CITY OF SALISBURY
Photographer
Frederick Garner Wilkinson
(1901-1975)
Date13 July 1935
Object number00041649
NameGlass plate negative
MediumEmulsion on glass
Dimensions83 x 108 x 2 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum collection
DescriptionCITY OF SALISBURY is shown at No 1 Athol Bight on Saturday 13 July 1935. This image was captured from the 12.45pm ferry travelling between Circular Quay and Taronga Park, Sydney.
HistoryCITY OF SALISBURY was a 5,924 ton vessel built in 1924 by Wear Ship Yard. In 1935 it was operating for the Ellerman Line and was registered in Liverpool, England.
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.
