SS CATHAY leaving for London via Hobart & Ports on Wednesday 18 March 1931

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date1931

Object number00042084

NameGlass plate negative

MediumEmulsion on glass

Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection

Terms

DescriptionFrederick Wilkinson took this photograph of the CATHAY departing Sydney for London via Hobart at 12.28pm on Wednesday 18 March 1931 from Fort Macquarie Jetty. The north-eastern Sydney Harbour Bridge pylon can be seen in the late stages of construction.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.