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  • Cervantes

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Bay and the crew were fishing when a gale blew up. Before the vessel could make sail and weather the ...

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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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  • 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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  • Halcyon

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1844/08/05 Protected Federal N N Toby Inlet, Geographe Bay N 258.00 USA edford, USA 1819 New London 28.50 7.50 3.80 Cables parting in heavy gale Foundered Whale oil 112/80 1034, 335 Halcyon was built as a brig in the state of Maine. In 1842, after a sale to a consortium of ten New London ...

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  • Rapid

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    a spear-fishing group comprising F. Paxman, B. Paxman, G. Dromey, and L Paterson discovered the wreck. During ...

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  • Thetis

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    was stranded at Torbay, but soon got off. In May 1847 it was sold to the Pelsart Fishing Company for ...

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  • Bunyip

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    for the hill near the building site. The Minang people who built fish traps in Oyster Harbour called ...

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  • Loch Lomond

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    not on these duties it was used for picnic excursions and fishing trips. Sometimes as a tug it was ...

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  • Katinka

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1874 Elsfleth Germany 59.80 9.80 5.70 5 14 Gale, cable parted Wrecked and sunk Hamelin Bay South Africa Jarrah M. Köhler J. Ahlers Macfodyan & Co 2009/0139/SG _MA-12/80 BA 1472F Katinka was built under ...

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  • Mary Queen of Scots

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    her anchor to (No. 5)—getting off the bank and afloat (quoted in WAM File No. MA-117/80, vol 3). ...

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