sln photos:
1914
Newcastle
aq Digital Order
No.
a639185
uw Digital Order No.
a639186
aq Digital Order No. a639187
slv photo uw Image No. b43553
slq photo aq Image
No. 134605
nmm photo am No.
P1242
Ship details
from Duncan Haws’ “Merchant Fleets 21: Port Line,
with
Cory,
Royden, Tyser and Milburn” (TCL Publication, Hereford 1991)
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