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Group portrait with eight men on board RMS ORSOVA, including Stanley Bruce and Lord Stonehaven from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2013
SS ORIZABA as flagship for the Anniversary Day Regatta on Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded December 2012
Passenger liner MARATHON acting as a flagship for the Anniversary Day Regatta on Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded December 2012
Four-masted barque PAMIR in Sydney Harbour, c 1947 from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded December 2012
A cat sitting in the fairlead of the barque PAMIR, 1947 from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded November 2012
THEMISTOCLES moored off Neutral Bay in Sydney for the Anniversary Day Regatta from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded November 2012
Possibly one of the Commonwealth Government Line 'BAY' cargo liners from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded November 2012
Man and woman on deck of RMS MOLDAVIA II from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded November 2012
Man and woman on deck of RMS MOLDAVIA II from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded November 2012
Group of people on board RMS MOLDAVIA II from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded November 2012
Mr Reginald Joseph and Mrs Adeline Rita Fagan on board RMS MOLDAVIA II from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded November 2012
Company of English players on RMS MOLDAVIA II from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded November 2012
Four-masted barque PAMIR under tow in Sydney Harbour, c 1947 from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded November 2012
Four-masted barque PAMIR in Kurraba Point, c 1947 from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded November 2012
Orient liner RMS ORMONDE at anchor in Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded July 2012

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Passenger liner MARATHON acting as a flagship for the Anniversary Day Regatta on Sydney Harbour

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beachcomber australia said:
From Cremorne Point?
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia I think you're right because there is Fort Denison as well. :)
FredV45 said:
The Sydney Regatta flagship shown is one of the Aberdeen Line's ships, either the Miltiades (built in 1903) or sister Marathon (1904). The photo was taken between 1904 and 1912 when both ships were taken out of service to be lengthened and given a second (dummy) funnel. Both were transferred to the Pacific S N Co's South American service in 1922 and renamed, but scrapped just two years later.
beachcomber australia said:
FredV45 Brilliant FredV45 - where do you get your encyclopaedic knowledge?! She is the MARATHON "moored off Cremorne Point". Wednesday 26 January 1910. Read All About It! - ~~trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15511800~~ [Ed. wrong link! see below]
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia FredV45 Fabulous! This image now has so much more historic value - we can't thank you enough :) Another Trove article on the day :)

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

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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:

Sea serpent and boats at the Anniversary Day Regatta at Cremorne Point

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beachcomber australia said:
Likely to be 26 January 1933. See comments and newspaper report -
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia Yay, we have a photo of the 'huge sea serpent'! What else could it be?! :)
beachcomber australia said:
It is so pleasing when bits of the jigsaw start to fit together.