Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

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

Map of shipwreck

James Service

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...