Author: Kate
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James and James sail from Liverpool
In early February 1907 the S.S. Fifeshire arrived at Victoria Docks in London with cargo from Australia and discharged: “10,024 carcases of mutton, 11,824 carcases of lambs, and 395 cases of meat sundries from Melbourne, also 15,269 carcases of lamb and 163 cases of meat sundries from Geelong.” Mr Peppard, Agent-General, reported to the Government… Read more
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Lizzie sets sail on the Orontes
On a mid-autumn day in October 1902, thirty-year-old Lizzie Whitehead sailed from England to meet her fiance, George Harry Siswick, who was halfway around the world, in Aotearoa New Zealand. It was the maiden voyage of R.M.S. Orontes, the Orient Line’s newest and largest ship completed by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan.… Read more