SS DIOGENES of Aberdeen. Leaving for London via Ports on Wednesday 12 Dec 1923

Photographer Frederick Garner Wilkinson (1901-1975)

Date1923

Object number00042210

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 DIOGENES departing Sydney for London on Wednesday 12 December 1923. The DIOGENES passed through Sydney Heads between 1:00pm and 2:00pm.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.