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The company was started as the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company in 1839. [1] In March 1851, the company was reformed as the Australasian Steam Navigation Company. [2]In 1887, the shipping company was amalgamated with the Queensland Steam Shipping Company with their respective vessels in 1887 to form the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company.
After this wreck, passenger shipping to the south coast finished, and the company focused entirely upon cargo. [13] In 1904 the company was incorporated as the Illawarra and South Coast Steam Navigation Company (ISCSNC), [11] and the company continued to operate successfully until the Second World War. However, significant problems had emerged ...
Third convict voyage to NSW Asia: 13 March 1828 London Fourth convict voyage to NSW Asia: 13 January 1830 Cork Fifth convict voyage to NSW Asia: 13 February 1832 Portsmouth Sixth convict voyage to NSW Asia: 27 June 1833 Downs Seventh convict voyage to NSW Asia: 22 March 1836 Hobart Town Eighth convict voyage to NSW Asia (1815 ship) 29 April ...
NSW Maritime, the trading name of Maritime Authority of New South Wales, was an agency of the Government of New South Wales, Australia responsible for marine safety, regulation of commercial and recreational boating and oversight of port operations. The Authority had responsibility for marine incident investigation, including the causes of ...
Regular shipping port operations at Morpeth ceased in 1931, [77] but some shipping continued in a small way after that time. [78] Due to wartime constraints on transporting coal by rail, in 1940, coal from Rothbury was shipped at Morpeth but not directly to Sydney; it was brought to the port by road and then sent by barge for transshipment at a ...
Officially appointed as NSW Government Archivist in 1888 until 1902 he compiled what became known as the Bonwick Transcripts. These handwritten transcripts of records held in the Public Record Office, London (now The National Archives) were published in the series Historical Records of New South Wales (1892-1901). [5]
Australian National Line was formed on 1 October 1956 as the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission with the passing of the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission Act. [1] The organisation took about forty ships previously operated by the Australian Shipping Board, which had been formed in 1946 by the Australian Federal Government. [2]
Burns Philp (properly Burns, Philp & Co, Limited) was a major Australian shipping line and merchant that operated in the South Pacific. When the well-populated islands around New Guinea were targeted for blackbirding in the 1880s, a new rush for labour from these islands began.