GULF OF MARTABAN departing Cowper Street wharf in Woolloomooloo Bay
This image depicts Greenock Steamship Company Ltd's SS GULF OF MARTABAN departing Cowper Street wharf in Woolloomooloo on 17 February 1897. The launch next to the vessel is NEA.
A contingent of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles were specially chosen to sail to London and participate in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Representatives were selected after undergoing competitive tests intournament work, fencing, boxing and horsemanship. They were assembled at Camden on 15 January for training along with horses specially chosen for the voyage and festivities in London. On 12 February the contingent proceeded by route march from Camden to Sydney, arriving at the Royal Agricultural Society's grounds at Moore Park. They were stationed there until the 17th where they boarded GULF OF MARTABAN at Woolloomooloo.
For more information New South Wales Mounted Rifles, History, Part 8, 1897.
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Photographer: Charles H Kerry (& Co.)
Object no. 00017542
GULF OF MARTABAN departing Cowper Street wharf in Woolloomooloo Bay
This image depicts Greenock Steamship Company Ltd's SS GULF OF MARTABAN departing Cowper Street wharf in Woolloomooloo on 17 February 1897. The launch next to the vessel is NEA.
A contingent of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles were specially chosen to sail to London and participate in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Representatives were selected after undergoing competitive tests intournament work, fencing, boxing and horsemanship. They were assembled at Camden on 15 January for training along with horses specially chosen for the voyage and festivities in London. On 12 February the contingent proceeded by route march from Camden to Sydney, arriving at the Royal Agricultural Society's grounds at Moore Park. They were stationed there until the 17th where they boarded GULF OF MARTABAN at Woolloomooloo.
For more information New South Wales Mounted Rifles, History, Part 8, 1897.
The ANMM undertakes research and accepts public comments that enhance the information we hold about images in our collection. This record has been updated accordingly.
Photographer: Charles H Kerry (& Co.)
Object no. 00017542