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The Fleets
Australasian Pacific
Mail Steam Packet Company
1852-1854
In April 1852 members of the Royal
Mail Steam Packet Co.
and Pacific Steam Navigation Co. founded the Australasian Pacific Mail
Steam Packet Company to provide a monthly trans Pacific service and a
fleet of five iron screw passenger cargo steamers was ordered and a monthly
service from Panama to Tahiti, Wellington and Sydney was started and
worked in connection with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. service between
Southampton and Chagres. In addition to the five steamers a smaller vessel
the PELICAN was ordered for a feeder service between Sydney and Port
Philip.
The Pacific Steam Navigation Co. was appointed to manage
the new company. Already in 1854 when the first ship was delivered the
whole
service scheme was abandoned due the high coal prices in the Pacific
and the PELICAN was cancelled. Two ships were temporarily chartered
to the British Government in 1854. Due the start of the Crimean War the
decision was made to wound up the company and the ships were sold.
Many thanks to Henk Jungerius and Ted Finch for their assistance
in collecting this data. The following list was extracted from various
sources. This is not an
all inclusive list but should only be used as a guide. If you would like
to know more about a vessel, visit the Ship
Descriptions (onsite) or Immigrant
Ship web site.
| Vessel |
Built |
Years in Service |
Tons |
| Black Swan |
1854 |
built by R. Napier, Govan | 1854 sold to Messageries
Imperiales renamed Gange, 1887 scrapped. |
1,483 |
| Dinornis |
1854 |
built by Wood & Reid Port Glasgow | 1854 sold to Messageries
Imperiales renamed Indus, 1884 scrapped. |
1,625 |
| Emeu |
1854 |
built by R. Napier, Govan | 1854 chartered to the
Admiralty for Crimean War transport work at the rate of £100 per
day, 1854 sold to British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet
Co. (Cunard Line), Liverpool,
continued on Crimea War service as Transport No 74, 1857 chartered
to European and Australian Royal
Mail Steam Packet Co. which had taken over mail services to Australia
from P&O, to replace their ONEIDA on the Suez-Sydney leg of the route,
1858 purchased by The Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, 1859 delivered at Sydney
and put on Sydney-Mauritius-Suez route, 1860 Bombay-Hong Kong service,
1873 sold for £6,509 at auction to William McArthur, London, 1875
sold to John Smith, Millwall, 1875 sold to M B Pearson, London, 1875
sold to G. Crowshaw, London, 1876 resold to William McArthur, reduced
to a sailing vessel and renamed WINCHESTER, 1879 sold to G. Crowshaw
and Co., London, 14th July 1880 lost in the Macassar Strait when
on a voyage from Manila to Montreal with a cargo of sugar. |
1,666 |
| Kangaroo |
1854 |
built by Hill, Bristol | 1854 chartered to the Admiralty
for Crimean War transport work at the rate of £100 per day, 1854
sold to Inman Line, continued
on Crimea War service, 1856 entered Inman service, 1870 chartered
to H. E. Bates & Co., 1876 sold to Telegraph Construction & Maintenance
Co., converted into a cable ship, 1888 sold to Turkey renamed Selamet,
1901 scrapped. |
1,773 |
| Menura |
1854 |
built by Miller Ravenhill, London | 1854 sold to Messageries
Imperiales renamed Euphrate, 1887 scrapped. |
1,643 |
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