Splendid Sisters - Story of Southern Cross & Northern Star Shaw Savill liners

Splendid Sisters: A Story of the Planning, Construction, and Operation of the Shaw Savill Liners Southern Cross & Northern Star

by Alan Mitchell

Pub. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London. 1966.

First edition.

Hardback, with remnants of dustjacket

192 pages, illustrated.

The colourful history of the Shaw Savill shipping company from the time when the earliest ships of the company carried settlers, gold miners, and troops for the Maori wars. Later they took troops to the South African war, and to Gallipoli; and in WWII, they lost 13 ships out of a fleet of 26.


Condition: Good+; extensive inscription to endpaper.