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  • Ariel

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1868/01/04 Protected Federal N N Locker Point, 50k west of Ashburton N 26.00 TAS Hobart 1845 14.30 3.80 1.60 3 4 Foundered Fremantle Fishing ground Pearl Joseph Barrett 208/80 Perth Gazette, 3 April 1868 Inquirer, 1 April 1868 NO North-West 337 ariel ...

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  • Coolgardie

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    well deserved. A cyclone, described as one of the worst on this part of the coast in over 80 years, ...

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  • Stanford

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Kerosene-soaked beacons of driftwood were readied to guide any boat in. Ropes were laid out to enable men to wade ...

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  • Warren

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    before Schank saw them on the shore some 80 to 100 m away. The captain then gathered food and clothing ...

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  • Colonist

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1830/11 Protected Federal N N Champion Bay N Unknown Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Champion Bay Store 117/80 A 751 NO Mid-West 61 colonist ...

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  • Prince Charlie

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1850/12/27 Protected Federal N N Shark Bay N 443.00 UK Sunderland 1848 3.80 18 S Fremantle Britain Guano 1056 NO Mid-West 378 prince-charlie ...

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  • North Star

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1856/07/12 Protected Federal N N Turtle Island N 399.00 USA Philadelphia 1828 New London 33.50 8.50 3.30 37 During gale run on reef and broke up Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Fishing grounds 835 barrels of oil, whale bone Silas Fish Williams and Barnes Saved by American whaler Vesper. Cargo was ...

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  • Thisbe

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1904/12/23 Protected Federal N N Southern end of the Murray Reef N 2 3 Lost her headway on the heavy swell Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Mandurah equipment 9/80/1, 206/80 Supplement of the "Port of Fremantle" Quarterly Photo of small yacht Thisbe in: The Western Mail 1903/01/17, p. 27 NO Metro 339 thisbe ...

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  • Vixen

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1848/04/08 Protected Federal N N Fremantle N 43.00 UK 1840 22.00 6.10 1.80 10 9 Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Singapore Jefferson Messrs Thomas 1048 NO Metro 764 vixen-1-2 ...

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  • Zephyr

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1864/04/28 Protected Federal N N Port Gregory N 409.00 Unknown 3 Bumped on sandbank Refloated Fremantle London Wool Robert Habgood 117/80 Former tea-trade clipper Inquirer, 20 April and 12 October 1864 NO Mid-West 809 zephyr ...

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