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  • Zephyr

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1903 Protected Federal N N Albany 1336.00 1312.00 Unknown 1854? 89406 57.60 11.30 7.80 Beached, abandoned and broken up Abandoned Adelaide Steamship Company Unknown 193/79 Zephyr (1854-1902) The Zephyr was a three-masted wooden sailing ship of 1312 tons, built by Daniel D. Kelley of East Boston, ...

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  • Verona

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1894/01/09 Protected State N Vampire Island, Cossack, Butcher Inlet Blown to top of Vampire Island in cyclone Blown on top of Vampire Island in 1 January 1894 cyclone. Appears to have subsequently been refloated and later blown ashore on 80 Mile Beach on 29 June 1904. 1890: Built at Fremantle as ...

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  • Carleton

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1878/03/11 Protected Federal N N Browse Island N 742.00 USA Beaver River 1870 Yarmouth 61797 49.10 10.80 6.10 In cyclone Wrecked and sunk Melbourne Hamburg (via Browse Island to load guano) Guano Captain Allen G. Doane and Co. G. Jenkins and Crosby 3/79, 90/73, 380/77 1242 Fully copper fastened, iron-kneed, ...

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  • Rescue

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    wool from Holst & Campbells Station A. Hansen H.M. Parkes & A. Hensen 116/80 1048, 325, 739 ...

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  • Raven

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1891/05/11 Protected Federal Y Y 1996/10 Dyers Island -32.021 115.5513333333 GPS N 343.00 UK Sunderland 1864 Port Adelaide 47684 36.90 8.40 5.20 Hit reef Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Bunbury Ballast Captain Swan W.R. Cave and Company of Adelaide 2009/0185/SG _MA-18/80 PWD 54153 Captain drunk left ...

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  • Mariano

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1878/12/24 Protected Federal N N Perseverance Rocks, Cossack -20.6666666667 117.2 N 589.00 USA Boston 1861 Melbourne 74670 45.70 9.10 4.30 Cyclone sprang a leak Wrecked and sunk Lacepedes Melbourne Guano Captain McDonnel/ Walcott Francis Beaver of Melbourne 7/78, 119/80 5/12/1878 found ship sprung ...

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  • Fin

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    6985 Protected Federal Y Y 2008 Point Cloates, Fraser Island -22.6476 113.6282666667 GPS2008 Inverted Compound 93.00 Norway 1881 Norway At anchor, driven ashore North West Whaling Co Ltd 2009/0119/SG _MA-22/80 AUS 72, 330, 329 Wreck always visible West Australian 1907/08/21, p. 6b [?] McCarthy, M., 1980, SS ...

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  • Coronation Islands Unidentified

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    01/01/1940 Coronation Islands, near Careening Bay In 1978 Richard Hunter reported having seen ‘a long time ago’ a wreck at low water off the south end of the third-from-south of the Coronation Islands. Site inspected during WINC Expedition but at high tide so nothing seen. (Sledge 1978: 79-80 ...

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  • Penguin

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    fitted with ‘an insulated fish room, in which the fish will be stored in ice and periodically conveyed to Albany for disposal’ (West Australian, 7 June 1920: 5a). The fish caught were to be sold in Albany and ...

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  • Irene

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    fishing boat. When Mackey was safely ashore the crewman pulled the dinghy back, and he himself then made ...

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