Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

CE1010 - Unspecified

Centaur

Unspecified artefact recovered from Centaur

Galena ore samples: perhaps only 200 kilos left on the site.

Site Area Code Local

Number of Items 9

Material Unspecified

Museum Reference

Registration Number 1010

ID 7150

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.