Pet wreck

Co-ordinates in 5' box

  • Country Built WA

  • Port Built Fremantle

  • When Built 1877

  • Length 26.00

  • Beam 5.90

  • Draft 2.50

  • Engine N

  • TONA 89.92

  • When Lost 1882/03/01

  • Where Lost 80km SE of Cape Leeuwin

  • Sinking Hit whale, holed

  • Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk

  • Port From Bunbury

  • Port To Adelaide

Museum Reference

  • wreck Pet

  • Protected Federal

  • Found N

  • Inspected N

  • Official Number 75293

  • Registration Number 2/1877

  • Chart Number 1034

  • Confidential NO

Artefact information

Full information about the Pet
wreck Pet
When Lost 1882/03/01
Protected Federal
Found N
Inspected N
Where Lost 80km SE of Cape Leeuwin
Engine N
TONA 89.92
Country Built WA
Port Built Fremantle
When Built 1877
Port Registered Fremantle
Official Number 75293
Registration Number 2/1877
Length 26.00
Beam 5.90
Draft 2.50
Deaths 1
Sinking Hit whale, holed
Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk
Port From Bunbury
Port To Adelaide
Cargo Timber
Master Captain Peter Littlejohn
Owner A. J. McRae and W.D. Moore
Builder Robert Wrightson
Chart Number 1034
Comments Co-ordinates in 5' box
Sources West Australian, 17 February, 1882, p. 3f CSO 1455, fol. 16, 29 and 48, Battye Library Register of British Ships, Fremantle
Confidential NO
URL http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/pet