Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

HA20004 - Patterned Earthenware

Hadda

Plate fragment: blue + white pattern.

Site Area Code Mid-West

Site Location 8–12 m

Number of Items 1

Material Patterned Earthenware

Museum Reference

Registration Number 20004

ID 10703

Status Commonwealth

Map of shipwreck

Hadda

Hadda was built in Germany in 1860, and in 1877 was owned by William Johnston of Newcastle, New South Wales. It was under charter to the Melbourne firm of Poole, Picken and Company who were involved in the guano industry. The barque, under the command of Captain John Lewis Parker, with a crew of eleven, was en route from the Lacepede Islands in ballast. Parker was making for Fremantle in...