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                C. STEAM AUXILIARIES - LITHOGRAPHS BY

THOMAS GOLDWORTH DUTTON

    . (Images in alphabetic order)

ANCONA (3081gt) and VERONA (3116gt) - iron screw
steamers -both built1879 Greenock - Peninsular& Oriental Line.. -
   Two of a class of five sister ships (Ancona, Rohilla, Rosetta and
Ravenna) built for a fortnightly Australian mail service..

"The Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Compys.Ships Ancona
and Verona built and engined by Messrs Caird & Co. Greenock"
T.G. Dutton , artist
Coloured lithograph: 19th century
Royal Museums Greenwich, London (PY5289)

ASIA - wood paddle steamer 2226gt 1850 Glreenock -
Cunard Line. A wooden hulled paddle steamer. On her maiden voyage
she made a record passage of 9 days 14 hours from Boston to Liverpool.
Her last sailing with Cunard was in 1867. She was sold and converted to sail.
(Admiralty rules provided that ships carrying mail should have wooden hulls
and be paddle steamers..These rules wer changed after the Royal Mail Line's
'Amazon" was lost by fire in Jan. 1852.)

'The Ruyal Mail Steam Ship Asia 2,800 tons,
800 h.p. Captain C.H.E. Jenkins"
   S. Walters, artist
   T.G. Dutton, lithographer
   Ackerman & Co, publishers
Coloured lithograph:
From Captain H, Parker and Frank C. Bowen's
   "Mail and Passenger Steamships of the Nineteenth Century"

AUSTRAL - 5524gt 1881 Glasgow Orient Line. Made her
maiden voyage via Suez to Melbourne and Sydneyin Jan. 1882.
In Nov. 1882 she sank in Sydney harbour while taking on coal.
She was refloated in Mar. 1883 and returned to her builders for
repair. In 1884 she was chartered for eight months to the Anchor
Line for their Liverpool -New York service, and returned to her
service to Australia in Nov. of that wear. 1n 1900. she was a
troopship in the Boer War. In 1902, she wa scrapped.

"Steam ship Austral belonging to the Orient
Steam Navigation Company Limited"
T.G. Dutton ,artist
M.Hanhart
Coloured lithograph: circa 1868=1874
   Royal Museums Greenwich, London (PY5294)

   CROESUS - Iron screw steamer - 2700t 1853 Blackwall -
   General Screw Steam Shipping Co. Designed and built
   to win the mai, contract to Australia. She made only
   one return voage to Australia before being taken as a
   troop ship in the Crimean War. She was sent to Italy
   to pick up Sardinian troops but caught fire in the Gulf
   of Genoa. She was run ashore and became total wreck.

"The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's
Screw Steam Ship 'Croesus". John Vine Hall,
Commander, 2,500 Tons 400 H.P."
T.G. Dutton, del. et lith
Day & Son, lithographers
H.J. Buchan, publisher
Lithograph: Jan. 1854
From Captain H. Parker and Frank C Bowen;s
"Mail and Passenger Steamshipsof the Nineteenth
Century"

EGMONT - iron screw auxiliary (80HP) brig - 401t 1864 Renfrew -
Panama, N.Z. & Aus. R.M. Co (1864-1869), Australasian S.N. Co
(1869-1887), legthened and re-engined in 1875 (670gt), A.U.S.N. Co
(1887-1889), several other owners before hulhed at Fremantle 1900.
Scuttled 1910.

"Screw steam ship Egmont, 516 tons O.M. 80 H.P. nominal"
      William Foster, publisher,
T.G. Dutton, creator
Lithograph: 1864
Australian National Library
Libraries Australia ID 9537936

   ERL KING -auxiliary screw steamship - 1344t - 1864 - Glasgow
   Made one voyage to Australia and in 1865 .rebuilt to 1604t and
  put in the China trade

"The Australian and China screw steam
  clipper Erl King, John Pinel Commander"
T.G. Dutton, creator
  Day & Son, publishers
    Coloured lithograph: 1865
   National Library of Australia
  (http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an9537996)

GREAT BRITAIN - iron screw steamer - 3443t 1843 Bristol
Four masted rig adopted in 1852. Made atrial passage to New
Yoyk in May 1852 and then made its first passage to Australia.

'The Iron Steam Ship 'Great Britain' 3,500 Tons, 500 Horse Power
Lithograph by T.G. Dutton after S. Walters 1852
  Royal Museums Greenwich, London (PY8914)

    GREAT EASTERN - iron steamer-18,914gt 1858 Thames.
  Designed by I.K.runel with both paddle and screw propulsion. There
were four engines In 1860, she started her commercial career in the
transatlantic servuce to New York but this was not a commercial success.
In 1865 to 1873, she was engaed laying the Atlantic telegraph cable and
other cable work for which she was successful. In 1887 she was sold to
ship breakers.

   "The Great Eastern Steam Ship, 22500 tons.
The Great Ship Company (Limited) Owners...
   I.K. Brunel...engineer"
   T.G. Dutton, artist & engraver
   Day & Son, printers
William Foster, publisher
Lithograph:1860
Royal Museums Greenwich, London (PY7064)

  INDOMITABLE -wooden screw steamer - 1701tt 1855
Sunderland - Australian Auxiliary Steam Clipper Co
   Made one return voyage London - Melbourne

"The Australian Auxiliary Steam Clipper Company.s
(Limited) screw steamship Indomitable / T.G. Dutton
del. et lith."
T.G. Dutton, artist and lithographer
Published: Illustrated London News
Print -wood engraving: date ?
Australian National Library
Libraries Australia ID 9486229

INDUS, 1847 & RIPON, 1846 - Peninsular & Orient Line
Indus- iron paddlle steamer - 1396gt 1847 Blackwall
Ripon - iron paddle steamer - 1508gt 1846 Blackwall

"The Peninsular and Uriental Stea Navigation
Company's Indus and Ripon"
T.G. Dutton, artist, engraver& publisher
Day & Son, engravers
Coloured lithograph: 19th century
Royal Museums Greenwich, London (PY8932)

ISTANBOUL, wooden screw steamer - 1470t 1856
Hartlepool - Australian Auxiliary Steam Clipper Co
Made two return voyages London- Melbourne

"Sdrew ship Istanboul / T.G. Dutton del. et lith.;
Day & Son lithrs to the Queen"
T.G. Dutton, creator
  Day & Son, other creators
   William Foster, publisher
   Hand-coloured lithograph: 188?
Australian National Library
Libraries Australia ID 9224400

  KENT - iron screw steamer 2484t 1876 Blackwall
Wigram & Sons. In London, Melbourne and Sydney
service. Ib 1880 sold to Spanish owners

"The auxiliary S.S. Kent,, 239 tons /T.G. Dutton
del. et lith.; M. & N. Hanhart imp."
T.G. Dutton, creator
  M & N Hanhart. other creators
   W.G. Foster, publisher
    Hand -coloured lithograph: Sept. 20, 1876
   Australian National Library
   (http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic 9576861)

   LIMA -iron paddle steamer - 1461gt 1851 Glasgow
Pacific Steam Navigation Co. 1851 maiden voyage Liverpool to
   Valparaiso.  In 1854, lengthened and re-engined.1863, wrecked
   off an island in southern Chile

"The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's Royal
Mail Steam Ships, 'Lima' & 'Quito' of 1,125 Tons
and 450 horse power Each."
Wm Clark, artist
FR.g. Dutton, lithographer
Day & Son, lthographers
William Clark, Grenock, publisher
Lithograph: March 1852
From Captain H. Parker and Frank C. Bowen's
"Mail and Passenger Steamships of the Nineteenth Century"


NORFOLK - iron screw steamer - 3254t 1879 Blackwall -
Wigram & Sons. In London, Melbourne and Sydney service.
In 1882,, sold to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co renamed
  La Plata. Sold again in 1893, and twice more in 1895 amd 1898.
In 1908, foundered after a collision with another steameroff Dungeness

" Messrs. Money Wigram & Sons steam ship Norfolk
3196 tons, 2.500 horsepower / T.G. Dutton delt. et lith.
John B. Day lith., etc"
T.G. Dutton, creator
John B. Day, other creator and publisher
   Hand coloured lithograph: Oct. 3 1879
   Australian National Library
    (http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an9576730)

NORTHUMBERLAND - iron screw steamer - 2178t - Blackwall -
1871 -Wigram & Sons Line. On London-Melbourne - Sydney run
   until 1881. Sold 1882 to Shaw Savill & Albion Co who converted
   the vessel to sail. In 1887, wrecked at Napier, New Zealand.

"Messrs. Money Wigram & Sons Australian steamship Northumberland,
500 horse power, 2180 tons / T.G. Dutton delt. et lith."
   T.G. Dutton, creator
   William Foster, publisher
Hand-coloured lithograph: Dec. 20, 1871
Australian National Library
(http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an9576727)

ORIENT - iron screw steamer 5386t 1879 Glagow
Orient Line. On London, Nelbourne and Sydney run.
In 1884, electric lihying installed. 1898 modernised
and re-engined. 1899-1902 used as a troop transport.
1903 resumed its Australia service. 1910 sold to ship
  breakers

   The Orient Steam Navigation Company's steamer
   'Orient' Built and Engined by John Elder & Co."
By and after T.G.Dutton
   Royal Museums Greenwich, London (PY5285)

            PACIFIC - iron paddle steamer -1469t, 1854 Millwall.
Sydney & Melbourne S.P. Co (1854-1858), returned to U.K.1858,
H. Taylor & Partners (1858-1859), Atlantic Royal Mail S,N. Co.
(1859-1861), H. Lafone (1865-1866), converted to screw steamer
1866, United States & United Kingdom S.S. Line (1866-1871),
wrecked on the Shetland Islands 1871..
.

"The Sydney and Melbourne Steamship Company's
iron steamship Pacific.."
Joshua Taylor, del.
T.G. Dutton, lith.
Ackerman & Co, publisher
Hand-coloured lithograph: Mar. 18, 1854
Australian National Library
Libraries Australia ID 9576713

SULTAN - iron sgrew steamer - 2502t 1873 Blackwall
Built by R & H Green for the Flackwall Line's India trade. In
1879, made a return voyage via Suez to Melbourne and Sydney
for the Orient Line. Sold later in 1879 to a Spanish owner.
Foundered in 1889 off tnorthern Spain.

"Screw Steam ship 'Sultan' 2225 Toms,
240 H.P.W.F. Owen Commander"
T.G. Dutton, artist
William Foster
Coloured lithograph
Royal Museums Greenwich, London (PY9333)

               VICEROY - iron screw steamer - 2477t 1871 Blackwall
Built by R & H Green at Blacwall for the Blackall Lines
trade with India. Sold in 1883 to W.J. Jobling.. Abandoned
and foundered in 1886 ona voyage New Orleans to Bremen
with a cargo of cotton and maize

"Steam Ship Viceroy, 2225 tons, 240 H.P.
J.H. Taylor Commander"
T.G.Dutton
William Foster
Coloure lithograph: Sept. 1871
Royal Museums Greenwich, London (PY9328)




SOURCES

i. Royal Museums Grenwich, London, Picture Library
(http://images.rmg.co uk)
2. Australian National Library, Canberra, ACT, Australia
(http://nla.gov.au)
    3. Captain H. Parker and Frank C, Bowen's
"Mail and Passenger Steamships of the Nineteenth Century'
Introduction by A.G.H. Mapherson
( J.B.Lippincott Company, Philadelphia)
4. Duncan Haws' "Merhant Fleets in Profile ! -
"The ships of the P&O, Orient and Blue Anchor lines"
(Patrick Stephens Ltd, Bar Hill, Camgridge 1978)
            5. Duncan Haws' "Merchant Fleets in Profile 2 -
"The Ships of the Cunard. American Red Star, Inman,
Leyland, Dominion, Atlantic Transport and White Star lines
(Patrick Stevens Ltd., Bar Hill, Cambridge 1979
6. Duncan Haws' "Merchant Fleets 8 -
"Pacific Steam Navigation Company
(TCL PublicationsBurwash East Sussex1984)
7. John N. Maber's "North Star to Southern Cross"
(T.Stephenson & Sons Ltd,. Prescot, Lancs 1967)
8. Miramar Ship Index
(http://www.miramar.co.nz)
9. Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping.



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