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  • May

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1872/03/10 Protected Federal N N Geraldton N 25.00 Unknown Refloated Geraldton 117/80 Minutes of Investigation into cause of Stranding of the Cutter May on 9 (sic) March 1872, C.S.R. 727, fol.52 NO Mid-West 1463 may-1 ...

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  • Neptune

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1901/06/13 Protected Federal PA N wrecked 16 miles on SW coast from Geraldton N 22.00 WA Perth 1870 Fremantle 61096 4 of 1870 14.00 4.30 1.60 1 3 Foundered Abrolhos Geraldton Charles James (Farso) (C. Jones) F.C. Broadhurst & McNeill & Co 117/80, 56/72 333, 1056 Date lost: 13 June 1901 ...

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  • Alexandra

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1872/06/16 Protected Federal N N Geraldton N 234.00 287.00 USA Maine 1862 Fremantle 48420 35.50 8.10 5.10 Refloated Port Darwin Geraldton Sandelwood Captain Thisleton 117/80 Inquirer, 3 July and 17 July 1872, 2 April 1873 Herald, 29 January 1876 NO Mid-West 924 alexandra ...

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  • Albatross

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    back towards Port Irwin. About a mile off shore and almost opposite the mouth of the Irwin River, the ...

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  • Stanford

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    the time. The Stanford was valued at £80?000 and the cargo at £20?000 at the time it was wrecked. THE ...

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  • Sea Bird

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1874/06/16 Protected Federal N N Moore River N 40.00 WA Vasse 1865 Fremantle 36555 18.10 5.10 1.90 Struch reef during gale Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Geraldton General Charles Hanman Charles Crowther of Geraldton 207/80 DMH 280 Sea Bird, described as a ‘little tub of a vessel’ by Jefferson Pickman Stow, was ...

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  • Mayhill

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1895/08/10 Protected Federal Y Y 1980/10 Point Moore -28.765 114.57 N 2121.00 2027.00 Scotland Dundee 1890 Liverpool 97768 89.00 12.50 7.70 Went aground on reef Wrecked and sunk Middlesborough, England Geraldton 2947 ton Railway iron Captain Hume W.H. Myer of Liverpool 2009/0165/SG _MA-216/80 AUS 81 ...

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