Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

MC1113 - Glass

Macedon

Bottle fragments: pale green glass.

Site Area Code Local

Number of Items 8

Material Glass

Museum Reference

Registration Number 1113

ID 12536

Status Commonwealth

Map of shipwreck

Macedon

Built in Liverpool, serviced Melbourne to Fremantle run. Engaged to transport the KImberley survey Party with horses and equipment to the NW. With the Kingston Spit missing ran aground after calling in to rottnest to offload official sand supplied. Sold to H Atwell ( of Atwell Arcade in Fremantle fame) he was initially successful, but later lost his diving equipment and ‘hard hat’ in...