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  • Alex T. Brown

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    _MA-215/80 1033, 334 Alex T. Brown was a 788-ton, wooden 4-masted wooden schooner built by the Globe ...

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  • Perth

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1887/09/17 Protected Federal Y Y 2004/05 Point Cloates -22.6924666667 113.6422666667 GPS 2004 2 compound vented engines 499.00 298.50 Scotland Glasgow 1863 Adelaide 48408 5/1885 58.50 6.80 3.80 Hit Ningaloo Reef Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Wyndham Passengers, cargo Fred Parkes Adelaide Steamship Company ...

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  • Tanais

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    13/09/1965 Protected Federal N Off Leschenault Reef 50 miles N Fremantle 5 miles offshore Moore R 2848.00 Greece 20 Fremantle King Bay Moussouris SRO 1910 Item 1965/3053 Police Dept NO Mid-West 1124 tanais ...

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  • Raven

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1891/05/11 Protected Federal Y Y 1996/10 Dyers Island -32.021 115.5513333333 GPS N 343.00 UK Sunderland 1864 Port Adelaide 47684 36.90 8.40 5.20 Hit reef Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Bunbury Ballast Captain Swan W.R. Cave and Company of Adelaide 2009/0185/SG _MA-18/80 PWD 54153 Captain drunk left ...

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  • Windsor

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    some 15 miles to the west of the Houtman Abrolhos, but at 9.50 p.m. on 2 February 1908, with Walters on ...

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  • Sara

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1856/07/17 Protected Federal N N Half-way between the Gold Digger Passage and the Hero Passage N 54.00 WA Preston Point, swan River 1855 Fremantle 31549 16.90 5.60 2.70 Foundered Fremantle Port Gregory Oil and copper ore Henry Christians William Owston 117/80 William Owston built the Sara at Point ...

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  • Guaga

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    29/11/1967 Protected Federal N Entering around Cervantes I 2 miles E heading for anchorage through S Passage 1 2 Capsized by big wave Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Cervantes Dambitis Skipper died SRO 1910 Item 1967/3050 Police Dept NO Mid-West 1125 guaga ...

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  • Jessie Edwards

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1883/05/28 Protected Federal N N Jurien Bay N WA Fremantle 1883 Wrecked during storm Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Shark Bay Pearler Richard Gryffid Johns Charlie Edwards of Geraldton Fred Jones 118/80 A 753 Little is known of this vessel and it appears that it was not registered. The Jessie Edwards was ...

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  • Sultan

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1899/07/25 Protected Federal N N En route between Fremantle and Broome N Fremantle 1899 Unregistered 4 4 Unknown Unknown Fremantle Broome William Miles Frank Biddles A.E. Brown 3/79 1207 Inquirer, 14 July 1899, p. 16a West Australian, 26 July 1899, p. 4a Inquirer, 1 September 1899, p. 8c; see also West ...

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  • Mary Queen of Scots

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    her anchor to (No. 5)—getting off the bank and afloat (quoted in WAM File No. MA-117/80, vol 3). ...

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