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Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumPainting - 'SS Roma', Dacre Smyth, Roma
... 'SS Roma'...SS Roma...SS Roma was laid down in 1942 at the Seattle-Tacoma SB...A framed oil painting of the migrant ship SS Roma....-and-the-bellarine-peninsula SS Roma was laid down in 1942 at the Seattle ...SS Roma was laid down in 1942 at the Seattle-Tacoma SB Corporation plant and was launched as “Glacier” on September 7, 1942. Like quite a few ships, it was during her building as a C3 cargo ships that she was transferred under the “Lend Lease Agreement” to the Royal Navy and redesigned and built as the escort aircraft carrier HMS Atheling. After the war she was purchased by the Lauro Lines and rebuilt as the modern passenger liner Roma. She departed on her maiden voyage from Genoa bound for Australia in August 1951 arriving in Fremantle on October 1, continuing to Melbourne and arriving in Sydney on the 17th. She then went north to Brisbane before returning home. Mrs B SmythA framed oil painting of the migrant ship SS Roma.Romass roma, migrant ships -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation SocietyCard - Binder, Piers Festival, Polly Woodside Maritime Museum, c. 1990
These migrant ship cards were used loose by the former Maritime Museum (Polly Woodside), and donated to PMHPS by A Gibson, National Trust Victoria, bound in January 2013 for use in the PMHPS display on migrant ships in Princes Pier GatehouseOne of three sets of laminated information cards, punched and roughly bound into a book for information display at "Piers festival". (.01) - "Angelina Lauro" to "Esperance Bay" (.02) - "Fairsea" to "Moreton Bay" (.03) - "Northern Star" to "Stathmore"The backs of the cards are pasted with sections of nautical maps.transport - shipping, immigration, celebrations fetes and exhibitions, angelina lauro, arcadia, australis, canberra, captain cook, captain hobson, castel felice, chusan, dominion monarch, ellinis, esperance bay, fairsea, fairstar, fairsky, galileo galilei, himilaya, johan van olden barnevelt, largs bay, maasdam, mariposa, moreton bay, northern star, orion, oriana, oronsay, ormonde, orsova, otranto, patris, roma, southern cross, stathaird, statheden, stathmore, ss iberia, ss guglielmo marconi -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Immigrant and passenger ships at Station Pier and Princes Pier, Port Melbourne, Ron Laing, 1960s
A set of 12 photographs of immigrant and passenger ships of the 1960s berthed at Station and Princes Piers, including both copies of original and published photos, and black and white snapshotsDetails on back in ink/penciltransport - shipping, piers and wharves - station pier, piers and wharves - princes pier, ron laing, arcadia, mooltan, orontes, strathnaver, oriana, roma, patris, rip, tricolor, nottingham, ss iberia, ss guglielmo marconi
