Skip to main content
Advanced Search
SS ORAMA leaving from No 7 Wharf Woolloomoolloo for London on Wednesday 25 March 1931
SS ORAMA leaving from No 7 Wharf Woolloomoolloo for London on Wednesday 25 March 1931

SS ORAMA leaving from No 7 Wharf Woolloomoolloo for London on Wednesday 25 March 1931

Photographer (1901-1975)
Date1931
Object number00042116
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 ORAMA departing No 7 wharf Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney for London via Hobart on Wednesday 25 March 1931. Wilkinson took the photograph at 12:08pm from the Domain off Garden Island. ORAMA cleared Sydney Heads at 12:40pm.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.