Union Fleet

In 1875 James Mills and a group of Dunedin merchants founded a shipping line that would last 125 years. Backed by Scottish and English capital and technical knowhow, the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand quickly established itself as Australasia's pre-eminent shipping line. By 1890 it dominated the New Zealand coastal, the Trans-Tasman and Tasmanian runs and traded also to India, the Pacific islands and to North America.

Since 1968 Union Fleet has been the authoritive guide to this company's fascinating fleet. For this greatly enlarged third edition, maritime historian Ian Farquhar has updated entries and assembled hundreds of illustrations of the ships owned by the company, together witha generous selection of ships chartered or managed by it. Now in one publication can be found famous liners such as ROTOMAHANA and the legendary AWATEA as well as the hundreds of other liners, ferries, freighters and specialist ships that once dominated the Australasian shipping scene.

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