VE1747b - Tools
Venus
Handle fragments.
Site Area Code Mid-West
Number of Items 2
Material Tools
Museum Reference
Registration Number 1747
ID 24952
Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
Venus
Tonnage: 21, later increased to 28
Captain John Thomas built the Venus as a cutter in 1839. Built of jarrah it was coppered three years later, and lengthened and re-rigged as a schooner in August 1850, just prior to its last voyage north. There is a sail plan of a cutter that has been passed down through the Thomas family and it has been conjectured that this is a plan of the Venus. The...