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Crew member of MAGDALENE VINNEN preparing sails

Samuel J Hood StudioMarch 1933

Australian National Maritime Museum

Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia

This image depicts a sailmaker on the deck of the four-masted steel barque MAGDALENE VINNEN. The vessel sailed into Sydney Harbour on 27 February 1933, under the command of Captain Lorenz Peters. The barque was loaded with almost 16,000 bales of wool, the fourth largest shipment to have left Sydney, before it sailed the record-breaking 82-day voyage for Falmouth, England. MAGDALENE VINNEN visited Australia again in 1935, with a cargo of wheat, lifted from Port Broughton in South Australia. See also image 00024393

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  • Title: Crew member of MAGDALENE VINNEN preparing sails
  • Creator: Samuel J Hood Studio
  • Date: March 1933
  • Location: Woolloomooloo
  • Type: Photograph
  • Significance: The Samuel J Hood photographic collection records an extensive range of maritime activity on Sydney Harbour, including sail and steam ships, crew portraits, crews at work, ship interiors, stevedores loading and unloading cargo, port scenes, pleasure boats and harbourside social activities from the 1890s through to the 1950s. They are also highly competent artistic studies and views - Hood was regarded as an important figure in early Australian photojournalism. Hood’s maritime photographs are one of the most significant collections of such work in Australia.
  • See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
  • Medium: Glass plate negative
  • Credit line: ANMM Collection
Australian National Maritime Museum

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