X-ploration
Dates
Trail: Saturday 14 December - Sunday 2 February | 10am – 2pm
Drop-in Activities: Monday 6 January - Friday 24 January | 10am - 2pm
Site access information
WA Shipwrecks Museum is fully accessible. Call 1300 134 081 for assistance. More about accessibility and amenities >
X-plore our galleries with a new trail that x-amines the wreck of SS Xantho (1872).
Our friendly octopuses Xanthie and Ollie are playing a game of hide-and-seek. They will guide you around the galleries and take a journey into the marvellous hidey-holes that a paddle-steamer's engine can provide when resting on the bottom of the sea-bed.
Decorate your own x-cellent game of Noughts and Crosses to take home, and colour in Xanthie's Octopus Garden to make it wonderful. You never know what treasures you might find tucked into a nook in such a lovely place!
Did you know?
SS Xantho was brought to Western Australia for use by entrepreneur Charles Broadhurst after he purchased it in 1871 for use as a transport and mother vessel for pearling operations. Using the engine to enable it to sail into difficult harbours and against wind and tide Xantho was also effectively operated as a tramp steamer, taking whatever cargoes and passengers it could. In that role it became Western Australia's first coastal steamship.
