Discharging cargo from "Innamincka", Fremantle, Western Australia

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Dockside scene in which railway trolleys are being loaded with cargo from a steamship moored alongside. The ship has masts and a funnel. Attached to the mast is a derrick or pulley system for lifting and lowering objects.The rail wagons are stacked with furniture, sacks, crates, boxes and barrels.There are several men standing among the railway tracks. The "Innamincka" was an Adelaide Steamship Company ship which worked under the Company flag between 1890 and 1916. Subsequently, it was sold to Hong Kong. It was sunk by enemy action in December 1941.

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77 photographs of land in Western Australia, c. 1890-1902.

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c.1890s

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