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The Australian National Maritime Museum. We share stories of the sea. Australia’s centre for maritime collections, exhibitions, research and archaeology. Find out more.

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18 footer KERIKI under sail, Sydney Harbour

  • sydneyarbor said:
    Heading to Sow and Pigs.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    sydneyarbor Thanks :) It is an amazing shot, and I have seen it turn up in various places. A coloured version appeared on the cover of Australian Motor Boat and Yachting Monthly, October 1925.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks QM, I'm pretty sure you can even see this great pic on the wall of the Sydney Flying Squadron :)
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/169771862 - this pic appeared as a full page feature in the Sydney Mail on 21st January, 1922...

    The Sydney Mail's title/caption: 'Exhilarating Sport on Sydney Harbour...Visitors to Sydney frequently express astonishment at the clever manner in which the open boats that stud the waters at week-ends and on holidays are handled by their crews. The sport is often thrilling, and its devotees are very numerous. Our picture shows the eighteen-footer Keriki, sailed by Mr. Lan Taylor, of Lavender Bay.'

    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16106479 - the pic also appeared in the SMH on 10th March, 1924...it was evidently one of a number of photos of sailing on Sydney Harbour that Hall & Co were then sending to London for display at the British Empire Exhibition...

    Same photo...the return leg...

Victoria Bridge damaged in the Brisbane floods, February 1893

  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks for the link quasymody :)
  • sccart said:
    The William St wing of the Treasury Building appears completed at this stage . A most interesting photograph .

18 footer KERIKI under sail, Sydney Harbour

  • b0b said:
    ok so they are last - but what a helluva effort!
    brill photo as with all of these, hats off to the photographer - bet mine do not srvive a couple of centuries like these do
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    b0b William Hall did an amazing job capturing these pics under those conditions. Glad you like the photo!
  • Rob Andrew said:
    Remarkable.
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16106479 - this pic appeared in the SMH on 10th March, 1924...it was evidently one of a number of photos of sailing on Sydney Harbour that Hall & Co were sending to London for display at the British Empire Exhibition...for what it's worth, the SMH had the pic the other way around...
  • covid convict said:
    Same photo...see comments/links here

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