Grand and Glorious Ships. - The Early Years -

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Africana - 1864 1,657 tons. Melbourne, Bombay, Liverpool. H. T. Wilson & Co. Agnes - 1852 Albatross - 1854 Melbourne - Liverpool Albert William - 1864 505 tons Wilson & Chambers Melbourne to NZ. Alfred - 1857 Algiers Americana - 1858 Chartered H. T. Wilson & Co. Melbourne Aninta - 1872 T. H. Ismay Angelita Anglo Saxon - 1857 1,233 tons Chartered from Black Ball H. T Wilson & Co. Aninta - 1872 T. Ismay & Co. Anne Chambers Ann(e) Roydon - 1857 1,170 tons Chartered for the WSLAP Anne Nelson - 1857 Ismay, Nelson partnership Annie Wilson - 1855 1,119 tons United States, South America, India, China, Europe, Australia. Antipodes - 1854 Chartered for the WSLAP P & W Arabian - 1852 1,068 tons WSLAP Araminta - 1857 830 tons Liverpool to Sydney. Archer - 1852 237 tons Charterd from Eagle Line Melbourne to Geelong Ardgowan 1,283 tons uncertain if wsl Argo - 1849 - Brig North America Argonaut - 1859 1,237 tons ? Argonaut - 1878 1,073 tons Arriero ? Arrowe ? Bangalore - 1857 511 tons Liverpool to Melbourne H. T. Wilson & Co. Bayard - 1870 1,819 tons - Chartered Liverpool to Hobson's Bay, Melbourne. Beechworth - 1859 1,266 tons Owned by the White Star Line of British & Australian Packets. Beejapore - 1858 2,500 tons Melbourne, British Columbia and Callao. Ben Nevis - 1852 New Orleans, La., Galveston, Tx., & WSLAP & NZ Bhurtpoor - 1852 1,900 tons Pilkington owner Birmingham - 1852 1,033 tons Chartered from Black Ball Blanche - 1852 966 tons Chartered WSLAP Blanche Moore - 1862 1,879 tons H. T. Wilson Blue Jacket - 1860 1,500 tons White Star Line of Packets for Liverpool - Australia. Borrowdale - 1869 Barque - 1,197 tons - Liverpool to Melbourne and India T. H. Ismay & Co. British Admiral - 1874 White Star Line of Packets - Liverpool to Melbourne Ismay, Laurie, & Co. British King - 1874 White Star Line of Packets - Liverpool to Melbourne British Lion 1,317 tons ? British Navy ? British Peer 1,478 tons ? British Prince - 1869 1,210 Tons Melbourne to San Francisco British Princess -1871 Liverpool to Melbourne. Chartered British Sovereign - 1871 Liverpool to Melbourne British Statesman - 1868 1,262 tons Melbourne to London British Trident - 1864 1,400 tons Australian and Eastern Navigation Company ? Broughton - 1868 Yard # 44 Iron Barque - First ship built by H&W for Ismay's WSL. Bucton Castle - 1868 886 tons Liverpool to Melbourne. C W Wright ? Cairnsmore California - ? 3,099 tons Ismay, Imrie and Co. Australian trade Callao - ? 1,017 tons Ismay, Imrie and Co. Australian trade Cape Clear - 1869 853 tons Cardigan Castle - 1870 T. H. Ismay Liverpool to Melbourne Carntyne Casma Cassiope - 1880 Australia Ismay, Imrie & Co. Castlehead - c1875 825 tons Ismay, Imrie & Co. West Coast South American Trade Castlehow - Nelson, Ismay & Co. Later owned by Ismay when the partnership dissolved in 1863. Sold in 1872 Cecelia Chancellor - 1858 1,812 tons H. T. Wilson & Co. Chartered vessel. Chariot of Fame - 1866 1,640 tons - Owned H. T. Wilson & Cunningham Charles Brownell - 1849 P & W Liverpool to South America Charles Jackson - 1871 Barque of 340 tons T. H. Ismay & Co

Charlotte Clark - 1875 Barque of 410 tons City of Lincoln - 1852 1,160 tons Chartered from White Cross Melbourne. Columbine - 1857 956 tons Liverpool Sydney Colonist Columbia - 1858 539 tons Comadre - 1868 771 tons Ismay & Co. Australian Trade Commodore Perry - 1861 Melbourne and NZ Pilkington, Wilson & Baines merger Compadre Copley - ? 1,794 tons Ismay, Imrie and Co Cornwallis - 1862 1,214 tons Liverpool Crusader - 1866 1,055 tons Cyclone - 1856 1,200 tons Owned WSLAP Dallam Tower - 1866 1,490 tons Passed to Ismay David G Fleming - 1855 1,467 tons Davis Cannon - 1853 Liverpool to New York. Dawpool - 1890 1,788 tons Australia Ismay, Imrie & Co. Defense Delhi Delmira Desdemona - ? 1,200 tons Chartered P & W Dirigo - 1859 1,200 tons - Liverpool to Melbourne Don Guillermo Donna Maria - 1862 Duke of Edinburgh - 1868 1,073 tons T. H. Ismay Liverpool to Melbourne Duke of Newcastle - 1864 902 tons Owned Liverpool to Melbourne Dhuleep Singh - 1868 1,200 tons Dundonald - 1852 2,000 tons Melbourne, Sydney Earl of Derby - 1852 2,000 tons Earl of Sefton - 1855 1,126 tons P & W WSLARMP Electric - 1860 1,106 tons P & Ch Elizabeth - 1846 pw Elizabeth Ann Bright - 1863 Owned Ellen - p&w wsl 1851 Liverpool to New Orleans - 1852 WSLAP Emma - 1854 1,049 tons Melbourne Empire of Peace Empress of the Seas - 1853 2,197 tons Envoy Esmeralda - 730 tons Australian & West Coast South America Trade Ismay, Imrie, & Co. WSL Estrella Eurynome - 1872 1,163 tons - White Star Line of Packets - Melbourne to London Direct Excellent Explorer 1868 800 tons Ismay Faneuil Hall - 1849 P&W Liverpool to Boston Fitz James - 1853 1,206 tons New Orleans & WSLAP P & W Fletchero Flying Scud - 1855 1,713 tons Chartred New York, Liverpool, Geelong, Melbourne. Garfield - 1882 2,347 tons Built by H & W Australia to California Ismay, Imrie & Co. WSL General Windham - 1858 1,500 tons Chartered Gertrude - 1858 2,003 tons Melbourne to Calcutta H. T. Wilson & Co Gilcruix - 1886 2,304 tons Ismay, Imrie & Co. Gladiator Glen Devon - 1862 Globe - 1869 Liverpool to Melbourne. Golconda - 1853 P&W WSLAP Golden Age - 1855 Charter from Black Ball? P & W WSLAP Golden Era - 1854 1,637 tons Liverpool, Bombay & Australia Golden Sunset - 1864 1,000 tons Owned H. T. Wilson & Chambers Grace Gibon Grand Trianon - 1860 1,049 tons W & Ch WSLAP Great Australia - 1860 1,661 tons Liverpool to Melbourne Great Tasmania - 1855 1,964 tons Green Jacket Grey Hound Guy Mannering - 1857 3,000 tons P & W WSLAP Hannibal - 1862 1,198 tons W & Ch Hartfield - 1864 623 tons Liverpool NZ Owned Harvest Home Hausquina Hawarden Castle - 1869 1,101 tons T. H. Ismay's WSL to Australia

Hecuba Helen Douglas - 1858 894 tons Liverpool to Sydney H. T. Wilson & Co. Henry Ware - 1849 540 tons Liverpool to Boston P & W Herald of the Morning 1858 Liverpool to Sydney Chartered (Houghton) Hoghton Tower - 1869 1,598 tons T. H Ismay's WSL Clippers Ida - 1859 1,167 tons Industry Invincible - 1858 1,676 tons Chartered from Black Ball Line. S.S. Irishman - 1912 11,585 tons Owned by Ismay, Imrie & Co. London Port Adelaide, Australia. Iowa - 1849 879 tons WSLBP 1853 WSLAP James Cheston Jason Jessie Munn - 1855 871 tons John Barbour John Kerr - 1874 White Star Line of Packets - Liverpool to Melbourne Keystone - 1858 2,000 tons Liverpool - Melbourne Chartered Khandeish King of Algeria - 1862 Liverpool to Melbourne King of Algona -Dispatched by H. T. Wilson & Chambers Kirkwood Lady Russel Light of the Age - 1865 Lillies - 1861 1,665 tons W & Ch WSLAP Lingdale Lochiel 1853 868 tons P & W WSLAP Lord Raglan - 1860 1,886 tons W & CH wslap Lord Warriston - 1858 2,000 tons H. T. Wilson & Co. Malleny Marco Polo - 1852 Pilkington, Wilson & Baines merger. (Liverpool Line of Australian Packets.) Maria Marion - 996 tons Mary Ismay - 1849 162 tons Mavrocordatos - 1862 W & Ch WSL of Steamships. 1st transatlantic steamship crossing for WSL Mayhill - 1893? 2,121 tons Australia Ismay, Imrie & Co. Merchant Prince - 1859 Mermaid - 1854 1,233 tons Merrie England - 1857 1,048 tons Owned Merwanjee Framjee 1,079 tons Miles Barton - 1856 963 tons Chartered H. T. Wilson & Co. Mindoro Miriam - 1857/9 1,700 tons Owned by the White Star Line of British & Australian Packets Mistress of the Seas Mobile - 1853 1,000 tons Chartered WSLAP Moira Monarch of the Sea - 1857 2,440 tons Chartered WSLAP Monica - 1856 Liverpool to Australia Montmorency - 1857 Baines ship/merger? Montrose - 1863 Moore Mooresfort - 1854 2,300 tons P & W WSLAP Morning Light - 1861 2,377 tons Chartered WSLAP Mystery - 1854 1,069 tons WSLAP & NZ Napier - 1864 Negociator - 1857 Nereus - 1869 Liverpool to Melbourne. North Atlantic Northumberland Ocean Chief - 1856 Ocean Home Ocean Queen - 1854 P & W Boston Packets Oliver Cromwell Otago Pampero Pembroke Castle Philosopher - 1869 owned Australian Trade Phoenix - 1860 986 tons Liverpool NZ Owned Pride of the Thames Pride of the West - 1864 1,000 tons Chartered London to NZ Prince of the Seas - 1859 1,427 tons Owned- White Star Line of British and Australian Packets Liverpool to Melbourne Queen of the Mersey - 1866 Queen of the North 1864 1,668 tons Queen of the South - 1863 1,590 tons Chartered from Black Ball. Rajah - 1853 332 tons Ravenscrag Red Jacket - 1854 2,305 tons WSLAP - Passed to Ismay and sold. Remington 1863 999 tons Rising Sun

Rockaway - 1850 Joint charter of Pilkington & Wilson and J. W. Shaw & Co. Royal family 1862 1,750 tons Royal Saxon Royal Standard - 1863 2,033 tons - First steam vessel owned by Wilson & Chambers wslap S Curling S Gildersleeve Sadanha Salem Sam Cearns - 1864 1,422 tons W & Ch Samaritan Samuel Locke 1857 Santa Lucia Santiago - Ismay, Imrie & Co. West Coast South American Trade Santon - 1864 Wilson & Chambers Sardinian - 1856 1,100 tons Owned P & W Liverpool to Melbourne Scottish Chief Seatoller Senator Shakespeare - 1857 Shaftesbury 1857 1,200 tons Liverpool to Melbourne Owned H. T. Wilson & Co. Shalimar - 1853 1,470 tons WSLAP & NZ 1 of 3 ships reposessed with wsl failure in 1867. Shepherdess - 1856 Shooting Star - 1859 1,160 tons WSL NZ Silistria - 1862 W & Ch Simonds Sir William Eyre - 1857 1,516 tons Owned Sirius - sold/repossesed? Sirocco - 1857/9 Owned by the White Star Line of British and Australian Packets Southern Empire Southern Empire - 1,417 tons Sovereign of the Seas - 1852 2,421 tons Spray of the Ocean - 1856 805 tons Melbourne Stanmore - 1,824 tons Australia Ismay, Imrie and Co Star of the East - 1857 Owned White Star Line of British and Australian Packets Star of England Star of Greece - 1869 Chartered by Ismay's WSL Clippers Star of India - 1861 1,690 tons Chartered by WSL Sultana - 1854 1,316 tons WSLAP Swanmore - 1899 1,822 tons Australia Ismay, Imrie, & Co. WSL Tantivy Tasmania - 1853 WSLAP Tayleur - 1854 WSLAP Telegraph - 1859 1,118 tons WSL of BRITISH and AUSTRALIAN PACKETS. Owned Thomas H Perkins S.S. Tiptree - 1856 1,650 tons Owned Titan - 1857 2,360 tons Chartered by Wilson & Chambers wslap Tornado - 1859 1,226 tons W & Ch WSL NZ Passed to Ismay. Tudor Alcoats or Ulcoats - 1864 850 tons H . T. Wilson & Chambers Umberley - 1867 WSLAP Valparaiso - ? 742 tons Ismay, Imrie & Co. Vancouver Vandieman Vanguard - 1863 1,216 tons Vernon - 1864 1,319 tons Victoria Tower - 1869 1,563 tons T. H Ismay's WSL Clippers W H Haselden - 1865 896 tons Owned W & Ch Melbourne to NZ & later Chartered by Ismay WSL to Tasmania. Warwickshire Weathersfield - 1869 1,047 tons Chartered for Australia Wennington - 1865 882 tons P & Ch WSLAP Western Empire White Jacket White Star/ex Blue Jacket - 1853 2,336 tons wslap Passed to Ismay and sold in 1868 Whittington Windsor Castle - 1850 P & W Passed to Ismay Woosung - 1868 745 tons Ismay Zingdale - 1864 Wilson & Chambers

	Owned by the "White Star" Line.
	Chartered by "White Star" Line.
	Chartered by Pilkington & Wilson/J. W. Shaw & Co.
	Owned by T. H. Ismay
	Chartered by T. H. Ismay
	Owned by Ismay & Imrie & Co.
	Pilkington, Wilson & Baines merger
	Nelson, Ismay & Co.

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