SS MAHSUD

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date27 October 1924

Object number00041507

NameGlass plate negative

MediumEmulsion on glass

Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection

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DescriptionSS MAHSUD was photographed at the Cunard Wharf Woolloomooloo on Monday 27 October 1924 at dinnertime. The ship was operating for Thomas & Jones Brocklebank and conducted trade between Britain and Australia.HistorySS MAHSUD was a 8077 ton steel screw steam ship . It was built in 1917 by Russell & Co at Port Glasgow. In 1924 it was owned by Thomas & Jones Brocklebank Ld and registered in the port of Liverpool under a British flag. SS MAHSUD was sold to Greek ship breakers in 1955/56.SignificanceThis photograph is representative of the commercial trade between Australia and Britain 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.