Ivy (1914/08/29)
Off Gun Is, Abrolhos Islands
Ivy was fishing for bait in shallow water near Gun Island when it was capsized by a large wave. This threw the three crewmen and the dinghy into the water. The skipper and one crewman clung to the rudder of the ketch while the other swam to retrieve the drifting dinghy. Suddenly the Ivy righted itself, taking the two men under water. They did not surface and their bodies were never found. The remaining man reached the dinghy and, after clambering aboard, turned to see the Ivy drifting towards him. He boarded the ketch, but it had lost both masts and he could do nothing to prevent it drifting rapidly out to sea through the Zeewijk Channel in the strong south-easterly wind. A westerly setting current, however, stopped the drift and took the Ivy back into the channel where it ran aground and was wrecked on Wooded Islet.
Ship Built
Owner Winter, Brandt & Co.
Master Martin Petersen
Ship Lost
Gouped Region Mid-West
Sinking While fishing
Crew 3
Deaths 2
When Lost 1914/08/29
Where Lost Off Gun Is, Abrolhos Islands
Ship Details
Engine N
Length 14.60
TONA 35.00
Museum Reference
Unique Number 1491
Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk
File Number 56/72
Chart Number 1056
Protected Protected Federal
Found N
Inspected N
Confidential NO