Union Steamship Company Fleet List

Fleet List of the Union Steamship Company Showing Ownership, Nationality, Name of Ship, Year Placed in Service, and Gross Tonnage. Gross tonnage equals cubic feet of all enclosed space divided by 100. Notations Regarding the Ship (if any), Such as Previous Name or Renaming, are shown after the Gross Tonnage.

UNION LINE

The Union Steamship Company Ltd.

Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and East African Royal Mail Service

(British)

1. African (1873) 2,019
2. American (1873) 2,126
3. Anglian (1873) 2,159
4. Arab (1879) 3,192
5. Asiatic (1873) 2,066
6. Athenian (1882) 3,877
7. Athens (1877) 2,313
8. Briton (1861) 1,167
9. Briton (1897) 10,248
10. Cambrian (1860) 1,055
11. Celt (1855) 514
12. Celt (1866) 1,439
13. Dane (1855) 530
14. Danube (1866) 2,039
15. Durban (1878) 2,875
16. European (1869) 2,272
17. Gascon (1897) 6,298
18. Gaul (1893) 4,745
19. German (1877) 3,149
20. German (1898) 6,763
21. Goth (1893) 4,738
22. Gothland (1872) 1,482
23. Greek (1893) 4,747
24. Guelph (1894) 4,917
25. Mexican (1882) 4,661
26. Moor (1882) 3,688
27. Norman (1894) 7,537
28. Norseman (1866) 1,368
29. Northern (1869) 1,330
30. Nubian (1876) 3.088
31. Nyanza (1864) 2,082 (Built for P. & O. Line)
32. Phoebe (1857) 613
33. Pretoria (1878) 3,303
34. Roman (1863) 1,282
35. Roman (1870) 3,021
36. Saxon (1863) 1,142
37. Saxon (1900) 12,385
38. Scot (1891) 6,844
39. Spartan (1881) 3,487
40. Syria (1863) 1,959
41. Tartar (1883) 4,425
42. Teuton (1869) 1,741
43. Trojan (1880) 3,652

Smith, Eugene W., Passenger Ships of the World: Past and Present, Boston: George H. Dean Company, 1963.