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  • Stanford

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Kerosene-soaked beacons of driftwood were readied to guide any boat in. Ropes were laid out to enable men to wade ...

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  • Bay

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1909 this must have been one of the shortest registrations on record. Worsley, P. and J., with Totty, ...

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  • Villalta

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    from the beach and was described as having broken in two in the region of the forward chainplates, with ...

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  • Don Joseph

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    exposed than elsewhere the breakers were comparatively smooth, otherwise the captain and crew would have ...

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  • Benan

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    food at all, though they did have a supply of water. Hoping that some provisions might be washed ashore ...

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  • Langstone

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    7 February, having loaded a cargo of 721 loads of timber from Millars’ Karri and Jarrah Forest, Limited, but ...

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  • Pilot Boat

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1862/01/25 Protected Federal N N Port Gregory N Australia 2 2 Struck reef S Port Gregory Coast No cargo 117/80 On 25 January 1862 two prisoners named George Allen and William Worsey attempted to escape from the Lynton convict depot at Port Gregory using the pilot’s whale boat. The bodies of the two men ...

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  • Batavia

    Wreck | Updated 2 Oct 2020

    Museum in Geraldton. The wrecksite and the work on Beacon Island between 1999 and 2018 can be see on the Beacon Virtua, a Virtual Reality at: http://museum.wa.gov.au/beacon-island-vr/ J. N Green, "The ...

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  • Swan

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1884/01/16 Protected Federal N N Cape Londonderry in the vicinity of Jones and Stewart islands N 27.00 WA Fremantle 1875 Fremantle 72469 14.90 4.60 1.80 1 Struck reef Wrecked and sunk Port Darwin Cossack Isaac Doust Isaac Doust 380.77 Reports, Sgt.P. Troy, Derby, 1 October 1883 and 28 December 1883, ...

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  • Grace Darling

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    have been a strong set inshore. He had made allowance for leeway and had considered the vessel to be ...

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