Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

MC6288 - Clay pipes

Macedon

Clay pipes artefact recovered from Macedon

Clay pipe bowl and stem (broken). No marks. “Briai” type bowl- no spur.

Site Area Code Local

Number of Items 2

Material Clay pipes

Museum Reference

Registration Number 6288

ID 114091

Map of shipwreck

Macedon

Built in Liverpool, serviced Melbourne to Fremantle run. Engaged to transport the KImberley survey Party with horses and equipment to the NW. With the Kingston Spit missing ran aground after calling in to rottnest to offload official sand supplied. Sold to H Atwell ( of Atwell Arcade in Fremantle fame) he was initially successful, but later lost his diving equipment and ‘hard hat’ in...