SB1799 - Copper/brass
African (Sunset Beach wreck)
Sheeting: copper.
Site Area Code Mid-West
Number of Items 1
Material Copper/brass
Museum Reference
Registration Number 1799
ID 16449
Status Commonwealth
Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
African (Sunset Beach wreck)
African was built under Special Survey at Sunderland in 1853. A timber ship, it was copper fastened and sheathed with yellow metal over felt. The owner was Captain J. Gibson. The Lloyd’s Registers of 1857 and 1861 show the Builder’s Old Measurement tonnage of this ship as being 780 and the tonnage under the new Act, which came into force on 1 January 1836, as being 888. As the African was...