SS LORVANA
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date18 October 1924
Object number00041505
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionSS LOWANA was photographed arriving in Sydney Harbour from Newcastle on Saturday afternoon 18 October 1924. LOWANA was carrying commercial cargo and was operating under a Yugoslavian flag.HistorySS LOWANA was a steel-screw vessel of 145 ton. It was built in 1905 by M U Martinolich Lussinpiccolo. In 1924 it was owned by Soc Di Nav Mariltima Boka and registered in the port of Cattaro under a Yugoslavian flag.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.
