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  • Swan

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1869/10/30 Protected Federal N N Irwin River N 24.00 WA Fremantle 1865 Fremantle 36554 17.00 4.30 1.70 Struck reef, later completely broken up Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Irwin River General C. petersson William Dalgety Moore 115/80 A 752 Albany Shipping List, 3 December 1867, C.S.R. 606, fol. 92 ...

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  • Sea Bird

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    damaged. The wreck was auctioned at Gingin on 3 August 1874. There is also a record of the wreck having ...

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  • Perth

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1887/09/17 Protected Federal Y Y 2004/05 Point Cloates -22.6924666667 113.6422666667 GPS 2004 2 compound vented engines 499.00 298.50 Scotland Glasgow 1863 Adelaide 48408 5/1885 58.50 6.80 3.80 Hit Ningaloo Reef Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Wyndham Passengers, cargo Fred Parkes Adelaide Steamship Company ...

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  • Karrakatta

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1901/03/26 Protected Federal Y Y 1978/08 Swan Point, Broome side Swan Is 3/4 mile off shore -16.3566666667 123.035 Tr. Exp 300 HP 1271.47 2091.34 Scotland Kinghorn 1897 Fremantle 102212 91.50 12.80 5.40 None 80 Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Singapore Assorted and mails Harry Talboys West Australian Steam ...

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  • Pelsart (Pelsaert)

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Lawrence 116/80 1048, No blame can be attached to master or crew. left Fremantle 11/09/1908 bound Cossack. ...

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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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  • Cumberland

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    scattered and broken up, MAAWA have done surveys of Shoalwater Bay reefs. Nothing found. Main wreckage may ...

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  • Hugh Norman

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    MA-118/80 shows that it was wrecked in the vicinity of Cervantes Island, owing to the skipper being drunk. ...

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  • Warren

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    before Schank saw them on the shore some 80 to 100 m away. The captain then gathered food and clothing ...

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  • Chance

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    I sent out a party in search of him, but have not been enabled to gain any trace so far of him. Some Natives have reported having seen him with his face very bloody, and that he had been ill used by a man of ...

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