DJAMBI
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date06 December 1931
Object number00040947
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
DimensionsOverall: 83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionSS DJAMBI is shown during its first visit to Sydney at the P&O Buoy on Sunday afternoon, 6 December 1931. This photograph was taken at 4.30pm from a boat travelling between Circular Quay and Mosman.HistorySS DJAMBI was a Dutch merchant ship of 7,002 tons built in 1919. It was managed by Rotterdam Lloyd who operated on the Java to Australia trade route between 1908 and 1960. On 13 March 1943 DJAMBI accidentally collided with SS SILVERBEECH and sunk off the coast of Portugal.SignificanceThis photograph represents trade between Australia and the Netherlands during the first half of the 20th century.
It is part of the F G Wilkinson Photograph Collection, comprising more than 700 glass plate negatives of ships in Sydney Harbour between 1919 and 1936. The collection provides an extensive and well-documented coverage of the changing styles of shipping in the port of Sydney before the gradual decline of the coastal trade, and in a period which was probably the peak reached by commercial shipping in Australia. The backgrounds also reveal the changing face of the city and harbour foreshores.
