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Photograph album of merchant steamships and motor vessels

Compiled by Henry Roderick Dundas Stewart (Died 1946)

Date1890 - 1940

Object numberANMS0804

NameArchive series

MediumPaper

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineANMM Collection Transfer from the Australian War Memorial

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DescriptionThis photograph album consisting of 186 photographs of merchant steamships and motor vessels was compiled by Henry Stewart. It is one of seven photograph albums compiled by Stewart during his career with McIlwraith McEacharn Limited.HistoryThis series consists of 186 black and white photographs of the following vessels: GMS KONIGIN LUISE, HMAS MELBOURNE, HMAS SYDNEY, MS LALANDIA, MV ALBION STAR, MV DUNBAR CASTLE, MV EMPIRE STAR, MV FIONIA, MV GROOTEKERK, MV LIESE MERSK, MV LLANGIBBY CASTLE, MV MELBOURNE STAR, MV NAPIER STAR, MV NEPTUNIA, MV NORTHUMBERLAND, MV SEALANDIA, MV SYDNEY STAR, MV VINLAND, MV WAIRANGI, PS HYGEIA, RMS ARABIC, RMS ASTURIAS, RMS AURANIA, RMS AUSTRAL, RMS CARTHAGE [I], RMS CATHAY [II], RMS KARMALA, RMS LLANDOVERY CASTLE, RMS MALOLA, RMS MINNEDOSA, RMS NIAGARA, RMS ORIZABA, RMS VICTORIA, SS ADELAIDE, SS AEON, SS AGE [I], SS AJANA, SS ALBION, SS ALOE, SS ALTONA, SS ANCHISES, SS ANGLO CHILIAN, SS ARAWATTA, SS ARGENTINA MARU, SS ARRINO, SS ASTYANAX, SS AYMERIC, SS BARRABOOL, SS BARUNGA, SS BENALLA, SS BERNECIA, SS BERWICKSHIRE, SS BINGERA, SS CALULU, SS CAORI, SS CAPE LEWIN, SS CAPE YORK, SS CAPTAIN COOK [I], SS CARTELA, SS CHEVIOT, SS CHINA MARU, SS CIRCINUS, SS CITY OF BAGDAD, SS CITY OF BRISBANE, SS CITY OF CANBERRA, SS CITY OF EDINBURGH, SS CITY OF FLORENCE, SS CITY OF PRETORIA, SS CLAN MACALISTER, SS CLAN MACKELLAR, SS CLAN MACPHEE, SS COMORAN, SS COOLGARDIE, SS COONANBARA, SS CYCLE, SS DESPATCH, SS DOM PEDRO I, SS DOM PEDRO II, SS DONGOLA, SS DORSET, SS DUCKENFIELD, SS DURHAM, SS DURHAM [I], SS ECHUNGA, SS ELBERFELD, SS ELLENGA, SS EMPRESS OF IRELAND, SS EXCELSIOR, SS FERNDALE, SS FIONA, SS FLINDERS, SS FORDSDALE, SS GALLIA, SS GLENMOOR, SS HANAU, SS HAURAKI, SS HIGHLAND PIPER, SS HIMALAYA MARU, SS HOLSTEIN, SS HUON, SS INGA, SS JOHN DE WITT, SS JUSTITIA, SS KALGOORLIE, SS KARIFSTAN, SS KEILAWARRA, SS KNIGHT COMPANION, SS KNIGHT TEMPLAR, SS KOOMBANA, SS KOONAWARRA, SS LE MAIRE, SS LEEDS CITY, SS LEIKANGER, SS LINDISFARNE, SS LOCH TAY, SS LYCAON, SS MALABAR, SS MANAPOURI, SS MARAN, SS MARAROA, SS MATATUA, SS MERKUR, SS MORDANA, SS MORUYA, SS NAVUA, SS NECKAR, SS NEO HEBRIDAIS, SS NEPTUN, SS NIPURA, SS NIRCE, SS NOORT, SS NOWSHERA, SS NYHONG, SS OAKWORTH, SS OLDHAM, SS ORESTES, SS ORITA, SS OSWESTRY GRANGE, SS OTARAMA, SS OTTER, SS OTTER, SS PENGUIN, SS PERA, SS PESHAWUR, SS PINNIA, SS PORT ALBANY, SS PORT BOWEN, SS PORT ELLIOT, SS PORT FAIRY, SS PORT HALIFAX, SS PORT HARDY, SS PORT HOBART, SS PORT MONTREAL, SS RAJAHSTAN, SS SHEAF HOLME, SS SIERRA, SS STEPHAN, SS TANNA, SS TAPTI, SS TARRANO, SS TAVIUNI, SS TENCER, SS TEVIOTBANK, SS TOGO, SS TRELEVEAN, SS TREVITHICK, SS TRIENZA, SS TYALGUM, SS ULIMAROA, SS UPOLU, SS VAN LINSCHOTEN, SS VICTORY, SS VINCENZO FLORIO, SS WAKATIPU, SS WASABORG, SS WELLAMO, SS WHAKARUA, SS WOOKATA, SS YARRA, SS YOSHIDA MARU II, SS YPRES MARU and TSS TAROONA. In the nineteenth century, shipping provided the infrastructure for the European settlement and development of Australia. It was essential to commerce that ships reached people's lives in a way which was personal and immediate; delivering groceries to small towns, carrying passengers between ports and bringing immigrants to Australia. McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co entered the Australian trade in 1887 bringing immigrants from Britain to Queensland. They also entered the coal trade. They entered into the fierce competition for passenger trade in the first decades of the twentieth century when competition for passengers required companies to provide more than converted cargo vessels. In 1909 their ship KAROOLA won a reputation for its salubrious accommodation and its size, and was the first Australian ship to exceed 7,000 tons. The company maintained the advantage in 1912 by commissioning KATOOMBA, which was larger and more luxurious than all its generation of passenger ships. With the growth of rail and road transport, Australian shipping declined during the twentieth century. McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co was a survivor and bought the fleets of James Paterson and Huddard Parker in 1961. In 1957 McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co together with Adelaide Steamship Company and Melbourne Steamship Company, set up Bulkships Pty Ltd to work the heavy ore trade and bought four ships. In 1964 it merged shipping interests with those of the Adelaide Steamship Company to form Associated Steamships. They had a combined fleet of 12 conventional cargo vessels, which they replaced with three container ships. McIlwraith McEacharn continued in the shipping trade until the 1990s when their ships were sold to a US company.