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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Souvenir - Menu, Union Castle Line 1955, 1955
... Union Castle Line 1955...union castle line...Sample menu from Union Castle line shipping line 1900.... printed in red below "Union Castle Line" / printed below... melbourne Sample menu from Union Castle line shipping line 1900 ...Sample menu from Union Castle line shipping line 1900 - 1990Printed single sheet cream/yellow paper/card A5 size / printed breakfast menu / top has two swirls printed in blue above the company flag printed in red and blue colours in the centre. printed in red below "Union Castle Line" / printed below and to the right "SS Braemar Castle" / full extensive breakfast menu Tuesday 25 January 1955/ printed in red upper case at the bottom edge is a request " not to smoke in the salon".union castle line, menu, ss braemar castle, 1955, nick garlick -
Melbourne Legacy
Postcard, Steamer "Gloucester Castle" 8,000 TONS
... Front of postcard: UNION- CASTLE LINE INTERMEDIATE STEAMER...- CASTLE LINE INTERMEDIATE STEAMER "GLOUSTER CASTLE." 8,000 TONS ...Postcards were a common form of souvenirs for soldiers who were travelling around Europe either during World War 1 or just after, before returning to Australia. The link to Legacy is not known but there are many postcards are in the collection.Postcards were a very common form of communication in the first World War. Postcards may also record places for those who didn't have cameras. This type of souvenir would have been familiar to the first Legatees as they had served in World War 1 and travelled by troop transport ship.The front image of the postcard is a photograph of a ship at sea.Front of postcard: UNION- CASTLE LINE INTERMEDIATE STEAMER "GLOUSTER CASTLE." 8,000 TONS.war correspondence, souvenir -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Drawing - Illustration, Children's book, Big Boats and Little Boats, c. 1950
... Ships names featured: MV Carnarvon Castle 20,000 tons Union... featured: MV Carnarvon Castle 20,000 tons Union Castle Line; S.S ...Found by the donor in 2017 in a thrift or Opportunity shop in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England. The names of the ships featured recalled some of the names and their crews known to have visited Melbourne and recorded in various records associated with the MTSV.Page from a children's book featuring full colour hand drawn illustrations of five ocean going ships.Ships names featured: MV Carnarvon Castle 20,000 tons Union Castle Line; S.S. Majestic, White Star Line 56,000 tons; M.V Chibu Maru, 16,500 tons, N.Y.K Line; S.S. Orontes, Orient Line 20,000 tons, S.S. Empress of Britain, 42,000 tons C.P.R. Line. Printed page of text on reverse starts mid sentence: "...going to Bombay, and then right away for Australia, this time next month she will be on the other side of the world. ..."children's book, ships, illustration, steamships, orontes, empress of britain, chichibu maru, majestic, carnarvon castle -
Federation University Historical Collection
Postcard, Colour, Walton, New Gantries, Harland & Wolffs, Belfast, Ireland
Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries is a heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Harland & Wolff is famous for having built the majority of the ships intended for the White Star Line. Well known ships built by Harland & Wolff include the Olympic Class trio: RMS Titanic, RMS Olympic and RMS Britannic, the Royal Navy's HMS Belfast, Royal Mail Line's Andes, Shaw Savill's Southern Cross, Union-Castle's RMS Pendennis Castle, and P&O's Canberra. Harland and Wolff's official history, Shipbuilders to the World, was published in 1986.Two photographic postcards showing the new gantries, Harland & Wolffs, Belfast, Irelandchatham family archive, belfast, ireland, new gantries, harland & woffs