Author: GREGORY, DICKSON.
Title: Australian Steamships Past And Present. With a Foreword by Brig.-Gen. Sir Granville Ryrie, K.C.M.G. High Commissioner For Australia.
Description: First Edition; Thick 4to; pp. 260; coloured frontispiece with tissue paper, 5 other full page coloured plates, 138 pages of b/w plates (276 b/w. illustrations in all), illustrations in book are reproduced from photographs and drawings by the author, appendix, index, original blue cloth, decoration of ship in gilt on front board, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board, page edges foxed, some mild foxing to early pages, cloth worn still a good sound copy. London, The Richards Press Ltd., (1928). A valuable contribution to the history of Steam Navigation in general, not withstanding that its special object is to trace its development in Australian waters from earliest beginnings to the present time'. Includes a short life history and ultimate fate of almost every Australian vessel.

Keywords: Australian maritime history steamships