HARTINGTON
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date29 June 1935
Object number00040952
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionHARTINGTON is shown at No 2 Athol Bight on Saturday 29 June 1935. This image was captured at 12.45pm on a boat travelling from Circular Quay to Taronga on return to the Quay. Athol Bight had deep anchorage that allowed large ships to moor.HistorySS HARTINGTON was a British 5496 ton merchant steamer built in 1932 by W Gray & Co Ld at Hartlepool. It was owned by J & C Harrison Ld and registered in the port of London under a British flag. On 2 November 1942 travelling from Halifax to Belfast it was torpedoed by a German Submarine while carrying 8,000 tons of wheat and 6 tanks of deck cargo.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.
