orient

22 photos tagged orient, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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1878

2011

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The departure of the Royal Yacht Ophir from Farm Cove with Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, viewed from Chief Secretary's Building corner Macquarie and Bridge Streets, Sydney (NSW) from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded February 2016
Circular Quay, Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded June 2013
West side Circular Quay. Sydney NSW from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded June 2013
SS AUSTRAL, Orient Steam Navigation Co from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded May 2013
'SS ORIENT 3', Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded May 2013
'SS ORIENT I', Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded May 2013
'SS ACONCAGUA Pacific Steam Navigation Co', Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded May 2013
SS ORIZABA as flagship for the Anniversary Day Regatta on Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded December 2012
Troopship ORONTES, Melbourne from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded October 2012
OMAR ex KONIGIN LUISE from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded September 2012
Sinking of the SS AUSTRAL 1882 from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded May 2012
‘The six brothers riding out to woo’ from National Library NZ on The Commons uploaded October 2011
"S.S. Lusitania" from Powerhouse Museum uploaded August 2010
Boeing 757 from SDASM Archives uploaded July 2010
Boeing 727 N462US from SDASM Archives uploaded July 2010

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OMAR ex KONIGIN LUISE

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

2 older comments, and then…
beachcomber australia said:
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons Thanks for posting this! The previous 'Koenigin Luise' was a regular visitor to Australia for the North German Lloyd Company. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_K%C3%B6nigin_Luise_(1896)
Mangrove Rat said:
I have the SS Omar in my documentary as she passes Cocos Island and it's too rough to "drop a barrel". Another time I have her dropping off kittens in a barrel! Thanks for posting, it's good to see her close-up. Description about the barrels here: classic-yacht.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/CYAA-Mag-FEB-2010...
beachcomber australia said:
See also 1898 photo -
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia Hmmm, wasn't Fort Macquarie demolished in 1901? The photographer was born in 1901...and yet that really does look like Fort Macquarie.
beachcomber australia said:
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons Yes, Fort Macquarie was demolished in 1901, and the new tramway sheds had a castellated outline and a castle tower. See this wonderful 1906 (?) photo (which needs further research) -

Yachting off McMahons Point

from Powerhouse Museum

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beachcomber australia said:
I am fairly sure that is the SS Orient (yet again - that's no.10). More info - compare with the side view painting - www.laird-bogstown.com/orient 1.php PhMC SS Orient photos - www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=24785917@N03&q=ss+o...
beachcomber australia said:
Second thoughts (some of those liners were very similar) - I now think this is the Orient Line's SS 'ORIZABA' on Friday 27 January 1888. moored in Farm Cove for the Centennial Regatta, and photographed from Mrs Macquarie's Chair. Hence all the flags, boats, colour and movement. Described in the Sydney Morning Herald the following day - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13680429 . The Orizaba was wrecked off Western Australia in 1905, and is now a famous dive site - www.museum.wa.gov.au/collections/maritime/march/shipwreck... . See www.flickr.com/photos/49243167@N03/4537807228/ and www.flickr.com/photos/49243167@N03/4535158238/ Comparison photos - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=447782 www.tallis.on.net/images/p13.jpg And the "Orizaba Gavotte" sheet music (!!) - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.mus-an6304260-s1-e
beachcomber australia said:
Prompted by this Henry King photo - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2362663293/
pellethepoet said:
I agree beachcomberaustralia - it is 'the Orizaba trimmed up and decorated for the occassion'. Not only have you identified the vessel, but named the very day. Well done.
BobMeade said:
beachcomberaustralia: Lookin' like S.S. Orizaba to me. Matches the other known photograph of Orizaba. Position, dressing of the ship and huge number of people aboard match the newspaper description of S.S. Orizaba for the Centennial Regatta. Yachts under canvas are also mentioned in the newspaper description of the day. A wood engraving of the Sydney Centennial Exhibition held by the State Library of Victoria shows a tableau of scenes. At the bottom is "The Regatta" A ship substantially the same as this one and dressed identically to the one in the photograph above is shown, although there are some very minor differences between the foredeck of the wood engraved ship and the one photographed here. This lends further weight to this photograph being of the Centennial Regatta. Here is the wood engraving: www.slv.vic.gov.au/miscpics/gid/slv-pic-aab13938/1/mp006972 I suppose there are books and pamphlets about Sydney's Centennial Celebrations which will confirm that this is a photograph of S.S. Orizaba at that event.

'SS ACONCAGUA Pacific Steam Navigation Co', Sydney Harbour

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

beachcomber australia said:
" ... Built by John Elder & Co, Glasgow, she was launched on 6th June 1872 Chartered by the Orient Line for their London Australia service in 1878 and returned to the Valparaiso route in 1881. Sold to Verdeau & Cie, Bordeaux in 1895, renamed EGYPTE ... " from - www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=471 Which may mean this photo is between 1878 and 1881. She first arrived in Sydney in July 1878 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13411764 . Though it looks like there was another visit in 1884 between Charente and Valparaiso, presumably under the PSNC flag as marked. Hmmm.
beachcomber australia said:
From McMahons Point, a little to the right and much earlier than this - http://from.ph/30871
beachcomber australia said:
The garden arch (see note bottom right) must belong to this house on MacMahons Point, photographed by John Degotardi in the 1870s - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/ItemViewer.aspx?itemid=823854&am... - from the album acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemdetailpaged.aspx?itemid=420980# Which might interest pellethepoet & [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02/]
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia Hmm house 'possibly belonging to Mayor Michael McMahon'. Thanks for all the info Beachcomber :)
beachcomber australia said:
See that house also here -