SS WYREEMA, 1 July 1911
Photographer
Harry Brisbane Williams
(1869 - 1959)
Date1 July 1911
Object number00017031
NamePhotograph
MediumSilver gelatin print on paper
DimensionsOverall: 120 x 165 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Piers Jones
DescriptionPhotograph titled 'SS WYREEMA, 1 July 1911' depicting three AUSN Co officers standing on the deck of SS WYREEMA, which is moored alongside a wharf shed.
The steam ship WYREEMA was built in 1908 by A Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland. It was owned by the Australian United Steamship Navigation Company and was used on interstate passenger runs.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. He also photographed a range of ship building activities, dry docks, slip ways and waterfront construction.
