Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum
  • Bertha

    Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011

    The Bertha was wrecked on a reef near Point Cloates on 20 July 1874. The Captain , Joseph Moriah and four crew escaped on a dinghy, but with no provisions. They travelled for six days until arriving at Tubridgi Point. The five survivors had been without an ...

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  • Brothers

    Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011

    The Brothers disappeared, never reaching its destination after leaving for Roebourne on 19 February 1867. This was very close to the time the Emma disappeared, and in the same area. All that is known about this wreck is that a few years after the disappear ...

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  • Duchess of Kent

    Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011

    The Duchess of Kent was wrecked on 28 August 1895 near Cervantes Island. The Captain and crew were able to get ashore in the ship’s dinghy but were only able to save three wet loaves and a botle of water as provisions to take with them. They attempted to s ...

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  • Emma

    Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011

    On 3 March 1867, the schooner Emma set sail for Fremantle from Port Walcott. She was never seen again. Almost ten years later Charles Tuckey, a well known identity in the North West and in the pearling industry told the Inquirer newspaper of a story he had ...

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  • Enchantress

    Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011

    The Enchantress struck a reef off Champagny Island 15 August 1874. She managed to limp into Brecknock Harbour and became a complete wreck. There were then encounters between the crew and Aboriginals to the extent that two crew and eight Aboriginals were ki ...

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  • Georgette

    Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011

    The Georgette was wrecked on 30 November 1876 off Calgardup Bay. There were 50 passengers on board plus crew and cargo and Captain Godfrey decide to launch the boats. The first was swamped by a large wave and a number of the occupants were drowned. An Abor ...

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  • Maid of Lincoln

    Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011

    The Maid of Lincoln was a coastal steamer on her way from Dongara to Fremantle and Bunbury. She hit a reef near the Hill River, 13 kms south of Jurien Bay on 11 April 1891. The crew managed to get to shore in the ship’s boat and half of them trudged to Pad ...

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  • Mariano

    Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011

    The Mariano ran aground at Jarman Island on 13 December 1878. The crew remained on board awaiting the spring tides in hopes to float her off again, but after a few days were unable to contain a leak and during a cyclone on 22 December two of the ships boat ...

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  • Minnie

    Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011

    The Minnie, another pearling ship, was wrecked in November 1872 on Fortescue Island. There were three men on board and they reached the island but without many supplies. They were George Forthcut, Liberty Joe and an Aboriginal who was not named. They remai ...

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  • Nautilus

    Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011

    The Nautilus was a pearling ship that seems to have disappeared and then appeared at intervals during the 1860’s and 1870’s. It was known to have been blown ashore at Nickol Bay by the cyclone of 4 January 1868 and was refloated for the following season, b ...

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