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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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  • Villalta

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    29 March 1897 for £80 with a further £210 for the timber cargo. They, however, subsequently sold the ...

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  • Queen

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1955/06/20 Protected Federal N N Near Carnarvan N Struck reef Wrecked and sunk C. Langua 1055. 1056 NO Mid-West 573 queen-1 ...

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  • Lizbeth

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1955/03/04 Protected Federal N N City Beach N Struck reef Wrecked and sunk L. Amm NO Metro 708 lizbeth ...

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  • Pilot Boat

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1862/01/25 Protected Federal N N Port Gregory N Australia 2 2 Struck reef S Port Gregory Coast No cargo 117/80 On 25 January 1862 two prisoners named George Allen and William Worsey attempted to escape from the Lynton convict depot at Port Gregory using the pilot’s whale boat. The bodies of the two men ...

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  • Bay

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1910/01/01 Protected Federal N N Jurien Bay N 12.66 15.16 WA Fremantle 1909 Fremantle 125006 18/1909 11.30 3.70 1.60 Struck reef Wrecked and sunk Frank Johnston John Byrne and Martin Freney Murray and Howson 118/80 1033, 333, A 753 William Murray and Edward Howson built the Bay at Fremantle in ...

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  • Batavia

    Wreck | Updated 2 Oct 2020

    Museum in Geraldton. The wrecksite and the work on Beacon Island between 1999 and 2018 can be see on the Beacon Virtua, a Virtual Reality at: http://museum.wa.gov.au/beacon-island-vr/ J. N Green, "The ...

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  • Swan

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1884/01/16 Protected Federal N N Cape Londonderry in the vicinity of Jones and Stewart islands N 27.00 WA Fremantle 1875 Fremantle 72469 14.90 4.60 1.80 1 Struck reef Wrecked and sunk Port Darwin Cossack Isaac Doust Isaac Doust 380.77 Reports, Sgt.P. Troy, Derby, 1 October 1883 and 28 December 1883, ...

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  • Don Joseph

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1899/04/30 Protected Federal N N 5-7 NM south of Point Cloates N 13.00 WA Fremantle (by A.E. Francis) 1899 Fremantle 114473 20/1902 Struck reef Wrecked and sunk Broome Fremantle William Miles Francis Rodriguez A.E. Brown 209/80 A 745 Inquiry 1901/03/01 West Austarlian, 27 April 1899, p. 4a Inquirer, 19 May ...

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  • Benan

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1888/12/13 Protected Federal Y Y 98/04 MMcC; 92/09. 2004/5 MMcC Point Cloates -22.7415166667 113.6745 +GPS 2004 N 1415.00 Scotland Leith 1875 Glasgow 70766 9/1875 73.90 11.20 6.80 28 Struck reef Wrecked and sunk Cardiff Hong Kong Coal John Burns Thompson and Company of Leith 25/92, 209/80 AUS 72 he ...

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