CERAMIC of Liverpool

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date19 October 1924

Object number00042132

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 from Dawes Point of the CERAMIC departing Sydney on her maiden trip to Newcastle, New South Wales, on Sunday morning 19 October 1924. The ship left Sydney Heads at 7:06am and arrived at Newcastle at 12:55pm.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.