Ship
Details Are Set Out as follows:
Propulsion-Tonnage-Year Completed
-Place of
construction
Propulsion – steam (S)
or motor (m)
number of propellers: sc(1),
tw(2), tr(3), qd(4)
Thus a single
screw steamer (scs)
or motor ship (scm);
twin
screw
steamer (twscs)
or
motor ship
(twscm)
Similarly
tr(3) and qd(4)
Tonnage
Where possible in Gross
Registered
Tons (grt)
are used.
This is an internal cubic
measurement
of a ship:
1
grt = 100 cubic feet.
Net registered tons (nrt) is a
measure of
the
commercially usable space after
deducting space
used for crew quarters, machinery and other space
used
for operating a ship from the gross
registered
tonnage.
Where displacement tons are given,
this is the
weight of the volume of water
displaced by the ship
Date of
Completion and Place of
Construction
These
details are important for identifying ships
because names are frequently re-used.
There can
be ambiguity
when the date of launch is given
instead of the
date of completion.
Often launch
and completion take
place in the same year but
not always.
Mainly
from the state libraries and museums
in Australia and
New Zealand and the National
Maritime Museum,
Greenwich, in the United
Kingdom. All can be accessed via
the Internet.
The institutions
listed are:
Australia
Picture
Australia accesses
pictures in
the
major Australian online repositories
of ship pictures. Go to:-
Pictures
held by the following institutions
are accessible from Picture Australia
or can be accessed directly from:
awm –
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
nla – National Library of
Australia, Canberra
http://www.nla.gov.au
sln – State Library of New South
Wales, Sydney
slq – State Library of Queensland,
Brisbane
http://enc.slq.qld.gov.au
slsa – State Library of South
Australia, Adelaide
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au
slt – State Library of Tasmania,
Hobart
http://www.images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au
slv – State Library of Victoria,
Melbourne
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au
lnt - Library of the Northern Territory
http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au
Another
Australian site (but not accessible from
Picture
Australia) which offers internet access
for ship pictures is:
anmm – Australian
National Maritime Museum,
Sydney
http://www.anmm.gov.au
The ANMM’s Library has also
produced a Ship
Picture Index (of ship pictures in books)
which
can be accessed at:
http://www.anmm.gov.au/LIB/keybks.htm
New Zealand
nlnz -
Alexander Turnbull Library, National
Library of New
Zealand, Wellington
http://timeframes1.natlib.govt.nz
United
Kingdom
nmm -
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
http://www.nmm.ac.uk
The Old Ship Picture Galleries offers internet
access to an extraordinary collection
of steam
and motor ship pictures going back
to World
War One
http://www.photoship.co.uk
The author of this site, Roy
Fernandez, is a
retired diplomat and yachtsman
who has travelled
on many ships since a youth
spent in the Far East
in the nineteen thirties.
This website is his second.
His first website (http://www.findboatpics.com) lists
pictures of 800 Sailing Ships
which brought people
to Australia and New Zealand
from about 1840
until 1880, and 400 Steam Ships
which took over
the passenger trade at that
time up to World War
One. The author plans in due
course to consolidate
all the Steam Ships in this website and with
more
pictures, and in due course to
expand what he has
assembled on Sail in his first website
There are inevitably mistakes needing
correction
and the author would be glad to hear about them.
He would also welcome comment
and feedback.
His email address is roy@findboatpics.net.au