HA40008 - Ballast stone
Hadda
Ballast fragment.
Site Area Code Mid-West
Site Location N
Number of Items 1
Material Ballast stone
Museum Reference
Registration Number 40008
ID 10712
Status Commonwealth
Ballast fragment.
Site Area Code Mid-West
Site Location N
Number of Items 1
Material Ballast stone
Registration Number 40008
ID 10712
Status Commonwealth
Hadda was built in Germany in 1860, and in 1877 was owned by William Johnston of Newcastle, New South Wales. It was under charter to the Melbourne firm of Poole, Picken and Company who were involved in the guano industry. The barque, under the command of Captain John Lewis Parker, with a crew of eleven, was en route from the Lacepede Islands in ballast. Parker was making for Fremantle in...