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Sydney D. Waters: Union Line: A Short History of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited 1875 - 1951
Published by Union Steam Ship Company, 1951
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 148 pages, list of vessels, b/w illustrations, endpaper maps of USSC trade routes.
The story of a shipping company of world-wide scope that was founded and managed in New Zealand.
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited was once the biggest shipping line in the southern hemisphere and New Zealand's largest private-sector employer. It was incorporated by James Mills in Dunedin in 1875 with the backing of a Scottish shipbuilder, Peter Denny. Bought by shipping giant P&O around the time of World War I it was sold in 1972 to an Australasian consortium and closed at the end of the twentieth century.
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