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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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  • Mountaineer

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Jansen there were two crewmen, James Ward and Thilt, and five passengers. These were James Newell, his ...

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  • HMAS Siesta

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    various sundries, tools etc. The crew of five naval personnel were Sub-Lieutenant Tickle, Mervyn Finn, ...

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  • Cock of the North

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Western Australian Museum, No. 80. McKenna, R., 1959, Vessels registered with the British Register of ...

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  • Derby

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1894 Protected State N N Cossack Beach, Butcher Inlet N 46.67 WA Canning River 1878 Fremantle 75320 1885 23.50 6.80 1.80 Cyclone Wrecked and sunk R.A. England & Willian Miller, Cossack B. Mason 443/71 The 46 ton sailing lighter Derby (ON 75320), built on the Canning River by B. Mason in 1878, was ...

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  • Rosella

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Report—Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Museum, No. 80. Dickson, R., 1998, They kept this ...

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  • Greyhound

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1884/10/18 Protected Federal N N Hamelin Jetty N 231.00 UK Wivenhoe, Essex 1858 Melbourne 21593 18/1872 37.80 7.38 4.30 Gale, parted cables Wrecked and sunk Samarang, Java Madras Timber Captain J.C. Prescott Captain Alfred C. Prescott of Port Adelaide 112/80, 196/75 1472 Greyhound was built in Wivenhoe, ...

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  • Ione

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1907/08/04 Protected Federal N N Near Port Gregory N 25.51 24.92 WA Fremantle 1874 Fremantle 61114 5/1874 16.40 4.20 1.80 Chaff choked pumps Foundered Geraldton Cossack Captain Lane J.F. Preston 117/80 1056 Ione was built speculatively by Charles Watson at his boat building yard at Mount Eliza. It had ...

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  • Black Swan

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1851/05 Protected Federal N N Murray Estuary N 124.00 18.00 NSW Westernport 11.00 2.80 1.90 4 Wrecked and sunk Bunbury Vasse General 206/80 us 775, Aus 116 & WA 848 Little is known of the cutter Black Swan which was owned by Anthony Curtis, merchant and ship-owner of Fremantle. However it is ...

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  • Ballarat

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    and having five of the crew, including the captain and chief officer, injured. THE LOSS During a lull ...

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