James Price Point UNID ()

James Price Point

At High Water Mark adjacent to Royal Austraian Survey ground mark R144 Approximately 800m south of James Price Point.
In 1976 Mr Keen reported having found a square glass gin bottle and remains of a copper chest while surveying in 1968. In 1978 Scott Sledge WAM Wreck Inspecto heard stories of a wreck at James Price Point from Richard Hunter of Brooome and Lucky Starr of Kuri Bay Pearls. Miscellaneous flotsam including wreckage from a lugger or smaller vessel, glass fragments and keyhole or latch fittings from a chest, door or suitcase. Timber samples of the rib and dinghy planks were found to be oregon. Sledge identified the materials as post-1900 and not definitely associated with a wreck, and the site is a flotsam trap. However the persistent oral histories suggest a lugger was wrecked in the vicinity. Richard Hunter also told a story that an early four-masted ship was wrecked on a rock near James Price Point and all of the survivors were speared as they came ashore, and that he had seen heavy chain on the seabed but not dived it.