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  • Arbla ( or Tar )

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    also West Australian, 17 and 31 August 1896 NO Metro 357 arbla-or-tar ...

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  • Hawk

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Perth 116/80 A 745 Refloated 1896/01/17 at Cossack. Out of 17 luggers of the Onslow pearling fleet only five escaped with minor damages. HMC 88/2 McKenna Collection 680, WA Maritime Museum West Australian 1907/03/20, p. 7e West Australian 1907/03/21, p.5f–g Medical D… File 356/1906 NO North-West 1238 hawk-1 ...

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  • Adela

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1881/01/07 Protected Federal N N Yammadery Creek, Mangrove Islands off Yardie N 10.00 Capsized Wrecked and sunk Shell 3.79 35°01.8 – 118°08 NO North-West 1472 adela ...

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  • Boyd

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1919/05/02 Protected Federal N N 12 N/W of Wallal N 14.93 12.43 WA Fremantle 1911 Fremantle 131613 27/1911 15.30 4.90 2.10 9 Capsized Refloated Pearl Shell Captain Kaneko Robison and Norman Ltd., Broome A.E. Brown 3/79 NO North-West 393 boyd ...

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  • Speculator

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1876/05/12 Protected Federal N N Between Legendre and Gidley Islands, Dampier Archipelago N 2.00 2 4 Capsized Foundered Shell 4/79 327 Henry McCaffray, evidence given to Frederick Pearse, Justice of the Peace, 17 May 1876, C.S.R. 844, fol. 101 Inquirer, 18 October 1854 and 9 May 1883 NO North-West 505 ...

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  • Fleetwing

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1896/11/22 Protected Federal N N Off Cape Legrande near Woody Island N 786.00 USA Medford, Mass. 1854 Melbourne 79515 50.00 10.10 6.70 Capsized Foundered Adelaide SS Co. 3/79 Ex 3-masted bargue. Register closed 1913 Inquirer, 27 November 1896, p. 9e West Australian, 25 November 1896, p. 5f NO ...

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  • Vixen

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1895/12 Protected State N N Swan River N Unknown 1 3 Capsized Wrecked and sunk Perth Freshwater Bay Alexander McDonald, boat hiring owner 376/77 Inquirer, 27 December 1895, p. 6g West Australian, 4 March 1895, p. 3a, b, c Inquirer, 3 January 1896, p. 1d, 8 May, p. 4b NO Metro 731 vixen ...

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