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  • Dongara UNID

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    unknown Unknown Y Y 2009/07/29 Dongara -29.5878833333 114.9762 GPS 4.50 1.80 Site is not a shipwreck but is structure with some sort of marine application (cu nail, screw, iron bolts). Not a crayfish tank or pontoon. May be related to Freshwater camp 400m South. NO Mid-West 10 dongara-unid ...

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  • Charles

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1897/10/03 Protected Federal N N Baldwin Creek 122.3833333333 N 11.46 11.80 NSW Berry’s Bay 1883 Fremantle 83766 4 of 1887 11.10 3.40 1.50 Wrecked and sunk 1 Henry Rugford and C.F. Presswell Unknown GeoScience Australia position of Baldwin Creek McKenna Collection 680, WA Maritime Museum NO North-West 32 ...

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  • Welcome

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1908/12/08 Protected Federal N N Off Broome N 12.62 16.52 WA Fremantle 1903 Fremantle 117789 6/1903 11.70 3.60 0.80 6 6 During cyclone Wrecked and sunk Thomas Clarke Thomas Clarke A.E. Brown 3/79 1207, 1048 HMC 115/3 McKenna Collection 682, WA Maritime Museum NO North-West 47 welcome ...

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  • Dutch Gunboat

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Edwards Mr Drysdale, Coepang (Timor) 119/80 Journal of Trevarton Sholl, 17 February 1865, QB/SHO, Battye Library Perth Gazette & WA Times 05/05/1865 NO North-West 120 dutch-gunboat ...

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  • Biddie

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1919/05/31 Protected Federal N N Somersets Landing 90 Mile Beach N 14.00 131680 3 Total loss after vessel bumped and finally opened up during incoming tide Foundered J. Ackland H. E. Ferguson 3/79, 116/80 1048, 325 NO North-West 294 biddie ...

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  • Pearl

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1890/11 Protected Federal N N Cygnet Bay N 8.00 QLD Thursday Island 1883 Sydney 93615 50/1889 9.90 3.10 1.40 Total wreck Wrecked and sunk Frederick Gibbins ofSydney John Bell at Thursday Island in Torres Strait 119/80 Register of British Ships,, Sydney NO North-West 320 pearl-1 ...

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  • Wyndham

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    & Arthur Male, Broome Mr Murray & Mr Howson 209/80 A 745 Co-ordinates 10' off McKenna Collection 684, WA Maritime Museum NO Mid-West 334 wyndham ...

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  • Alpha

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1881/01/07 Protected State N N Yammadery Creek N 12.00 WA Fremantle 1877 Fremantle 75300 4.1878 12.80 3.60 1.20 Driven ashore during cyclone Wrecked above water Pearl, shell Thomas Croker T.W. Mews 3/79 329, 744, 1055 NO North-West 340 alpha-1 ...

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  • Moana

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1920/08/17 Protected Federal N N Mary Ann Passage, Dampier Archipelago N 12.44 14.94 WA Fremantle 1903 Fremantle 118529 11.30 3.80 1.40 7 7 Struck by S.S. Bambra Foundered Pearl shell P.J. Smith E. Howson 1055, 328, 327, 743 HMC 169/3 McKenna Collection 682, WA Maritime Museum NO North-West 350 moana ...

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  • Secret

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1904/04/05 Protected Federal N N Faure Island N 18.81 18.81 VIC Wiliamstown 1865 Fremantle 53969 16.30 4.00 1.60 4 Foundered W. Anderson Amstrong & George Waters, Albany Unknown 210/80 331, 1056 Co-ordinates 5' off HMC 31/4 McKenna Collection 683, WA Maritime Museum NO Mid-West 401 secret ...

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