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Four-masted barque PAMIR under tow in Sydney Harbour, c 1947

Possibly one of the Commonwealth Government Line 'BAY' cargo liners

  • FredV45 said:
    A nice atmospheric photo but the caption needs some review. This is not a photo of the Moldavia (b. 1922) but one of the five "Bay" cargo-passenger liners - the yellow funnel and the single promenade deck gave it away for me. The Australian Government had this quintet built in the UK in a vain attempt to break into the trade between the UK and Australia. All five ships were built in 1921-22 and the Commonwealth Government Line soon sold to the British Kylsant shipping Group! The most famous was the "Jervis Bay", sunk in a heroic action in WW2 (5 Nov 1940). The other four lasted until the mid 1950s. It also seems to be the ship is not anchored but berthed, perhaps at one of the Walsh Bay wharves, and there is no sign of it being in festive dress as the Regatta flagship.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    FredV45 It's interesting you point that out FredV45 because a few other photographs in the same series had been mislabelled RMS MOLDAVIA as well. Thank you for pointing out the innacuracy. The photograph below was also mislabelled MOLDAVIA:
    Sailing boats with crew and dinghies on the Harbour, 1909-1930

Bow view of Anniversary Regatta flagship HMAS AUSTRALIA II in Farm Cove, 1949

  • mambo1935 said:
    majestic!
  • Horatio J. Kookaburra said:
    Sorry, the date 1949 must be amiss: this is pre AUSTRALIA's April 1938- Sept. 1939 modernization, which changed the bridge considerably [installed spliunter shields], and she still has pole masts [replaced by tripods, mid-WWII]. Maybe an earlier regatta or the sesquicentenary in 1938? LATER: again sorry - round scuttles on the compass platform. It's HMAS CANBERRA [I] not AUSTRALIA [square windows there pre-WWI]I. She's wearing an admiral flag on the foremast too, which tallies - CANBERRA was flagship for most of the 1930s.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    Horatio J. Kookaburra Thanks for those details Kookaburra2011, we had the same issues with the following pics. See the comments below about the windows, what are your thoughts?
    A group of children hoisted by a crane on board HMAS AUSTRALIA II, December 1930

    Children on a slippery slide on board HMAS CANBERRA, 12 December 1931

    HMAS AUSTRALIA II and other cruisers berthed near Garden Island