Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum
  • Heath

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1942/03/15 Protected Federal N N Broome N 13.08 16.58 WA Guildford 1903 Fremantle 118523 11.90 3.50 1.60 Wrecked and sunk Streeter & Male Jeremiah Asquith & CO 3/79 Redbill, L. 2004 From Pearls to Peace. Register of Ships Licensed for Pearling-Bro ...

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  • Lighter (3)

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1877/02/16 Protected Federal N N Lacepede Island N Unknown S Ship Shore Guano Messrs Poole, Picken and Co., of Melbourne 7/78 1207 Wynne to Col. Sec., 23 February 1877, C.S.O. 864, fol. 26-33 NO North-West 1351 lighter-3 ...

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  • Lilly

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1889/02/25 Protected Federal N N Flying Foam Passage, Dampier Archipelago N 19.00 WA Brisbane Driven out to sea and lost (?) Wrecked and sunk Pearl/shell 4/79 327 NO North-West 1352 lilly ...

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  • Little Eastern

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1873/09/06 Protected Federal N N Fremantle N 12.00 Unknown Refloated NO Metro 1353 little-eastern ...

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  • Lily of the Lake

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1875/12/24 Protected Federal N N Exmouth Gulf N 26.00 WA Fremantle 1873 Fremantle 61108 No.3 of 1873 17.70 4.20 2.10 20 26 Sank in cyclone Foundered Exmouth Gulf Fishing ground Shell 152/72 A 744 The vessel was anchored at the southern end of Exmouth Gulf ...

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  • Repose

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1968/08/06 Protected Federal N N E.S.E. of Wallabi Group N Abandoned A. Martin A 751 Co-ordinates 10' ESE NO Mid-West 1355 repose ...

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  • Lively

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    c. 1806–07 Protected Federal Y Y 1981 Mermaid Reef, Rowley Shoals -17.0896833333 119.5915 CALM18/10/97 WGS84 N 240.00 France Solidor, Saint-Malo 1765 London 27.40 7.80 4.27 Wrecked and sunk London Southern Fishery, New Holland Joseph Whiteus/Whitehouse/Wh ...

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  • Lois

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1890/07/17 Protected Federal N N Mangrove Point N 408.00 UK Sunderland 1868 Newcastle 56404 40.00 8.80 5.40 Struck Reef (later apparently repaired by Streeter) Unknown Broome Captain J. Stronach John Hay 3/79/1 Inquiry Evidence, 29 July 1890, CSO 2371/90 ...

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  • Myth

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1910/11/19 (02/18) Protected Federal N N Broome area, Ninety Mile Beach, off Wallal N 31.46 36.73 WA Fremantle 1876 Fremantle 72483 5/1876 15.50 4.60 1.80 3 Cyclone Refloated James Raynor Roger & Lecky 3/79, 116/80 1207, 325, 1048 Touched sandbank nea ...

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  • Lone Star

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1868/01/04 Protected Federal N N Driven into mangroves at Nicol Bay N Unknown Refloated Pearl/shell 4/79 327 Forrest, K., 1996. The challenge and the change: the colonisation and settlement of North West Australia 1861-1914, Hesperian Press: 55. NO North- ...

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