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  • Victory

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    wrecked by bad weather at West Cape Howe. The crew managed to lower a boat in which they made it safely to the shore near Torbay. They arrived at Albany three days later having saved only the clothes they were ...

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  • Knowsley ex-Anna Maria Schwalbe

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1923/10/03 Protected Federal N N Rottnest Island Graveyard N 644.00 603.00 UK Pallion 1864 Fremantle 51032 50.80 8.80 7.60 scuttled Wrecked and sunk Albany Fremantle McIlwraith, McEacharn T.R. Oswald 445/71, 193/79 Knowsley is the last name it carried. other names were Euterpe (German owenership), then ...

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  • Bunyip

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    impossible to recover. SITE LOCATION The wreck of the Cartabunup/Bunyip was reported as being 180 m west of ...

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  • Swift

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    evidence was given that the Swift ‘was unmanageable unless under full sail’ (West Australian, 23 September ...

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  • Croydon

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    arrived at Hopetoun from Albany at 7.00 a.m. on 16 March 1905 (West Australian, 17 March 1905: 4a). Also ...

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  • St. Lawrence

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Sydney Morning Herald, 11 April 1889: 8g. The West Australian, 27 March 1889: 2i & 18 May 1889: 2b. ...

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  • The Bruce

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    steamer Silver Star. The engine appears to have been left on the beach, but the propeller was salvaged and ...

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  • Gio Batta Repetto

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Bateman (new owners) 195.72 Was renamed the Thistle (o/n 102225) Co-ordinates 1' off West Australian, 11 March 1899, p. 5b; see also Inquirer, 17 March 1899, pp. 1c, 14f West Australian, 13 March 1899, p. 5e West Australian, 22 March 1899, p. 5d Inquirer, 24 March 1899, p. 8g,h etc. NO South-Coast 1174 ...

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  • Waratah

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    have been registered. It departed Albany on 25 March but Captain Downie found that there was ...

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  • Lucy (Lucky)

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1897/04/11 Protected Federal N N Off Cape Vancouver N 10.00 Unknown Filled with water Foundered Albany Two Peoples Bay J. Simmonds J. Schumann 195/72 Co-ordinates 1' EW & 2'S West Australian, 14 April 1897, p. 5g. West Australian, 11 March 1899, p. 5f, and 16 May 1899, p. 5e; see also ...

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