MANSEPOOL
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date29 January 1933
Object number00041594
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionThe British cargo ship MANSEPOOL is shown at No 1 Athol Bight on Sunday morning 29 January 1933. This image was captured from the 9.55am ferry travelling from Taronga to Circular Quay, Sydney.
HistoryMANSEPOOL was a steel-screw cargo vessel of 4,894 tons built in 1928 by William Gray & Co Ld at West Hartlepool. In 1933 it was owned by Pool Shipping Company Ld and registered in West Hartlepool under a British flag. It was destroyed in 1941 when it was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk near the Faroe Islands of Denmark.
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.
