Cingalee wreck

  • Country Built WA

  • Port Built Fremantle ( bought as wreck, salvaged )

  • When Built 1872

  • Length 40.10

  • Beam 7.90

  • Draft 4.50

  • Engine N

  • TONA 337.00

  • When Lost 1887/07/18

  • Where Lost Bunbury, Koombanah Bay

  • Sinking Beached

  • Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk

Museum Reference

  • wreck Cingalee

  • Protected Federal

  • Found N

  • Inspected N

  • Official Number 63993

  • Registration Number 3/1878

  • File Number 405/71

  • Confidential NO

Artefact information

Full information about the Cingalee
wreck Cingalee
When Lost 1887/07/18
Protected Federal
Found N
Inspected N
Where Lost Bunbury, Koombanah Bay
Engine N
TONA 337.00
Country Built WA
Port Built Fremantle ( bought as wreck, salvaged )
When Built 1872
Port Registered Fremantle
Official Number 63993
Registration Number 3/1878
Length 40.10
Beam 7.90
Draft 4.50
Sinking Beached
Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk
Master John Pringle
Owner Pearse, Owston and Co, and John Pringle
Builder Dundee Ship Co.
File Number 405/71
Sources West Australian, 21 June 1887, p. 2g Inquiry Evidence, 28 July 1887, CSO 2009/1888 Inquirer, 25 January 1888 McCarthy, M., Koombana Bay Wrecks: an Site buried. investigation of the wrecks in the bay for the State Energy Commission of WA. Report, Department of Maritime Archaeology, Wetern Australian Museum Report, No.20.
Confidential NO
URL http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/cingalee-1