MALOJA of Belfast
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date26 January 1934
Object number00041669
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionFrederick Wilkinson took this photograph of the MALOJA at 11:30am on Friday 26 January 1934 onboard ferry from Circular Quay to Mosman, Sydney. The MALOJA is dressed overall as the flagship for the annual Anniversary Regatta, and is moored to the P&O Buoy in Neutral Bay.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.
William James Hall
26 January 1930
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
01 March 1924