CAPE HORN

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date15 June 1935

Object number00041645

NameGlass plate negative

MediumEmulsion on glass

Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection

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DescriptionCAPE HORN is shown at No 1 Athol Bight on Saturday 15 June 1935. This image was captured from the 12.45pm ferry travelling from Circular Quay to Taronga Park, Sydney.HistoryCAPE HORN was a 5,643 ton commercial vessel built in 1929 by Lithgow Ltd. In 1935 it was operating for Cape York Motorship Ltd and registered in Glasgow.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.