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Sleeping Beauty
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1943 Protected Federal N N Careening Bay, Cockburn Sound Batteries, 1.5HP electric starter motor UK 3.80 0.80 1 1 Lost during Operation Rimau training exercise, diver passed out at controls using rebreather set Foundered Department of Defence Operator believed to have suffered oxygen poisoning 20.00 NO ...
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Dawn
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1902/03/20 Protected Federal N N Irwin N 63.00 Australia Fremantle, WA 1870 Fremantle 61094 2/1870 28.60 6.80 3.50 3 Refloated Broome Fremantle William Dundee Captain Robert Barter 72/1, 164/1, 97/2, 115.80 A 752 Co-ordinates 1' off in river The Daily News 1902/04/28 Photo: Battye Library, 2526B NO ...
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Emma
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1885/02/16 Protected Federal N N Cygnet Bay N 8.98 WA Fremantle 1874 Fremantle 61116 8/1874 10.80 3.10 1.50 Driven ashore by cyclone Wrecked and sunk Lying in King Sound Geoff Duff 3/79, 119/80 West Australian, 21 April 1885, p.3g http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/id-178 NO North-West ...
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Sirius
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1910/11/19 Protected Federal N N Broome, entrance to Roebuck Bay N 7.47 Australia Berry’s Bay 1886 89397 No 20 of 1886 at Sydney 11.20 1.80 5.80 1 6 Diver in Charge Robinson and Norman Ltd. William Langford 3/79 1207, 1048 Register of British Ships, Sydney NO North-West 304 sirius ...
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Ariel
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1868/01/04 Protected Federal N N Locker Point, 50k west of Ashburton N 26.00 TAS Hobart 1845 14.30 3.80 1.60 3 4 Foundered Fremantle Fishing ground Pearl Joseph Barrett 208/80 Perth Gazette, 3 April 1868 Inquirer, 1 April 1868 NO North-West 337 ariel ...
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Thisbe
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1904/12/23 Protected Federal N N Southern end of the Murray Reef N 2 3 Lost her headway on the heavy swell Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Mandurah equipment 9/80/1, 206/80 Supplement of the "Port of Fremantle" Quarterly Photo of small yacht Thisbe in: The Western Mail 1903/01/17, p. 27 NO Metro 339 thisbe ...
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Constance
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1912/03/19 Protected Federal N N Port Smith, near Cape LaTouche Treville N 10.00 WA Fremantle 1889/10 Fremantle 95677 1 of 1891 10.80 4.10 1.80 7 Vessel stranded on a sandbank during a cyclone Wrecked and sunk E.H. Hunter E.H. Hunter 3/79 1048, 1207 128/2, 40/2 McKenna Collection 680, WA Maritime ...
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Bonza
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1965 Protected Federal N N Cygnet Bay N 17.33 WA Fremantle 1910 Fremantle 125021 No 18 of 1910, No 7 in 1940; B87, B45, B263, B123, B123, B87, B9 16.60 2.20 4.80 Cygnet Bay Pearls A.E. Brown 3/79, 119/80 1206 Rod Dickson, They Kept This State Afloat NO North-West 840 bonza ...
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Arab
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1921/10/12 Protected Federal N N Geraldton N 76.00 QLD Brisbane Water, NSW 1898 Fremantle 106161 37/1917 26.80 6.70 2.10 4 Heavy weather, stranded Foundered General R. Rasmussen A.W. Whaling Co. Perth Rock Davis 117/80 1056 Said to be 12/12/21 Harbour & Light File AN 16/5/ ACC 1066/ 167/1921 BATT ...
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Winetta
Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018
1955/05/28 Protected Federal N N Wallabi Island Group N 9.80 3.40 1.80 Struck pile Wrecked and sunk G. Raffa Giacoma Raffa and Natoli Raffacle A 751 Left Rat Island 10 am form Wallabi sunk 12 SRO CONS 6654 ITEM 1955/729 Wrecks off WA Coast Harbour and Lights Department Geraldton 7/6/1955 NO ...
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