SS KATHLAMBA
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date20 December 1923
Object number00040916
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionSS KATHLAMBA is shown at wharf No 4 Wooloomooloo on Thursday 20 December 1923.HistoryKATHLAMBA was a steel screw steamship owned by Ellerman Bucknall Steam Ship Company Limited and launched in 1913. It was built by W Gray & Co at Hartlepool, Britain. The steel steam ship had a tonnage of 6382.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.
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
7 December 1923