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(AW) ABERDEEN WHITE STAR
(GEORGE THOMPSON)

            Aberdeen – iscs 1f3bk 3,616gt 1881       sln photos am
Glasgow (after 1892 refit to bkn rig) Digital Order No. a636009.
                   Digital Order No. a636010
Digital Order No. a636012
                   slv photo am
     Image No. b42374 (pre-1892)
                   slq photo am
Image No. 34589 (post-1892)
                   slq photo print (illustrating change
in rigging plan in 1892 refit from
bk (yards on fore and main) to
bkn  (yards on fore only)
       Image No. 127956
nmm photo (pre-1892)
       No. G.1928
nmm photo (post 1892)
       No. G.1150
Photo, P.204, 'Australian Steamships
Past and Present' by Dickson
Gregory (The Pichards Press Ltd.,
  London 1928)

            Australasian – iscs 1f3bkn 3,650gt 1884    anmm watercolour uw
                Glasgow                       Registration No. 00004604
                   sln photo am
Digital Order No. a636312
                   slv photo am Image No. b41233
                   slq photo am Image No.67448
Photo, P.204, Dickson Gregory,
op. cit.
            Damascus (II) – stscs1f3bkn 3,609gt 1887    sln photos am:
             Glasgow       Digital Order No. a637154
                        Digital Order No. a637155
                     slv photo aq Image No. bs001012

            Thermopylae (II) – stscs 1f3bkn 3,711gt       slv watercolour by Dickson Gregory uw
                1891 Aberdeen                   Image No. b28442
                     slq b&w version of the Gregory’s
painting Image No.179695
                       Photo of Gregory painting, P.206,
Dickson Gregory, op. cit.
Photo of wreck of Thermopylae
near Capetown, P.206,
   Dickson Gregory ,op. cit.
nmm photos:
No.G.846 (1896)
                   uw No. P.14807

            Nineveh (II) – stscs 1f3bkn 3,808gt 1894      slv photos am:
                Glasgow               Image No. bs001011
Image No. bs001010
                     slv photo uw
(as Aldenhanm ex-Nineveh)
                           Image No. b41738
                     nmm photos:
   uw No. P.14800
                  ut No. G.543
                   No. G.575
Photo, P.207, Dickson
  Gregory, op. cit.

            Moravian (II) – stscs 1f3bkn 4,573gt 1899    sln photos am
                Glasgow                       Digital Order No. 638629
Digital Order No. 638630
                           Digital Order No. 638631
                       slt photo am c.1911
AUTAS001126071307
                       slq photos:
am Image No. 133699
                       aq Image No. 165703
awm photo uw ID No. P02292.010
(departing Sydney with troops for
the Boer War. 1900)
awm photo aq ID No. P02292.012
                       (departing Sydney with teoops for
the Boer War, 1900)
nmm photos:
No. G591
   uw No. P.147

            Salamis (II) – stscs 1f3bkn 4,508gt 1899    slt photo aq
                Aberdeen               AUTAS001126071653
   nmm photos:
   No. G.921
                     ut (as troopship)
                             No. P.14804
Photo of painting by
Dickson Gregory, P.208,
op. cit.

            Sophocles (II) (ex-Ionic) – stscs 1f4m    slv photos (Tamaroa ex-Sophocles)
                4,673gt 1883 Belfast (acqd. 1900)           ut Image No. b36278
                   am Image No. b36265
                       nmm photos:
ut No. G.687
                          No. G.430
Photo of painting by Dickson
Gregory, P.207.op. cit.

            Miltiades (II) – sttwscs 1f2m 6,793gt 1903   nlnz photo uw
                Glasgow (1912 lengthened        No.PAColl-6304-50 (1f)
   2f 7,814gt)    slq photo uw Image
No. 133750 (1f)
                nmm photos:
No. G.995 (1f)
uw No. P.14795 (2f)
uw No. P. 14796 (2f – wartime
‘dazzle’ paint)
slv photo uw
   Image No. bs001009 (2f)
                  slq print uw Image No.62012 (2f)
           Photo, P.210, Dickson Gregory,
op. cit.

             Marathon – sttwscs 1f2m 6,793gt 1904    slq print uw Image No. 83442 (1f)
Glasgow (1912 lengthened        slv photos:
2f 7,814gt)                  ut Image No. b36515 (1f)
uw Image No. mp010681 (2f)
   uw (2f - with wartime ‘dazzle’
paint)  Image No.b36282
nmm photos:
    No. G161 (1f)
   ut No. P.14791 (2f – ‘dazzle’ paint)
   ut No. P.14794 (2f)
                   slq photo uw Image No. 160566

            Pericles (II) – sttwscs 1f4m 10,925gt 1908     sln colour postcard uw
                Belfast                           Digital Order No. a639110
                      sln photos:
  aq Digital Order No. a639108
                              am Digital Order No. a639109
                       wreck Digital Order No. a639111
                      slt postcard uw
   AUTAS001126071463
                      sln photo (off wharf)
   Frame Order No. GPO 1 – 11422
                          slq photo uw Image No. 134611
                       nmm photos:
am No. P.14801
                                 No. P.14802 (maneouvring
with line on board)
     uw No. P.14803
                       Photo, P.209, Dickson Gregory,
op. cit.

            Themistocles – sttwscs 1f2m 11,231gt 1911 sln photos:
                Belfast                             uw Digital Order No. a639881
uw Digital Order No. a639882
                             (in harbour)
                           Digital Order No. a639883
                               am Digital Order No. a639884
                               am Digital Order No. a639885
                                (troop transport 1917)
                              Digital Order No. a639886
                             (troop treansport A 32, 1916)
                             Digital Order No. a639887
                      slq photos:
am Image No. 62198
                   aq Image No. 179697
                      slv photos:
   uw Image No. 36269
                   uw Image No. 36279
                      nmm photo No. G.618 (1911)

            Demosthenes – sttrscs 1f2m 11,223gt 1911    nlnz photo am No.PAColl-6304-52
                Belfast              sln photos am:
   Digital Order No. a637184,
   Digital Order No. a637185
Digital Order No. a637186
   (in wartime ‘dazzle’ paint)
                          slv photo uw Image No. b36274
                          slq photo uw Image No. 65250
                          nmm photo uw (as troopship A64)
                               No. P.14783
                          nmm photo uw No. P.29143 (1924)
Photo, P.208, Dickson Gregory,
op. cit.
            Euripides – sttrscs 1f2m 14,947gt 1914       sln photos uw.:
                Belfast                              uw Digital Order No. a637432
  uw Digital Order No. a637433
uw Digital Order No. a637434
      aq Digital Order No. a637435
(taking on troops 1916)
      uw Digital Order No. a637436,
uw Digital Order No. a637437
uw Digital Order No. a637438
uw Digital Order No. a637439
(‘dazzle’ painted as war transport)
                       awm photo uw ID No. H15741
                       slv photos uw
Image No. b39531 (“dazzle’
                                                                                        painted)
Image No. b39530
                       slq photo uw   Image No. 67449
slv photos uw (renamed Akaroa after
transfer to Shaw, Savill in 1932)
                               Image No. b38011
Image No. b38012
                       nmm photo uw No. P. 14786
                                  am No. P. 29281   (1922)
Photo, P.210, Dickson Gregory,
op. cit.

           Ship details from “Merchant Fleets: The Aberdeen and Aberdeen and Commonwealth
Lines of George Thompson” by David Savill and Duncan Haws (TCL Publications,
Hereford 1989)

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