Ellen wreck

Ex 2-masted brig

  • Country Built Canada

  • Port Built Bathurst, New Brunswick

  • When Built 1857

  • Length 32.00

  • Beam 7.60

  • Draft 4.00

  • Engine N

  • TONA 243.00

    Map of Ellen
  • When Lost 1890/03/18

  • Where Lost Woodman’s Point, Cockburn South

  • Sinking Beached and abandoned

  • Sunk Code Abandoned

  • Port To Fremantle used as hulk

Museum Reference

  • wreck Ellen

  • Protected Federal

  • Found Y

  • Inspected N

  • Official Number 35550

  • File Number 10/78, 445/71

  • Chart Number 117

  • Confidential NO

Artefact information

Full information about the Ellen
wreck Ellen
When Lost 1890/03/18
Protected Federal
Found Y
Inspected N
Where Lost Woodman’s Point, Cockburn South
Latitude Max -32.15
Longitude Max 115.77
Position Information Historical Aerial Photograph
Engine N
TONA 243.00
Country Built Canada
Port Built Bathurst, New Brunswick
When Built 1857
Official Number 35550
Length 32.00
Beam 7.60
Draft 4.00
Sinking Beached and abandoned
Sunk Code Abandoned
Port To Fremantle used as hulk
Cargo Hulk
Owner The Adelaide Steamship Company Limited
File Number 10/78, 445/71
Chart Number 117
Comments Ex 2-masted brig
Sources West Australian, 5 May 1892, p. 3b; see also Albany Mail, 2 May 1883, 2 May 1883, p. 2g Fremantle Harbour-master Journal 1887-93, 18 March 1890 McCarthy, M., 1983, Shipwrecks in Jervoise Bay. Records WA Museum, 10: 335-372
Confidential NO
URL http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/ellen-1