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  • Dairy Maid

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1887/04/22 Protected Federal N N 6 Miles North of Roebuck Bay N 31.00 NSW New South Wales 38851 18.30 4.30 1.70 >4 Gale Wrecked and sunk Cossack Pearl, shell Captain French James Merriman 116/80, 3/79 Co-ordinates 5' box NO North-West 80 dairy-maid ...

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  • John S. Lane

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1887/04/22 Protected Federal N N Eighty Mile Beach N 82.24 80.05 NSW Clarencetown, Williams River ...

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  • Hampton

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Mid-West 1227 hampton ...

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  • Mary/ Lugger 3F

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    lugger also owned by McRae and Pearse was said to have been lost and this vessel was likely the cutter Mary, believed to have foundered in the north-west during March 1889 16. It is possible that bothreports ...

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  • Laughing Wave

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    storm caused considerable anxiety to shipmasters in the present unprotected state of the harbour’ (West ...

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  • Iolanthe

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Gale Wrecked and sunk 3/79 1207 West Australian, 17 January 1894, p 2b West Australian, 9 February 1894, p 6d West Australian, 9 February 1894, p 6d; see also S. Sledge, North Coast (WINC) Expedition, unpublished Wreck Inspection Report, Dept of Maritime Archaeolog NO North-West 1273 iolanthe ...

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  • Bell

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1893/02/25 Protected Federal N N Exmouth N Not registered Gale Wrecked and sunk 152/72 A 744 Report of Captain Biddles (transcript of telephone message), 2 March 1893; also Telegram, Inspector of Pearlshell Fisheries to Acting Premier, 4 March 1893, CSO 398/1893 NO North-West 425 bell ...

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  • Carlisle Castle

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    8b; see also West Australian, 23 May 1899, p. 4a Sledge, S., 1984, Carlisle Castle, Unpublished Wreck ...

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