Ariel wreck

  • Country Built NSW

  • When Built 1878

  • Length 22.90

  • Beam 5.90

  • Draft 2.40

  • Engine N

  • TONA 75.00

  • When Lost 1883/02

  • Where Lost Between Port Walcott and La Grange Bay (wreckage found at La Grange)

  • Sinking Lost at sea

  • Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk

  • Port From Cossack

  • Port To Condon

Museum Reference

  • wreck Ariel

  • Protected Federal

  • Found N

  • Inspected N

  • Official Number 75299

  • Registration Number 1/1878

  • File Number 7/78

  • Chart Number 1207

  • Confidential NO

Artefact information

Full information about the Ariel
wreck Ariel
When Lost 1883/02
Protected Federal
Found N
Inspected N
Where Lost Between Port Walcott and La Grange Bay (wreckage found at La Grange)
Engine N
TONA 75.00
Country Built NSW
When Built 1878
Port Registered Fremantle
Official Number 75299
Registration Number 1/1878
Length 22.90
Beam 5.90
Draft 2.40
Deaths 10
Crew 5
Sinking Lost at sea
Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk
Port From Cossack
Port To Condon
Cargo General goods
Master Hugo Leidicke
Owner Hugo Leidicke, Robert Lockhart
Builder Robert Wrightson
File Number 7/78
Chart Number 1207
Sources Inquiry Evidence, 14 December 1881, CSO 1455, fol. 8. West Australian, 26 December 1882 to 6 March 1883 Register of British Ships, Fremantle
Confidential NO
URL http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/ariel-1