| Introduction | |
| Description, Analysis and Explanation at a Steam Ship Wreck | p. 1 |
| Description | p. 1 |
| Analysis and Explanation | p. 3 |
| Xantho and Broadhurst in context | |
| The Context of the Find | p. 7 |
| Marine Engineering | p. 8 |
| The iron hull | p. 8 |
| Marine propulsion | p. 11 |
| Boilers, condensers, and other machinery | p. 15 |
| The advent of compounding | p. 19 |
| The "ideal" 1870s steamer | p. 24 |
| The Colonial Setting | p. 24 |
| Steamers in Western Australia | p. 25 |
| The Broadhursts in Context: An Inadequate Record | p. 29 |
| Victorian squatters | p. 32 |
| Northwest pastoralists | p. 32 |
| Pearlers in the northwest | p. 36 |
| Broadhurst and Xantho | p. 40 |
| Xantho: A transport for pearl divers | p. 42 |
| Xantho the tramp steamer: An indigenous record? | p. 44 |
| The last voyage | p. 46 |
| Xantho-the transformations | |
| A Wealth of Information | p. 48 |
| The Specifications: Construction as a Paddle Steamer | p. 48 |
| The First Transformation | p. 52 |
| Xantho: A hybrid refugee from the scrap heap | p. 52 |
| The Loss of Xantho: The Second Transformation | p. 54 |
| Abandonment behavior and its effect on the material record | p. 56 |
| Breakup and Salvage: The Third Transformation | p. 57 |
| Another Contemporary Record of Xantho? | p. 59 |
| Xantho: A Navigational Hazard | p. 61 |
| The wreck examined | |
| Processes in Wreck Site Analysis | p. 65 |
| The Discovery and Inspection of the Site | p. 65 |
| Early Iron and Steamship Archaeology Examined | p. 67 |
| A Predisturbance Study: New Direction in 1983 | p. 68 |
| Natural transformation forces analyzed | p. 70 |
| Results of the predisturbance survey | p. 73 |
| Anomalous Features Identified | p. 75 |
| Site Survey and Test Excavation | p. 77 |
| Test Excavation Method | p. 79 |
| Results of the Survey and Test Excavation | p. 81 |
| The Application of Anodes | p. 84 |
| Site formation processes | |
| Postdepositional Processes at an Iron Wreck | p. 88 |
| The Effect of Corrosion and Concretion | p. 88 |
| Muckelroy's Index Applied to Modern Sites | p. 90 |
| John Riley's Observations: The Waterline Theory | p. 95 |
| Other Commonalities Observed | p. 97 |
| The Formation of the Xantho Site | p. 104 |
| The investigation continues in the archives | |
| The Archival and Material Records at Odds | p. 108 |
| The Material Record Incorrectly Read | p. 110 |
| Distortions in the Written Record | p. 112 |
| The Naval Origins of the Xantho Engine | p. 113 |
| Broadhurst Revisited | p. 118 |
| Pearling at Shark Bay | p. 120 |
| American influences | p. 120 |
| Broadhurst: A great success | p. 121 |
| Broadhurst: The consistent failure | p. 122 |
| Broadhurst's other enterprises | p. 122 |
| Excavations at the site | |
| Excavation Processes | p. 125 |
| The Research Strategy | p. 125 |
| Preliminary Fieldwork | p. 126 |
| Further Site Assessments | p. 127 |
| The Engine Cut Free | p. 129 |
| Budgets and Rewards | p. 130 |
| The Iron and Steamship Wreck Seminar | p. 131 |
| The Excavation | p. 132 |
| The Engine Removed | p. 134 |
| The Excavation and Recording of the Stern | p. 135 |
| The Stern Cut Free | p. 139 |
| Subsequent On-Site Excavations | p. 141 |
| An Unsuccessful Attempt to Examine Nineteenth-Century Shipbuilding Method | p. 143 |
| A Clue to the Rapidity of Concretion Formation | p. 144 |
| Results of the 1984-1994 Excavations | p. 145 |
| Excavation in the laboratory | |
| Deconcretion: Excavation and Experimentation | p. 147 |
| The Removal of Chlorides Explained | p. 149 |
| Deconcretion of the Outer Surfaces | p. 149 |
| Engineering Anomalies Identified | p. 156 |
| Further Deconcretion | p. 158 |
| Unexpected Conservation Problems | p. 159 |
| Further Evidence of Abandonment Behaviour | p. 159 |
| The Externals Totally Deconcreted | p. 160 |
| The Engine Model | p. 161 |
| Engine Markings: Broadhurst Reassessed | p. 163 |
| The Disassembly of the Engine | p. 166 |
| The direct flame method applied to the Xantho | p. 167 |
| A Concretion Formation Model Proposed | p. 167 |
| Further Experiments in Deconcretion | p. 168 |
| Analogy in Engine Excavation | p. 169 |
| Dismantling the Machinery | p. 170 |
| Entering the Cylinders | p. 173 |
| The British Standard Whitworth (BSW) Thread | p. 174 |
| Further Evidence of Poor Maintenance | p. 175 |
| A Setback in the Final Stages | p. 177 |
| Conclusion | |
| Iron Wrecks as Archaeological Sites | p. 180 |
| Description and Analysis | p. 181 |
| Analysis and Explanation | p. 185 |
| The Xantho/Broadhurst Exhibition | p. 194 |
| Appendices | |
| Appendix 1: Horsepower | p. 196 |
| Nominal Horsepower | p. 197 |
| Indicated Horse Power | p. 198 |
| Appendix 2: Wages and Salaries in 1870 | p. 200 |
| Bibliography | p. 201 |
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