Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

CE1008 - CERAMICS

Centaur

Plate fragment: plain.

Site Area Code Local

Number of Items 1

Material CERAMICS

Museum Reference

Registration Number 1008

ID 7148

Status Commonwealth

Map of shipwreck

Centaur

Built Aberdeen 1849, used there until 1866. Worked Champion Bay to Melbourne in the 1870s Carrying lead ore, 9 crew and four passengers en route Champion Bay to Fremantle got too close inshore. Struck reef in strong southerly. An early iron vessel, contemporary of iron hulled SS Xantho and SS Georgete.