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  • South Australian

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1907/01/14 Protected Federal N N Around 90 Mile Beach N 12.00 Struck reef in bad weather and washed off, sunk in 8 fathoms Wrecked and sunk Diver in charge Newman Goldstein & Co., Broome 1048 (or refloated?) This ship has been running regularly from the Eastern States from 1884 Adelaide ...

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  • Beatrice

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1899/03/15 Protected Federal N N Off Eighty Mile Beach N 12.00 WA Fremantle 1889 Fremantle 95675 13 of 1890 37.00 10.10 5.30 Wrecked on voyage Wrecked and sunk Roeback Bay Wallal G. H. Roe, J.N. Augood, W.H. James 440/71 A 329 Co-ordinates 10' off Register of British Ships, Fremantle McKenna ...

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  • Osprey

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1887/04/22 Protected Federal N N Six miles west of pearling grounds N 23.00 NSW Balmain 1882 Sydney 83723 11/1882 15.70 4.30 1.90 Y Cyclone Wrecked and sunk Off North West Coast Pearl. shell Captain John Alexander Graves Thomas Littlejohn (or Scott, Henderson & Co?) Ephraim Ward 4/79 327 West ...

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  • Palao Maru

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Japanese pearling fleet's mothership, Palao Maru, has sunk ten miles off the coast with a full cargo, ...

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  • Delaware

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1928/05/05 Protected Federal N N Inside Banningarra -20.0333333333 119.6833333333 N 12.00 1904 (?) Fremantle 120027 (?) Washed on banks and smashed beyond repair Wrecked and sunk 3/79 1048, 1207, 325 British Register of Shipping, Fremantle NO North-West 1 ...

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  • Cossack

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1908/04/26 Protected Federal N N Cape Frezier (Cape Bossut) N 30.00 None 7 Total wreck during cyclone Wrecked and sunk Diver in charge O.E. Baker 3/79 1207, 1048 Co-ordinates 5' box West Australian 1908/04/29, p. 7f-g West Australian 1908/04/30, p. 5 ...

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  • Isabella

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1908/04/26 Protected Federal N N Cape Frezier N 70.00 WA 1904 (?) Fremantle 119046 (?) 9/1905 5 8 Cyclone Wrecked and sunk Hugh T. Biddles 3/79 1207, 1048 Co-ordinates 5' box West Australian 1908/04/29, p. 7f-g West Australian 1908/04/30, p. 5e-f Nor ...

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  • Boyd

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1919/05/02 Protected Federal N N 12 N/W of Wallal N 14.93 12.43 WA Fremantle 1911 Fremantle 131613 27/1911 15.30 4.90 2.10 9 Capsized Refloated Pearl Shell Captain Kaneko Robison and Norman Ltd., Broome A.E. Brown 3/79 NO North-West 393 boyd ...

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  • Whynot

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1920/03/27 Protected Federal N N Cape Frezier, Broome N 12.00 14.50 WA Broome 1903 Fremantle 118538 11.10 3.50 1.60 8 Mainsail gibbed to blow out Foundered Pearlshell J. Saunders E.W. Lepoigneur, Broome H. Yamashita 3/79 1048 Co-ordinates 5' box HMC ...

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  • Ettica

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1931/04/29 Protected Federal N N Broome area, Willy-Willy near Banningarra -20.0333333333 119.6833333333 N 12.86 15.36 WA East Fremantle 1910 Fremantle 125035 11.60 3.50 1.60 2 Lost in Willy-Willy Wrecked and sunk Ancell Clement Gregory Chas. Walker 3/79 ...

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