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  • Glenbank

    Wreck | Updated 21 Nov 2022

    1911/02/07 Protected Federal Y Y 20/08/2021 Lost at sea 20 miles off Cossack, 8 or 9 miles off Legendre Reef -20.321033 117.033501 GPS N 1481.00 1359.00 Scotland Glasgow 1893 Nystad, Finland 102561 73.20 11.30 6.40 23 24 Cargo shifted. Thought to have struck Delambre Reef or rocks adjacent to Legendre ...

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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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  • Naturaliste’s Chaloupe

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Alongside the Géographe is a longboat with two masts, each having furled lateen or settee sails. This boat ...

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  • Duchess of Kent

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1895/08/28 Protected Federal N N Police Dept Jurian Bay [Near Cervantes Island, south of Geraldton] N 60.08 TAS Franklin, Tasmania 1875 Fremantle 57559 1 of 1894 21.40 6.10 2.10 During voyage Wrecked and sunk Geraldton Fremantle Captain Ehlert William Reid, Bunbury 118/80 A 753 Duchess of Kent was ...

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  • Favourite

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1858/01/15 Protected Federal N N Abrolhos Islands, Wallabi Group N 46.00 WA Bunbury 1856 Fremantle 40468 1/1856 20.30 5.80 2.30 7 Wrecked on a reef Refloated Bunbury Guano Captain Goss John Bateman 56/72 A 751 Official number: 40453 (Dickson, 1996) or 40468 (McKenna, 1959; T Year built: 1855 (Dickson, 1996) ...

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  • Premier

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1873/07/01 Protected Federal N N Port Irwin (Port Denison) N 51.00 WA Perth 1869 Fremantle 61092 26.20 5.50 2.40 Drag anchors Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Port Irwin Telegraph poles 115/80 A 752 Length: 75 ft (22.9 m) at launch, 86 ft (26.2 m) after 1873 refit Breadth: 15 ft (4.6 m) at launch, 18.17 ft ...

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  • Trial

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Royal Australian Historical Society Journal And Proceedings 20:5 (1934), pp. 273-80 ...

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  • Alert

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1875/07/22 Protected State N N Murray River Bar N 19.04 WA Fremantle 1867 Fremantle 52239 4 of 1867 14.40 4.00 1.65 Struck River Bar Wrecked and sunk Murray River Fremantle Sandelwood John Kelly J. & H.C. Carter & Co J.C. Mews 206/80 Alert was built in Fremantle by a member of the well-known ...

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  • Victory

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Australian Maritime Museum, No. 80. Dickson, R., 2012, Maritime Matters of the South Coast of Western ...

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