Cingalee wreck

  • Country Built Scotland

  • Port Built Dundee

  • When Built 1872

  • Length 40.10

  • Beam 7.90

  • Draft 4.50

  • Engine N

  • TONA 337.00

  • When Lost 1887/02/17

  • Where Lost Lacepede Island

  • Sinking Sold as a wreck Lacepede Island, got off and repaired, re registered March 1878

  • Sunk Code Refloated

Museum Reference

  • wreck Cingalee

  • Protected Federal

  • Found N

  • Inspected N

  • Official Number 63993

  • File Number 7/78

  • Chart Number 1207

  • Confidential NO

Artefact information

Full information about the Cingalee
wreck Cingalee
When Lost 1887/02/17
Protected Federal
Found N
Inspected N
Where Lost Lacepede Island
Engine N
TONA 337.00
Country Built Scotland
Port Built Dundee
When Built 1872
Port Registered Fremantle (since 1877)
Official Number 63993
Length 40.10
Beam 7.90
Draft 4.50
Sinking Sold as a wreck Lacepede Island, got off and repaired, re registered March 1878
Sunk Code Refloated
Cargo Ballast
Master John Pringle
Owner John Pringle, W.E. Marmion, Pearse brothers, William Owston
File Number 7/78
Chart Number 1207
Sources 1. Inquirer, 28/3/1877 2. Western Australian Times, 13/4/1877 3. Wynne to Col. Sec., 23/2/1877, C.S.R. 864, fol. 26-33 4. Wynne to Col. Sec., 3/3/1877, C.S.R. 864, fol. 42 5. Wynne to Col. Sec., 5/4/1877, C.S.R. 864, fol. 65 6. Lloyds Shipping
Confidential NO
URL http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/cingalee