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Devitt and Moore was a British shipping company formed by Thomas Henry Devitt and Joseph Moore in 1836. They became shipowners and entered the passenger and cargo trade to Australia managing and owning many clipper ships such as and . With the advent of steam, they developed a training scheme for cadets and formed
File:StateLibQld 1 111508 La Hogue (ship).jpg, ''La Hogue''
File:PRG1273 4 7 City of Adelaide at Port Augusta c1880.png, ''City of Adelaide'' at
Pangbourne College Website
Maritime history of Australia 1836 establishments in England Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom
Devitt and Moore was a British shipping company formed by Thomas Henry Devitt and Joseph Moore in 1836. They became shipowners and entered the passenger and cargo trade to Australia managing and owning many clipper ships such as and . With the advent of steam, they developed a training scheme for cadets and formed Pangbourne College
Pangbourne College is a mixed-sex education, coeducational Public school (UK), public school (private boarding school, boarding and day school, day school), for pupils aged 13-18 years, in Pangbourne, Berkshire, England. It is set in 230 acres ...
.
Devitt and Moore fleet
In purchasing their first two full-rigged ships from Duncan Dunbar in 1863, Devitt and Moore started their long connection with Australia as shipowners. Over the next fifty-five years until the end of theFirst World War
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
when they finally conceded to the competition from steamships, at various times the Devitt and Moore fleet comprised twenty-nine square-rigged sailing ships and two steamships carrying passengers, wool, copper and general cargo between Great Britain and Australia. Thomas Henry Devitt's grandson Howson Foulger Devitt went on to establish the insurance broker
An insurance broker is an intermediary who sells, solicits, or negotiates insurance on behalf of a client for compensation. An insurance broker is distinct from an insurance agent in that a broker typically acts on behalf of a client by negoti ...
Devitt Insurance in 1936.
The following list of ships owned by Devitt and Moore was adapted from a book by Captain AG Course.
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Port Augusta
Port Augusta (''Goordnada'' in the revived indigenous Barngarla language) is a coastal city in South Australia about by road from the state capital, Adelaide. Most of the city is on the eastern shores of Spencer Gulf, immediately south of the ...
c1882-83, after conversion to a barque.
File:StateLibQld 1 110056 Pekina (Ship), 1869.jpg, ''Pekina''
File:StateLibQld 1 185991 Parramatta (ship).jpg, ''Parramatta''
File:StateLibQld 1 182155 South Australian (ship).jpg, ''South Australian''
File:StateLibQld 1 185343 Hawkesbury (ship).jpg, ''Hawkesbury''
File:StateLibQld 1 125623 Chaa-Sze (ship).jpg, Figurehead of ''Chaa-Sze''
File:StateLibQld 1 112564 John Rennie (ship).jpg, ''John Rennie''
File:StateLibQld 1 43071 Collingwood (ship).jpg, Barque ''Collingwood''
File:Sobraon (ship, 1866) - SLV H99.220-645.jpg, ''Sobraon''
File:StateLibQld 1 173683 Rodney (ship).jpg, ''Rodney''
File:The ship ‚Duke of Atholl‘ - BHC3294.jpg, ''Duke of Atholl''
File:StateLibQld 1 148775 Illawarra (ship).jpg, ''Illawarra''
File:Macquarie (ship, 1875) - SLV H99.220-3298.jpg, ''Macquarie''
File:StateLibQld 1 111504 Tamar (ship).jpg, ''Tamar''
File:StateLibQld 1 98780 Harbineger (ship).jpg, ''Harbinger''
File:StateLibQld 1 140951 Hesperus (ship).jpg, ''Hesperus''
File:StateLibQld 1 144315 Port Jackson (ship).jpg, ''Port Jackson''
File:Medway (ship, 1902) - SLV H91.250-242.jpg, ''Medway''
References
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Pangbourne College Website
Maritime history of Australia 1836 establishments in England Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom