Enchantress wreck
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Country Built UK
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Port Built Cowes
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When Built 1846
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Length 30.70
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Beam 7.20
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Draft 3.40
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Engine N
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TONA 171.00
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When Lost 1874/08/15
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Where Lost New Island, Brecknock Harbour
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Sinking Hit a reef
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Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk
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Port From Darwin
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Port To Cossack
Museum Reference
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wreck Enchantress
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Protected Federal
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Found N
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Inspected N
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Official Number 25133
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File Number 113.80
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Confidential NO
Artefact information
| wreck | Enchantress |
|---|---|
| When Lost | 1874/08/15 |
| Protected | Federal |
| Found | N |
| Inspected | N |
| Where Lost | New Island, Brecknock Harbour |
| Engine | N |
| TONA | 171.00 |
| Country Built | UK |
| Port Built | Cowes |
| When Built | 1846 |
| Port Registered | London |
| Official Number | 25133 |
| Length | 30.70 |
| Beam | 7.20 |
| Draft | 3.40 |
| Crew | 14 |
| Sinking | Hit a reef |
| Sunk Code | Wrecked and sunk |
| Port From | Darwin |
| Port To | Cossack |
| Cargo | Shell |
| Owner | Australian Fishing Company |
| Builder | White |
| File Number | 113.80 |
| Sources | Robert Sholl, Fisheries Report, January 1872, C.S.R. 714, fol. 17 Robert Sholl to Col. Sec., Roebourne, 30 December 1869, C.S.O. 697, fol.146. Sholl to Col. Sec., Roebourne, 19 December 1874, C.S.O.782, fol.192. Inquirer, 11 June 1873 Inquirer, 3 March 1875 Lloyds Shipping Register, 1874 Henderson, G & Henderson, K.J. 1988 Unfinished Voyages Western Australian Shipwrecks 1851-1880, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands. Streeter, E. 1886 Pearls and Pearling Life George Bell and Sons, London, p.160. Bain, Mary Albertus 1982 Full Fathom Five Artlook. Perth, p.74. Perth Gazette , 20 March 1874. Parsons, R. 1974 The Pearling Fleet in Western Australia, in Kerr , G(ed.), Australian and New Zealand Sail Traders Blackwood, South Australia, p.12. Crawford, I 1968 The Art of the Wandjina Oxford University Press/Western Australian Museum Melbourne, p.79. Sledge, S. 1978 Report of Wreck Inspection North Coast (W.I.N.C.), Report—Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum, No. 11. Loney, J. 1994 Wrecks on the WA Coast |
| Confidential | NO |
| URL | http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/enchantress |