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  • Sara

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1856/07/17 Protected Federal N N Half-way between the Gold Digger Passage and the Hero Passage N 54.00 WA Preston Point, swan River 1855 Fremantle 31549 16.90 5.60 2.70 Foundered Fremantle Port Gregory Oil and copper ore Henry Christians William Owston 11 ...

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  • Sea Bird

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    damaged. The wreck was auctioned at Gingin on 3 August 1874. There is also a record of the wreck having ...

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  • Argo

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    salvage to W.A. Chamberlain Wrecked also in 1872, but was refloated. Inquirer, 28 August 1889, p. 3b ...

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  • Windsor

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    back to the wreck by rope. The jolly boat was used to take a few of the survivors to Pelsaert Island ...

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  • Success (relics)

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1843/04/11 Protected Federal N N Success Bank N 621.00 Burma Moulmein 1840 London 35.70 7.90 6.70 37 Drifted into the Fish Bank April 11 Refloated Fremantle 407/71 Was later exhibited in USA as convict ship NO Metro 536 success-relics ...

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  • Shark

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    trouble: Towed barge cut adrift’ http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/id-537 NO Metro 537 ...

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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 ...

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  • Swan

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1869/10/30 Protected Federal N N Irwin River N 24.00 WA Fremantle 1865 Fremantle 36554 17.00 4.30 1.70 Struck reef, later completely broken up Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Irwin River General C. petersson William Dalgety Moore 115/80 A 752 Albany Shipping List, 3 December 1867, C.S.R. 606, fol. 92 ...

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  • Pelsart (Pelsaert)

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1908/10/15 Protected Federal N N 12 miles Northwest of Imperieuse Reef, Rowley Shoals N 64.00 WA Perth 1899 Fremantle 102230 15 of 1900 21.10 8.20 1.40 3 Abandoned in sinking condition Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Balla Balla General. jarrah sleepers G.R. Cumming Whim Creek Copper Mining Company W. & S. ...

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  • Stanford

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    crew to sail and row the lifeboat to the Koolinda, by then some five miles from the wreck. The ...

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