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  • Flying Foam

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1872/03/10 Protected Federal N N Abrolhos Area N 33.32 WA Fremantle 1861 Fremantle 36544 3/1861 18.30 4.80 2.10 All Cyclone Wrecked and sunk Champion Bay Fremantle John Bateman of Fremantle William Jackson of Fremantle Flying Foam was a two-masted schooner with one deck and square stern built at South ...

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  • Venus

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    petitioned the Colonial Secretary for the return of the small fishing boat Jane in order that the family ...

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  • Sepia

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1898/12/29 Protected Federal Y Y 2002/12 2.9 Km offshore between Carnac and Garden Island -32.1335833333 115.6418666667 DGPS N 725.00 659.00 UK Hartlepool 1864 London 48814 53.90 8.80 5.80 12 Struck rock Wrecked and sunk London Fremantle Mixed general Captain Hugh Thomas Bethell, Gwyn and Company of London ...

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  • Hadda

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    stern-post, lends support to this assumption. SITE LOCATION The wreck of the Hadda lies 720 m ENE of Beacon ...

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  • Duchess of Kent

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1895/08/28 Protected Federal N N Police Dept Jurian Bay [Near Cervantes Island, south of Geraldton] N 60.08 TAS Franklin, Tasmania 1875 Fremantle 57559 1 of 1894 21.40 6.10 2.10 During voyage Wrecked and sunk Geraldton Fremantle Captain Ehlert William Reid, Bunbury 118/80 A 753 Duchess of Kent was ...

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  • Alert

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1875/07/22 Protected State N N Murray River Bar N 19.04 WA Fremantle 1867 Fremantle 52239 4 of 1867 14.40 4.00 1.65 Struck River Bar Wrecked and sunk Murray River Fremantle Sandelwood John Kelly J. & H.C. Carter & Co J.C. Mews 206/80 Alert was built in Fremantle by a member of the well-known ...

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  • Victory

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Australian Maritime Museum, No. 80. Dickson, R., 2012, Maritime Matters of the South Coast of Western ...

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  • James Matthews

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    that James Matthews was a snow-brig of 107 tons, registered at the Port of London. The vessel was 80 ...

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  • Elizabeth

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    W Samson for whaling, and during mid-1839 fished in the Geographe Bay area, striking eight whales but only ...

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  • Europa

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1897/10/01 Protected Federal Y Y 36226 12 miles south of Jurien Bay/Sand Reef -30.4027166667 114.9859 N 756.00 800.00 UK Newcastle-on-Tyne 1869 Castellamaire, Italy 62283 57.10 9.10 5.80 15 Grounded on reef Wrecked and sunk Glasgow Fremantle General Tommaso di Janni McBean, Bowker and Company of ...

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