Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

VE1747d - Copper/brass

Venus

Brass ring.

Site Area Code Mid-West

Number of Items 1

Material Copper/brass

Museum Reference

Registration Number 1747

ID 24954

Venus

Tonnage: 21, later increased to 28

Captain John Thomas built the Venus as a cutter in 1839. Built of jarrah it was coppered three years later, and lengthened and re-rigged as a schooner in August 1850, just prior to its last voyage north. There is a sail plan of a cutter that has been passed down through the Thomas family and it has been conjectured that this is a plan of the Venus. The...