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Portrait of a man and woman possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Portrait of a man and woman possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Night scene with HNLMS JAVA berthed at West Circular Quay wharf, October 1930

Night scene with HNLMS JAVA berthed at West Circular Quay wharf, Octob...

The Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) including HNLMS JAVA, HNLMS EVERSTEN and HNLMS DE RUYTER arrived in Sydney on 3 October 1930. The ships berthed in West Circular Quay and The Sydney Morning Heral... More

Mrs Elsa Evans posing on the deck of HNLMS JAVA, 10 October 1930

Mrs Elsa Evans posing on the deck of HNLMS JAVA, 10 October 1930

The Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) including HNLMS JAVA, HNLMS EVERSTEN and HNLMS DE RUYTER arrived in Sydney on 3 October 1930. The ships berthed at the Oceanic Steamship Company wharf and Burns P... More

Three children playing a board game possibly on SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Three children playing a board game possibly on SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Photographic postcard of a woman dressed in white leaning on a high table

Photographic postcard of a woman dressed in white leaning on a high ta...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Ship's captain, wife and daughter standing at ship's wheel, 1910s

Ship's captain, wife and daughter standing at ship's wheel, 1910s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Lord Mayor of Sydney, Ernest Samuel Marks, boarding HNLMS JAVA, 10 October 1930

Lord Mayor of Sydney, Ernest Samuel Marks, boarding HNLMS JAVA, 10 Oct...

The Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) including HNLMS JAVA, HNLMS EVERSTEN and HNLMS DE RUYTER arrived in Sydney on 3 October 1930. The ships berthed in West Circular Quay and The Sydney Morning Heral... More

Dutch Consul-General Teppema, Madame Teppema and Rear-Admiral C C Kayser on board HNLMS JAVA, 10 October 1930

Dutch Consul-General Teppema, Madame Teppema and Rear-Admiral C C Kays...

The Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) including HNLMS JAVA, HNLMS EVERSTEN and HNLMS DE RUYTER arrived in Sydney on 3 October 1930. The ships berthed at the Oceanic Steamship Company wharf and Burns P... More

Group portrait on board a ship, c 1910

Group portrait on board a ship, c 1910

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

The sinking of HMAS TORRENS I during World War I

The sinking of HMAS TORRENS I during World War I

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

The sinking of HMAS TORRENS I during World War I

The sinking of HMAS TORRENS I during World War I

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

Six men up a tree overlooking a crowd of people, 1890-1930

Six men up a tree overlooking a crowd of people, 1890-1930

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Photographic postcard of a man and five women

Photographic postcard of a man and five women

This photograph depicts a man and five women, possibly a family seated together. The image possibly relates to American shipowner Captain Edward Robert Sterling...This photo is part of the Australian National M... More

Seaman with a cat and kitten, c 1910

Seaman with a cat and kitten, c 1910

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Two women seated on deck chairs on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Two women seated on deck chairs on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

HNLMS DE RUYTER near the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 3 October 1930

HNLMS DE RUYTER near the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 3 October 1930

The Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) including HNLMS JAVA, HNLMS EVERSTEN and HNLMS DE RUYTER arrived in Sydney on 3 October 1930. The ships berthed in West Circular Quay and The Sydney Morning Heral... More

HNLMS EVERSTEN near the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 3 October 1930

HNLMS EVERSTEN near the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 3 October 1930

The Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) including HNLMS JAVA, HNLMS EVERSTEN and HNLMS DE RUYTER arrived in Sydney on 3 October 1930. The ships berthed in West Circular Quay and The Sydney Morning Heral... More

Opening yacht season at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, 1909-1930

Opening yacht season at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, 1909-1930

The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron is a private sailing club which was formed in 1862. This image depicts a sloop underway at the opening yacht season event near the Squadron's headquarters in Kirribilli...This ph... More

Photographic postcard of an Australian soldier with two women

Photographic postcard of an Australian soldier with two women

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

HNLMS JAVA entering Sydney Cove, 3 October 1930

HNLMS JAVA entering Sydney Cove, 3 October 1930

The Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) including HNLMS JAVA, HNLMS EVERSTEN and HNLMS DE RUYTER arrived in Sydney on 3 October 1930. The ships berthed in West Circular Quay and The Sydney Morning Heral... More

Unidentified merchant mariner and woman on board a vessel, c 1910

Unidentified merchant mariner and woman on board a vessel, c 1910

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Nun standing on the deck of SS ORUNGAL, c 1930

Nun standing on the deck of SS ORUNGAL, c 1930

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. ..The ANMM undertakes research and accepts public comments that enhance the information we hold about images in ... More

Opening yacht season at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, 1909-1930

Opening yacht season at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, 1909-1930

The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron is a private sailing club which was formed in 1862. This image depicts a number of sailing boats underway during the opening yacht season near the Squadron's headquarters in Kirr... More

Naval officers and sailors of watching the sinking of HMAS TORRENS I

Naval officers and sailors of watching the sinking of HMAS TORRENS I

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

Passengers sitting on the deck of SS ORUNGAL, c 1930

Passengers sitting on the deck of SS ORUNGAL, c 1930

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. If reproduced or distributed, this image should be clearly attributed to the collection of the Australian Nation... More

Portrait of a man and woman in front of a lifeboat possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Portrait of a man and woman in front of a lifeboat possibly on board S...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Three females on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Three females on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Australian Sea Cadets in an open boat, 1909-1930

Australian Sea Cadets in an open boat, 1909-1930

he Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron is a private sailing club which was formed in 1862. This glass plate negative depicts a group of uniformed Australian Sea Cadets (also formally known as Naval Reserve Cadets and n... More

Opening yacht season at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, 1909-1930

Opening yacht season at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, 1909-1930

The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron is a private sailing club which was formed in 1862. This image depicts a number of sailing boats underway during the opening yacht season in the Harbour...This photo is part of t... More

Dutch Consul-General Teppema, Madame Teppema and Rear-Admiral C C Kayser greeting Lady Riddle and Enid Riddle on board HNLMS JAVA, 10 October 1930

Dutch Consul-General Teppema, Madame Teppema and Rear-Admiral C C Kays...

The Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) including HNLMS JAVA, HNLMS EVERSTEN and HNLMS DE RUYTER arrived in Sydney on 3 October 1930. The ships berthed in West Circular Quay and The Sydney Morning Heral... More

Ship's officer, passengers and children seated on the deck of SS ORUNGAL, c 1930

Ship's officer, passengers and children seated on the deck of SS ORUNG...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. If reproduced or distributed, this image should be clearly attributed to the collection of the Australian Nation... More

Man and woman reading to children possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Man and woman reading to children possibly on board SS ORMISTON, 1927-...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Brisbane City view near Ann Street

Brisbane City view near Ann Street

This image depicts a view of Brisbane near Ann Street. The Hotel Canberra is visible to the lower right, which was built in 1927 at the intersection of Edward and Ann Steets. This photograph forms part of a pan... More

The sinking of HMAS TORRENS I during World War I

The sinking of HMAS TORRENS I during World War I

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

The scuttling of HMAS TORRENS I

The scuttling of HMAS TORRENS I

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

English ship's officer with a monkey, 1900-1930

English ship's officer with a monkey, 1900-1930

Between 1900 and the 1950s, Sydney photographer Sam Hood took hundreds of photographs of ships and their crew for souvenirs of their visit or to send home to families. This photograph depicts an officer from th... More

Group portrait possibly on board a White Star Line vessel, c 1910

Group portrait possibly on board a White Star Line vessel, c 1910

This group portrait of passengers and stewards was possibly taken on board a White Star Line vessel. One of the stewards has 'smoke room steward' on his lapels...This photo is part of the Australian National Ma... More

HNLMS JAVA berthed at West Circular Quay wharf, October 1930

HNLMS JAVA berthed at West Circular Quay wharf, October 1930

The Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) including HNLMS JAVA, HNLMS EVERSTEN and HNLMS DE RUYTER arrived in Sydney on 3 October 1930. The ships berthed in West Circular Quay and The Sydney Morning Heral... More

Nun standing on the deck of SS ORUNGAL, c 1930

Nun standing on the deck of SS ORUNGAL, c 1930

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. If reproduced or distributed, this image should be clearly attributed to the collection of the Australian Nation... More

Tooth and Company Fiat drinks delivery truck in front of Garratt's Ltd showroom and garage

Tooth and Company Fiat drinks delivery truck in front of Garratt's Ltd...

This photograph depicts a Tooth and Company Fiat drinks delivery truck with a Zetz-Spa sign on it in front of Garratt's Ltd showroom and garage, who were Fiat agents. Their stores were located at 173-175 Elizab... More

Children on a slippery slide on board HMAS AUSTRALIA II

Children on a slippery slide on board HMAS AUSTRALIA II

This image depicts children on a slippery slide probably on board HMAS AUSTRALIA II. The event was the annual children's Christmas party and was hosted 6 December 1930. It is possible that the inscription on th... More

Passengers possibly on the deck of SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

Passengers possibly on the deck of SS ORMISTON, 1927-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

A group of children hoisted by a crane on board HMAS AUSTRALIA II

A group of children hoisted by a crane on board HMAS AUSTRALIA II

This image depicts children in a crate hoisted on board HMAS AUSTRALIA II. The event was the annual children's Christmas party and was hosted on 6 December 1930. The girl wearing glasses on the left is Miss Ros... More

Group portrait of an unidentified woman and unidentified US Naval officers, 1908-1930

Group portrait of an unidentified woman and unidentified US Naval offi...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron foreshore parkland area, 1909-1930

The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron foreshore parkland area, 1909-1930

The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron is a private sailing club which was formed in 1862. This image depicts the foreshore parkland area. In the background, a whale's jawbones are visible and form an archway. The jaw... More

Sailing boats with crew and dinghies on Sydney Harbour, 1909-1930

Sailing boats with crew and dinghies on Sydney Harbour, 1909-1930

The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron is a private sailing club which was formed in 1862. This image depicts sailing boats at the opening yacht season event the Squadron's headquarters in Kirribilli...This photo is p... More

Royal Australian Navy officers and sailors watching the sinking of HMAS TORRENS I

Royal Australian Navy officers and sailors watching the sinking of HMA...

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

SS ERRINGHI moored at Port Erringhi wharf with people boarding, 1912-1930

SS ERRINGHI moored at Port Erringhi wharf with people boarding, 1912-1...

This image depicts the Hawkesbury Steam Navigation Company's ferry SS ERRINGHI possibly moored at Port Erringhi, NSW. ERRINGHI was purchased by the company in 1912 and traded on the Hawkesbury River up to the l... More

Portrait of a woman, possibly Ethel Manila Sterling, c 1913

Portrait of a woman, possibly Ethel Manila Sterling, c 1913

This photograph depicts a woman seated wearing a lace embroidered dress. It is possible that she is American shipowner, Captain Edward Robert Sterling's, first daughter Ethel Manila Sterling. Ethel Manila Sterl... More

Donna Adelaide Grossardi posing on the deck of HNLMS JAVA, 10 October 1930

Donna Adelaide Grossardi posing on the deck of HNLMS JAVA, 10 October ...

The Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) including HNLMS JAVA, HNLMS EVERSTEN and HNLMS DE RUYTER arrived in Sydney on 3 October 1930. The ships berthed in West Circular Quay and The Sydney Morning Heral... More

Opening yacht season at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, 1909-1930

Opening yacht season at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, 1909-1930

The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron is a private sailing club which was formed in 1862. This image depicts the starboard side of three sailing boats underway during the opening yacht season near the Squadron's head... More

Captain with wife and child on board a vessel, c 1910

Captain with wife and child on board a vessel, c 1910

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Building decks on a wharf near Potts Point, 1890-1930

Building decks on a wharf near Potts Point, 1890-1930

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

The scuttling of HMAS TORRENS I

The scuttling of HMAS TORRENS I

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

Sailors on spar attending furled sails probably on board the German barque GUSTAV

Sailors on spar attending furled sails probably on board the German ba...

The four-masted steel barque AUSTRASIA was built for J and W Goffey of Liverpool by Russell and Company in Glasgow in 1892. In May 1910, it was sold to Aug Bolten of Hamburg, Germany and renamed GUSTAV. It was ... More

Photographic postcard of a large group of men and women possibly at a picnic shelter at Shark Island, Sydney

Photographic postcard of a large group of men and women possibly at a ...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

The sinking of HMAS TORRENS I during World War I

The sinking of HMAS TORRENS I during World War I

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

Miss Hera Roberts posing on the deck of HNLMS JAVA

Miss Hera Roberts posing on the deck of HNLMS JAVA

Check out our blog ( http://anmm.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/mystery-solved-the-pretty-woman-is/ ) on Hera Roberts as well as a more detailed article ( http://anmm.smedia.com.au/Olive/AM3/ANMM6/Default.htm?href=A... More

Photographic postcard of a two young men and a woman on a wooden swing

Photographic postcard of a two young men and a woman on a wooden swing

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Opening yacht season at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, 1909-1930

Opening yacht season at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, 1909-1930

The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron is a private sailing club which was formed in 1862. This image depicts six men standing on the deck of a sailing boat next to two men in a rowing boat. The boats are in the Harbo... More

View of unfinished Sydney Harbour Bridge aboard HMAS ANZAC

View of unfinished Sydney Harbour Bridge aboard HMAS ANZAC

This photograph was taken aboard HMAS ANZAC probably as it was returning to port after the scuttling of HMAS TORRENS I. In the background, Fort Denison is visible and the Sydney Harbour Bridge appears unfinishe... More

Retired military personnel at a table drinking beer, 1916-1930

Retired military personnel at a table drinking beer, 1916-1930

This image depicts a group of retired military personnel seated in a club or restaurant. The man seated centre right appears to be wearing a triangular badge and the man seated in the centre left, appears to be... More

Portrait of a girl wearing a fur shawl, 1910-1930

Portrait of a girl wearing a fur shawl, 1910-1930

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Photographic postcard of three women possibly at the races

Photographic postcard of three women possibly at the races

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Naval officers and sailors of HMAS ANZAC watching the sinking of HMAS TORRENS I

Naval officers and sailors of HMAS ANZAC watching the sinking of HMAS ...

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

Portrait of a woman with two young girls, 1900-1930

Portrait of a woman with two young girls, 1900-1930

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Officers of TSS AWATEA at East Circular Quay

Officers of TSS AWATEA at East Circular Quay

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Night scene with HNLMS JAVA berthed at West Circular Quay wharf, October 1930

Night scene with HNLMS JAVA berthed at West Circular Quay wharf, Octob...

The Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) including HNLMS JAVA, HNLMS EVERSTEN and HNLMS DE RUYTER arrived in Sydney on 3 October 1930. The ships berthed at the Oceanic Steamship Company wharf and Burns P... More

A passenger vessel leaving Darling Harbour, Sydney, 1910s

A passenger vessel leaving Darling Harbour, Sydney, 1910s

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Two women and a ship's officer on the deck of SS ORUNGAL, c 1930

Two women and a ship's officer on the deck of SS ORUNGAL, c 1930

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. If reproduced or distributed, this image should be clearly attributed to the collection of the Australian Nation... More

Two young girls holding hands, 1900-1930

Two young girls holding hands, 1900-1930

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Two men and a child looking at a mounted deer head on board SS ORUNGAL, c 1930

Two men and a child looking at a mounted deer head on board SS ORUNGAL...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. If reproduced or distributed, this image should be clearly attributed to the collection of the Australian Nation... More

HMAS TORRENS I being used as a gunnery target off Sydney Heads

HMAS TORRENS I being used as a gunnery target off Sydney Heads

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

The scuttling of HMAS TORRENS I

The scuttling of HMAS TORRENS I

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

The scuttling of HMAS TORRENS I

The scuttling of HMAS TORRENS I

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

The sinking of HMAS TORRENS I during World War I

The sinking of HMAS TORRENS I during World War I

Having served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1916, latterly as a training platform for the Naval Reserve, HMAS TORRENS I was decommissioned and prepared as a target for Fleet Gunnery Practice. On 24 November... More

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-...

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-...

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-...

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, with crowds and streamers, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, with ...

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-...

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

Laying the Pacific Cable from Bondi, Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand

Laying the Pacific Cable from Bondi, Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand

This photograph probably depicts the cable steamer SILVERTOWN at sea while men onshore at Bondi Beach, Sydney work on laying the Pacific Cable. Crowds, including surf lifesavers, appear surrounding the ditch an... More

SS CERAMIC leaving Sydney Harbour, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC leaving Sydney Harbour, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf in Millers Point, with crowds and streamers, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf in Millers Point, with ...

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

Unidentified man seated at the pianola in the saloon on board E R STERLING, 1912-1918

Unidentified man seated at the pianola in the saloon on board E R STER...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Captain's household. A group of people standing next to a dog Norway

Captain's household. A group of people standing next to a dog Norway

Portrait of a family of four with two pet dogs and a caged cockatoo on the deck of the wool clipper MOUNT STEWART. Believed to be Captain M C McColm, his wife and two sons, who lived on board with him from abo... More

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-...

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-...

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

SS ERRINGHI in Brooklyn NSW with people boarding, 1912-1951

SS ERRINGHI in Brooklyn NSW with people boarding, 1912-1951

This image depicts the Hawkesbury Steam Navigation Company's ferry SS ERRINGHI probably at Brooklyn NSW. ERRINGHI was purchased by the company in 1912 and traded on the Hawkesbury River up to the late 1940s. Th... More

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-...

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-...

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-...

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

Pitt Street in Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Pitt Street in Sydney, Sydney, Australia

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-1939

SS CERAMIC departing the White Star Line wharf at Millers Point, 1920-...

SS CERAMIC was built in 1912 and operated for the White Star Line on the Australian trade run. It only operated on this route for one year before becoming a troopship during World War I. After the war it once m... More

Portrait of Captain Edward Robert Sterling with three women, c 1913

Portrait of Captain Edward Robert Sterling with three women, c 1913

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872... More

Seven unidentified men, possibly standing on the deck of one of Captain Edward R Sterling's vessels, 1913-1929

Seven unidentified men, possibly standing on the deck of one of Captai...

This image depicts a group of men possibly on board the six-masted barquentine E R STERLING...For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part... More

Seven unidentified men, possibly standing on the deck of one of Captain Edward R Sterling's vessels, 1913-1929

Seven unidentified men, possibly standing on the deck of one of Captai...

This image depicts a group of men possibly on board the six-masted barquentine E R STERLING...For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is part... More

Two men at the Govett's Leap lookout in the Blue Mountains, 1913-1929

Two men at the Govett's Leap lookout in the Blue Mountains, 1913-1929

For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photograph was taken at the Govett's Leap lookout in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. The image is re... More

Ray Milton Sterling standing with an unidentified woman, 1913-1928

Ray Milton Sterling standing with an unidentified woman, 1913-1928

This photograph depicts American shipowner Captain Edward Robert Sterling's son Ray Milton Sterling, probably standing on board a Sterling vessel with an unidentified woman...This photo is part of the Australia... More

Eight unidentified women, possibly related to Captain Edward R Sterling, in a loungeroom, 1913-1929

Eight unidentified women, possibly related to Captain Edward R Sterlin...

This image depicts a group of women possibly on board the six-masted barquentine E R STERLING...For more information see our blog post on the Sterlings: bit.ly/OsqaFc ( http://bit.ly/OsqaFc ) ..This photo is pa... More

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