Shipping Routes to and from Australia & New Zealand

         1. STEAM & MOTOR SHIPS THAT CARRIED                       
             PASSENGERS TO AUSTRALIA AND NEW                        
             ZEALAND FROM 1918 TO THE 1970s; AND
                                       
         2. THE TRANSPORTS THAT CARRIED                             
             TROOPS TO THE MIDDLE EAST,                                
             SINGAPORE AND NEW GUINEA IN                                            
                      WORLD WAR II
      

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         Abbreviations-Sources of                 
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         INDEX OF SHIP NAMES   
               

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        SHIPPING LINE LISTS OF SHIPS
         AND SHIP DETAILS AND PICTURES

     A - B - C - D&E  - F&G - H&I - J,K&L - M -                  

                N - O - P&Q - R - S - T&U - V&W - X,Y&Z

 INDEX OF SHIPPING LINES AND THE

        LISTS OF WORLD WAR II TRANSPORTS

             FOR SHIP AND PICTURE DETAILS

                   
              ORONTES (1928-1962) - ORIENT LINE                                                                                
                                                                                         

     1.   SHIPPING LINES WHICH CARRIED                                      
         PASSENGERS TO AUSTRALIA AND
         NEW ZEALAND FROM 1918 TO THE            
                                     1970s               

        AC – Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line                                     
                  
        AE – Shipping arranged by the UK
                  Ministry of Transport (MOT) for
                  Assisted Passage Emigrants to
                   1. Australia (1947-1954)  &
                   2. New Zealand (1948-1960)

        AE2 - US Transports which brought
                   displaced persons from Europe
                   to Australia for the International
                   Refugee Organisation (IRO) 
                   (1947 -1950)

        BF2 – Blue Funnel Line

        BP- Burns, Philp & Co.   

        CG – Cogedar Line                                                      
                    
        CH – Chandris Line
                               
        CN2 – China Navigation Company
                   
        EA2 – Eastern & Australian Mail Steamship Co.

        FL – Flotta Lauro                      

        3ITA - Lloyd Sabaudo
                
       3ITB - N.G.I.
                  
        3ITC - Lloyd Triestino
                    
        MM2 - Messageries Maritimes
   
        MT - Matson Navigation Company
                       
        NL1- K.P.M.           
                     
        NL2A – Netherlands post World War II sponsored
                        emigration in Government owned ships

        NL2B - Nederland Lijn          
                                    
           NL2C – Rotterdam Lloyd 
          
         NL2D - Holland – Amerika Lijn   
                                        
        NL2E - Royal Interocean Line (RIL)  
                         Earlier the KJCPL

             NY - Nippon Yusen Kaisha (N.Y.K.)
                    
        NZ3 – New Zealand Shipping Co.
                    
        OR2 – Orient Steam Navigation Co.
                    
        PO3 – Peninsular & Oriental S.N. Co.
                    
        SS3 – Shaw, Savill & Albion Line
                    
        ST – Sitmar Line
                    
        UN2 – Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand
                    (Trans-Pacific Service)

                       Rangitiki (1928-1962) - NZ Shipping Co.

                             
                                       Painting by Jack Spurling

        2. WORLD WAR II : The Ships that carried 

            Australians and New Zealanders to War, and 

            brought Australians back to Australia in

            1942/43 to Fight Closer to Home

        I.  To the Middle East, United Kingdom, Singapore,
             Java, Ceylon and Back for the Australians  
                     

       WW2A – Troopships in convoys to the Middle
                         East, United Kingdom and Singapore
                         Convoys ‘US’ series 1 to 13 
                         (Jan 1940 –Nov 1941)
                    
        WW2B – Troopships in convoys to Singapore -
                         Convoys ‘MS’ series
                         (Jan and February 1942)
                    
        WW2C – Return from the Middle East to Java -
                         Convoys JS1 and JS2; and to Australia 
                         - Convoys JS3/SU1 (Jan-Mar 1942)
                                                                
        WW2D – Ships which made independent voyages
                         from Egypt to India or Australia, or from
                         Colombo to Australia, as part of the return
                         of 6^th & 7^th Divisions, AIF
                    
        WW2E – Ships which brought two brigades of 6^th
                        Division, AIF, from Colombo to Australia 
                         in July 1942
           
        WW2F  – Ships of the convoy returning 9^th Division,
                         AIF, from the Middle East in February 1943

             
        II. New Guinea                       

             WW2G – Ships in convoys to New Guinea 
                         (Mar-Dec 1941)

           
        Ships* which carried  troops and supplies to
        New Guinea on individual voyages (escorted
|       and unescorted) during the campaigns there
        during 1942 and 1943                                                                   

         WW2H1 – Australian and British ships 
 
         WW2H2 – Dutch ships

         WW2H3 – United States ships

         *An incomplete list.  

               
                Queen Mary as a troopship, Sydney April 1940        

       
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