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  • Maid of Lincoln

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1891/04/12 Protected Federal N N Reef 8 miles S Jurien Bay off Hill River Screw Steamer 12 HP 4726.00 32.00 SA Port Lincoln 1885 89419 22.40 4.70 2.00 Struck reef Wrecked and sunk Abrolhos Fremantle vai Dongarra Guano William Millar Symon, Hammond and Hubble 118/80 Steamer, schooner rigged Maid of ...

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  • Michael J. Goulandris

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    bulkheads below the main deck. The triple compound engine had cylinders of 27 inches, 44½ inches and 75 inches, with a stroke of 54 inches. There were three single-ended boilers operating at 180 lbs/square inch. A Direction Finder was fitted. This appears to be a sister-ship to the Castlemoor (see entry), ...

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  • Cingalee

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    the jibboom end on a four inch (100 mm) rope, and all anchor cables hauled in to hold the vessel in ...

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  • Cingalee

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    the jibboom end on a four inch (100 mm) rope, and all anchor cables hauled in to hold the vessel in ...

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  • Hokitika

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Hokitika. THE LOSS At noon on 2 November 1872 the Hokitika was estimated to be 10 or 12 miles off Cape ...

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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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  • Charity

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1887/04/22 Protected Federal N N 200-300 miles Northeast of Cossack N 9.75 NSW Sydney 1887 Sydney 93545 11.10 3.30 1.50 Y Cyclone Wrecked and sunk Port Darwin Eighty Mile Beach Captain John Turnbull 443/71 West Australian, 29 April 1887, pp. 2f, 3a, b CSO 3841/1887 NO North-West 30 charity ...

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  • Tudor

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1904/04/20 Protected Federal N N 18 miles south west of Cape Bossut N 12.00 None 6 Capsized through squall striking suddenly from N/W Wrecked and sunk The Oriental Pearling Co. at Broome See Dreadnought, Star of the west, Madge Western Australian 26/04/1904 NO North-West 392 tudor ...

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  • Bronlon

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1933/06/05 Protected Federal N N 7.5 miles NW of Cape Bossut Lighthouse N 14.25 125037 None 5 Sprung leak Foundered MOP Shell H. Hanoda T.H. Owen 3/79 1048 Need to check original source looks like same details as Bronton HMC 66/5 NO North-West 520 bronlon ...

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  • Laura

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1940/08/26 Protected Federal N N West of Cape Bossut, off 90 Mile Beach N 13.00 Fremantle 1903 118985 While being towed Foundered 3/79 1048, 1207 Sank in 36 m SRO CONS 6654 ITEM 1955/729 Wrecks off WA Coast Harbour and Lights Department Broome 27/8/1940 NO North-West 1473 laura-1-2 ...

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