State Lib Qld 1 133017 Admiral Codrington (ship)
6,629 GRT cargo steamship Admiral Codrington, built in 1918 by William Doxford & Sons of Sunderland for Embiricos Line of London. On 14 April 1918 the 838 GRT cargo steamship Southgare collided with her off Fla... More
State Lib Qld 1 126563 Alcoa Corsair (ship)
US cargo liner Alcoa Corsair, launched in 1947 Public domain image of a passenger ship, ocean liner, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Lib Qld 1 121916 Amity (ship)
Gaff rigged ketch Amity Public domain photograph of a ship, sailing ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Lib Qld 1 133349 Arana (ship)
1,471 GRT cargo steamship Arana, built by A Rodger and Company of Port Glasgow in 1897 for Robert MacAndrew & Co of Glasgow. Cia Maritima of Barcelona bought her in 1913 and sold her to Cia Trasmediterranea in ... More
State Lib Qld 1 133469 Armagh (ship)
12,269 GRT passenger and cargo steamship Armagh, built in 1917 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. In December 1923 when heavily laden leaving Liverpool she groun... More
State Lib Qld 1 133517 Athelmonarch (ship)
An United Molasses Co / Athel Line tanker. Athelmonarch was an 8,995 GRT motor ship built in 1928 by Wm Hamilton & Co of Port Glasgow and sunk in 1943 in the eastern Mediterranean by a German submarine. See com... More
State Lib Qld 1 133565 Australasian (ship)
3,662 GRT sail- and steamship Australasian, built in 1884 by Rovert Napier & Co of Govan, Glasgow for George Thompson & Son (Aberdeen Line). In 1906 the Ottoman government bought her and renamed her Scham. In 1... More
State Lib Qld 1 133593 Avoco (ship)
1,480 GRT sail- and steamship Avoca, built in 1866 by Wm Denny of Dumbarton for P&O. The Sultan of Zanzibar bought her in 1882. Indian interests bought her in 1896 and she was scrapped in 1900 in Bombay.
State Lib Qld 1 133677 Baron Saltoun (ship)
3,404 GRT cargo steamship Baron Saltoun, built in 1927 by the Ayrshire Dockyard Co of Irvine for Hugh Hogarth & Co ("Baron Line") of Glasgow. In June 1940 she was sunk by a mine off Cherbourg in the English Channel.
State Lib Qld 1 106992 Black Swan (ship)
Sail- and steamship Black Swan Public domain photograph of a ship, sailing ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Lib Qld 1 128389 Canadian Explorer (ship)
5,408 GRT cargo ship Canadian Explorer, built in 1921 by Halifax Shipyards of Nova Scotia for the Canadian National Steamship Co. In 1933 Achille Lauro of Naples bought her and renamed her Achille Lauro.
State Lib Qld 1 126643 Cap Vert (ship)
1,472 GRT five-masted schooner Cap Vert below the Clifton Suspension Bridge on the River Avon in Bristol, England. She was built by the William Lyall Shipbuilding Co of North Vancouver, British Columbia in 1918
State Lib Qld 1 126115 City of Ely (ship)
Ellerman Lines' cargo ship City of Ely
State Lib Qld 1 129297 City of Lucknow (ship)
9,972 GRT cargo steamship TSS City of Lucknow, built in 1946 by Wm Denny Bros of Dumbarton for Ellerman Lines. Alexandra Navigation Corp of Monrovia bought her in 1963 and renamed her Lisboa. Outerocean Navigat... More
State Lib Qld 1 125023 City of Naples (ship)
Ellerman Lines' cargo steamship City of Naples, built in 1908 and wrecked on rocks off Ommaizaki, Japan in 1926 http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/14007.asp
State Lib Qld 1 127623 Clan Maciver (ship)
4,606 GRT cargo ship Clan Maciver, built by Lithgows of Port Glasgow in 1921 for Clan Line. In 1951 Cia Maritima Carrena of Costa Rica bought her and renamed her Carrena. Gulf Steamships of Karachi bought her i... More
State Lib Qld 1 126639 Clement (ship)
Alfred Booth & Co's 5,051 GRT cargo steamship Clement: built by Cammell, Laird & Co of Birkenhead in 1934 and sunk by the German cruiser Graf Spee on 30 September 1939.)
State Lib Qld 1 140223 Dingadee (ship)
640 GRT cargo steamship Dingadee, built by the Queenstown & Passage West Dock Co of Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland in 1883 for the Australasian Steam Navigation Company, which in 1887 became the Australian Unit... More
State Lib Qld 1 161735 Doomba (ship)
SS Doomba accompanied by two smaller pleasure craft Public domain photograph of ferry, steam boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Lib Qld 1 142763 Dunluce Castle (ship)
8,131 GRT Union-Castle liner Dunluce Castle, built in 1904 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast and sold for scrap in July 1939. In the Second World the Admiralty acquired her as an accommodation ship. She was scrap... More
State Lib Qld 1 123329 Tug ship, Irma, 1946
Australian tug Irma, AT 2382, in 1946. Possibly at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
State Lib Qld 1 146107 Kairanga (ship)
Union Steam Ship Co of NZ's 2,830 GRT cargo steamship Kairanga
State Lib Qld 1 142151 Kaitoke (ship)
3,551 GRT cargo steamship Kaitoke in port. Sir Raylton Dixon & Co of Middlesbrough, England, built her in 1918 as War Palace. In 1919 she was renamed Cape Colony. Union SS Co of New Zealand bought her in 1920 a... More
State Lib Qld 1 146175 King David (ship)
Cargo ship King David in port Public domain photograph of ship dock, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Lib Qld 1 140907 King Edwin (ship)
4,536 GRT cargo motorship King Edwin, built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast in 1927 for Dodd, Thomson & Co ("King Line"). In 1943 she caught fire while unloading in the Grand Harbour, Valetta, Malta. She was decl... More
State Lib Qld 1 142191 Kohso Maru (ship)
3,180 GRT cargo steamship Kohso Maru, built in 1917 by Osaka Iron Works and owned by Osaka Shosen KK
State Lib Qld 1 140823 Kowhai (ship)
992 GRT cargo steamship Kowhai. W Harkess & Son of Middlesbrough on Tees-side built her in 1910 as Hopeful. Coast Lines bought her and renamed her Devon Coast. The Union Steam Ship Co of New Zealand bought her ... More
State Lib Qld 1 142103 Louis Lumiere (ship)
French 12,358 GRT passenger motor ship Louis Lumiere in port. Penhoët of St Nazaire built her in 1951 for Chargeurs Réunis. In 1962 she was transferred to Messageries Maritimes. In 1967 Hong Kong owners bought ... More
State Lib Qld 1 140587 Matangai (ship)
Passenger steamship Matangi, built in 1908 as Mourilyan. (From description supplied with photograph.)
State Lib Qld 1 167835 Mooltan (ship)
P&O liner Mooltan on her final visit to Brisbane in 1954. (From description supplied with photograph.)
State Lib Qld 1 95320 Mourilyan (ship)
Passenger steamship Mourilyan Public domain photograph of warship, battleship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Lib Qld 1 141783 Natal (ship)
Messageries Maritimes sail- and steamship Natal. In 1917 she collided with the ship Malgache and sank in the Mediterranean off Le Planier, killing 105 people.
State Lib Qld 1 64003 Ophir (ship)
RMS Ophir, built 1891 and scrapped in 1922 Public domain photograph of ship dock, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Lib Qld 1 234980 Loading cargo on to the Orange Branch at Townsv...
The 3,435 GRT turret-deck cargo steamship Orange Branch at Townsville docks, Queensland. A cargo of frozen meat bound for South Africa is hoisted aboard from the goods wagons alongside.Wm Doxford & Sons of Sund... More
State Lib Qld 1 111168 Oronsay (ship)
Orient Steam Navigation Co passenger liner Oronsay, built in 1925 by John Brown & Co at Clydebank, Scotland and sunk by a U-boat in 1942 in the Atlantic.
State Lib Qld 1 140375 Planter (ship)
6007 GRT ship SS Planter, built in 1937 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson as the passenger liner Inkosi for T&J Harrison. Requisitioned by the Admiralty 1940 for conversion to an ocean boarding vessel. Bombed... More
State Lib Qld 1 106616 Port Chalmers (ship)
Commonwealth and Dominion Line ("Port Line") 8,535 GRT cargo ship MV Port Chalmers, built in 1933 and scrapped in 1965
State Lib Qld 1 140307 Port Napier (ship)
Port Line (Commonwealth and Dominion Line) 11,834 GRT cargo ship MV Port Napier, built by Swan Hunter in 1947 and scrapped in Taiwan in 1970
State Lib Qld 1 101156, Queensland, Australia
The turbine steamship Moreton Bay, buit in England in 1921 for the Australian Commonwealth Line, transferred in 1928 to the White Star Line and again in 1933 to the Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line. She was scrap... More
State Lib Qld 1 102228 Ships moored in the Brisbane River at South Bri...
Ships moored in the Brisbane River at South Brisbane, circa 1928
State Lib Qld 1 109324 Kapunda (ship)
SS Kapunda built in West Hartlepool in 1908 and sunk by a German submarine in the Mediterranean in 1916
State Lib Qld 1 110456 Steamer Orange Branch in dry dock, Brisbane, ca...
Turret-deck steamship Orange Branch in dry dock in Brisbane, circa 1899 (From description supplied with photograph.)
State Lib Qld 1 110744 Roscommon (ship)
The refrigerated cargo steamship Roscommon, built in 1902 as Oswestry Grange by Workman, Clark & Co in Belfast, sold in 1912 to New Zealand owners who renamed her Roscommon, and sunk in 1917 off County Donegal ... More
State Lib Qld 1 111156 Orizaba (ship)
Pacific Steam Navigation Co 6,077 GRT liner Orizaba Public domain image of a passenger ship, ocean liner, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Lib Qld 1 116628 Perthshire (ship)
Turnbull, Martin & Co 5,865 GRT refrigerated cargo steamship Perthshire loading tallow and frozen meat. (From description supplied with photograph.)
State Lib Qld 1 122873 Ship moored in the Town Reach of the Brisbane R...
Cargo steamship moored in the Town Reach of the Brisbane River, 1897
State Lib Qld 1 125163 Baralaba (ship)
Australasian United Steam Navigation Co cargo steamship Baralaba
State Lib Qld 1 125727 Booyong (ship)
G.C. Skinner Brothers' steamer Booyong Public domain photograph of a steamboat, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Lib Qld 1 127731 Coramba (ship)
Australasian United SN Co's 3,551 GRT steamship Coramba, built in 1948 and sold in 1966
State Lib Qld 1 130127 St Albans (ship)
Eastern and Australasian Line 4,119 GRT passenger ship SS St Albans, built in 1910 by Workman, Clark & Co in Belfast. She ran between Australia and the Far East. Countries visited included Borneo, Phillippines,... More
State Lib Qld 1 133053 Agamemnon (ship)
2,280 GRT passenger and cargo steamship Agamemnon, built in 1865 by Scotts of Greenock for Alfred Holt's Ocean Steam Ship Co, later known as the Blue Funnel Line. She was one of the Ocean Steam Ship Co's first ... More
State Lib Qld 1 133305 Apanui (ship)
Northern Steamship Company ship Apanui
State Lib Qld 1 133581 Australia (ship)
2,737 GRT passenger liner Australia, built in 1875 for the Oceanic Steamship Co
State Lib Qld 1 133801 Bloemfontein Castle (ship)
18,400 GRT Union-Castle liner MV Bloemfontein Castle: built in 1950, sold and renamed in 1959 and scrapped in 1988.
State Lib Qld 1 133897 Lucinda (ship)
Queensland Government steam yacht Lucinda Public domain photograph of Navy warship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Lib Qld 1 134510 Bombala (ship)
Howard Smith Ltd's 3,571 GRT passenger ship Bombala. "Inauguration of Direct Service."
State Lib Qld 1 140143 Flinders (ship)
948 GRT cargo steamship Flinders, built in 1878 by A&J Inglis of Pointhouse, Glasgow
State Lib Qld 1 140423 Period (ship)
Cargo steamship Period, built by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co in Middlesbrough in 1907 for Howard Smith Ltd. In 1945 she was sold to Hong Kong owners. She then passed through Chinese and Panama ownership, and was sti... More
State Lib Qld 1 144371 Orford (ship)
Orient Steam Navigation Co's 19,941 GRT passenger liner Orford, built in 1928
State Lib Qld 1 144591 Mapourika (ship)
Union Steam Ship Co of New Zealand's 1,203 GRT passenger steamship Mapourika stranded, possibly on Mabel Island, Queensland in 1900
State Lib Qld 1 148191 Orama (ship)
Orient Steam Navigation Co liner Orama Public domain image of a passenger ship, ocean liner, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Lib Qld 1 149515 Omeo (ship)
Three-masted sail-steamer Omeo, built 1858, 789 tons. Sold to Howard Smith & Co of Melbourne in 1889 and converted into a four-masted barque. Later hulked and stranded on beach at Fremantle. (From information s... More
State Lib Qld 1 149623 Mooltan (ship)
P&O liners RMS Mooltan (above) and her sister ship Maloja (below), built in 1923. 600.8 x 73.4 x 34.10. In World War II Mooltan was an auxiliary cruiser and troopship. She was scrapped in 1954. (Description sup... More
State Lib Qld 1 163443 Lucinda (ship)
Queensland Government steam yacht Lucinda in dry dock
State Lib Qld 1 168955 South Africa Star (ship)
Bow of the Blue Star Line cargo ship TSS South Africa Star, formerly the Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Reaper
State Lib Qld 1 170603 Rotorua (ship)
Passenger steamship Rotorua in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand. (From description supplied with photograph.)
State Lib Qld 1 172739 Sydney Star (ship)
Blue Star Line 11,380 GRT refrigerated cargo ship Sydney Star, built by Harland and Wolff in 1936 and scrapped in Kaohsiung in 1967
State Lib Qld 1 179495 Loading bales of wool onto a ship, Queensland, ...
Wharfies loading bales of wool aboard a ship in Queensland, circa 1910. Two steamships are moored at the wharf with various conveyor belts in operation. Produce is stacked, waiting to be loaded.
State Lib Qld 1 202495 Loading bullocks at Pinkenba, Brisbane, Queensl...
Loading bullocks at Pinkenba, Brisbane, Queensland, ca. 1905 Bullocks waiting in cattle yards to be loaded onto a ship at Pinkenba, Brisbane.
State Lib Qld 1 242456 Breakwater and wharves at Townsville, 1924
Breakwater and wharves at Townsville, 1924. The cargo ship to the left is anchored off the breakwater. Her funnel markings suggest she may belong to the Australasian United Steam Navigation Co.
State Lib Qld 1 87568 Arawatta (ship)
Australasian United SN Co steamship Arawatta Public domain photograph of warship, battleship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Lib Qld 1 88168 Oswestry Grange (ship)
Houlder Brothers' refrigerated cargo ship Oswestry Grange loading frozen meat at Townsville, Queensland.
StateLibQld 1 132929 Aachen (ship)
Norddeutsche Lloyd's 6,274 GRT cargo steamship Aachen, built in 1923 by JC Tecklenborg of Wesermünde, Bremen
StateLibQld 1 132977 Acajutla (ship)
1,170 cargo and passenger steamship Acajutla, built in 1911 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne for the Samvarod Railway Co and registered in London. In 1915 Pacific Steam Navigation Co o... More
StateLibQld 1 132985 Accoma (ship)
US Shipping Board 2,551 GRT cargo steamship Accoma awash in the North Atlantic, 10 February 1919. Bound from New York to Brest, Accoma was abandoned in a sinking condition. All 40 persons aboard were rescued by... More
StateLibQld 1 132989 Accra (ship)
9,337 GRT passenger liner MS Accra, built by Harland and Wolff in 1926. 14.5 knots. Sister ship to MS Apapa. Owned by Elder Dempster Lines (British and African Steam Navigation Co). On 26 July 1940 Accra was in... More
Adolf Vinnen - StateLibQld 70 133022
Deutsch: Der Fünfmast-Topsegelschoner „Adolf Vinnen“ war ein Schiff der Reederei F. A. Vinnen & Co. Nach nur einer Woche Fahrt lief das Schiff am 9. Februar 1923 wegen Ruderschadens bei Lizard auf die Felsen un... More
StateLibQld 1 133029 Adonis (ship)
Compos-te-hulled paddle steamer Adonis, built in Melbourne, Australia in 1883 for Dath Henderson of Brisbane, Queensland. John Burke of Brisbane chartered her in 1915 and may have later bought her. She was lost... More
StateLibQld 1 133041 Aeon (ship)
3,763 GRT cargo steamship Aeon, built in 1913 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co of Middlesbrough for W Howard Smith Ltd of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Cambay Prince Steam Ship Co of Hong Kong bought her in 1956 and... More
StateLibQld 1 133065 Agnete Christensen (ship)
2,002 GRT cargo ship Agnete Christensen: built in 1918 by Shanghai Edward Ship Building & Dock Co as Solvær for Muller & Johnsens Rederi of Bergen, Norway. Bought in 1922 by Gustaf Brodin of Stockholm, Sweden a... More
StateLibQld 1 127067 Aire (ship)
698 GRT cargo steamship Aire, built in 1886 by W Dobson & Co of Newcastle. She was owned by the Goole Steam Shipping Co and scrapped at Hook near Goole in 1930. Goole Steam Shipping was owned by the Lancashire ... More
StateLibQld 1 117044 Airlie (ship)
2,337 GRT passenger and cargo sail-steamer Airlie, built by William Doxford & Sons of Sunderland for the Eastern and Australian Steamship Co in 1884. Burns, Philp & Co bought her in 1904. She was scrapped in Ch... More
StateLibQld 1 125511 Alabama (ship)
1,940 GRT cargo steamship Alabama, built in 1879 by Andrew Leslie & Co at Hebburn-on-Tyne as Tantallon. She sailed under successive owners, names and flags as Raymondos and Raymond before being bought by Watts,... More
StateLibQld 1 115908 Albany (ship)
Brisbane, Queensland seen from Bowen Terrace in 1898. The steamship Albany is in mid-river.
StateLibQld 1 129143 Alcides (ship)
7,634 GRT oil tanker Alcides, built in 1930 by Barclay, Curle & Co for I.M. Skaugen of Oslo. The Japanese submarine I-10 sank her in the Indian Ocean in 1943.
StateLibQld 1 127051 Alcoa Pegasus (ship)
Alcoa Pegasus, a type C1-B steam turbine cargo ship built in 1943 by the Consolidated Steel Corporation
StateLibQld 1 129126 Alcoa Ranger (ship)
Alcoa Ranger, a steam turbine cargo ship built in 1944 as the Tolland-class attack cargo ship USS Prentiss (AKA-102). Alcoa bought and renamed her in 1947, and sold her in the 1960s. She grounded off Nicaragua ... More
StateLibQld 1 133085 Alexander (ship)
377 GRT ship AlexanderMackie & Thompson of Govan, Glasgow built her in 1903 as a steamship for the Anchor Line of Nelson, New Zealand. In 1930 she was converted to a twin-screw motor ship with a diesel engine b... More
StateLibQld 1 133109 Alice Haviside (ship)
Five-masted barquentine Alice Haviside Public domain photograph of a large 20th-century steamship, ship, ocean liner, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
StateLibQld 1 123333 Tugboat, Alma lying at Cooktown, 1946
Tugboat Alma, AT 2228, at Cooktown in 1946.Part of the fleet of the Australian Army Water Transport fleet, serving in Northern Queensland and New Guinea after World War II.
StateLibQld 1 133149 Alynbank (ship)
5,151 GRT cargo steamship Alynbank, built in 1925 by Harland and Wolff in Glasgow for Andrew Weir & Co (Bank Line). The Ministry of War Transport requisitioned her in 1941. She was converted into an auxiliary a... More
StateLibQld 1 133165 American Guide (ship)
8,281 GRT cargo ship American Guide, built as Resolute by the North Carolina Ship Building Co in Wilmington, NC for the US Maritime Administration in August 1945. She was renamed Pioneer Dale in 1956. United St... More
StateLibQld 1 133177 Amra (ship)
British India SN Co 8,314 GRT steam turbine passenger liner SS Amra, built in 1938 by Swan Hunter on Tyneside and scrapped in 1966 at Keelung, Taiwan
StateLibQld 1 133253 Anselm (ship)
The cargo and passenger liner SS Anselm, 5,954 gross tons, of the Booth Steamship Company. Wm Denny & Bros of Dumbarton, Scotland built her in 1935. She was converted into a troop ship in 1940 and sunk on 5 Jul... More
StateLibQld 1 133265 Antinoe (ship)
2,147 GRT steamship Antinoë. JL Thompson of Sunderland built her in 1894 as Rossetti. Subsequent owners renamed her Antinoë, Syrmas and Anastasios A. By 1930 she was in Swedish ownership and called Gerania. In ... More
StateLibQld 1 133301 Aorangi II (ship)
17,491 GRT passenger liner Aorangi, built in 1924 by Fairfield & Co of Govan for Canadian Australasian Line. She was scrapped in 1953.
Arethusa - full rigged ship1890-1946 - StateLibQld 70 134195
Full rigged ship ‚Arethusa‘, built by Connell, Glasgow. Publisher: John Oxley Library, State Library of QueenslandIs Part Of: Accession number: 8036Collection reference: 8036 A G Davies CollectionDescription: ... More
Arethusa - full rigged ship1890-1946 - StateLibQld 70 134198
Full rigged ship Arethusa in Bristol, built by Charles Connell & Co of Scotstoun, Glasgow. Publisher: John Oxley Library, State Library of QueenslandIs Part Of: Accession number: 8036Collection reference: 8036 ... More
Arethusa - full rigged ship1890-1946 - StateLibQld 70 134203
Full rigged ship ‚Arethusa‘, built by Connell, Glasgow. Publisher: John Oxley Library, State Library of QueenslandIs Part Of: Accession number: 8036Collection reference: 8036 A G Davies CollectionDescription: ... More
StateLibQld 1 133465 Arlanza (ship)
14,622 GRT passenger liner Arlanza, built in 1911 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. In 1915 she became an armed merchant cruiser and in 1916 she was damaged by a mine. She... More