GREYHOUND II
Photographer
Harry Brisbane Williams
(1869 - 1959)
Date1905
Object number00017019
NamePostcard
MediumBlack and white photographic print on paper
DimensionsOverall: 88 x 138 mm
ClassificationsPosters and postcards
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Piers Jones
DescriptionThis postcard features a photographic image taken by Harry B Williams showing the passenger steamer GREYHOUND II under way in Sydney Harbour.
The handwritten message on the reverse reads 'Dear Merita, This is our steamer leaving for a picnic (sunset)... Harry'.
HistoryThe Harry Brisbane Williams photographic collection provides an interesting record of a range of activities on Sydney Harbour from the 1890s into the 1920s. An enthusiastic amateur boater and photographer, Williams’ photographs capture a range of subjects – pleasure cruising on his motor launch on the Lane Cove River, yachting on Sydney Harbour, foreshore social activities, surf lifesaving, cargo ships, battle cruisers of the United States fleet, model yachting and the shipbuilding industry. In particular, they are a wonderful personal record of the new phenomenon of leisure motor boating in the early twentieth century.
GREYHOUND II is made of wood, single screw, 37 hp. 124 Gt. 96.6X 21.2X 9.5. Built Sydney 1902 and registered there 1903. It was owned by James Allan and Peter Hunter, Sydney. It was converted to the steam ferry KIALOA in 1908 for the Middle Harbour ferry run. She was re-converted to a tug in 1917 and was broken up in about 1941.
