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   From Wedge's "Brown's Flags and Funnels" 1940

            (FE) FEDERAL STEAM NAVIGATION
CO. LTD.
Fleet history and photos of all the ships listed below in "Crossed Flags: The
Histories of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited and the Federal
Steam Navigation Company Limited and Their Subsidiaries" by W.A.. Laxon
with I.J. Farquhar and N.J. Kirby based on the draft by the late F.W. Perry
(World Ship Society, England 1997)
.

            Celtic King - stscs 1f2m 3,807gt                           Photo am, P117, (as Celtic
                    1891 Belfast   r/n after sale to USN, at
Sydney) Laxon op. cit.

            Maori King - stscs 1f2m 3,738gt                           Photo aq, P.117, (at Brisbane
1890 Sunderland    embaking troops to the Boer
      War) Laxon op. cit.
slq photo aq
Image No. 120025

            Port Chalmers - stscs 1f2m 4,154gt                    Photo am, P.118 (as Glacier r/n
                    1891 Sunderland after sale to USN inin 1898,
at Sydney), Laxon op. cit.

Cornwall – stscs 1f2m 5,490gt 1896        slq copy print uw
                Hebburn on Tyne                  Image No. 106151
                   slq photo aq Image No. 142360
(1899, Pinkenba, Brisbane)
                       nmm photos:
   No. G.151 (1904)
                                 aq   No. P.18398
Photo, P.119, Laxon et al.
op. cit. (leaving Auckland
with troops to the Boer
War)

            Devon – stscs 1f2m 5,489gt 1897                         Photo ut Adelaide, P.119,
                Hebburn on Tyne Laxon, op. cit.
Photo wrecked 1913, P.116,
Laxon op. cit.

            Kent – stscs 1f4m 5,464gt 1899        sln photo uw (as troopship)
                Hebburn on Tyne                    Digital Order No. a637972
                   nlnz photo uw
  No. 1/1-003354-G
Photo, P.120, (leaving Port
Chalmers) Laxon op. cit.

            Surrey – stscs 1f4m 5,455gt 1899        slq photos aq
                Hebburn on Tyne                   Image No. 179403 (c.1902)
Image No. 16367 (loading
frozen meat)
Photo, P.120.(at Adelaide)
Laxon op. cit.

            Norfolk – stscs 1f4m 5,310gt 1900        slq photos Image No.134138
                Sunderland   (1906, after arrival in Western
Australia under jury rig following
break down in Indian Ocean)
                       nmm photos:
  No. N.147 (1902,
  troop transport)
                                  No. P.18722 (1906, under
   jury rig after machinery
   breakdown)
                                                                                           Photo uw, P.122 (at New York),
Laxon op. cit.
Photo, P.122 (arriving at Fremantle
   unde jury rig 1906) Laxon op. cit.

            Sussex (ex-Karamea)– stscs 1f4m   slq photo aq   (1903, Townsville)
5,490gt 1900 Hebburn on Tyne   Image No. APO-015-0001- 0015
                                slv photo uw Image No. b39509
                      sln photos:
uw Digital Order No. 639730
                            aq Digital Order No. 639732
                                             aq Digital Order No. 639733
                                 (1917, with damaged bow
     after hitting a mine and
    refloatation)
                                                                                   Photo uw, P.123 (at Sydney)
Laxon op.cit.

            Essex – sttwscs 1f4m 7,530gt 1902          sln photos uw:
                Glasgow                       Digital Order No. a637413
Digital Order No. a637414
                   slv photos uw:
Image No. b37275
                               Image No. b39513
                          slq photo uw Image No. 66116
                          nmm photo ut No. P.18425
Photo, P.124 (at Adelaide),
Laxon op.cit.

            Suffolk – sttwscs 1f4m 7,573gt 1902       sln photos:
                Glasgow                             uw Digital Order No. a639715
   am Digital Order No. a639716
                                     ut Digital Order No. a639717
                                     uw Digital Order No. a639718
                             slq photo aq (Cairns)
                             Image No. 24425
nmm photos aq No. P.18621
                                     ut No. P.18622
                                        am No. P.18623 (Gravesend)
                                        aq No. P.30216 (1923,
   Avonmouth)
                                                                                            Photo aq, P.124 (at Adelaide),
Laxon op. cit.

            Dorset - sttwscs 1f4m7,630gt 1903          slv photo aq Image No. b39511
        Glasgow                  sln photo am
    Digital Order No. a637256
                        nmm photo No. G471 (1911)
Photo am, P.125 (at Sydney)
Laxon op. cit.

        Somerset – sttwscs 1f4m 7,150gt 1903         nlnz photo aq No. 1/2-016288-G
                Glasgow   Photo uw, P.125 (at Sydney)
Laxon op. cit.

            Durham – stscs 1f2m 5,760gt 1904            sln photos:
                Hebburn                           uw Digital Order No. a637295
aq Digital Order No. a637296
                              uw Digital Order No. a637298
                              am Digital Order No. a637299
                              (WW I, ‘dazzle’ painted)
                               am Digital Order No. a637300
                              (WW I, ‘dazzle’ painted)
                       sln coloured photo uw
                               Digital Order No. a637297
                          slv photo uw Image No. b39598
   (‘dazzle’ painted)
Photo ut, P.126 (at Wellington)
Laxon op. cit.

            Shropshire – sttwscs 1f5m 11,911gt 1911        sln photos:
                Glasgow                              uw Digital Order No. a639585
   uw Digital Order No, a639586
                               (1916, troop transport)
                                 uw Digital Order No. a639587
                              (1917, troop transport)
                            slv photo ut Image No. b39512
                          nmm photo am No. P.18619
Photo ut P.126 (at Adelaide)
Laxon op. cit.

            Wiltshire – sttwscs 1f5m 12,160gt 1912       sln photos:
                 Glasgow                                   uw Digital Order No. a640332
   am Digital Order No. a640333
                                       ut Digital Order No. a640335
sln coloured photo aq
                                  Digital Order No. a640334
                          sln photo (Wiltshire wrecked on
Great Barrier Isl., New
Zealand, June 1922)
             Digital Order No. a640337
   sln photo of wreck
          Digital Order No. a640336
Photo am, P.127 (at Liverpool)
Laxon op.cit.
Photo, P.127 (broken backed
at Great Barrier Island
Laxon op. cit.

               Middlesex (ex-Knight Bachelor) - stscs 1f2m      sln photo aq
                    7,265gt 1914 Glasgow                                        Digital Order No. a638520 .
                    Photo aq, P.129 (at Sydney)
Laxon, op. cit



                Ship details from Duncan Haws’ “Merchant Fleets: New Zealand Shipping Co.
    & Federal S. N. Co.” (TCL Publications, Hereford - reprint 1988)

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