.
From
Wedge's "Brown's Flags and Funnels" 1940
(BI)
British India Associated Steamers
Ltd
(A subsidiary of the British
India Steam
Navigation
Co.
with a service from the
United Kingdom to Queensland
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 in the service to
Queensland.
MERKARA
–
iscs 1f3bkn 2,971gt 1875 Dumbarton
.
Laxon & Perry, op.
cot.
ROMA
(ex-COUNTY OF SUTHERLAND) – iscs 2,727gt 1873 Glasgow
acquired 1881
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
.
ALMORA
– iscs 1f3bkn 2,608gt 1873 Dumbarton
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Gallery"
.
CHYEBASSA
- iscs 1f3bkn 2,664gt 1874
Dumbarton
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Gallery"
.
DORUNDA –
iscs 1f3bkn 2,977gt 1875 Dumbarton
Artist: William Clark
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,
U.K.
(BHC3290-2)
.
DURHAM
1874 -- See Money Wigam
& Sons (WG)
CAMORTA - stscs 1f2bgn 2,094gt 1880 Glasgow
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
MANORA
– iscs 1f3bkn 3,242gt 1878 Dumbarton
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
.
BULIMBA
– stscs 1f2m 2,510gt 1882 Glasgow
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
.
DUKE OF
DEVONSHIRE – iscs 3,123gt 1873 Barrow
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Gallery"
.
DUKE OF
BUCCLEUCH – iscs 3,099gt 1873
Barrow
National Maritime
Museum, Greenwich, U.k.
(G2228)
WAROONGA
– stsc 1f2m 2,503gt 1883 Glasgow
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
.
QUETTA
– iscs 1f3bkn 3,302gt 1881 Dumbarton
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
.
ELDORADO
- iscs 2f2bg 3,332gt 1873 Hull
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
.
DUKE OF
WESTMINSTER
- scs 3,725gt 1882 Barrow
No image found
GOALPARA –
stscs 1f2bgn 2,112gt 1883 Glasgow
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
SIRSA -
iscs 1f3bkn 2,610gt 1883 Glasgow
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
DACCA
– stscs 1f2bg 3,909gt 1881 Glasgow
Dickson
Gregory's "Australian Steamships"
:
.
NEVASA
– stscs 1f3bkn 2,950gt
1883 Dumbarton
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
DUKE OF SUTHERLAND – iscs 3,013gt
1873 Pt. Glasgow
Will Lawson's
"Pacific Steamers"
.
DUKE OF
ARGYLL – iscs 3,013gt 1873 Port Glasgow
No image found
CLONCURRY 1885
Ronald Parsons' "Steamers in the South"
JUMNA –
stscs 1f3bkn 5,191gt 1886 Dumbarton
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
.
TAROBA
- stscs 1f2bgn 4,938gt 1888 Glasgow
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
:
LINDULA - stscs
1f3bkn 3,296gt 1888 Dumbarton
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
NAVARINO
– iscs 2f2bg 3,400gt 1873 Hull
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
.
TARA -
stscs 1f2bgn 4,713gt 1890 Glasgow
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
.
JELUNGA
– stscs 1f3bkn 5,191gt 1890 Dumbarton
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Gallery"
.
INDIA
– stscs 1f3bkn 4,065gt 1881 Dumbarton
Laxon & Perry. op. cit.
.
AVOCA– stscs 1f3bkn 5,324gt
1891 Dumbarton
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
.
DUKE OF FIFE (ex- FIFESHIRE)
– scs 3,860gt 1887 Wallsend acqd.
1898
As FIFESHIRE
Website of th"Old Ship Picture Gallery"
.
DUKE OF
NORFOLK (ex-NAIRNSHIRE-I of Shire Line) – scs 3,819gt 1889
Newcastle
As NAIRNSHIRE.From a photo montage by David de Maus
Article by Ian farquhar in
Ships in Focus Record No.36
.
DUKE OF PORTLAND (ex-MORAYSHIRE-I
of Shire Line)
– scs 3,822gt 1890 Newcastle
As MORAYSHIRE. From a photo montage of
David de Maus
Article by Ian Farquhar
in
Ships in Focus Record No. 36
ZAIDA (ex-KAIKOURA)
- stscs if3bkn 4,474gt
1884 Glasgow
Laxon & Perry. op. cit.
WAIPARA -
stscs1f2m 5,505gt 1904 Newcastle
Laxon & Perry. op. cit.
.
CARPENTARIA –
stscs 1f2m 5,766gt 1904 Middlesbrough
(In World War I "dazzle' paint)
Laxon & Perry, op. cit.
.
DUNERA
– stscs 1f3bkn 5,413gt 1891 Glasgow
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Gallery"
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)
(RETURN)