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  • Diver

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1890/03/13 Protected Federal N N Wedge Island N 25.00 1 2 Driven ashore Refloated Fremantle Shark Bay William Ashworth J. and W. Bateman 118/80 A753 Co-ordinates 1' off West Australian, 20 March 1890, p. 3b Inquirer, 2 April 1890, p. 9a West Australi ...

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  • Gem

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Collection 680, WA Maritime Museum http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/id-286 NO ...

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  • Nor VI, Nor 6

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    26/04/1963 Protected Federal N N False Passage, Steep Point N 27.40 Australia 16.20 4.30 2.00 3 4 Ran into cliffs Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Shark Bay J. Drynan 1963 April 26: Steel prawn trawler ran onto Zuytdorp Cliffs just this side of False Passage just south of South Passage on maiden voyage from ...

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  • Hampton

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1877/05/12 Protected Federal N N Port Grey N 19.00 Unknown 4 Gale Refloated Fremantle Shark Bay Captain Outred 115/80 1056 Captain and crew left ship, because of damage to rudder. Vessel stranded undamaged SRO 36 ITEM 904/71-76 Inquiry into loss Geraldton ...

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  • Jessie Edwards

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    September it was assumed that it had been lost with all hands. Five months after it left Fremantle a wreck full of sand was discovered on the beach at the south end of Jurien Bay. This wreck was identified as ...

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  • Macquarie

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1878/11 Protected Federal N N Levillian Shoal NE of Dirk Hartog Island, Shark Bay N 125.00 TAS Port Macquarie 1846 Fremantle 31967 No. 3 of 1872 24.70 7.00 3.10 Dragged anchors and blown onto reef Wrecked and sunk Colombo Shark Bay Guano Captain Spence A 331 Co-ordinates 1' box Inquirer, 18 ...

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  • Mary Francis

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1883/04 Protected Federal N N Between Geralton and Shark Bay N 8.00 WA Fremantle 1883? Disappeared Unknown Fremantle Shark Bay Captain R.G. Jolms Quobba Pt. 200m depth West Australian 27 May 1883, p. 2g and 14 April 1883, p. 2a Herald, 7 and 14 April 1883 ...

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  • Britannia

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    deal, and which he then used for fishing. The Brittania was heading to Shark Bay when wrecked. THE LOSS ...

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