JS6 - Animal
James Service
Button: bone, 4 holes. Found on skeleton from James Service wreck.
Site Area Code Local
Site Location Found Halls Head Beach @ 12 noon 28/6/64
Number of Items 1
Material Animal
Museum Reference
Registration Number 6
ID 11657
Status Commonwealth
James Service was built at Glasgow in Scotland by Dobie and Co. and launched in October 1869. It had a clinker plated hull, two decks, a round stern, one bulkhead and a demi figurehead of a man. It had a raised quarterdeck 4.3 m long, and a forecastle 5.8 m in length and had been cemented. The owners were Archibald Currie & Co. of Melbourne, who used it in trading between Melbourne and...
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