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Functional object - Rudder, Alexander Brown

  • Remains of a timber rudder with 2 surviving gudgeons still bolted to it. Marks on the timber suggest the position of a a further 2 which have been lost to erosion. The top pintle survives and is still attached to timber which would have been originally attached to the ship's transom. The timber and metal of the pintle and gudgeon rudder are badly eroded and brittle.

    Pintle and Gudgeon Type Rudder

Historical information

Returning from Manila in 1856 with a cargo of rice, sugar and rope. Mountain Maid was wrecked after colliding with the Victorian steamer, SS Queen. No lives were lost but the ship sank quickly and the crew was forced to swim for their lives. The pilot onboard Mountain Maid was dismissed from the Pilot service, as he'd already run two other ships aground before changing direction and causing the collision with SS Queen (Lomdahl 1992:Mountain Maid).

Physical description

Pintle and Gudgeon Type Rudder

Subjects

References

  • Mountain Maid Mountain Maid was a small two-masted wooden snow brig built as a trading vessel in Dundee in 1841. In its first 12 years, the ship traded between Europe, North America and the Orient and at one point was thought to possibly be involved in smuggling. In 1853, Mountain Maid was sold and began trading between the new Australian Victorian colony and Southeast Asia. It sank on the 24 September 1856 and the wreck, which is Heritage listed remain in Port Phillip, between Coles and West Channels
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