.
From Griffin's "Flags National and Mercantile" 1891
(CO) JAMES P. CORRY & CO.
(The five vessels marked with arterisk (*) became part of the Commonwealth
& Dominion Line in 1914. Some photos from Ian Farquhar's "The Tyser
Legacy - A Histry of the Port line and Its Associated Companies", New
Zealand Ship and Marine Society (Inc.), Wellington 1994)
Star of Victoria
(I) - stscs 1f2bgn
Photo aq, P.35, Ian
Farquhar
3,291gt 1887 Belfast
op. cit.
Star of New Zealand - stscs
1f2bgn
Photo aq, P.42, Ian Farquhar
4,417gt
1895 Belfast
op. cit.
Star of Australia* (1916
renamed
slv photo am
Image No. pc000736
Port Stephens (II)) - stscs 1f2m
nmm photos:
6,179gt
1899 Belfast
No. G.559
No. G.796 (1900, almost
identical to G.559)
Photo, P.45, Ian Farquhar
op. cit.
Star of Scotland* (1916
renamed
Photo aq,
P.252, Ian Farquhar
Port
Campbell (I)) - stscs 1f2m
op. cit. (Port
Chalmers)
6,230gt 1904 Belfast
Star of Japan - stscs 1f2m
Photo aq, P.252, ian Farquhar
6,236gt
1906 Belfast
op. cit. (in Auckland)
(wrecked 1908 en route
to New Zealand)
Star of Canada -
sttwscs 1f2m
Photo, P.253, Ian Farquhar op.cit.
7,280gt
1909 Belfast
(uw Sydney harbour)
(1912 wrecked
Gisborne
slv photo (of
wreck)
New Zealand)
Image No. bs003982
slq photo(wreck - another view)
Image No. 179354
Star of India* (1916
renamed
sln photos (as Port Pirie)
Port Pirie (III) - sttwscs 1f2m
Digital Order No. a639260
7,316gt
1910 Belfast
Digital Order No. a639261
Digital Order No.
a639262
slv photo (as Port Pirie) uw
Image No.b41383
slq photo (as Port Pirie)
Image No.134505
nlnz photo uw (as WW1
transport)
No. PAColl-6181-21
Photo uw, P.254, Ian Farquhar
op.
cit. ( leaving Adelaide)
Star of Victoria*
(II) (1916, renamed
awm photo am (Colombo, c.1915,
Port Melbourne (II)) –
sttwscs
as transport) ID No. H03160
1f2m 9,152gt 1914
Belfast
slq photo
aq (as transport)
Image No. 46284
sln photos (as Port Melbourne)
uw Digital Order No.
a639245
aq Digital Order
No. a639246
uw Digital Order No. a639247
aq Digital Order No. a639248
uw Digital Order No. a639249
(as transport, 1916)
nmm photos:
uw No.
P.12482
(Melbourne)
aq No. P.12484 (New
Zealand)
Photo am, P.254, Ian Farquhar
op. cit.
Star of England* (II) (1916, renamed nmm photos
Port Sydney (I)) – sttwscs
1f2m aq
No. P.12502
9,136gt 1914
Belfast
(Liverpool 1943)
uw No. P.23798
(WW II)
uw No. N.36420
(North Atlantic
1944)
slq photos aq Image No. 57041
aq Image No. 6216
(as troop ship
at dock 1914)
aq Image No. 116594
(as
transport)
Photo in Peter Plowman’s “Across
the Sea to War”, P.42
(Rosenberg
Publishing Pty
Ltd, Dural,
N.S.W.,
2003)
Photo am, P.255, Ian Farquhar
op. cit.
Ship list and details from Duncan Haws' "Merchant Fleets 21:
Port Line with
Corry, Royden ,
Tyser and Milburn" (TCL Publications, Hereford 1991)
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