Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

The Albany Report: the Awhina Survey and the Athena (?) Wreck Inspection

Author/s A. Dahl

Year of publication 1990

Report Number: 49

Abstract
These papers result from the winter 1990 expedition to Albany and King George Sound by the students of the Graduate Diploma Course in Maritime Archaeology. The survey conducted on the wreck sites of the Awhina and the Alhena (?) and was undertaken by Arthur Dahl, Madeleine Gauntlett, Sarah Kenderdine and Tim Smith. The surveys were carried out over a two-week period.

It had been proposed that the survey was to be concentrated on the Athena (?) wreck site as it had been previously reported by staff from the Western Australian Maritime Museum, that the A whina was likely to be covered with sand. Initial inspection of the sites showed the reverse to be true; that is, the Awhino was partially uncovered lying in a bay relatively protected from the Southern swell in two four metres of water. The Athena (?) was inaccessible to diving, lying in the shallows subject to heavy wave action and swell. A preliminary snorkel inspection of this site was undertaken and the results from the survey are contained in the second of the following reports.

The first of the reports concerns the survey carried out on the Awhina.