Jane Sprott

Official Number 58900

The Jane Sprott was an iron barque built by R.Williamson & Son at Harrington in June 1868. She was initially owned by J.B.Sprott and registered at Liverpool, her ownership changing to Jackson & Metcalf, of the same port, some time after 1890.

The Jane Sprott was bought by the Adelaide Steamship Company in about 1902, renamed Copeland Island, then Copeland. She was used as a hulk at Albany until 1928, when she was scuttled on the 18th May 1928 at Gull Rock, near Albany, Australia.
 

Sources :

1. Scuttled and Abandoned Ships in Australian Waters
2. Australian National Shipwreck database gives the location of the wreck as False Island, citing from "Memories of Maritime Albany", Report by Gordon de L. Marshall, Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum, No 53.
3. " American Lloyd's Register of American and Foreign Shipping, 1870 " master as Capt.Sprott, owner as J.Sprott of Liverpool.
4. " Record of American and Foreign Shipping, 1895 " names master as Capt.Wigley, owners as Jackson & Metcalf of Liverpool.