Steam powered Grab Crane Dredge operating in Fremantle Harbour 1924
Description:
Hopper Barge for Steam Bucket Dredge
Owner:
Public Works Department
Construction:
Rived Iron with timber deck and bottom
Sunk:
1930’s?
Size:
length 20.5m.breath 7m depth 3m
Underwater:
Significant wreckage still remains in depth 4-8m of water, makes this a popular scuba dive easily accessible from the shore (see map)
Built:
Around 1900 possibly by State Engineering Works for a Priestman Dredge
Location:
180 m off the North Mole The Barge initially lay 200m to the southeast of the original position which is now safest prohormones marked by an incinerator built on reclaimed land. The Barge was moved in 1988 by request of the WA Maritime Museum and divers to preserve this popular diving location
Sinking:
Unknown, many barges and equipment were abandoned off the North Mole including the Black Swan Dredge in 1911
Longitude:
115.725987
Latitude:
-32.051903
Gallery
Map for scuba divers
The North Mole Barge raised by the Pelican prior to moving to new site (photo: WA Museum).
The 80-ton floating crane Pelican moving the wreck of the North Mole Barge away from port developments at Fremantle on 16 November 1988 (photo: Colin Cockram).
