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C. STEAM
AUXILIARIES - LITHOGRAPHS BY
THOMAS GOLDWORTH DUTTON
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(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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