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  • Karrakatta

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1901/03/26 Protected Federal Y Y 1978/08 Swan Point, Broome side Swan Is 3/4 mile off shore -16.3566666667 123.035 Tr. Exp 300 HP 1271.47 2091.34 Scotland Kinghorn 1897 Fremantle 102212 91.50 12.80 5.40 None 80 Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Singapore Assorted and mails Harry Talboys West Australian Steam ...

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  • Fremantle Bucket Dredge

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1936/09/04 Protected Federal N N near Stragglers Rocks compound steam engine, single screw 150.00 Scotland Glasgow 1894 Fremantle 45.70 8.80 3.80 Towed out and sunk near Stragglers Scuttled Government of Western Australia, Public Works Department Simons & Co 445/71 Fremantle was a bucket dredge. Worked ...

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  • Lively

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    _MA-7/80 AUS 325 Built as La Duchesse d’Aiguillon for Claude Fichet, for Newfoundland cod fishery. 3 masts, ...

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  • Pericles

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    and friends could go fishing and crabbing. A third lifeboat was bought by Lionel Pearce, equipped with ...

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  • Toba

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    purchased the Toba for use in the fishing industry, basing the vessel mainly in Fremantle. The four crewmen ...

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  • Shark

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    suffered during World War I. The ketch had left Fremantle on 23 April to go fishing and was returning to Fremantle with about 1?000 pounds (455 kg) of fish in the ice chest aboard. THE LOSS Due to the approach of ...

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  • Rip

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Australian Museum, states that he remembers fishing from the wreck when he was a child. At that time it still had a great deal of fishing gear inside, suggesting that it was not cleaned out after use as a fishing ...

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  • Unidentified lugger

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1889/07/12 Unknown N N Bezout Island off Cossack 2 Vessel struck reef when tide went out and sank Holed and sunk Cossack Bezout Island Frank Bell Robert McKenzie and Henry Werbyn left Cossack on a fishing trip in a lugger. They did not return when expected and were feared lost. On 27 July the men ...

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  • Columbia

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1921/02/18 Protected Federal N N Beacon Island N 1 During storm Foundered AUS 751 Small boat. Man called Joe Benevito drowned Geraldton Guardian 1921/03/05 West Australian 1921/02/23, p. 7-g The Geraldton Express 1921/02/23 NO Mid-West 929 columbia ...

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  • Ben Dearg

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    by the Anglo-Australian Fishing Company. The trawlers were employed in trawling the Great Australian ...

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