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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.
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The story continues.
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Images of SS Xantho
Set in Stone
One of these things doesn't belong
Crimean Gunboat Engine
What do SS Xantho and SS Alkimos have in common?
A Liberty ship in Western Australia
SS Xantho’s story is one of great ambition and inevitable failure.
From paddle steamer to screw steamer to wrecked steamer
Chaplin water distiller
Mystery Artefact
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Albany - West Australia's first steamship hub
More WA Steamship Wrecks
Risky Business
A Product of Mass Production
The Trunk Engine
Marine Boilers
Lurking in the Darkness
SS Xantho
First in Steam
Charles and Eliza Broadhurst
An Extraordinary Couple
The Standardisation of Machine Threads