Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

SE4577 - Stoneware

Sepia

Stoneware artefact recovered from Sepia

Ink bottle, brown glaze stoneware. Inscribed “AVATI & LOVATT NOTTS LANGLEY MILL”

Site Area Code Local

Number of Items 1

Material Stoneware

Museum Reference

Registration Number 4577

ID 106506

Map of shipwreck

Sepia

Sepia, a three-masted barque, was built by Denton, Grey and Company of Hartlepool and was owned by Bethell, Gwyn and Company, London. The vessel, well known as a trader on the Fremantle run, left London on 14 September 1898. Aboard were twelve crew and a mixed cargo of 1 200 tons valued at between £1 200 and £1 400.

Travelling at ten knots on the evening of 29 December, the Sepia ran...