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Busselton Historical Society > Records

City of York Porthole

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J. Elder and Company

c. 1861

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Overview

A cast iron porthole mounted on wooden planks that was salvaged from the City of York which was ship wrecked off Rottnest in 1899. On one side there is a iron hinge, on the opposite side there is a iron latch and the glass is missing.

Historical information

The City of York was a three masted, 68 metre long, iron hulled ship built in 1869 by Glasgow shipbuilders J. Elder and Company. In 1899 she departed San Francisco under Captain Phillip Jones and after making a record passage to Western Australia, grounded on a reef 200 metres off Rottnest, in what is now known as the City of York Bay. The ship was abandoned safely but an attempt to reboard the ship resulted in the loss of 11 lives.

Details

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Registration number

cwa-org-124-2024.112

Item type

Themes

Material

Width

46 cm

Height or length

104 cm

Depth

2 cm

Keywords

Maritime Objects

Place made

Glasgow
Scotland
United Kingdom

Year

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Links to additional resources

CITY OF YORK (1899/07/12) ROTTNEST ISLAND, CITY OF YORK BAY

Read more about the City of York shipwreck on the Western Australian Museum Shipwreck Databases

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ROOM 1.7 Marine

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