Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

FN3589 - Pitch/tar/oil

Fanny Nicholson

Pitch from FN 3586

Site Area Code South Coast

Number of Items 1

Material Pitch/tar/oil

Museum Reference

Registration Number 3589

ID 8521

Status State

Map of shipwreck

Fanny Nicholson

Fanny Nicholson was built under special survey in Hartlepool, County Durham, with one deck, a poop deck, an elliptical stern and a woman figurehead. The vessel was copper fastened, and sheathed with felt and yellow metal. Damage repairs were made to the barque in 1856 and 1861. It had initially sailed from Liverpool on the South American run, but was brought to Australia in the 1860s. By...