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Unidentified second officer of the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd on board SS GRACCHUS
Unidentified second officer of the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd on board SS GRACCHUS

Unidentified second officer of the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd on board SS GRACCHUS

Photographer (Australian, 1899 - 1953)
Date1913-1923
Object number00021226
NameNitrate negative
MediumEmulsion on nitrate film.
DimensionsOverall: 80 x 138 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionSS GRACCHUS was built in 1902 for Currie and Company in Melbourne. It was sold to the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd in 1913. In 1923, it was sold to Japan and renamed DAIBOSHI MARU and in 1944 it was torpedoed and sunk by USS SPADEFISH.SignificanceThe Samuel J Hood photographic collection records an extensive range of maritime activity on Sydney Harbour, including sail and steam ships, crew portraits, crews at work, ship interiors, stevedores loading and unloading cargo, port scenes, pleasure boats and harbourside social activities from the 1890s through to the 1950s. They are also highly competent artistic studies and views - Hood was regarded as an important figure in early Australian photojournalism. Hood’s maritime photographs are one of the most significant collections of such work in Australia.