The Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company was a publicly listed company that operated the Manly ferries in Sydney, Australia. The company was eventually taken over by the State Government and is now part of Sydney Ferries.
The company is notable for coining the expression about Manly being “Seven miles from Sydney and a thousand miles from care” and for promoting development in the Manly and Pittwater / Broken Bay areas.
Read more about Port Jackson And Manly Steamship Company: Formation, Operations: Manly, Relationship With Manly Council, Operations: Pittwater / Hawkesbury River, Decline & Sale, Fleet, See Also
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