Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

FQ2674 - Armament

Fairy Queen

Swivel gun: marked with a Crown and the letters ‘SJS’. Ship cannon

Site Area Code North West

Number of Items 1

Material Armament

Museum Reference

Registration Number 2674

ID 8533

Status Commonwealth

Map of shipwreck

Fairy Queen

ex Rhio.
The 115-ton wooden-hulled two-masted Dutch vessel Rhio was built in Singapore at an unknown date and after being sold to Swan River Colony identities Messrs W.E Marmion, (Aubrey) Brown and Gill in the July of 1875 sailed from there on 3 August 1875 for the north-west pearl fishery. There were 37 divers and crew onboard and one stowaway. One diver was named ‘Sahber’...