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

Crimean Gunboat Engine

One of these things doesn't belong

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?

From paddle steamer to screw steamer to wrecked steamer

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

Mystery Artefact

Chaplin water distiller

Albany - West Australia's first steamship hub

Risky Business

More WA Steamship Wrecks

Deep Dives

Photo of machinery comprising of many black metal components

The Trunk Engine

A Product of Mass Production

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Image looking to the back of the inside of the engine with two large round holes

Lurking in the Darkness

Marine Boilers

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Black and white painting of ship in harbour with one steam funnel, and two masks. In the foreground a longboat with approximately 12 men are rowing towards the ship.

First in Steam

SS Xantho

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Old photo of family of 5 children and two adults seated, posing for portrait photo, and with one other gentleman standing behind them.

An Extraordinary Couple

Charles and Eliza Broadhurst

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Open box with inside lid inscribed with "J Whitworths & Co Engineers Manchester, and inside shows rows of metal rods of different sizes.

A Long Time Coming - Whitworth and Standardisation

The Standardisation of Machine Threads

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