Pre-WW2 cargo ships
Nothing illustrates the total change in ship appearances between the 1930s and the era of the Container ship ( Box boat) and the Roll- on /Roll-off ship ( ro/ro) of the post 1970s than does the line up of the pre-WW2 cargo ship. Here is the forest of derricks, the tall plumes of coal smoke, the digital funnel of the early motor ships, even the furled sails of some ships, still sail assisted.
Some of the ships are piled on the foreshore after a cyclone. Another is high and dry on a reef. Some are carrying or loading army troops while any ship whose demise date is between 1939 and 1945, was probably became a war loss.
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- AAGTEKERK 1934-1942.SHF Coll.
- AFRIC 1899. SHF Coll.
- ALBION STAR 1919. SHF Coll.
- ALLER,1927. NDL.SHF Coll.
- ALMKERK. 1934- 1941 sunk.SHF Coll.
- ALSTER 1928-1941. NDL.SHF Coll.
- AN LEE 1905, aground. SHF Coll.
- AN LEE 1905. SHF Coll.
- ANGLO-EGYPTIAN 1912.Troopship No.25. SHF Coll.
- ANGLO-PERUVIAN 1926. SHF Coll.
- ASTORIA 1926. SHF Coll.
- AUSTRALIA STAR 1935-1964. in Sydney Aug. 1956. SHF Coll.
- BRISBANE STAR 1937 at Glebe Is.SHF Coll.
- BRISBANE STAR, 1937. SHF Coll.
- CAIRO 1936, outbound. SHF Coll.
- CANADIAN CRUISER 1921-1941 at 19 Pyrmont. SHF Col.
- CANADIAN CRUISER 1921, sunk 1941. SHF Coll.
- CELTIC STAR 1918,sunk Mar 23, 1943. SHF Coll.
- CEPHEE 1912, Brisbane 1925. SHF Coll.
- CITY OF DERBY 1921. SHF Coll.
- CITY OF AGRA 1936, SHF Coll.
- CITY OF CANBERRA 1927. SHF Coll.
- CITY OF DIEPPE 1929 SHF Coll.
- CITY OF EDINBURGH 1938.SHF Coll.
- CLAN MACAULEY 1936. SHF Coll.
- CLAN MACDONALD 1939.SHF Coll.
- DEVON, SHF Coll.
- DIOMEDE 1922, SHF Coll.
- DORSET 1934,real photo post card. SHF Coll.
- DRAFN 1903.Dufty.SHF Coll.
- DUNEDIN STAR 1936-wrecked 1942. SHF Coll.
- DURHAM, pre- WW1. SHF Coll.
- FRANKEN 1926- sunk 25.5. 1941. SHF Coll.
- FRANKEN 1926- sunk May 25, 1941. SHF Coll.