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MISCELLANY: car ferries and a steamer with HMAS CANBERRA [I] and ANZAC [I] in Farm Cove, ca. 1930 - William J. Hall Coll., ANMM.
6483. We have bona fide Sydney ferry enthusiasts here on this Photostream, but we need to keep a firm hand on them or things get out of control. What we are prepared to say here,because names are visible, is that these are the car ferries KALANG and KOONDOOLOO plying their route between Milson's Point and the Bennelong Point terminus, seen upper far right. They are almost in the shadow of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, under construction, and which will put them out of business once it opens in March 1932. We therefore think this postcard is taken around 1930, and we learn from discussion on the ANMM website that the steamer being towed past by tugs here is Burns Philp's passenger cargo vessel S.S. MATARAM.
MATARAM was sold to Chinese interests at Tsingtao in 1935, passed to Japanese interests in 1938, became KOWA MARU, and was torpedoed and sunk by the U.S. submarine USS WAHOO off Darien, China, on March 19, 1943.
Well, this is not good enough, what's the name of the tugboats here ? No, no, no, forget we said that, forget we said that. There are damned bona fide Sydney tugboat enthusiasts around here too.
Anyway, the ferries are giving right of way to the ship under tow. But what we are interested in is the great cruiser in the background at Farm Cove, which the ANMM thinks is HMAS CANBERRA [I] and the destroyer nearby, which is flotilla leader HMAS ANZAC [I], the RAN's only three funnelled destroyer. The cruiser now has her crane fitted, for the purposes of raising caged baskets of children high in the sky at children's Christmas parties aboard the County Class cruisers each year.
Just a joke. See Pic NO. 6450 here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/8448424571/in/photostream
This photo is reminiscent of another William J. Hall image we had from the SLNSW at Entry NO. 660, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3967504733/
This photo: William J. Hall Collection, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, image NO. ANMS1092 [215], copyright expired. The ANMM's extensive Photostream here on Flickr can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/anmm_thecommons/
MISCELLANY: car ferries and a steamer with HMAS CANBERRA [I] and ANZAC [I] in Farm Cove, ca. 1930 - William J. Hall Coll., ANMM.
6483. We have bona fide Sydney ferry enthusiasts here on this Photostream, but we need to keep a firm hand on them or things get out of control. What we are prepared to say here,because names are visible, is that these are the car ferries KALANG and KOONDOOLOO plying their route between Milson's Point and the Bennelong Point terminus, seen upper far right. They are almost in the shadow of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, under construction, and which will put them out of business once it opens in March 1932. We therefore think this postcard is taken around 1930, and we learn from discussion on the ANMM website that the steamer being towed past by tugs here is Burns Philp's passenger cargo vessel S.S. MATARAM.
MATARAM was sold to Chinese interests at Tsingtao in 1935, passed to Japanese interests in 1938, became KOWA MARU, and was torpedoed and sunk by the U.S. submarine USS WAHOO off Darien, China, on March 19, 1943.
Well, this is not good enough, what's the name of the tugboats here ? No, no, no, forget we said that, forget we said that. There are damned bona fide Sydney tugboat enthusiasts around here too.
Anyway, the ferries are giving right of way to the ship under tow. But what we are interested in is the great cruiser in the background at Farm Cove, which the ANMM thinks is HMAS CANBERRA [I] and the destroyer nearby, which is flotilla leader HMAS ANZAC [I], the RAN's only three funnelled destroyer. The cruiser now has her crane fitted, for the purposes of raising caged baskets of children high in the sky at children's Christmas parties aboard the County Class cruisers each year.
Just a joke. See Pic NO. 6450 here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/8448424571/in/photostream
This photo is reminiscent of another William J. Hall image we had from the SLNSW at Entry NO. 660, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3967504733/
This photo: William J. Hall Collection, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, image NO. ANMS1092 [215], copyright expired. The ANMM's extensive Photostream here on Flickr can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/anmm_thecommons/