SS ANCHISES

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date15 February 1924

Object number00041537

NameGlass plate negative

MediumEmulsion on glass

Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection

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DescriptionSS ANCHISES was photographed leaving Sydney Harbour for Liverpool and Hobart on Friday 15 February 1924. ANCHISES was the first fruit vessel to arrive during the 1924 season.HistorySS ANCHISES was a 10046 ton passenger and cargo vessel built in 1911 by Workman Clark at Belfast. It was owned by the Ocean Steam Ship Co Ltd at Liverpool and scrapped in 1941. SS ANCHISES was a 10046 ton passenger and cargo vessel built in 1911 by Workman Clark at Belfast. It was owned by Ocean Steam Ship Co Ltd at Liverpool and was scrapped in 1941. In 1930 it was registered in Liverpool under a British 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.