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Courtesy of the late Owen Shaw, steward on the Rangitane 1951/ 52 who went on to work as a features writer with New Zealand Herald, Auckland's daily morning newspaper. 1642 Abel Tasman was the first European to discover the Islands, but he thought they were part of the mainland of South America. 1769 Captain Cook lands at Gisborne: Poverty Bay. British Merchant Navy Cadet Training Ships. New Zealand Shipping Company Assn. We remember the NZSCo and FSNCo. NZSCo. Passenger Ship Website - www.simplonpc.co.uk - Simplon Postcards Home - Recent Updates - Search - Copyright Information - Contact Simplon This website has no connection with any shipping company, cruise line, boat operator or other commercial organisation New Zealand Shipping Co NZSC Header Page This is the header page for a series devoted to postcards and photographs of the New Zealand Shipping Company (NZSC).

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A list of pages covering the NZSC is shown below. The New Zealand Shipping Company (NZSC) was formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1873. Table of Ship Histories. Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and Positions. Jervis Bay. Page1 of 1 ...from the « Official Website » of P&O Nedlloyd... P&O Nedlloyd is a global door-to-door container shipping company. We aim to win customer preference through a positive attitude and the best business practices, and to be cost leader in our industry through scale and efficiency. We see profitable and long-term relationships with customers as the core of our business. Our customers are as demanding to us as we are to our suppliers and staff. P&O Nedlloyd operates a global network of 77 trade lanes connect more than 250 main ports plus a larger number of additional ports through our feeder services.

We operate a fleet of 112 owned and chartered vessels, with four of the world's largest vessels of 6,690 TEUs on order. {*style:<b> I am one of the current Masters of the P&O Nedlloyd Container Ship Jervis Bay. Other Container Ships bearing the name Jervis Bay... During 1970, a container ship of about 26,876 tons went into service and operated until the 1980's. End. Jervis Bay images (NLA)

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Jervis Bay images (NLA)

It was originally launched in September 2000, and at that time, was a unique and ground breaking service, bringing together digitised images from cultural heritage collections around Australia for not only all Australians to see but also the world. Contemporary images were sourced from Flickr via a series of Groups, which ensured individual contributions to Picture Australia were included in the snapshot of Australiana.

We will continue with this tradition using the Trove: Australia in Pictures Group. To read more about how we integrated Picture Australia into Trove please see the bulletins in the Trove forum. Please be aware that as a result of this integration the format of search URLs have changed, therefore any saved or bookmarked Picture Australia hyperlinks that use search terms will no longer work. You may want to learn how to construct Trove search URLs to replace any Picture Australia links you have. Merchant Navy Years. Overseas Containers Limited. The End of Break Bulk Liner Shipping By B.F.

Bindia Four Case Studies Part Two The first of the Container Ships The first container ship entered service in 1956, owned by what was to become the giant American Sea-Land organization. In Britain, at the time Blue Funnel was building the ‘Super-P’s, the first true fully cellular container ships were being designed, for two consortiums of nine British shipping lines, Overseas Containers Ltd (OCL) and Associated Container Transportation (ACT). Design of the OCL ships was in fact carried out by Ocean Fleets, the ship design division of Blue Funnel’s parent Ocean Steamship Co. “Encounter Bay” – OCL 2nd generation Associated Container Transportation (ACT) were at the same time building, also in Germany, their first ships, the six 1334 teu 2nd generation container ships “ACT 1” to “ACT 6”.

In Germany, entering service for Hapag-Lloyd at the same time (1968) were the “Weser Express”, “Elbe Express”, “Alster Express” and “Mosel Express”. "Nihon"