Title: Merchant Fleets
First published: 1087
Description: This book is the story from 1875 until the present day, of one of the greatest ever shipping companies. The Union Steamship Company of New Zealand must surely hold the accolade for having owned the largest number of passenger ships, both large small. This book includes a basic chronological company history followed by a fleet list of 315 vessels with their technical and career histoires. There are also 218 scale profiles covering all but 29 of the earlier or smaller ships.
Subjects: Bibby Line, Blue Star Line, Ellerman Lines, Federal Steam Navigation Company, Henderson Line, History, Merchant marine, New Zealand Shipping Company, P & O Company, Pacific Steam Navigation Co, Shaw Savill & Albion, Ship registers, Shipping, Steamboat lines, Thos. & Jas. Harrison ((Shipping Company)), Henderson Line (Shipping Line), Bibby Line (Shipping Line), Merchant ships, Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand
LC classification: HE945.A2 .H38 1982