Old Sydney
Francis De Groot dragged off his horse after illegally cutting the opening ribbon, 1932–481932–48HMS Arbiter on Sydney Harbour, c. 1940c. 1940GE Crane and Sons building, 19401940HMAS Bathurst keel laying, 19401940HMAS Bathurst launching, 19401940Woman leaping for the ferry caught by deckhand, Sydney Harbour, 1940 - possibly Pix1940Fort Denison from The Powerhouse Museum, 1930–501930–50Man on board the SS Mariposa in Sydney Harbour from The Powerhouse Museum, 1930–501930–50Two men shaking hands on board the SS Mariposa in Sydney Harbour from The Powerhouse Museum, 1930–501930–50Sydney Ferry LADY SCOTT and QUEEN MARY Sydney Harbour 19401940Sydney ferry KUBU after collision 30 January 19401940Bungaree AWM 4120423, 19411941COR Berrys Bay Depot, 19411941Regatta on the Sydney Harbour Naval destroyers in background, 19411941Sailing negs Noel Allan, 19411941Snapper Island, 19411941Former Sydney ferry KUTTABUL sunk after Japanese midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour 19421942USS Portland (CA-33) in a drydock at the Cockatoo Island Dockyard, circa in late 1942 (NH 81992), c. 1942c. 1942Launching of HMAS Warramunga. Mrs F. M. Forde and Mr Norman Fraser, managing director of Cockatoo Docks and Engineering, 7 February 19421942Vera Forde, wife of Frank Forde, 19421942HMT Queen Mary, Sydney Harbour, between 1940-1945, 1940–451940–45HMT Queen Elizabeth, Sydney Harbour, between 1940-1945, 1940–451940–45USS Chicago (CA-29) in May 19421942Ko-hyoteki Sydney, 19421942Sydney shell damage (AWM 012593), 19421942HMT Queen Mary arriving in Sydney Harbour on 27 February 19431943HNLMS Tromp, 19431943HMS Howe arriving at Sydney Harbour on 18 December 194419441940s Aerial view of St Aloysius College and immediate vicinity1940sHMAS Lolita 4002759, 19441944BENNELONG POINT Sydney Harbour 1940s1940sSubmarine XE4 at Sydney 19451945Admiral Bruce Fraser welcoming HMS Duke of York to Sydney, 19451945Sydney Harbour Bridge maintenance, 18 September 19451945HMS BELFAST at anchor in Sydney harbour, August 1945. ABS6941945The Royal Navy during the Second World War A29810, 19451945HMAS Australia 19451945Formidable Sydney Boom (AWM P00444-047), 19451945Floating crane Titan, 19451945HMS Formidable and HMS Implacable return to Sydney, 19451945Painting Sydney Harbour Bridge 1945 041945Sydney ferry KAMIRI laid up 1940s or 1950s, 1940–501940–50Stan Giddings, maintenance worker ascending Sydney Harbour Bridge, 18 September 1945, by Alec Iverson1945Number 10 wharf Jones Bay c.1946, c. 1946c. 1946Fireworks over Sydney Harbour, 19461946Aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge, Sydney Harbour, 19481948Sydney Harbour Bridge, 19481948Fort Denison, view from inside showing signal light, 19491949Walsh Bay, 1949, c. 1949c. 1949Associated Bread Manufacturing Conference picnic luncheon at Middle Harbour, 19491949

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← All of Sydney Harbour

50 historic photos of Sydney Harbour from the 1940s, oldest first. They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.