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(CU) CURRIE LINE (Archibald Currie & Co.)
In Steam,1883-1913 (acquired by British India S.N. Co.)
Photographs of all ships listed
below in W.A. Laxon's
“The Currie Line of
Melbourne”)
Bucephalus – iscs 1f2bgn 1,818gt 1884 Photo aq (Melbourne)
Jarrow
P.20, Laxon op.
cit.
Clitus – stscs 1f 2m 2435gt 1885 Jarrow slv photo am
Image No. b41644
Photo uw (at Sydney)
P.21, Laxon op. cit.
Photo uw (leaving Dunedin)
P.22, Laxon op. cit.
Argus – stscs 1f2bgn 2,792gt 1889 Jarrow slv watercolour uw
Image No. b45740
Photo uw (Sydney)
P. 23, Laxon op. cit.
Darius
– stscs 1f2m 1f2m3,283gt 1892
Photo aq, P. 24, Laxon
Sunderland
op.cit.
Photo aq (loading Sydney)
P. 28, Laxon op. cit.
Euryalus – stscs 1f2bgn 3,570gt 1898 slv photo aq
Jarrow
(The Bushmen’s
contingent leaving
for Boer war)
Image No. b53411
Photo uw (Sydney)
P. 30, Laxon op. cit.
Fortunatus – stscs 1f2bgn 3,425gt 1901 Photo aq (at Adelaide)
Newcastle
P. 31,
Laxon,op. cit.
Gracchus
– stscs 1f2m 3,760gt 1902
slv photo uw (BI funnel)
Jarrow
Image No. b38119
slv photos (WW1 camouflage
paint) am:
Image No. b37672
Image No. b39596
Image No. b38340
ut Image No. b39526
sln photos aq (BI funnel)
Digital Order No. a637565
Digital
Order No. a637566
Photo aq (Sydney)
P.31,
Laxon op. cit.
Hymettus –
stscs 1f2m 4,606gt 1906
sln photos (BI funnel):
Jarrow
uw Digital Order
No. a637759
uw
Digital Order No. a637761
aq
Digital Order No. a637760
slv
photo uw (BI funnel)
Image No.
b37415
Photo uw (on trials)
P. 34,
Laxon op. cit.
Itonus–
sttwscs 5,340gt
1898
sln photo am
Barrow-in-Furness (completed
as
(as WW1 Transport A50)
cable steamer ‘Anglia’ acqd/ren
1907)
Digital Order No. a637838
slv photo (at Melbourne)
Image No. b38118
Photo as ‘Anglia’
(as cable steamer at Sydney)
P. 36, Laxon op. cit.
Janus – stscs 1f2m 4,824gt 1910 Jarrow slv photos uw (BI funnel)
Image No. b38338
Image No. b38126
Image
No. b38125
slv photos uw
(WW1 camouflage paint)
Image
No. b37668
Image
No. b37667
Image No. b37666
Photo uw (on trials 1910)
P. 40,
Laxon op. cit.
Ship
details from Duncan Haws “Merchant Fleets 11: British India S.N.
Co.”
(TCL Publications, Hereford, Reprinted and Updated 1991) &
W.A. Laxon’s “The Currie Line of Melbourne”
(Nautical Association of Australia Inc 2003)
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