Alan Rice album - merchant shipping
Date1974-1979
Object number00007398
NamePhotograph album
MediumBlue coloured paper album with gold inlaid "Album" on cover, silver gelatin photographs, Black and white photographic print on paper.
Dimensions370 x 315 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionPhotograph album compiled by Alan Rice containing 41 photographs of Australian merchant shipping.HistoryPhotograph album with a gold inlaid cover comprised of 16 sheets featuring 41 black and white photographs of vessels, compiled by Alan Rice. Vessels described were either Australian built or had sailed in Australian waters. Pages have been artificially numbered and individual photographs have been described as follows;
Inside front cover: PARNDANA cargo passenger ship attaching its berth.
Page 3: TIMBARRA cargo passenger ship under way; LAKE EYRE bulk carrier underway.
Page 4: RIVER MITTA cargo ship underway; RIVER LODDON cargo ship underway; RIVER MURCHISON cargo passenger ship underway.
Page 5: RIVER BURNETT cargo passenger ship underway.
Page 6: RIVER FITZROY cargo passenger ship berthing with tugs; DELAMERE cargo ship underway.
Page 7: BOONARO cargo passenger ship underway; RIVER CLARENCE cargo ship underway; DANDENONG cargo ship underway.
Page 8: BILKURRA cargo passenger ship underway; ENFLIED cargo ship underway; EUGOWRA cargo ship underway.
Page 9: SOUTH ESK cargo ship underway; NILPENA cargo ship alongside wharf; PRINCESS OF TASMANIA passenger ship underway.
Page 10: DAYLESFORD cargo ship underway; DELUNGRA cargo ship alongside wharf.
Page 11: KOOLAMA passenger cargo ship underway; KOOLAMA passenger cargo ship underway; KABBARI passenger cargo ship underway; KOOJARRA passenger cargo ship underway.
Page 12: LITEVA boat underway possibly a commercial fishing boat; SIRENIA PEARL possibly a tourist and fishing boat alongside wharf; DINJERRA possibly commercial fishing boat underway.
Page 13: View of shipping Port Adelaide with a tug boat's bow buffer on wharf in foreground; WESTRALIA passenger ship alongside wharf.
Page 15: ANNE E. PRICE harbor work boat underway in choppy sea; WOONDA & DEFIANCE tug boats moored behind Bucknall line cargo ship; Port Adelaide, South Australia elevated view.
Page 17: Sydney Cove tug boat under way.
Page 18: HEROS tug boat underway; SIRIUS COVER tug boat alongside passenger ship.
Page 19: KEERA tug boat underway; CORINGA tug boat going astern; WOONA tug boat under way.
Page 20: Unidentified small bulk carrier possibly SANDY approaching its berth.
Page 21: WINDARRA cargo ship underway.
Page 22: COURIER twin funnel ferry boat for ship's passengers with THEMISTOCLES passenger ship; COURIER passenger ferry being sunk in 1928.SignificanceThis album is an important pictorial record of a large number of vessels which were active in Australian waters durng the twentieth century.
before 1950