FLORENCE 15 gross tons, 10 net. Lbd: 48' x 9' x 4'. Wooden steamer built by William Dunn, Lavender Bay Sydney for James Milson & Partners, Sydney. August 1879 North Shore Steam Ferry Co., Sydney. February 1882 James Burns, then Burns, Philip & Co Ltd., in April 1896. Scrapped Normanton Queensland 1900
GUTHRIE 2,338 gross tons, 1,494 net. Lbd: 314' x 38'3" x 23'6". Iron steamship built by W Doxford & Sons, Sunderland for the Eastern & Australasian (E & A) Steamship Co Ltd. Compound surface condensing engine producing 340 nominal horsepower. Clipper bow, rigged for sail as required. Employed Australia to the far east via Singapore. Acquired 1904 by Burns Philp & Co along with her sistership 'Airlie' and employed on the Australia - Java - Singapore run, taking the ports of Thursday Island and Darwin. 1912 sold to G S Yuill & Co Ltd (Australian-Oriental Line). Was chartered by Burns Philp & Co during November 1912. 1913 laid up. 1914 sold to the White Cross Steamship Co Ltd and believed renamed Helvette. Wrecked 1st November 1914 at Taku bar bound for the China coast
HEATHER BELLE 92 gross tons, 73 net. Lbd: 97'8" x 20' x 6'7". Wooden steamer built at Doughboy Creek Brisbane for unknown owners. Eventually owned by J Barker & W H Barham, shipwrights with a Brisbane registry. Acquired June 1892 by this company and sold March 15th 1915 to Charles Mathieson, a lighterman of Maryborough Queensland. Re-engined 1917 at Mort's Dockyard, Sydney with diesel engine 4 cylinder, producing 40 horsepower. Probably operated as a lighter and definitely operated at Maryborough, Queensland. Records state she was broken up and register closed 1949
INDUNA 703 gross tons, 429 net. Lbd: 190'4" x 28'5" x 11'2". Steel steamship built by Hall, Russell & Co., Aberdeen. Triple expansion engine producing 98 horsepower. Built as a passenger-cargo vessel for J Rennie & Co., Aberdeen. 1904 sold to Henry Edwin Campbell, London, with tonnage reduction to 699 gross. 1904 sold to Burns, Philip & Co., Sydney, Australia, who placed her on the Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island run. 1905 until 1916 placed upon the Gilbert, Marshall and Caroline Islands' run as well as the New Hebrides. 1920 sold to the Patrick Steamship Co., Sydney, with tonnage reduction to 678 gross. 1925 sold to the Railway Commissioners for New South Wales, Sydney and converted into a train-ferry, 1932 laid up and sold for use as a wharf at Grafton, 1957 remains cut up as scrap. Historical note: Winston Churchill travelled this ship after his escape from the Boers at the time when she was employed on the South African coastal route
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