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  • Lubra

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    ship’s position; 3. Carelessness in not having kept a chart in a convenient place so that officers ...

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  • Transit

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1842/05/08 Protected Federal N N Duck Rock, Rottnest N 124.00 UK Northumberland 1834 Cape of Good Hope 20.90 6.30 3.80 Struck rock Wrecked and sunk Leschenaul Fremantle Horses, tea, fruit, wine and sundries Captain Cobern William Billingsley of the Cape Good Hope 1058, 112, 114 Inquirer, 11 May 1842 ...

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  • Three Sisters 2

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1976/10/07 Not protected State N N Beach off Carbadaman Passage, NW Cape diesel 17.29 Perth 1968 332019 12.50 3.80 1.70 Queensland Fremantle William Humphrey Jacobs of Perth F. Crockett Burn and destroyed August 1979 See digital Images/4Midwest/25Pt Cloates/Modern wrecks R. Dixon 1996 Ships Registered ...

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  • Bungaree

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1876/06/13 Protected Federal N N Long Point, Sisters Reef N WA Jervis Bay 1866 Melbourne 38796 25.80 5.90 2.50 8 Flounder Wrecked and sunk Batavia Fremantle 32 tonnes sugar sundries John Cornford Messrs Bateman Searched for by G. Anderton and Living Waters Skinding Club. Not found. SRO ACC129 File ...

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  • Emily

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1868/06/13 Protected Federal N N Moore River/Wreck Point N 40.00 WA Fremantle 1868 Fremantle 61083 4/1868 18.40 4.90 2.10 5 4 Foundered Irwin Fremantle Copper, ore and flour Richard Harford, a Fremantle Boatsman Wrightson (?) 207/80 A 334 Wreck Point off 2 Rocks, co-ordinates 5' box Perth Gazette, 8 May ...

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  • Diana

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    _MA-20/80 AUS 117 A severe storm which drove 4 other vessels ashore and also claimed James Service was so ...

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  • Fitzgerald, Lady Fitzgerald

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Museum-No.80: 19. http://www.mm.wa.gov.au/Museum/march/shipwrecks/Wanneroo_Shipwrecks/Wanneroo.html NO Metro 247 ...

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  • Gem

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1876/05/18 Protected Federal Y Y 1999 Phillip Rock -31.9875 115.5613166667 GPS2017 N 52.00 UK Cowes, Isle of Wight 1835 Fremantle 31520 20.10 4.80 2.60 11 7 Wrecked and sunk Port Irwin Fremantle 500 bags of wheat Captain Wilcock Fremantle owner 2009/0122/SG _MA-67/72 PWD 54153 Constructed as a yacht ...

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  • Mildura

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1166 Protected Federal Y Y 1992 North-West Cape -21.784092 114.167735 Aerial GIS Screw Steamer, 253 np 1394.00 2217.00 Scotland Glasgow 1901 Brisbane 94191 91.50 12.80 4.30 None 36 Gone ashore in bad weather Wrecked and sunk Wyndham, Cambridge Gulf Fremantle Livestock, 481 bullocks Charles Albert ...

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  • Planet

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    (80 m) from the shore. This wrecking therefore occurred during the early morning hours of 10 May 1890. ...

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