VILLE D'AMIENS

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date4 September 1932

Object number00041581

NameGlass plate negative

MediumEmulsion on glass

Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection

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DescriptionThe French vessel VILLE D'AMIENS is shown at the F & S Buoy Neutral Bay on Sunday 4 September 1932. This image was captured from the 9.55am boat travelling from Mosman to Circular Quay via Cremorne, Sydney. VILLE D'AMIENS was used for transporting passengers and cargo.HistoryVILLE D'AMIENS was a 7,068 ton passenger and cargo steamship built in 1924. It was owned by Messageries Maritimes, at Marseilles but managed by the Clan Line between 1940 and 1944. It was constructed by North of Ireland at Londonderry and scrapped in 1953. 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.