BB70 - FERROUS
Batoe Bassi
Fragment of iron wrapped in canvas and rope, embedded in sand encrustation.
Site Area Code South Coast
Number of Items 1
Material FERROUS
Museum Reference
Registration Number 70
ID 6461
Status Commonwealth
Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
Batoe Bassi
The Batoe Bassi had been built in Norway, but by 1880 was under Dutch registration, with (probably) Dutch officers and Indonesian crew. Even though referred to as ‘Malays’ at the time, this was a generic term used to describe seamen from many areas of South East Asia.
There are a number of different tonnages given for the Batoe Bassi: Henderson (1988) states 293, the Inquirer (9 June...