HM Sloop Investigator anchor
Best bower anchor from HM Sloop Investigator in which English navigator Matthew Flinders circumnavigated and charted the Australian coastline from 1801 to 1803.
Flinders severed the anchor when he had difficulties leaving Middle Island at the western end of the Great Australian Bight in May 1803. It was raised from the seabed 170 years later in 1973. The anchor underwent twelve months of conservation and restoration.
Weight: 1230 kg.
Creator: Henry Rudd, Monkwearmouthshore, Co.
Associated locations: South Australia, Great Australian Bight, Middle Island