.
From Wedge's "Brown's Flags and Funnels" 1940
(BI) British India Associated Steamers
Ltd
(A subsidiary of the British India Steam
Navigation
Co. 1881 -1914)
(Commonly
known as “Queensland Royal Mail Line”)
W.A. Laxon and F.W. Perry's "B.I. : The British India Steam Navigation Company
Limited" (World Ship
Society, Kendal, England1994) has photos of most of the ships
that sailed to Queensland British India Associated Steamers Ltd..
Merkara
–
iscs 1f3bkn 2,971gt 1875
slq copy print
(b&w)
uw
Dumbarton
Image No. 7456
slq
copy print (b&w) aq (1887)
Image No. 55978
nmm photos
No.
G.1987 (1879)
No. G.
1995 (1879)
No. G.1972 (1885)
No. G.2207 (1885)
Photo, P.213, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Roma
(ex-County of Sutherland) – iscs
nmm
photo No. G.627 (1888)
2,727gt 1873 Glasgow acqd.1881
Photo, P.216, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Almora
– iscs 1f3bkn 2,608gt 1873
slq copy print (b&w) am
Dumbarton
Image No.43560
nmm photos
No.
G.636
No. G.1992
No. G2006
Photo, No.57, John M.
Maber's "North Star to
Southern Cross"
(T.Stephenson & Sons
Ltd, Prescot, Lancs.1967)
Photo, P.46, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Chyebassa
- iscs 1f3bkn 2,664gt 1874
nmm photos:
Dumbarton
No. G.1969 (1888)
No. G.1991 (1888)
No. G.1983 (1888)
with tug
No. G.1981 (1887)
No. G.1973 (1887)
No.
G.1989 (1887)
Photo, P.213, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Dorunda –
iscs 1f3bkn 2,977gt 1875
slq copy
print (b&w) aq blurred
Dumbarton
Image No.
101316
nnm
photos
No. G.1988 (1885)
No. G.1964 (1885)
No. G.1996 (1885)
No. G.2001 (1885)
No. G.1751
No. G.1959
No. G.1968
No. G.1999
Photo, P.214, Laxon & Perry
op.cit.
Durham
1874
See Money Wigam
& Sons (WG)
Camorta - stscs 1f2bgn 2,094gt
Photo, P.73, Laxon & Perry
1880 Glasgow
op. cit.
Manora
– iscs 1f3bkn 3,242gt 1878
nmm
photo No. 1962 (1885
Dumbarton
(best of four Gould negatives)
Photo, P.61, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Bulimba
– stscs 1f2m 2,510gt 1882
slq photo uw
(Brisbane)
Glasgow
Image No. 171913
nmm
photos
No.
G.1738
No.
G.1965
No.
G.1993 (1885)
No.
G.2003 (1885)
Photo, P.64, Laxon & Perry
op. cit
Duke of
Devonshire – iscs 3,123gt 1873
slq photo aq (Brisbane)
Barrow
Image No.142857
nmm
photo (1886)
No. G.2210
nmm coloured
lithograph
PAH0359
Duke of
Buccleuch – iscs 3,099gt 1873
nmm photo (1886)
Barrow
No. G.2214
Waroonga
– stsc 1f2m 2,503gt 1883
slq
photo aq (Brisbane)
Glasgow
Image No. 151022
slv photo
am
Image
No. mp010704
Photo, No.59, Maber
op. cit.
Photo, P.84, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Quetta
– iscs 1f3bkn 3,302gt 1881
slq photos
am (c.1884)
Dumbarton
Image No.
4300
am Image No. 166677
(1884
–Thames)
uw Image No. 4302
(Suez Canal)
aq Image No. 4301
(Quetta partly
obscured by
Queensland Government
yacht
Lucinda)
nmm photos:
No.
G.665
No. G.1985 (1885?)
No. G,2004 (1885?)
Photo, No.58, Maber,
op. cit.
Photo, P.215, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Eldorado
- iscs 2f2bg 3,332gt
Photo, P.214,Laxon & Perry
.
1873 Hull
op. cit.
Duke of Westminster
- scs 3,725gt 1882
slq photo aq
Barrow
(limited view of stern)
Image No.
51532
nmm
photos:
No.
G.2211 (1885)
No. G.2225 (distant)
Goalpara –
stscs 1f2bgn 2,112gt 1883
sln photo
uw
Glasgow
Digital
Order No. a637547
Photo, P.59, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Sirsa - iscs 1f3bkn 2,610gt 1883 Glasgow Photo of a painting, P.61,
Laxon & Perry op. cit.
Dacca
– stscs 1f2bg 3,909gt 1881
slq photo
am Image No. 11517
Glasgow
nmm
photos:
No.
G.668
No.
G.1977
No.
G.1974
Photo,P.177, in Dickson
Gregory's 'Australian
Steamships Past and
Present' (The Richards
Press, London 1928)
Photo,P.216, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Nevasa
– stscs 1f3bkn 2,950gt
1883
nmm crayon by H.Y
Dong
Dumbarton
PAD6796
Photo, P.60, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Duke of
Sutherland – iscs 3,013gt 1873
nmm photos:
Pt. Glasgow
No. G.2212
No. G.2023
(negative
affected by damp)
Photo,P.223, "Pacific
Steamers" by Will Lawson
(Brown, Son & Ferguson
Ltd, Glasgow 1927)
Duke of
Argyll – iscs 3,013gt 1873
nmm photo (1885)
Pt. Glasgow
No. G.2220
Cloncurry1884
sln photo uw
Digital Order
No. a637036
slv watercolour
uw
Image No.
b45759
Jumna –
stscs 1f3bkn 5,191gt 1886
slq
photo uw Image No.
69247
Dumbarton
nmm photos:
No.
G.786 (1887)
No. G.773
No. G.2209
Photo, P92, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Taroba
- stscs 1f2bgn 4,938gt 1888
slv
photo am Image No.
a14944
Glasgow
nmm photos:
No.
G.657
No. G.775
No.
G.1692 (1888)
No.
G.1707
Photo, P.217, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Lindula - stscs
1f3bkn 3,296gt
Photo, P.62, Laxon & Perry
1888 Dumbarton
op. cit.
Navarino
– iscs 2f2bg 3,400gt 1873
slv
photo am Image No. pc000702
Hull
nmm
photos:
No.
G.1961 (1879)
No.
G.1975 (1879)
Photo, P.214, Laxon & Perry
op. cit
.
Tara - stscs 1f2bgn 4,713gt 1890 Photo, P.217, Laxon & Perry
Glasgow
op. cit.
Jelunga
– stscs 1f3bkn 5,191gt 1890
nmm
photos
Dumbarton
No. G.756
No.
G.758 (1891)
No. G.1174
uw No. P.15159
(painted white
as a transport)
Two photos (one as troopship),
P.93, Laxon & Perry op.
cit.
India
– stscs 1f3bkn 4,065gt 1881
slq photo
(arriving at wharf)
Dumbarton
Image No. 171606
nmm
photos:
No. G.648
No. G779 (1892)
No. G.795 (1888)
No. G.1960 (1888)
Photo, P.58, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Avoca
– stscs 1f3bkn 5,324gt 1891
nmm photo (1892 with tug)
Dumbarton
No. G.759
Photo, P.65, Laxon & Perry
op. cit.
Duke of
Fife (ex- Fifeshire) – scs 3,860gt
nlnz photo aq of Fifeshire
1887 Wallsend acqd.
1898
No.
1/1-025516-G
nlnz photo of painting
(b&w)
of Fifeshire rescuing
crew
of sailing vessel Patrician
No. 1/1-002358-G
Duke of
Norfolk (ex-Nairnshire) – scs
slv photos uw of Nairnshire
3,819gt 1889 Newcastle acqd.
1898
Image No. pc000700
Image
No. pc000699
Duke of
Portland (ex-Morayshire) – scs
slq photo aq Image No. 54208
3,822gt 1890 Newcastle acqd.
1898
slv photo aq Image No. b43264
nlnz photo uw of Morayshire
No. 1/1-003366-G
Zaida (ex-Kaikoura)
- stscs if3bkn
see Kaikoura under New
4,474gt
1884 Glasgow
Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd (NZ)
Waipara -
stscs1f2m 5,505gt 1904
Photo, P.94, Laxon & Perry
Newcastle
op. cit.
Carpentaria –
stscs 1f2m 5,766gt 1904
sln photo
aq
Middlesbrough
Digital Order No.a636744
nmm photo aq (1919
–
fitted
with paravane
boom on bow)
No. P.29017
Two photos (one in wartime
'dazzle' camouflage), P.97,
Laxon & Perry op. cit.
Dunera
– stscs 1f3bkn 5,413gt 1891
nmm photo No. G.787
Glasgow
Photo (as troopship),
P.75,
Laxon & Perry op.
cit.
Details
of B.I.A. steamers from Duncan Haws’ “Merchant
Fleets:
British India
S.N. Co.”, TCL Publications, Hereford
Reprint 1991.
List of
ships from John M. Maber's "North Star to Southern Cross"
(T. Stephenson & Sons, Prescot, Lancs 1967)
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