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Sydney Architecture
Images- The Rocks and the
Quay
Australasian Steam Navigation
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architect
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William
Wardell
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location
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date
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1883-4 |
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style
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Federation Anglo-Dutch
(early example)
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construction
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brick with stone trim |
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Warehouse |
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Formed in July 1851, the Australasian Steam Navigation
Company replaced the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company. Alterations
made to the Company meant that it could expand its activities within
Australasia, while still servicing the route from Sydney to the Hunter
River. Competition from other steamship companies began to arise during
the 1850s and continued to grow in the following decades. In 1887 the
Australasian Steam Navigation Company was taken over by the newly founded
Australasian United Steam Navigation Company.
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"The Liverpool and Australian
Steam Navigation Company's New Steam-Clipper "Royal Charter"
Wood engraving from "The Illustrated
London News", ca 1855. Backside is printed.
Modern hand coloring.
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Australasion Steam Navigation Company
image by Jonathan Dixon, 5 Aug 2005
According to information obtained from the Nautical
Association of Australia Inc. publication The Log, the originating
company of the Hunter [or Hunter's] River Steam Navigation Co. liquidated
and reformed in 1851 as the Australasian Steam Navigation Co. with a flag
diagonally quartered red and blue as confirmed by Liverpool Chamber of
Commerce Sheet of 1885, Reed 1891 and Griffin 1895.In 1886 the company was
acquired by British
India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. and the following year it was
amalgamated with the Queensland
Steam Shipping Co. to form the Australasian United Steam Navigation
Co. Ltd.
Neale Rosanoski, 30 July 2005
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