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  • Swan HMAS

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    34316 Not protected Federal Y Y 2000/02/18 1.3 nautical miles off PointPiquet, Dunsborough -33.5509666667 115.09885 DGPS N 1970 140.00 Sunk as dive wreck by explosives Scuttled RAN 2010/0060/SG _MA-112/80 Sonar trace 2000/02/18 Navy destroyer escort ...

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  • Friends

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1872/12/30 Protected State N East Fremantle Swan River 11.50 Australia 1859 56541 22.80 2.90 1.10 Derlict and broken up Various Benjamin Madson, perth last Solomon Cook Dixon, R. 1996 Ships Registered in Western Australia from 1856 to 1969 NO Metro 1088 friends ...

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  • Queen of the Seas

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1916 Protected Federal N Point Cloates 36hp Gardener America 15.00 5.00 1.30 Henry McLeod Built of Oregon pine. MA Dept file 209/80 Point Cloates Area Wrecks, ‘History of motor vessel Queen of the Seas from the memories of Henry McLeod, now of South Yunderup, as written in 1986’. NO Mid-West 1128 ...

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  • Flora

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1910/10/16 Protected Federal N N Broome, entrance Roebuck Bay N 12.78 16.38 WA Fremantle 1902 Fremantle 117782 3/1903 11.60 3.80 93.00 5 Cyclone Wrecked and sunk Diver in charge F.H. Biddles & R.H.S. Gaskin W. Murray 3/79 1207, 1048 HMC 112/3 McKenna Collection 682, WA Maritime Museum NO ...

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  • Governor Weld

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1894/02/07 Protected Federal N N Casuarina Reef, La Grange Bay N 18.12 WA Fremantle 1870 Fremantle 61097 5/1870 14.30 4.40 1.80 Wrecked Wrecked and sunk McKenzie Grant, A. E. Anderson and John Edgar 3/79, 7/78 1207 Co-ordinates 2' off Register of British Ships, Fremantle NO North-West 1197 ...

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  • Agnes Donald

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1895/07/25 Protected Federal N N Fremantle N 61.75 59.40 NZ Auckland 1875 Fremantle 70334 1 of 1895 21.60 5.80 2.40 Drifted from anchorage in storm Refloated Thursday Island Fremantle Ballast A.E. Gummow McKenna Collection 680, WA Maritime Museum NO Metro 1200 agnes-donald-1 ...

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  • Grace Darling

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1874/09/01 Protected Federal N N Lockeville N 1014.00 USA 1869 Fremantle After stranding Refloated Geographe Bay Ballast Captain A.P. Blevin 195/72, 112/80 1034 West Australian 6/2/1914, p. 6h West Australian 19/3/1914, p. 7h Inquirer 9/9/1874, p. 3g HMC 66/2 ...

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  • MV Trixen (or Trixon)

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1960 Not protected State N N Tranby Jetty, Maylands Swan River N 26.57 30.24 WA Broome 1904 15.50 4.30 2.80 Removed but still at Maylands Refloated Elisa Miller Henri Miller 376/77 Was originally much smaller vessel without motor Colin Scrimshaw, Swan & Canning River Wrecks, Maritime Archaeology ...

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  • Guttersnipe

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1899/10/10 Protected Federal N N Sunday Strait N 10.00 Y 8 Caught in tidal rips Foundered Cygnet Bay King Sound One months stores Arthur Hay Henry Hunter 119/80 H. Hunter to Inspector of Police, Derby, 20 October 1899, Police Records 4255/1899 West Australian, 19 December 1899, p. 4b NO North-West ...

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  • Arabian

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1872/06/21 Protected Federal N N Geraldton N 24.00 Unknown 1857 London 40478 14.40 4.30 2.00 Refloated 117/80 Worsley, P. and J., with Totty, D., 2008. A Windswept Coast: WA Maritime Heritage between the Moore River and the Zuytdorp Cliffs. Special Publication No. 12. Australian National Centre of ...

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