English: The craft lower left with a tall lattice frame on her deck is Muscoota, a former sailing ship that was sold in April 1924 to the Wallarah Coal Company Ltd for conversion into a coal hulk. The frame is her mechanical coal handling equipment.

The passenger liner with two funnels is not identified. However, she looks like one of the three P&O sister ships Cathay, Comorin and Chitral, which entered service between Britain and Australia in 1925.
This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s William Hall collection. The Hall collection combines photographs from both William J Hall and his father William Frederick Hall. The images provide an important pictorial record of recreational boating in Sydney Harbour, from the 1890s to the 1930s – from large racing and cruising yachts, to the many and varied skiffs jostling on the harbour, to the new phenomenon of motor boating in the early twentieth century. The collection also includes studio portraits and images of the many spectators and crowds who followed the sailing races.
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Object number: ANMS1092[117]