Shipping, wharves & ports
![Boys in nautical uniforms sit a long benches on the top deck of a ship and a man at a blackboard stands in the centre near the mast](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/53457fd0be0ab5bbecb331bb281536e78d8094f1-1920x1522.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
On This Day
20 May 1867 - Vernon nautical school admissions
On 20 May 1867 applications for admission to the nautical school-ship, the Vernon, commenced. The Vernon was purchased by the Colonial Secretary in January 1867 & moored in Sydney Harbour
![painting of the factories or hongs south-west of the city walls of Canton (Guangzhou) which were a means by which the Chinese imperial government sought to regulate contact with the western nations eager to trade to China](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/5e3983261ea143809af54b33d6a21d55.jpg)
Eastern influences on colonial dining
Two intricately painted and monogrammed china plates that were once part of a large dessert service made for the table of John and Elizabeth Macarthur, are testimony to an adventurous spirit in early colonial Sydney
!['Lady Hopetoun' docked at Commissioners Steps in front of the Sydney Harbour Trust building](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/04/b0462463d36d44288cdf13b34a54bad2.jpg)
Maritime Services Board
A sample of the 4000+ digitised glass plate negatives from the Maritime Services Board
![Black and white photo showing wharf, horses and drays, Cowper Wharf Road](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/cf9c1e5da9a000da622609959d4b648217b6d7e5-1290x1131.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
Maritime Services Board images
Dive into the Maritime Services Board images and see how you can find them
![This is a pencil drawing of a ship moored near a headland](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/26fcf3d8becc4855905bd47d05fe65e1.jpg)
The splendid clipper 'Sobraon'
The forlorn hulk of the HMAS Tingira features in several 1930s drawings of Berrys Bay by celebrated artist Lloyd Rees