MV ERIDAN of Dunkerque
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date27 February 1930
Object number00042015
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionFrederick Wilkinson took this photograph of the MV ERIDAN anchored in Athol Bight (near Bradleys Head), Sydney at 8:10am on Thursday 27 February 1930 aboard a ferry from Taronga to Circular Quay. ERIDAN arrived on her maiden voyage the previous Saturday afternoon.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.
