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Ellen
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1890/01/03 Protected Federal N N Off Rockingham, South Passage N Unknown 3 Shifted Ballast? Foundered Mandurah Fremantle Boat possibly capsized and the 3 men on board drowned West Australian, 6 and 7 January 1890 Inquirer, 8 January 1890, p. 4d http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/id-155 ...
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Erin's Isle
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1901/01/17 Protected Federal N N Bunbury N Bow to Bow collision with SS Coolgardie (Casualty) Refloated 405/71 Erin Castle figure-head sunk into the water Co-ordinates 20' off Geraldton Gazette 1901/01/18 NO South-West-Coast 185 erins-isle ...
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Eucla
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1884/14/06 Protected State N N Swan River N 40.00 Unknown Foundered Foundered Stone Randall, Knight & Company 376/77 Wreck destroyed by explosives in 1888 Inquirer, 18 June 1884, p. 5a Inquirer, 7 March 1888, p. 3e West Australian, 6 August 1888, p. 3c NO Metro 201 eucla ...
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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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Posidonia
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1914/01/29 Protected Federal N N 25 miles south west of Rottnest also thought foundered off Cape Leeuwin Steamer Netherlands Rotterdam, Kinderdijk 1913 22 14 Disappeared Wrecked and sunk N.C. Vollermens Messr. J.K. Smit of Kinderdijk 1058f Harbour & Light File 1066/AN 16/1155 (BATT) CSO File No 545/2 ...
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Seagull
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1896/02/18 Protected Federal N N Fremantle Harbour N WA Fremantle 4.90 Capsized and sank Foundered Garden Island Fremantle Mews Family (?) Mews Family (?) Small boat of maybe 5.4 metre length West Australian, 19 February 1896, p. 4h Inquirer, 21 February 1896, p. 10a NO Metro 479 seagull ...
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Two Sons
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1851/12 Protected Federal N N Bunbury N 16.00 WA Bunbury 12.40 3.90 1.70 Refloated Bunbury Fremantle John Wenn Benjamin Jackson 405/71 Co-ordinates 20' off Staranded in 1873 at Fremantle Perth Gazette, 12 December 1851 and 14 October 1853 Register of British Ships, Fremantle NO South-West-Coast 620 ...
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Seagull
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1907/02/01 Protected Federal N N N 13.00 119015 6 Collision with Fly Refloated F. Dennis Acc. No 126/36 R.M. Busselton. Photo of this fishing boat-which was attacked by a shark between Fremantle and mandurah in: Ms Shipping Album Q, 13 [same ship] Colonial Vessels + Coasters NO South-West-Coast 701 ...
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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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Alice Maud
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1898/01/27 Protected Federal N N Fremantle N Unknown Crashed by August Tellefsen Wrecked and sunk C. Clark Inquirer, 29 October 1897, p. 8a Mike Gee, Rockingham, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Shire of Rockingham, Perth, 1978 West Australian, 29 January 1898, p. 4h; see also Inquirer, 18 February ...
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