BRADBURN
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date3 December 1932
Object number00041585
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionThe British cargo vessel BRADBURN was photographed at No 4 Athol Bight on Saturday 3 December 1932. This image was captured from the 3.15pm boat travelling from Circular Quay to Taronga Park, Sydney.HistoryBRADBURN was a steel-screw vessel of 4,736 tons built in 1930 by W Gray & Co Ld at West Hartlepool. In 1932 it was owned by Leeds Shipping Company Ld and registered in Bideford under a British flag. In 1952 it was renamed KAIYO MARU and then scrapped in 1967.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.
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
31 December 1932