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  • Flying Scud

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    but no body was found. It is thought it must have been devoured by sharks. The coast was strewed with ...

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  • Priscilla

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    the Priscilla would have been stripped of anything useful such as the donkey winch and boiler normally ...

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  • Start

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    broken down and that he would have to make the remainder of the voyage under sail. Nothing has been seen ...

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  • Perth II HMAS

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Australian Navy’s only vessel to have been hit by enemy fire in the last 50 years, while assigned to the US ...

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  • William Wise

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    having foundered in 1847.'  Obviously this is not correct as it is still in the 1848 Lloyd's ...

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  • P&O floating drydock

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    permanent operation. It appears to have sunk at its moorings in Princess Royal Harbour sometime during World ...

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  • Beatrice

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1893/01/03 Protected Federal N N Island near Rosemary Island, Dampier Archipelago N 4.00 Unknown Unregistered Driven ashore Wrecked and sunk Fishing boat Wah Ching 4/79 327 Fishing for bêche-de-mer Extract from Police report dated 18/1/1893: I have to report for your information that a Chinaman named Ah Chik ...

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  • Lady Denison

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1887/12/09 Protected State N N Cossack, Butcher Inlet N 129.00 NSW Sydney 1859 Hobart 41091 28.40 5.60 3.00 Broke up in Cossack Creek Sank at moorings Lagrange Bay Cossack Plush The Lady Denison is recorded to have first arrived in Fremantle on 18 November 1861 (Gregg et al 2012) In October 1887 when it ...

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  • Ballarat

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    and having five of the crew, including the captain and chief officer, injured. THE LOSS During a lull ...

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  • Nautilus

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1897/08 Protected Federal N Gun Island Australia Fremantle 1896 7.30 2.70 0.90 THE VESSEL The Nautilus is described as a yacht belonging to the firm of Broadhurst, MacNeil and Company. William Alexander Chamberlain of Fremantle built it and a photograph indicates a sloop-rigged vessel having ...

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