port brisbane

Bunkering in Curacao, Willemstad

Fully loaded outbound from KGV dock Summer 1964 That's what I call a ship. Own photograph

The Port Brisbane, 1949 version, at Lyttelton.

port st lawrence leaving colombo taken from port brisbane 1975 on her final trip

From an original watercolour by RD Morris in my possession.

Built 1949. Scrapped 1975.

To go with the 'dolan' photo of the 1923 steamer "Port Brisbane" in Sydney, here is the 1949 version, and company flagship, at Lyttelton. She spent all her life under this name and was broken up in Hong Kong in 1975.

When completed by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson in 1949 the "Port Brisbane" was the Port Line flagship, although I always thought her near sister "Port Auckland", built by Hawthorne, Leslie, the better looking ship. She certainly introduced a new style to British ships no

Port Brisbane postcard.Date unknown.