| A Photographic Hist Orient Line Contributor(s): Frame, Chris (Author), Cross, Rachelle (Author), Henderson, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 075096992X ISBN-13: 9780750969925 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Ships & Shipbuilding - History - History | Military - Naval |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.7" W x 9.6" (1.75 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Orient Line's beginnings can be traced back to 1797. Created for the purpose of operating a fleet of steamships between London and the Australian Colonies, it was a venture into the unknown, its success testament to the acumen of its founders, two of London's oldest shipping firms, Anderson, Anderson & Co., and F. Green & Co. They had extensive shipping interests from the West Indies to South America and the Pacific Coast and owned and operated a fleet of famous clipper ships on the Australian wool trade, when their fleet would bring out emigrants to the colony and sail back laden with prime fleece. Cruise ships today owe a great legacy to the pioneering work done by the Orient Line when it developed and perfected seasonal cruising in 1889 from British ports. |