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Claremont Museum > Records

SHARKEY COLLECTION - MEN ON YACHT

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c. 1930 - 1939

Overview

B/W Prints (a) Eight men sitting on the wooden deck of a yacht. (b) Eight men on a wooden decked yacht, six lying and two sitting. There are ropes and sails on the deck. Rubber stamp on the rear [S.GORE/Permanent Print/ Opp./Post Office,/Fremantle] (c) A man standing on the deck of a yacht with a small fish in his hand and a man in white shirt, shorts and a cap sitting in a dinghy at the side of the yacht. A sandy hill, trees boat shed and jetty in the background. On the rear written in ink [Judge Burnside/in dingy].

Historical information

Mr Justice Burnside was Usher of the Black Road in first Western Australian Parliament in 1890, Crown Solicitor 1894, President of the Court of Arbitration from 1903-1910, Commodore of Royal Perth Yacht Club, founder member of Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club and Claremont Yacht Club. Inaugural member of Claremont Roads Board and owner of Genista, one of the largest yachts on the river.

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cwa-org-28--9-311-a-c

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