Summary

Registered in the United Kingdom in 1887 to take over and extend the business of the Australian Steam Navigation Company and the Queensland Shipping Company.

Related entries

Timeline

 c. 1840 - 1851 Hunter River Steam Navigation Company Limited
 1851 - 1887 Australasian Steam Navigation Company
 c. 1881 - 1887 Queensland Steamship Company
       1887 - c. 1961 Australasian United Steam Navigation Limited

Archival resources

Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section

• Inchcape Group records, 1887 - 1961, L62.1; Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Norman Lang McKellar records, 1824 - 1985, ML Mss 4548; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Books

• McKellar, K.L., From Derby round to Burketown: The AUSN story, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, 1977, 682 pp. Details
• McKellar, Norman Lang, From Derby round to Burketowm: the A.U.S.N. story., University of Queensland Press, [Brisbane], 1977, 682 pp. Details
• Parsons, R.H., A history of Australasian Steam Navigation Co. and Australasian United Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, Originally published in the Daily Commercial News & Shipping List December 1947, Adelaide, 1960, 30 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Pixley, Norman Stewart, 'The history of the A.U.S.N. Co Ltd and its predecessors: the Hunter River Steam Navigation Co, the Australasian Steam Navigation Co, the Queensland Steam Ship Navigation Co.', Journal of the Historical Society of Queensland, vol. 5, no. 2, 1954, pp. 969-1003. Details

Online Resources

• 'Queensland Steam Shipping Co. / Australasian United S.N. Co.', in TheShipsList, 2008, http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/ausnc.shtml. Details