CITY OF MANCHESTER

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date8 September 1935

Object number00040953

NameGlass plate negative

MediumEmulsion on glass

Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection

Terms

DescriptionCITY OF MANCHESTER is shown anchored off Cremorne Point on Sunday 8 September 1935. This image was captured at 10.30am from a passing vessel travelling between Taronga and Circular Quay, Sydney. It was taken in the same year that the vessel was launched.HistoryCITY OF MANCHESTER was a 5527 ton vessel, the fourth to be given the name City of Manchester. Built in 1935 by Cammell, Laird at Birkenhead it was a steel twin-screw merchant vessel. On 28 February 1942 CITY OF MANCHESTER was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine.SignificanceThis photograph 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.