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Alice Maud
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1898/01/27 Protected Federal N N Fremantle N Unknown Crashed by August Tellefsen Wrecked and sunk C. Clark Inquirer, 29 October 1897, p. 8a Mike Gee, Rockingham, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Shire of Rockingham, Perth, 1978 West Australian, 29 January 1898, p. 4h; see also Inquirer, 18 February ...
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Governor
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1955/10/07 Protected Federal N Rottnest Graveyard, 11 miles south west of Rottnest N 486.00 Netherlands 1898 Towed by tug Yuna and sunk by Meteor jets of the RAAF's 75 Squadron visiting WA from Williamstown NSW Scuttled WA Goverment 445/71 For use in construction of Fremantle Inner Harbour NO Metro 909 ...
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Minilya
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1965/02/26 Protected Federal N N King George Sound 3X 96 nhp 248.00 118.00 Norway 1930 Fremantle 140229 6/1953 Scuttled Cheynes Beach Whaling Co Bought from Nor West Whaling Co. former name Thorvard. Whale chaser /www.whaleworld.org/html/museum_f.html /www.whaleworld.org/html/museum_f.html NO ...
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Mana
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1899/07/11 Protected Federal N N Fremantle, South Beach N 107.00 Unknown Fremantle 83623 16 of 1892 26.50 7.60 2.10 Abandoned on shore, later sold by Public Auction Wrecked above water Abandoned No cargo Edmund Gilyard Lacey (J. and W. Bateman?) West Australian, 12 and 13 July 1899 NO Metro 1399 mana ...
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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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Advance
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1887/07 Protected State N N Swan River Bar 1 ENGINE, 22HP 38.00 WA Perth 1874 Fremantle 61112 6/1874 22.20 5.10 1.40 Grounded Foundered Randell, Knight and Co. Lawrence 376/77 15°30 – 124°35 Inquirer, 27 July 1887, p. 4f and 7 March 1888, p. 3e West Australian, 6 August 1888, p. 3c NO Metro 1543 ...
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Frey
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1932/04/29 Protected Federal N Rottnest Graveyard Scuttled by SS Emerald Daily News 29/04/1932 The West Australian 1931/11/05 The whaler Frey was one of two whale chasers that were laid up at Fremantle after the Norwegian Whaling Company ceased to operate from Point Cloates. She was at moorings off the ...
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Arcadia
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
the most severe storms to hit the South-West, occurring three months after the Arcadia first went ashore. There were two phases to the storm—the first phase with winds from the north-north-west on 22 ...
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Britannia
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology, Fremantle. West Australian, 22 October 1898, p. 5f NO South-West-Coast 124 britannia ...
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