MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 1843-1855
Description
3-masted Barque
Construction
Timber sheathed yellow metal
Size
256 tons length 28.7 beam 6.6m draft 4.7m
Built
1843 in Sunderland, Liverpool
Owner
Thomas Sleddon Master: Captain Buxey
Sunk
1855/02/07
Location
Port Gregory
Latitude/Longitude
(-28.196498, 114.250790)
Sinking
En route from Fremantle to Singapore with cargo of horses and lead ore, 34 passengers and 13 crew. Foundered on a sand bank, with anchor dragging, in a gale off Port Gregory. All crew and horses were saved.
Underwater
The wreck has not been located, but a magnetic anomaly found in line with a large anchor on the reef, may possibly be the location of the wreck. Presently buried by the shifting sands within Port Gregory.