Further to https://stevereynolds.wixsite.com/website/post/anchor-from-the-1852-wreck-of-the-eglinton, here are a couple more photos of anchors at the WA Museum Shipwreck Gallery (Shipwreck Museum).
The WA Museum Shipwreck Gallery
(Taken by Noeleen Reynolds)
(I've only visited the museum once, a few years ago now. I took lots of photos of the displays inside the museum at the time. Unfortunately, all of these were lost when a compter repair shop lost all of the data on my laptop. Fortunately, my wife took these photos of some of the anchors there. (I must go through our backlog of photo prints to look for her photos of the displays inside the museum.)
Noeleen amongst the many large anchors on display outside the museum
(Taken by myself, with Noeleen's camera)
There is this photo that I used at https://stevereynolds.wixsite.com/website/post/anchor-from-the-1852-wreck-of-the-eglinton: -
(I'm guessing that this photo was taken by Noeleen)
This photo shows the location of the Eglinton's anchor outside the museum: -
The Eglinton's anchor outside the WA Museum Shipwreck Gallery
(Taken by Noeleen Reynolds)
According to Brad Willsea, the anchor has a restored stock. According to the Shipwreck Databases for the Western Australian Museum, “The wreck of the 462-ton barque Eglinton (occurred) off the coast of Wanneroo, some 50 km north of Perth, on 3 September 1852 …… The Eglinton was built in 1848 at Quebec, Canada, by Scottish shipbuilder John Munn (Jnr).”
Brad Willsea says, “She was carrying a cargo of general goods for the fledgling colony at Fremantle when she struck the reef about 1 mile offshore. 1 female passenger drowned when the ship’s boat capsized on the beach.”
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