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In July 1916, during a visit by HMAS Encounter to Napier Broome Bay two small bronze guns were discovered by Commander C.W. Stevens RAN and Surgeon Lieutenant W. Roberts RAN on a small unnamed island. The two guns were found upright “approximately 25 paces from the water’s edge, we saw the two carronades protruding, through the sand 2/3rds of each being exposed so that they were easily lifted out. They were 6 feet apart and certainly had the appearance of leading marks.
The guns were subsequently presented to HMA Naval Dockyard, Garden Island, Sydney, by the finders. Since, at the time, these guns were erroneously thought to be carronades, the island on which they had been found was named Carronade Island. One of these guns (pinion tends towards the gun being a Southeast Asian copy of a European gun.) is on loan from the Royal Australian Navy to the Western Australian Museum and is on display at the Fremantle Maritime Museum, Fremantle. |
