24 July 2008
Australian Shipping Services
Posted by Miroslav under: Boats; Books .
While continuing my research into the Lloyd Triestino “SS Toscana” (the ship my father traveled to Australia on), i was cruising around eBay and ended up picking up two interesting books on shipping services to and around Australia.
THE VANISHED FLEET - AUSTRALIAN COASTAL PASSENGER SHIPS 1910-1960
Written & illustrated by T.K. Fitchett“The Golden Age of Australian passenger ships began early this century, when the steamship companies oredered splendid new ships to trade between all the principal ports from Wyndham around to Cairns…..
Holidaymakers cruised aboard them to the Australian tropics. Businessmen enjoyed a few days’ relaxation between one city and another…..
Occasionally the voyage was more adventurous than they’d bargained for. The liners encountered most of the hazards of the seas including fires, shipwreck, freak waves, collision, and uncharted rocks. Two became mysteries of the sea when they vanished in cyclones….
T.K. Fitchett tells the story of Australian passenger liners from the arrival of the tiny Express during the Victorian gold rush to the departure of the Manoora under a foreign flag….”
HOME AND BACK - AUSTRALIA’S GOLDEN ERA OF PASSENGER SHIPS
by Stuart Bremer“Home and Back seeks to remember an era that has passed, a time when on any day major passenger liners arrived and departed from the ports of Australia.
This is the story of the principal shipping companies involved in trade to Australia and around its coastline from 1900 to the 1970s…
It is also the story of the ships that served Australia, from the humble to the grand.”
It’s a real shame that all of the local services have now gone and been replaced by plane flights :(
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