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  • Dairy Maid

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1887/04/22 Protected Federal N N 6 Miles North of Roebuck Bay N 31.00 NSW New South Wales 38851 18.30 4.30 1.70 >4 Gale Wrecked and sunk Cossack Pearl, shell Captain French James Merriman 116/80, 3/79 Co-ordinates 5' box NO North-West 80 dairy-maid ...

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  • John S. Lane

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1887/04/22 Protected Federal N N Eighty Mile Beach N 82.24 80.05 NSW Clarencetown, Williams River 1872 Fremantle 51586 2 of 1887 24.70 5.50 2.60 Gale Unknown Pearl, shell Mathew Price & Francis R. Hassell Unknown 3/79, 114/80 1387, 32 West Australian, 29 April 1887, pp. 2f, 3a, b CSO 3841/1887 McKenna ...

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  • Hampton

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1877/05/12 Protected Federal N N Port Grey N 19.00 Unknown 4 Gale Refloated Fremantle Shark Bay Captain Outred 115/80 1056 Captain and crew left ship, because of damage to rudder. Vessel stranded undamaged SRO 36 ITEM 904/71-76 Inquiry into loss Geraldton 22/05/1877 Inquirer, 13 June and 23 May 1877 NO ...

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  • Mary/ Lugger 3F

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    lugger also owned by McRae and Pearse was said to have been lost and this vessel was likely the cutter Mary, believed to have foundered in the north-west during March 1889 16. It is possible that bothreports ...

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  • Laughing Wave

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    It would most likely have been dismantled where it lay alongside the Bunbury Jetty, or at least ...

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