Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

ATB21AB - TIMBER

Alex T. Brown

TIMBER artefact recovered from Alex T. Brown

A) x2 wood fragments: one shaped like a tong. B) 4 sided iron nail.

Site Area Code Mid-West

Number of Items 3

Material TIMBER

Museum Reference

Registration Number 21

ID 25748

Map of shipwreck

Alex T. Brown

Alex T. Brown was a 788-ton, wooden 4-masted wooden schooner built by the Globe Construction Co. in Ballard, Puget Sound, Washington, USA. Owned by the Pat Beakely Mill Co., USA and bound from Fremantle to Manila in ballast under Master Walter H. Meyers (or Myers), the schooner was blown ashore north of Perth during a gale about midnight on 29th May 1917. The tug Wyola was dispatched to...