Old Sydney

1950s1 photo

Sydney ferry KAREELA in Mosman Bay circa 1959, c. 1959c. 1959

1960s57 photos

Sydney ferry LADY DENMAN collision damage 21 June 19601960Sydney ferry KAMERUKA at Circular Quay 1960 following her 1954 conversion to diesel1960Circular Quay wharf 2 rebuild 19601960Sydney ferry KAMERUKA and AMP Building under construction, 19611961Sydney ferry KANANGRA and KAMERUKA, 19611961French liner BRETAGNE ( 1952-1964) in Sydney Cove, 19621962French liner BRETAGNE ( 1952-1964) in Sydney Cove (cropped), 19621962Sydney Ferry KAMERUKA at Circular Quay AMP Building behind 18 August 19621962Sydney ferries CURL CURL and NORTH HEAD in Sydney Cove with SS ORIANA 19621962SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE under construction and ferries including BELLUBERA and KARINGAL 19621962Sydney Ferry KAMERUKA approaching Mosman Bay Wharf 19621962Sydney ferry LADY DENMAN in Sydney Harbour 28 September 19621962Sydney ferry KANANGRA 19621962Sydney ferry BARAGOOLA circa 1962, c. 1962c. 1962(AMP Building, Botanic Gardens, Harbour Bridge and Circular Quay with liner Canberra), July 1963, by Ern McQuillan1963Sydney ferry DEE WHY leaves Circular Quay March 19631963Sydney ferry LADY FERGUSON after crashing into eastern Circular Quay 25 August 19641964Sydney ferry LADY SCOTT at Circular Quay, 1960s1960sLiner Galileo Galilei at overseas Term Circular Quay Sydney, 19641964Liner Galileo Galilei at overseas Term Circular Quay Sydney (cropped), 19641964Sydney Ferry SOUTH STEYNE leaving Circular Quay 1960s1960sSydney Ferries DEE WHY and SOUTH STEYNE crossing Sydney Heads early 1960s1960sSydney Ferry KANANGRA engineer 1960s1960sSydney Ferry KANANGRA approaching Musgrave Street Wharf (Mosman South) 1960s1960sFormer Sydney ferry KUBU sunk in Blackwatlle Bay White Bay 19641964Sydney Ferry KANANGRA damaged in collision with Japanese freighter Awata Maru June 19641964Sydney Ferry LADY SCOTT and LADY FERGUSON in floating dock 1960s1960sSydney Ferry SOUTH STEYNE entering Broken Bay viewed from Barrenjoey Headland 1960s1960sSydney Ferry NORTH HEAD at Circular Quay during rebuilding of Wharf 2 1960s1960sSydney Ferry NORTH HEAD leaving Sydney Cove en route to Manly 1960s1960sSydney Ferries BARAGOOLA and NORTH HEAD both approaching Circular Quay wharf 24 Jan 19641964Sydney Ferry KAMERUKA passes the SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE 19641964Sydney ferries SOUTH STEYNE and BARAGOOLA and hydrofoil MANLY near SS ORIANA at Circular Quay 19641964Sydney Ferry KAMERUKA entering Sydney Cove UNILEVER HOUSE 19641964Sydney ferry LADY EDELINE at Greenwich 1960s in 1936 green and gold livery1960sSydney Ferry LADY CHELMSFORD at Old Cremorne Wharf in Mosman Bay 1960s1960sSydney ferry CURL CURL at Strides ship breakers Rozelle Bay 1968, 1960s1960sSydney ferry BELLUBERA and yachts, 1960–701960–70Sydney ferry KANANGRA approaching Circular Quay, 19651965Sydney ferries FAIRLIGHT and BARAGOOLA in Manly Cove, 19661966Anti-Vietnam War demonstration Martin Place to Garden Island Dock, Sydney, NSW 1966-04-151966Anti-Vietnam demonstration Martin Place to Garden Island Dock, Sydney, NSW 02 1966-04-151966Sydney Ferry KANANGRA in Mosman Bay 19661966Sydney ferry BELLUBERA rounding Bennelong Point into Circular Quay 19661966HMAS Perth departs Sydney for Vietnam duty, 19671967Sydney hydrofoil Manly (III) in reverse following gear box failure 19681968Sydney ferry KAMERUKA on slips, 1966–701966–70P & O liner Orsova & tug Himma at wharf 13 Pyrmont Sydney, 1968196868-05 Russian Whaling ship 2 Sydney 1968196868-11 Manly Ferry, Sydney 19681968Bruce Skipworth, his wife Elaine, and their daughter, 19681968USS America (CVA-66) at Sydney, Australia, in November 19681968Sydney ferries DEE WHY and CURL CURL laid up, 19691969Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union members in protest march, Sydney, 19691969USS Du Pont (DD-941) at Sydney 19691969Sydney Ferry NORTH HEAD entering Sydney Cove SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE under construction ca. 1969, c. 1969c. 1969Sydney ferries CURL CURL and DEE WHY laid up at Strides ship breakers 19691969

1970s2 photos

Sydney ferry BELLUBERA and Hydrofoil FARILIGHT passing on Sydney Harbour at Fort Denison, 19701970Sydney steam launch LADY HOPETOWN in MOSMAN BAY, 19701970

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1,305 historic photos for Ships and the harbour, taken between 1828 and 1999, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 17 decades, with the most from the 1930s (278). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.