MV DUNTROON of Melbourne leaving on Maiden Voyage to Fremantle via Ports on Saturday afternoon 12 October 1935

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date1935

Object number00041657

NameGlass plate negative

MediumEmulsion on glass

Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection

Terms

DescriptionDUNTROON was photograpghed leaving on its maiden voyage to Fremantle via ports on Saturday afternoon 12 October 1935. This image was captured from Milsons Point at 2.56pm. DUNTROON arrived from Newcastle on Saturday 5 October 1935.HistoryDUNTROON was a 10,346 ton twin-screw merchant vessel built in 1935 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham. It operated for the Melbourne Steam Ship Company and was used on the Australian coastal passenger service. In 1942 it was requisitioned as a troopship for service during World War II and was returned to its owners in 1950. In 1960 it was brought by Grosvenor Shipping Company at Hong Kong and then sold to Kie Hock Shipping Co in 1961, renamed TONG HOO and used on the passenger run between Hong Kong and Indonesia. The Afrika Shipping Co bought the vessel in 1965 and renamed it LYDIA. In 1968 it was scrapped at Kaohstung.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.