Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

Albert (1880/01/31)

Lacepede Islands

RAN Hydrographic Department database 16°51 122°08.5

Ship Built

Owner F. McRae, G. Fauntleroy and F. Pearce of Roebourne

Country Built WA

Port Built Perth

Port Registered Fremantle

When Built 1861

Ship Lost

Grouped Region North-West

When Lost 1880/01/31

Where Lost Lacepede Islands

Position Information RAN Hydrographic Department

Cargo Shell

Ship Details

Engine N

Length 13.80

Beam 4.40

TONA 23.00

Draft 1.70

Museum Reference

Official Number 36544

Unique Number 1301

Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk

File Number 7/78

Chart Number 1207

Protected Protected Federal

Found N

Inspected N

Confidential NO

Sources

Register of British Ships, Fremantle
J.W.Clifton to Col. Sec., 22 April 1881, C.S.O. 1309/1881, fol. 88
Journal of P.C. Thomson, 23 August 1867, Police Files, Acc.No.129, Battye Library.
Inquirer, 7 August 1867
Inquirer, 9 October 1867
Henderson, G. & Henderson K.J. 1988 Unfinished Voyages Western Australian Shipwrecks 1851-1880. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands.
Dickson, R. 1996. Ships registered in Western Australia from 1856 to 1969: their details, their owners and their fate, Report-Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Museum-No.80: 19.