BELPAREIL of Oslo

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date22 November 1931

Object number00042305

NameGlass plate negative

MediumEmulsion on glass

Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection

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DescriptionFrederick Wilkinson took this photograph of the BELPAREIL anchored in Snails Bay at Birchgrove, Sydney on Sunday afternoon 22 November 1931 aboard the 4:25pm ferry from Long Nose Point to Circular Quay. BELPAREIL's cargo comprises 800 turpentine piles bound for Falmouth on the south coast of Cornwall, England.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.