Early Steam Ships in Australia

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Media: BOOK - paperback, 176 pages
Author: R. Parsons
Year: 2000
Other Data: sketch, index
ISBN: 0909418659

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Product Code: PAR051

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An investigation of the arrival and development of steam ships in Australian waters from 1830 to the 1850s.

Contents:
Steamships become a reality
The year 1832
Joint Stock Companies
The First Steamship monopoly
Competition Again
Overseas Investors interested?
Steam Navigation Companies again
The General Steam Co.
Steam Tugs
The Second Decade (the Hunter River)
A Repair Establishment
The Sovereign Lost
Other Services from Sydney
Steamships in the Far South (VDL, Port Philip, South Australia)
Ferry Services in Sydney
Mail Steamers from Overseas
Gold Boom - and Bust for Some
- VDL and Victoria in 1850s
- Hobart Town, Victoria, Western Districts Trade, Port Albert, South Australia Link
Overseas Services (Trans-Pacific)

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