Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

KMB1126 - Concretions

Samuel Wright

Concretions artefact recovered from Samuel Wright

concretion

Site Area Code South West

Site Location Koombana Bay Site 1

Number of Items 1

Material Concretions

Museum Reference

Registration Number 126

ID 114275

Map of shipwreck

Samuel Wright

Samuel Wright was built at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the USA, and was partly owned by J.B. Osgood, a merchant of Salem, who was also the manager of the vessel. It had two decks, a square stern, billet head and no galleries. Dickson (2007) states that the vessel’s depth was 13.7 ft, while Henderson (2007) gives this same measurement as its draught. The ship had previously visited the coast...