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Trixen
''Trixen'', registered as B47 (originally named ''Trixie'') is a preserved 15.33 metre pearl lugger built in 1904 currently displayed in the Western Australian Maritime Museum, Elizabeth Quay. History Built around 1904 in Broome originally for use by Coleman & Palmer as a 11.58 metre schooner, they sold it to Henry Miller in 1907 who registered it in 1911, as a result of another vessel already having the name ''Trixie'' its name was changed to ''Trixen'' after his wife, Eliza. Alice Capes, the wife of the Roebuck Bay Hotel licensee, would own the vessel from 1916 to 1923, by 1940 ''Trixen'' was owned by Louis Goldie who commenced having it rebuilt by Japanese shipwrights, however due to Japanese entry into the Second World War ''Trixen'' remained uncompleted until being bought by pastoralists George Streeter and Arthur Male of Male & Co. who finished it with kadjebut frames and outfitted it with a Southern Cross 3 cylinder diesel engine. In 1951 Trixen was relocated to Darwin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearling In Western Australia
Pearling in Western Australia includes the harvesting and farming of both pearl A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle (mollusc), mantle) of a living Exoskeleton, shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pear ...s and pearl shells (for mother of pearl) along the north-western coast of Western Australia. The practice of collecting pearl shells existed well before History of Western Australia#Colonial era, British settlement. After settlement, Aboriginal people were used as slave labour in the emerging commercial industry, a practice known as blackbirding. After 1886, with the rise of 'Standard diving dress, hard hat' diving, Asian divers from coastal and island regions became most common, leading to the pearling industry being the sole exception to the White Australia Policy of 1901. Pearl hunting, Pearling centred first around Nickol Bay and Exmouth Gulf and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
