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Harold Nossiter Collection

by Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

Harold Nossiter (senior) was a noted Sydney sailor in the 1920s and 30s who became the first Australian to skipper a yacht around the world under an Australian flag from 1935 - 1937. The ANMM collection of negatives relate to Harold Nossiter and his son as they photographed their many and varied adventures while sailing.

Read an article by Harold Nossiter on his travels to Batemans Bay in The Australian Motor Boat and yachting monthly. Page six of April 1928 edition,Vol3, No. 12: bit.ly/KfJy6e

97 photos · 2.9K views
Harold Snr and Richard Nossiter on SIRIUS at sea
Clock tower, south coast of England
Cooling off at a stream, Nuku Hiva Island
Body Surfing
Loading bags from canoes onto SIRIUS, Buton, Indonesia
A large ray on a beach, Galápagos Islands
Yacht SIRIUS in a canal
Cave, NSW
Marble statue at Knossos, Crete with Harold Nossiter seen on the right
Sailing vessels on the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt
Large carved idol, Tahiti
A seaside memorial
Three masted sailing vessel, England
Yachts bow to stern
Buildings at Boydtown, NSW
View from the water of a building - possibly a church
Yachts at moorings, possibly Wollongong Harbour
Deck of yacht SIRIUS
Derelict building - possibly the Seahorse Inn at Twofold Bay Boydtown, NSW
Cave, NSW south coast
Careening yacht SIRIUS at Suez, Egypt
The deck of yacht SIRIUS
Greeting yacht SIRIUS at Papua New Guinea
View of the deck of yacht SIRIUS
Passenger ship at Suez, Egypt
On the deck of yacht SIRIUS off Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
Yacht SIRIUS under tow
Wharf labourers
Picnic at the beach
Wrecked vessel, NSW
Lighthouse, NSW
Donkey-drawn cart, Spain
View of Gibraltar Harbour
Plaza Alta, Algeciras, Spain
Windmill, England
A fisherman's wharf at Algeciras, Spain
Yacht SIRIUS moored off Funchal, Madeira Island
Dam wall, Panama
Vessels at Cowes, England
Men on board a vessel at Algeciras, Spain
Komodo Dragon in an zoo encolsure, England
Penguins in an enclosure at the London Zoo, England
A seal at a zoo pool, England
Yacht SIRIUS in Colombo Harbour, Sri Lanka
Children on the foreshore at Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The still waters of Tahiti's atolls
The busy waterfront of Papeete, Tahiti
33' cutter near Fort Denison, Sydney Harbour
View of railway tracks to Nobbys Head Lighthouse, Newcastle
Hole in a rocky cliff wall
Hanging from the bowsprit
Climbing the mast
Nobbys Head, Newcastle
Rifle practice on UTIEKAH II, with Richard Nossiter seen on the left.
A boy holding his catch
Balinese fisherman, Indonesia
Grass hut at Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
A young girl's catch
A good days catch!
Cats on an old shelter
Ruins at Boydtown, New South Wales
Catching a wave in a dinghy
Swimming by a breakwater
Lighthouse at end of breakwater, most likely Wollongong, 1927
Family camping trip, 1923
A woman stands beside several children on a Galapagos Island beach
Children from Rarotonga play on a rope in the sea
A young girl watches an iguana on a Galapagos Island beach
Cloudy sky and foam covered swell
Early Greek statues, Athens
Sailing and motor vessels off the South Coast of England
The prehistoric monument Stonehenge at Salisbury
A crowd of young children outside a building, Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Wharf labourers at Nuku'alofa port, Tonga
Two Polynesian girls seated on a log, Bora Bora
A man and his dog outside an old wooden shack
Harold Nossiter (senior) at Wollongong Harbour
Harold Nossiter Snr holding the tiller of UTIEKAH II at sea
Harold Nossiter Snr in the cockpit of UTIEKAH II
Harold Nossiter Snr in the cockpit of yacht UTIEKAH II
Harold Nossiter Snr walking with a crutch and stick along a beach
The Nossiters on the deck of SIRIUS with guests
Careening yacht SIRIUS at Suez, Egypt
Young woman steering a yacht under sail
A young couple embracing on the deck of a yacht
Man and young girl on the deck of SIRIUS on route to Egypt
Young man relaxing at the wheel of a yacht
Nossiter family on the deck of yacht SIRIUS
Helping Harold Nossiter Snr aboard his yacht UTIEKAH II
Harold Nossiter Jnr watches a small bird on yacht SIRIUS
Harold Nossiter Snr lying on the deck of SIRIUS
Man with a dinghy in the shallows
Riding a donkey, Suez, Egypt
Nossiter family on the deck of the yacht SIRIUS
Close up of a mans face
Holding the tiller on UTIEKAH II
Crew on the deck of a ketch under sail