TARONGA of Tonsberg

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date12 May 1931

Object number00042256

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 TARONGA at No 4 wharf Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney on Tuesday 12 May 1931 at 12:10pm. The TARONGA departed for Port Lincoln, South Australia at 1:35pm to load a cargo of wheat bound for Shanghai, China.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.