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From: "Heather MacAlister" <>
Subject: Re: [Re: [ZA] Shipping & Passengers]
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:24:25 +0200
References: <006HDcXOh1232S16.1049413233@uwdvg016.cms.usa.net>


Hi there

Not sure what shipping liner was used but the Waratah was one of the ships
that sailed from London to Cape Town and then on to Adelaide, Melbourne or
Sidney and that was in 1909 .... surely there must have been more ?
hope this is of some use
regards
Heather


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Meintjes" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Re: [ZA] Shipping & Passengers]


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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