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Edith
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1887/04/22 Protected Federal N N Off Eighty Mile Beach N 9.60 NSW Berry's Bay 1883 Sydney 83750 45/1883 11.20 3.20 1.40 Cyclone Unknown Pearl/Shell Captain Stephen Clark of Sydney 116/80 1048 West Australian, 29 April 1887, pp. 2f, 3a, b CSO 3841/1887 ...
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Bertha
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1874/07/20 Protected Federal N N Reef off Point Cloates N 31.00 Unknown Launceston 61036 4 On reef Wrecked and sunk Shark Bay Port Walcott Shell J. Moreah Fremantle chemist Daniel Congdon 209/80 A 745 5 tons in SRO 21/207 2/8/1874 cutter Fortescue arrived Port Walcott with master and passengers Sergeant ...
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County of Caithness
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1931/04/02 Protected Federal N N Rottnest Graveyard N 1715.00 Scotland Glasgow 1876 Fremantle 73862 79.80 11.70 7.40 N40E 6 miles Rottnest LH Scuttled McIlwraith, McEacharn Barclay, Curle & Co. 193/79 1058, 112, 114 Ex full rigged 4-masted bq SRO CONS 6654 ITEM 1955/729 Wrecks off WA Coast Harbour ...
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Ringbolt Bay Unidentified (Eva)
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1880 Protected Federal Y Y 1991/05 Ringbolt Bay -34.368748 115.152185 GPS McCarthy 12/97 WGS84 N 40.68 Australia c. 1880 Lightering 30 to 40 barrels cement 2009/0188/SG _MA-11/80 AUS 116 Now identifed as Eva.. Worsley and Worsley South coast wrecks. ...
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Parmelia
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1829/05/31 Protected Federal N N Carnac Island, Woodmans N 443.00 Canada Quebec 1825 35.90 8.80 6.10 Refloated Plymouth Swan River Store Captain Jophn Luscombe Joseph Somes, a director of the East Inia Company James Stirling to Walter Stirling, 7 September 1829, in J. Stirling, Letters from Swan ...
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Boreas
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1932/05/04 Protected Federal N N NE end Weld Island, north of Onslow, 15 miles from Mary Anne Passage N 919.00 WA Broome 1923 Fremantle 140171 3/1932 Jones A.E. Iverson, G.W. Lord, L. J. Jones Onslow Francis & Co 208/80 743, 327, 328 SRO CONS 1066 ITEM 1916/081 Wrecks off WA Coast Harbour and Lights ...
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Cleopatra
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1935/03/26 Protected Federal N N Lacepede Islands N 15.66 13.16 WA Broome 1904 Fremantle 119039 1/1905; B32 15.80 5.30 2.30 Cyclone Wrecked and sunk John Travers (1st owner), Steeter & Male Ltd, Broome (last owners) C. Nielsen 7/78, 3/79 1207, 1048, 323 One of 24 luggers lost in this cyclone HMC ...
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Pioneer
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1893/02/25 Protected Federal N N Carnarvon N 21.00 WA Fremantle 1883 Fremantle 75314 1/1883 22.00 5.70 1.80 Dragged anchor Wrecked and sunk Crowther and Baston James Storey 1055. 1056 Telegrams, Resident Magistrate, Carnarvon, to Under Col. Sec., 27, 28 February and 3 March 1893, CSO 398/1893 West ...
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Ada
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1914/09/ Protected Federal N N Off Abrolhos Islands N 16.33 12.83 WA Fremantle 1901 (?) Fremantle (?) 102254 (?) 11/1901 15.40 1.20 4.80 3 Foundered B. Kleem Winter Brandt & Co, Perth E. Howson, Fremantle 1056 Also possible official number 95361 built in 1888 in Fremantle ...
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Rover
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1885/01/12 Protected Federal N N Off Point Torment, King Sound -17.0166666667 123.5833333333 N 14.00 WA Fremantle 1872 61109 12.50 4.10 1.50 2 Foundered at anchor Foundered Derby Point Torment Holmes 119/80 Govt. Res., Kimberley, to Col. Sec., 17 January 1885, CSO 962/1885 Govt. Res., Kimberley, to Col. ...
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