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Xantho Gallery

Xantho Gallery

See the conservation and restoration of the SS Xantho steam engine after it spent more than a century underwater, and learn about the remarkable story of the Broadhurst family. 

Promoted Deep Dives

Dark brown wooden beams running across the ceiling of the gallery with stains and marks on them.

From Store to Museum

Look up

Photos of drawings of ships on red coloured rocks mounted on the wall of the gallery.

Set in Stone

Images of SS Xantho

Xantho engine

Crimean Gunboat Engine

One of these things doesn't belong

3D model of Xantho's engine, as it would have looked when new.

Understanding Xantho's Engine

Black and white image of boats on the ocean

A Liberty ship in Western Australia

What do SS Xantho and SS Alkimos have in common?

Drawing of Loch Lamond

From paddle steamer to screw steamer to wrecked steamer

SS Xantho’s story is one of great ambition and inevitable failure.

Chaplin distiller in a showcase

Mystery Artefact

Chaplin water distiller

Boat docking in Albany

Albany - West Australia's first steamship hub

Xantho showcase

Risky Business

More WA Steamship Wrecks

The Western Australian Museum acknowledges and respects the Traditional Owners of their ancestral lands, waters and skies.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that this digital guide may include images, sounds, and names of now deceased persons.