Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

ATB3180 - Armament

Alex T. Brown

Armament artefact recovered from Alex T. Brown

Gun carriage: wood ‘ALEX T BROWN’.

Site Area Code Mid-West

Number of Items 1

Material Armament

Museum Reference

Registration Number 3180

ID 25749

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...