The Australasian United Steam Navigation Company (AUSNC) was an Australian shipping company formed in 1887 by the merger of the

Australasian Steam Navigation Company The Australasian Steam Navigation Company (ASN Co) was a shipping company of Australia which operated between 1839 and 1887. Company history The company was started as the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company in 1839. In March 1851, the compa ...

and the

Queensland Steam Shipping Company The Queensland Steam Shipping Company (QSS Co) was a shipping company of Australia from 1881 to 1887. History In 1881, the British India Steam Navigation Company was operating a regular mail steamer service from Brisbane to England via the Torre ...

and their fleets. It existed from 1887 to 1961. One of their former shipping offices,

Naldham House Naldham House is a heritage-listed office building located at 193 Mary Street, Brisbane, Mary Street, Brisbane City, Queensland, Brisbane CBD, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1864 to 1889. It is also known as AUSN Ho ...

, at 193

Mary Street, Brisbane Mary Street is a major road in the Brisbane central business district. The street is one of a number that were named after female queens and princesses of the royal family shortly after the penal colony was settled. Charlotte Street is positio ...

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

is listed in the

Queensland Heritage Register The Queensland Heritage Register is a heritage register, a statutory list of places in Queensland, Australia that are protected by Queensland legislation, the Queensland Heritage Act 1992. It is maintained by the Queensland Heritage Council. As a ...

Ships

The ships operated by the company included , which operated the mail service between

Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...

Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-conse ...

and

Townsville Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. With a population of 180,820 as of June 2018, it is the largest settlement in North Queensland; it is unofficially considered its capital. Estimated resident population, 3 ...

. She was partly scrapped in 1926 and abandoned on

Bishop Island Bishop Island is a Baffin Island offshore island located in the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Frobisher Bay, approximately southwest of Iqaluit. Hill Island and Faris Island are in the immediate vicinity. ...

at the mouth of the

Brisbane River The Brisbane River is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the river, named it after the Go ...

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*{{cite web, url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/ausnc.htm , last1=Swiggum , first1=S , last2=Kohli , first2=M , title=Queensland Steam Shipping Co. / Australasian United S.N. Co. , work=The Ships List , date=14 November 2008 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121094036/http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/ausnc.htm , archivedate=21 November 2011 , df=dmy Transport companies disestablished in 1961 Defunct shipping companies of Australia Transport in Australia Transport companies established in 1887 1887 establishments in Australia 1961 disestablishments in Australia