VE4078 - Copper/brass
Venus
Fastening nails: brass, 1 in situ in timber section.
Site Area Code Mid-West
Site Location S Ledge Point on beach
Number of Items 3
Material Copper/brass
Museum Reference
Registration Number 4078
ID 25294
Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
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...