Greyhound wreck

  • Country Built UK

  • Port Built Wivenhoe, Essex

  • When Built 1858

  • Length 37.80

  • Beam 7.10

  • Draft 4.20

  • Engine N

  • TONA 231.00

  • When Lost 1884/10/18

  • Where Lost Hamelin Jetty

  • Sinking Gale, parted cables

  • Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk

  • Port From Samarang, Java

  • Port To Madras

Museum Reference

  • wreck Greyhound

  • Protected Federal

  • Found N

  • Inspected N

  • Official Number 21593

  • Registration Number 18/1872

  • File Number 112/80, 196/75

  • Chart Number 1472

  • Confidential NO

Artefact information

Full information about the Greyhound
wreck Greyhound
When Lost 1884/10/18
Protected Federal
Found N
Inspected N
Where Lost Hamelin Jetty
Engine N
TONA 231.00
Country Built UK
Port Built Wivenhoe, Essex
When Built 1858
Port Registered Melbourne
Official Number 21593
Registration Number 18/1872
Length 37.80
Beam 7.10
Draft 4.20
Sinking Gale, parted cables
Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk
Port From Samarang, Java
Port To Madras
Cargo Timber
Master Captain J.C. Prescott
Owner Captain Alfred C. Prescott of Port Adelaide
File Number 112/80, 196/75
Chart Number 1472
Sources Booard of Trade Register, 1884 Report, PC Carroll, Hamelin, 10 November 1884, Police Records 2017/84 Inquirer, 29 October 1884, p. 3b
Confidential NO
URL http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/greyhound