OTRANTO leaving for London via Ports on Wednesday 22 April 1931

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date22 April 1931

Object number00042219

NameGlass plate negative

MediumEmulsion on glass

Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection

Terms

DescriptionFrederick Wilkinson took this photograph of the OTRANTO aboard the 12:10pm ferry from Clifton to Taronga Park, Sydney on Wednesday 22 April 1931. The OTRANTO is underway in Sydney Harbour between Bradleys Head and Shark Island, departing for London.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.