SARAH SANDS - From R.A. Fletcher's "Steam -Ships
and Their Story"
(The fist iron screw steamer to cross the Pacific
from the West Coast of
the Americas to Australia.)
(ES) SOME EARLY AUXILIARY STEAMERS,
AND THEIR DATES OF
ARRIVAL, IN
SYDNEY (1852 - 1855)
Chusan
(P&O) - 3/8/1852
See Peninsular & Oriental Steam
iscs 690t 1952
Newcastle
Navigation Co.(PO1)
Australian
(A.R.M. Co) - 8/9/1852
See Australian Royal Mail S.N.
iscs 1,392t
1852 Dumbarton
Co.(AR)
Formosa
(P&O) - 22/10/1852
See Peninsular & Oriental Steam
iscs 672t 1852 Glasgow
Navigation Co. ( PO1)
Sydney (A.R.M.
Co) - 16/11/1852
See Australian Royal Mail S.N.
iscs 1,391t 1852 Dumbarton
Co. (AR).
Great Britain
- 27/11/1852
See Liverpool
& ASustralian
iscs 3,443t 1845
Bristol
Navigation Co. (LA)
Sarah Sands (T. & J. Sands) – 24/12/1852 nmm coloured lithograph
iscs 1,400t 1947 Liverpool
PAH0245
Photo in “Steam-Ships and Their
Story”
(P.230) by R.A. Fletcher,
Sidgwick &
Jackson, Ltd.,
London 1910
Illustrated London News engraving
1859, Vol. 34,
P.76
(wreck 1854, Vol. 25, P. 640
after fire)
Cleopatra (MacKean, McLarty & Co.) – Illustrated London News engraving
5/1/1853: iscs 1,500t
1852,
Vol. 31, P.181
Melbourne (A.R.M Co) - 8/2/1853 See also
Australian Royal Mail S.N.
iscs 1,450t 1849 Greenock
Co.( AR)
Harbinger (A.R.M. Co) - 29/3/1853 No pic found
iscs 848t 1847 (built for
Admiralty
as HMS Recruit)
Adelaide (A.R.M.
Co) - 21/5/1853
See Australian Royal Mail S.N
iscs 1,859t 1852 Millwall
Co.( AR)
.
Argo
(G.S.S.S. Co) - 24/7/1853
See General Screw Steam
iscs 1,815t 1853
Blackwall
Shipping Co. (GS)
Victoria (A.R.M. Co) - 28/8/1853 No pic found
iscs 1850t
Antelope (Miller & Thompson) – 27/1/1854 nmm tinted lithograph by
iscs 600t 1846
Liverpool
S.Walters (1853) PAH8929
Illustrated London News
1853, Vol.22, P.96
Croesus (GSSS
Co) - 19/4/1854
See General Screw Steam
iscs 2,700t 1853
Blackwall
Shipping Co. (GS)
Bosphorus
(GSSS Co) - 7/5/1854
See General Screw Steam
iscs 445t 1849
Blackwall
Shipping Co (GS).
Queen of the South (GSSS Co) - 1/7/1854 See General Screw Steam
iscs 1,825t 1852
Blackwall
Shipping Co ( GS).
Lady Jocelyn (GSSS Co) - 22/8/1854 See General Screw Steam
iscs 1,824t 1852
Blackwall
Shipping Co. (GS) and under
SAIL – Shaw
Savill & Albion
(SS)
Calcutta
(GSSS Co) - 22/10/1854
See General Screw Steam
iscs 1,852t 1852
Blackwall
Shipping Co.(GS)
Pacific
(S&MSP Co) - 26/2/1855
nmm
coloured lithograph by
ips 1,200t 1854
Milwall
J.Taylor (1854)
PAH8992
* List from from C. Dickson Gregory’s “Australian
Steamships Past and Present”,
(The Richards Press Ltd, London 1928)
Ship details from John M. Maber’s “North
Star to Southern Cross” (T. Stephrnson &
Sons Ltd., Prescot, Lancs 1967), and R.A. Fletcher’s
“Steam-Ships and Their Story”,
Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London 1910
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