Don Joseph wreck

  • Country Built WA

  • Port Built Fremantle

  • When Built 1899

  • Length 12.80

  • Beam 3.80

  • Draft 1.00

  • Engine N

  • TONA 13.33

  • TONB 17.66

  • When Lost 1908/04/26

  • Where Lost Off 90-Mile Beach, Broome area

  • Sinking Cyclone

  • Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk

Museum Reference

  • wreck Don Joseph

  • Protected Federal

  • Found N

  • Inspected N

  • Official Number 114473

  • Registration Number 20 of 1902

  • File Number 3/79

  • Chart Number 1207

  • Confidential NO

Artefact information

Full information about the Don Joseph
wreck Don Joseph
When Lost 1908/04/26
Protected Federal
Found N
Inspected N
Where Lost Off 90-Mile Beach, Broome area
Engine N
TONA 13.33
TONB 17.66
Country Built WA
Port Built Fremantle
When Built 1899
Port Registered Fremantle
Official Number 114473
Registration Number 20 of 1902
Length 12.80
Beam 3.80
Draft 1.00
Deaths 4
Sinking Cyclone
Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk
Owner Guthrie & Co, Fremantle
Builder A.E. Brown
File Number 3/79
Chart Number 1207
Sources Inquiry 1901/03/01; photo of vessel in McKenna Collection West Australian 1908/04/29, p. 7f-g West Australian 1908/04/30, p. 5e-f Northern Times, May 2, 1908, page 2 Northern Times, May 9, 1908, page 2: account of search party onboard SS Paro
Confidential NO
URL http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/don-joseph-1