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From: Keith Meintjes <>
Subject: Re: [Re: [ZA] Shipping & Passengers]
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:40:33 -0500


Keith's speculations:

Before 1900, there were no (few) commercial shipping companies, ones that
transported passengers. Union-Castle was the company that dominated the
Britain - ZA market.

The Suez Canal was opened in 1869. I imagine that most shipping traffic from
Britain - Australia went via Suez after that date.

In short, I do not recall any passenger line that served ZA - OZ.
Union-Castle had combination cargo / passenger ships that ventured up the east
coast of Africa, as I recall.

Keith
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Doug & Pat Frykberg <> wrote:
I don't know this but I wonder if there ever was a specific Oz-Sa shipping
line. Ships usually went from England/Europe through the Cape to the East
and Oz/NZ and back the same way. Try to find lines that did that complete
route with passengers being picked up and dropped at the various ports along
the way.


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