Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

CE1014 - Pewter

Centaur

Pewter artefact recovered from Centaur

Syringe: w/ faint mark “60” on barrel.

Site Area Code Local

Number of Items 1

Material Pewter

Museum Reference

Registration Number 1014

ID 7147

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.