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Roller Bearing Sheave


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      Creator(s):
_? Saw Mills

Description: Roller bearing sheave (part 1), and the roller from the sheave (part 2), from the wreck of the 'Cambridgeshire', an iron full rigged ship wrecked close to Night Island, near Cape Barren Island, in 1875. The rock on which she went aground is now known as Cambridgeshire Reef.

Format: realia
Object: pulleys
Material: lignum vitae;  bronze

Titles:
Roller Bearing Sheave

Subjects: shipwreckspulleys

Institution: George Town and District Historical Society Inc.

Object number: GTH_PS0156

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