Unidentified merchant marine of the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd on board SS HYMETTUS
Photographer
Samuel J Hood Studio
(Australian, 1899 - 1953)
Date1913-1925
Object number00021166
NameNitrate negative
MediumEmulsion on nitrate film.
DimensionsOverall: 80 x 138 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionSS HYMETTUS was built in 1906 and acquired by the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd in 1913. It was leased to the Australian Government during World War I and handed back in May 1917. In 1925, it was sold and renamed SEIUN MARU.SignificanceThe Samuel J Hood photographic collection records an extensive range of maritime activity on Sydney Harbour, including sail and steam ships, crew portraits, crews at work, ship interiors, stevedores loading and unloading cargo, port scenes, pleasure boats and harbourside social activities from the 1890s through to the 1950s. They are also highly competent artistic studies and views - Hood was regarded as an important figure in early Australian photojournalism. Hood’s maritime photographs are one of the most significant collections of such work in Australia.
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