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Ships on Sydney Harbour
MV Carnival Splendour, December 2019
MV Ovation of the Seas, June 2019
MV Viking Sun, February 2018
MV Voyager of the Seven Seas, February 2017
MV Carnival Spirit 2016
Crude oil tanker, Sunda Sea, June 2015
MV Amsterdam 2014
MV Radiance of the Seas, 2013
MV Queen Mary II, 2012
MV Queen Elizabeth, 2011
MV Queen Victoria and MV QE2 pass in Sydney Harbour during the QE2's final voyage, January 2011
Crude oil tanker, Ruby River, passing Farm Cove, approaching Fort Dension/Garden Island passage, August 2010.
MV Arcadia, 2009
MV Queen Elizabeth II (QE2), 2008
MV Sapphire Princess, 2008
Pearl Ace and a Wallenius Wilhelmsen RO-RO (roll on-roll off car carriers) Glebe Island berths 1 and 2, November 2007
MV Spirit of Tasmania III, 2006. Built in 1995 and first named Superfast Li, she as sold and re-named Mega Express 4 in 2007, when Genoa, Italy, became her home port. She services the islands of Corsica and Sardinia.
USS Kitty Hawk, 2005
Oil tanker, Gore Cove oil bunkering facilities, 2004
USS Constellation, 2003
After the original Spirit of Tasmania was sold, she sailed on 24th December 2002 from Sydney for Denmark as
MS Spir for a refit and change of name to MS Fjord Norway.
MV Aurora on her maiden voyage, 2000
MV Celebrity Solstice, 1997
MV Pacific Jewel, 1991
Tall ships at the Sydney Bicentennial celebrations, 26th January 1988
Bulk ore carrier, Iron Pcific at the Overseas Passenger Terminal, Circular Quay, May 1987
HMAS Melbourne, 1985
MV Royal Viking Sky, 1982
SS Australia, final voyage, 1978
MV Fairstar, 1974
SS Arcadia, 1973
Opening of the Sydney Opera House, 20th October 1973
SS Archille Lauro (formerly Willem Ruys), 1968
MV Northern Star, 1962
SS Orcades, Darling Island (foregound), SS Oronsay and SS Orontes at Jones Bay wharf, 1960s
SS Canberra on her maiden voyage, 1961
SS Oriana on her maiden voyage, 1960
SS Orion at Woolloomooloo wharf, 1956
SS Moultan, 1955
SS Orcades, Pyrmont, 1950s
SS Himalaya, 1950. The Maritime Service Board building (MCA) is under construction.
A Japanese Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine, believed to be midget No. 14, is raised from Sydney Harbour the day after the Japanese midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour, 1st June 1942.
HMAS Sydney, 1941
Converted troop ship RMS Queen Mary with ferry Mary Scott, viewed from Bradleys Head, 1940
SS Ellenis, maiden voyage, 1933
SS Strathaird, maiden Voyage, 1932
SS Maraposa, 1932 (harbour bridge pylons are unfinished)
SS Strathnaver, maiden voyage, 1931 (harbour bridge is unfinished)
The German four-masted barque Pommern being towed through the Glebe Island swing bridge in 1922 by the tug boat Wellington.
An unidentified vessel in the foreground, possibly the White Star Line's SS Medic, with the Oceanic Steamship Company's SS Sierra in the background at East Circular Quay, believed to date from the early 1900s.
Glass plate negative "Church Hill from Circular Quay, Sydney", 1890.
Photo: Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences
Cutty Sark loading wool at Circular Quay, c.1889.
Glass plate negative of Orient Line's steamship Austral on Sydney Harbour, c.1882.
Photo: Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences
Campbell's Cove, 1870s
West Circular Quay (site of the Museum of Contemporary Art), 1870
The First Fleet entering Port Jackson, 26th January, 1788,drawn in 1888 by Edmund Le Bihan