Bungaree wreck

  • Country Built WA

  • Port Built Jervis Bay

  • When Built 1866

  • Length 25.80

  • Beam 5.90

  • Draft 2.50

  • Engine N

  • When Lost 1876/06/13

  • Where Lost Long Point, Sisters Reef

  • Sinking Flounder

  • Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk

  • Port From Batavia

  • Port To Fremantle

Museum Reference

  • wreck Bungaree

  • Protected Federal

  • Found N

  • Inspected N

  • Official Number 38796

  • Confidential NO

Artefact information

Full information about the Bungaree
wreck Bungaree
When Lost 1876/06/13
Protected Federal
Found N
Inspected N
Where Lost Long Point, Sisters Reef
Engine N
Country Built WA
Port Built Jervis Bay
When Built 1866
Port Registered Melbourne
Official Number 38796
Length 25.80
Beam 5.90
Draft 2.50
Crew 8
Sinking Flounder
Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk
Port From Batavia
Port To Fremantle
Cargo 32 tonnes sugar sundries
Master John Cornford
Owner Messrs Bateman
Sources SRO ACC129 File 23/388 Dept Police Fremantle 17/6/1876 Herald, 17 June 1876 John Cornford, evidence at inquiry into Bungaree, 21 June 1876, C.S.R. 844, fol. 121
Confidential NO
URL http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/bungaree