OTAIO of Plymouth
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date30 August 1931
Object number00042284
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 OTAIO at F&S buoy in Neutral Bay, Sydney on Sunday 30 August 1931 aboard the 9:55am ferry from Mosman to Circular Quay. A glimps of the Sydney Harbour Bridge arch can be seen in the distance.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.
