Local Government
Fremantle
Region
Metropolitan
Carnac Island via Fremantle
Fremantle
Metropolitan
Constructed from 1898
Type | Status | Date | Documents | More information |
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Heritage List | YES | 08 Mar 2007 |
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Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | More information | |
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Category | Description | ||||
Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 18 Sep 2000 | Historic Site - recognise |
Historic Site - recognise |
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Register of the National Estate | Registered | 21 Mar 1978 |
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Heritage Council |
At the end of a voyage from London to Fremantle under the command of Captain Hugh Thomas, the Sepia struck a rock 2.9km offshore, between Carnac and Garden Island, and sank. It was carrying twelve crew and a mixed general cargo. No lives were lost. The vessel was a 53.9 metre iron barque constructed by Denton, Grey & Co at Hartlepool, UK, in 1864. It was owned by Bethell, Gwyn & Co and registered in London. Numerous items have been salvaged from the wreck site, including the contents of cement barrels (no barrel timber remaining), clay pipes, glass bottles, jars, bowls, cups, saucers, vases, ink bottles, a brass sextant arm, an iron belaying pin, and the bronze ship’s bell, inscribed with ‘Sepia, Liverpool’.
Latitude 32˚08.015 Longitude 115˚38.512
Historic Site
Epoch | General | Specific |
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Original Use | OTHER | Other |
Original Use | Transport\Communications | Water: Other |
General | Specific |
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TRANSPORT & COMMUNICATIONS | River & sea transport |
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