QUEBEC CITY
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date1 October 1923
Object number00041563
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionQUEBEC CITY was photographed anchored in Athol Bight, Sydney Harbour on Monday 1 October 1923 during day eight of its visit to Sydney. At this time it was operating for the Reardon Smith Line.
HistoryQUEBEC CITY was originally launched as HAIMON under a German flag in 1911. It was a cargo ship of 4,924 tons built by Flensburger at Flensburg, Germany. In 1919 following World War I it was given over to Britain. In 1921 it was sold to Reardon Smith Line and renamed QUEBEC CITY. Norddeutscher Lloyd purchased the vessel in 1927 and renamed it HAIMON. It was scrapped in 1935.
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.
