FAI3601 - Ballast stone artefact

Fairy Wreck

Ballast stone

  • Material Ballast stone

  • Number of Items 1

  • Site Area Code South Coast

Museum Reference

  • artefact FAI3601 - Ballast stone

  • Registration Number 3601

Artefact information

Full information about the Ballast stone
artefact FAI3601 - Ballast stone
Ship Fairy
Status State
Registration Number 3601
Description Ballast stone
Material Ballast stone
Number of Items 1
Site Area Code South Coast
Modification date Fri, 2007-05-11
Date Registered Tue, 1989-01-31
URL http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/artefacts/fai3601-ballast-stone
Map of shipwreck

Fairy

The Fairy built in WA, by Captain Thomas Symers, owned by Symers and Dunn. The Fairy cargo was No cargo. The Fairy was lost 1849/06/12 at Princess Royal Harbour, Albany.

Fairy (1844-1850) Construction of the Fairy commenced in 1844. Contractors Solomon Cook, Mr Metcalf and Mr Covert built it on the bank of the Kalgan River for Captain Symers. Unfortunately the vessel’s construction dragged on until the end of the 1840s, delayed by Symers’ financial difficulties, and a dispute over the rigging of the vessel between Symers and one of his new business partners,...

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