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  • African (Sunset Beach wreck)

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/id-1141 NO Mid-West 1141 african-sunset-beach-wreck ...

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  • Alert

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1875/07/22 Protected State N N Murray River Bar N 19.04 WA Fremantle 1867 Fremantle 52239 4 of 1867 14.40 4.00 1.65 Struck River Bar Wrecked and sunk Murray River Fremantle Sandelwood John Kelly J. & H.C. Carter & Co J.C. Mews 206/80 Alert was built in Fremantle by a member of the well-known ...

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  • Ellen

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1890/01/03 Protected Federal N N Off Rockingham, South Passage N Unknown 3 Shifted Ballast? Foundered Mandurah Fremantle Boat possibly capsized and the 3 men on board drowned West Australian, 6 and 7 January 1890 Inquirer, 8 January 1890, p. 4d http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/id-155 ...

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  • Seagull

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1896/02/18 Protected Federal N N Fremantle Harbour N WA Fremantle 4.90 Capsized and sank Foundered Garden Island Fremantle Mews Family (?) Mews Family (?) Small boat of maybe 5.4 metre length West Australian, 19 February 1896, p. 4h Inquirer, 21 February 1896, p. 10a NO Metro 479 seagull ...

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  • Two Sons

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1851/12 Protected Federal N N Bunbury N 16.00 WA Bunbury 12.40 3.90 1.70 Refloated Bunbury Fremantle John Wenn Benjamin Jackson 405/71 Co-ordinates 20' off Staranded in 1873 at Fremantle Perth Gazette, 12 December 1851 and 14 October 1853 Register of British Ships, Fremantle NO South-West-Coast 620 ...

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  • Monarch

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1897/03/16 Protected Federal N N Halfway across Great Australian Bight N 191.20 SA Goolwa 1879 South Australia 79313 37.50 7.90 2.40 Sprung leak Foundered Adelaide Fremantle Captain T.W. Smith of Fremantle G. and P. G. Johnston of Port Pirie and Goolwa, South Australia In tow of steamer Colac West ...

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  • Priestman Grab Dredge C (possibly)

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    West Australian 12 May 1893, A serious casualty occurred to the Priestman dredge, which was moored on the Southside of the Fremantle jetty, on Wednesday night. The West Australian 5 June 1893 The work of ...

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  • Comet

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Fremantle. West Australian, 30 September 1893, p. 4a West Australian, 27 September 1893, p. 3b Inquirer, 23 June 1893, p. 24b Inquirer, 6 October 1893, p. 7a West Australian, 27 September 1893, p. 3b West Australian, 30 September 1893, p. 4a McKenna Collection 680, WA Maritime Museum NO South-West-Coast 62 comet ...

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  • Hope

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Ships, Fremantle NO South-West-Coast 1258 hope ...

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  • Cricketer

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    be incurred in getting her off’ (West Australian, 9 December 1889, 5i). There is no record of the ...

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