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Conservation management of iron steamships : the S.S. Xantho (1872)
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BOOK: Fifth National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1990, Perth 3-5 December 1990. Preprint of papers, p.75-80 [kept History Dept. at 620.009 NAT]
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1990
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Pdf available from Western Australian Museum Library.
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Abstract:
"The steamship Xantho has provided the ideal testing ground for the biological and electrochemical analysis of a complex wreck site . This paper reports on the use of sacrificial anodes to arrest corrosion and begin conservation in-situ and on the stabilisation
of the historic steam engine built by Penn of Greenwich in 1861."
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