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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.

Trixen
Trixen on display, May 2019.
History
Australia
NameTrixie
OperatorAustralian Pearling Company
Launchedc. 1904
Out of servicec. 1974
RenamedTrixen
IdentificationVessel No. HV000391
FatePreserved
General characteristics
TypeLugger
Tonnage30.24 GRT
Length15.44 m (50.7 ft)
Beam14.2 ft (4.3 m)
Draught9 ft (2.7 m)
PropulsionSouthern Cross diesel engine (3 cylinder)
Speed7 knots

History

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Built around 1904 in Broome originally for use by Coleman & Palmer as a 11.58 metre schooner,[1] 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.[1] Alice Capes, the wife of the Roebuck Bay Hotel licensee, would own the vessel from 1916 to 1923,[2] 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.[3] who finished it with kadjebut frames and outfitted it with a Southern Cross 3 cylinder diesel engine.[1]

In 1951 Trixen was relocated to Darwin, registered as a ketch[3] while owned by M. T. Paspalis who sold it in 1952 to R. N. and Harold Ormsby Hocking of Thursday Island in Queensland[1] with Trixen becoming part of the Australian Pearling Company fleet and helped transport materials for the construction of the Hammond Island church in 1953[4] during which its crew comprised entirely of Hammond Island residents and was captained by Francis Sabatino.[4] The Hockings returned Trixen to Western Australia in the 1960s converting it into a trawler[5] for prawn and then crayfish[1] at Lancelin, still part of the Australian Pearling Company. On 29 December 1960 one of its tail shafts broke, it was towed back to shore by the Nanango.[6] By 1970 Trixen had been converted into a private yacht[1] for Arthur Ernest Lethby[7] on the Swan river and then a salvage boat before being refitted as a ferry for use between Garden Island[1] and Palm Beach[8] until the island was requisitioned by the navy in 1973 being moored at Crawley Edge Boatshed for a while afterwards.[9]

Trixen sank in the mid-1970s[1] at its moorings in the Swan river at Maylands,[10] but was salvaged at a cost of $310[11] by the Maritime Archaeology Association of Western Australia on behalf of Les Penny on 31 March 1981 who donated the vessel to the Western Australian Maritime Museum in July 1981[12] and was placed in storage.[13] Until 1986 when the hull was refurbished under the direction of Jay Lawry[14] with plans to return it to operational status with funding provided by a Commonwealth Employment Program Grant,[13] Trixen being offered to the Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation.[5] It was restored to its 1949 pearling condition under the direction of Bill Leonard and Ray Miller[15] with help from Jeff Beale, Bill Leonard, Don Cockerell and Alex Kilpa,[16] going on display in 2002[17][3] before moving to the present building in 2010.[1] During its service life Trixen went through no less than five conversions, it has also operated in all major pearling locations in Australia.[1] Trixen was also at one time owned by state treasurer Philip Collier.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Basic Detail Report". Australian Register of Historic Vessels. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  2. ^ Norman, Verity (2007). A Pearling Master's Journey (PDF) (Revised 2013 ed.). Strathfield, NSW: John Edgar deBurgh Norman. p. 275. ISBN 9780646905402.
  3. ^ a b c "Trixen, Broome Pearling Lugger". Western Australian Maritime Museum. 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  4. ^ a b Deere, Tyrone C. (August 1994). Stone on Stone: Story of Hammond Island Mission (PDF). Thursday Island, QLD: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church. pp. 58, 61. ISBN 86420 028 6. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
  5. ^ a b May, Sally (December 1990). "Trixen, Broome Pearling Lugger" (PDF). Maritime Heritage Association of Australia. p. 4. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  6. ^ "Monthly Service Bulletin, Further Boat Losses" (PDF). WA Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. WA Department of Parks and Wildlife (which became the WA Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions). January 1961. p. 9. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  7. ^ a b Dickson, Rod (October 1996). "Ships Registered in Western Australia from 1856 to 1969, Vol. 1 - 9, Report No. 80" (PDF). Western Australian Museum (WAM). WAM Department of Maritime Archeology. pp. 158, 201. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  8. ^ "Trixen, Palm Beach Jetty, 1972, Rockingham". Flickr. Rockingham Library. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  9. ^ Leonard, Bill (January 2016). "Newsletter, A Unique Maritime Record" (PDF). Australian Amateur Boat Builders' Association. pp. 1–3. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  10. ^ Thurlow, B.H.; Chambers, J.; Klemm, V. V. (1986). "Swan-Canning Estuarine System, Waterways Commission - Report No. 9" (PDF). WA Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. p. 380. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  11. ^ Dickson, Rod (October 1996). "Ships Registered in Western Australia, 1856 to 1969 reproduced report" (PDF). Maritime Heritage Association of Australia. pp. 148, 189. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  12. ^ Scrimshaw, Colin (1981). "Swan and Canning River Wrecks" (PDF). Maritime Archaeological Association of Western Australia. pp. 18–19. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  13. ^ a b "Trixen, Broome Pearling Lugger" (PDF). Maritime Heritage Association of Australia. June 1990. p. 3. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  14. ^ "National Newsletter, No. 19" (PDF). Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material. June 1986. p. 4. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  15. ^ Dickson, Rod (March 2003). "Volume 14, No. 1" (PDF). Maritime Heritage Association of Australia. p. 3. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  16. ^ "Annual Report 2002, Museum Services - Collection Management" (PDF). Western Australian Museum. 2002. p. 64. ISSN 0083-8721.
  17. ^ "2001-2002 Annual Report" (PDF). Department of Culture and the Arts. 2002. p. 90. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
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