Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

ZW152 - Clay pipes

Zeewijk

x39, pipe stems; x6 bowls with flower heel mark; x4 bowls with spingend hert (leaping deer) heel mark (B); x2 bowls with man with musket heel mark;
x4 bowls with row boat heel mark; x2 bowls with trumpet heel mark;
x15 bowls with SVS heel mark; x2 bowl with illegible heel mark, x4 bowl fragments, x3 stem fragments; x2 stem fragments.

Site Location Gun Island 1892-94

Number of Items 83

Material Clay pipes

Museum Reference

Registration Number 152

ID 24318

Status Commonwealth

Map of shipwreck

Zeewijk

Zeewijk was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos on 9 June 1727. The Zeewijk did not break up immediately and goods, including the treasure chests, were transferred to Gun Island. It was obvious to the crew that the ship could never be floated from its position locked into the reef.
A rescue group of eleven of the fittest survivors and First Mate set off for Batavia in the longboat on 10 July...