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  • Star Queen

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1878/07/29 Protected Federal N N Sisters Reef N 264.00 UK Knightsbridge 1866 Melbourne 51306 35.80 7.70 4.40 Refloated Melbourne Fremantle Captain Henry Shelton Grant and Co., of Salcombe Western Australian Times, 2 August 1878 Western Australian Times, 25 October 1878 ...

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  • Occator

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    feet long, by 6 inches wide by 3 inches deep with a ‘bronze fastening at the ‘drop off’ north of Yardie ...

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  • Geffrard

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    that the barometer on board indicated the approach of bad weather when it read 29.60 inches or less. ...

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  • Carleton

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1878/03/11 Protected Federal N N Browse Island N 742.00 USA Beaver River 1870 Yarmouth 61797 49.10 10.80 6.10 In cyclone Wrecked and sunk Melbourne Hamburg (via Browse Island to load guano) Guano Captain Allen G. Doane and Co. G. Jenkins and Crosby 3/79, 90/73, 380/77 1242 Fully copper fastened, iron-kneed, ...

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  • Cochituate

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Wellard sent to recover as much as possible from the wreck, it lay 4½ miles west by south from Rat Island. ...

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  • Cricketer

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    steered, there was a danger of foundering. They saw a gap in the reefs two miles west of Irwin Inlet, and ...

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