Across the Pacific: Liners from ANZ to North America

(Paperback)

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Peter Plowman describes the liners and companies that traversed the Pacific. The main North American ports were San Francisco, Los Angeles and Vancouver. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was the first to instigate regular operations, the route was then taken over by the Oceanic Steamship Company. This in turn became the Matson Line with its famous liners the Mariposa and the Monteray. Other companies were the Union Steam Ship Company (the Tahiti and Maunganui). The various company mergers and associations are covered (such as that of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand). Where liners were requisitioned in both World War 1 and World War 2, their history is recorded. (The Niagara was sunk by a mine, and her sister ship the Aorangi survived the war).

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This book is nothing short of being phenomenal.Throughout the book there are newspaper articles & letters from passengers, which add to the atmosphere in the book. the photographs vary from interior views to general ship photographs, and each ship's history is included. Just to read it makes you wich that you could have been there to sample the elegance & nostalgia of a bygone era.Highly recommended & a worthy addition to any collection. - Nautical Magazine, April 2011

Author Bio

Peter Plowman is a noted maritime researcher and writer, having had five books published in Australia over the past twenty years. His first books detailed the history of Australian and New Zealand Passenger Ships from 1875 to 1980.