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  • Carnot Bay DC3 PK-AFV Pelikaan

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1942/03/03 Not protected Y Y 2009/06/11 Carnot Bay -17.1156 122.25355 GPS2010 Operated by KNILM — the Asian subsidiary of KLM, shot down by Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service fighter aircraft, resulting in the deaths of four passengers and the loss of diamonds worth an estimated A£150,000–300,000 ...

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  • Mary

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1882/03/07 N N Lewis Island, Dampier Archipelago Blown ashore in cyclone Possible refloat Mr McVean ‘Mr McVean’s boat, the Mary, was “piled up” at Lewis Island, and his buildings blown down’ (West Australian Tuesday 4 April 1882 p.3) http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/id-1419 ...

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  • Vergulde Draeck Inscription

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    State Heritage Register listing. van Duivenvoorde, W., M.E. Polzer and P.J. Downes, 2013, Hoaxes and ...

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  • Afric

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1915/02/16 Protected Federal N N Between Swan Point and Sunday Island in King Sound RAN Hydrographic Department N 12.44 14.94 WA Fremantle 1903 Fremantle 119002 10.60 3.60 1.50 1 5 Sprung a leak, vessel went down in 55m water while master tried to beach her Foundered Charles Morrissy Robert Child W./ ...

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  • Kirkcudbrightshire

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1058/112/114 Dismantled unshipping or cutting down masts leaving sufficient of foremast as to provide secure fasting for tow lines. The sides of the vessel may be cut down only to ‘tween decks leaving sufficient of ...

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  • Conch

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1872/03/20 Protected Federal N N Butchers Inlet N 5.00 Unknown During cyclone Wrecked and sunk Shell 4/79 327 Another disastrous cyclone struck at Roebourne on 20 March 1872, blowing down all the public buildings, two hotels, several stores and a number of residences. Six pearling vessels were moored ...

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  • Lalla

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Converted for use as a hulk in 1906 and cut down. In 1913 the ship's bell was presented to the ...

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  • Unidentified lugger

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    blown down the coast in the ship’s boat and came ashore in the vicinity of Flying Foam Passage, and ...

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  • Crest of the Wave

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    or on shore abreast of that spot. About 330 yards down the Inlet Glover found her tiller, some ...

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  • USAAC B-24A Liberator #40-2370

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    03/03/1942 N N About 10 miles off Broome 4 engined bomber USA 40-2370 Shot down by Japanese Zero fighter Broome Perth 33 wounded from Java including 20 USAAF personnel United States Army Air Corps A Zero, piloted by Warrant Officer Osamu Kudo immediately shot down USAAF B-24A Liberator, "Arabian ...

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