Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

ATB981 - Miscellaneous

Alex T. Brown

Miscellaneous artefact recovered from Alex T. Brown

Cork w/ lead cap from bottle. Lead cap marked ‘extra special’.

Site Area Code Mid-West

Number of Items 1

Material Miscellaneous

Museum Reference

Registration Number 981

ID 25831

Map of shipwreck

Alex T. Brown

Alex T. Brown was a 788-ton, wooden 4-masted wooden schooner built by the Globe Construction Co. in Ballard, Puget Sound, Washington, USA. Owned by the Pat Beakely Mill Co., USA and bound from Fremantle to Manila in ballast under Master Walter H. Meyers (or Myers), the schooner was blown ashore north of Perth during a gale about midnight on 29th May 1917. The tug Wyola was dispatched to...