AR1169 - Ship's timber
Arpenteur
Timber sample: planking.
Site Area Code South Coast
Number of Items 1
Material Ship's timber
Museum Reference
Registration Number 1169
ID 25826
Status Commonwealth
Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
Arpenteur
Arpenteur was a brig owned by William Owen and John Ridley, having been purchased in December 1847 at Port Louis, Mauritius. It had a square stern, a billet head and no galleries, and was registered at Adelaide in 1848 (No. 10/1848). It was carrying eagerly awaited mail from England which had been collected at Singapore and was to be offloaded at Fremantle. However, bad weather resulted in...