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Voladora
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1926 Protected Federal N N Jones Island N 14.80 19.30 WA Fremantle 1902 Fremantle 117781 No 2 of 1903 13.70 4.00 0.90 Foundered Filomeno Rodrigues of Broome A.E. Brown 3/79, 380.77 318, 1047, 1716 When the Dickie was wrecked on Tank Island (?) the community was in need of a replacement vessel, and ...
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Emu
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1925/07/28 Protected Federal N N Port Gregory N 1.60 Mark Margetic Mark Margetic 117/80 e Emu was a fishing boat owned by Marko Marchetti also known as Marko Margetic. The Police Department Correspondence refers to him by both names and state that he was either an Austrian or Jugoslav, naturalized. He was 52 ...
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Kia-ora
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1939/04/25 Protected Federal N N 30 miles north of Geraldton N 26.00 17.10 3 V. Basille V. Basille 117/80 A 751 Kia Ora was built in Fremantle as a sealer to operate in the islands around Esperance. Vincenzo Basile and Vincenzo Cuocci, both of Geraldton, purchased it in 1919 for use in line fishing in the ...
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McDermott Derrick Barge No 20
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
31339 Not protected Federal Y N N.E. tip of Eaglehawk Island, Dampier Archipelago -20.1366666667 115.9533333333 Chart 9280.00 c.1968 Panama 122.20 30.50 8.80 Refloated and scuttled after being grounded in Cyclone Orson Scuttled McDermott Se.E. Pte. Ltd, Singapore 2010/0053/SG _MA-4/79 There could be confusion ...
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UNID lugger possibly Gladys Olive
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum - No.80. North-West 1638 ...
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UNID lugger possibly Lotolop
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum - No.80. North-West 1639 ...
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UNID lugger possibly Siput
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum - No.80. North-West 1640 ...
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Eyre UNID Mundrabilla
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
spars being placed upright by the Aborigines is open to debate. They would more likely have been placed ...
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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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Avis
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
Australian Museum recovered a plank with some treenails. No other remains of the Avis have so far been found. Although stated as having been quickly buried by sand after going ashore, the beach in this area is subject ...
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