Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

Search Wrecks

  • Lighter

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    (see entry). The wreck of a third iron lighter is shown on two sketch maps, one by Howard Hartman and the other by Les Douglas, published in Marshall, 2001. The wreck is shown just to the east of the base of the P&O coaling jetty. SITE LOCATION The wreck of this lighter lies 10-15 m off the shore at ...

    More information

  • SC 51

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    on return they found the wreck had been pushed a quarter of a mile north by the seas. Though work ...

    More information

  • Kalbarri Unidentified

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Unknown N N Kalbarri, north of rivermouth 4.50 Reported by Jason Palmer 17/9/20112, wreck report ID No. 150. N Mid-West 1664 kalbarri-unidentified ...

    More information

  • Nautilus

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1868 Protected Federal N N Driven into mangroves at Nickol Bay N Penguin Creek Fremantle 1048 The wreck of the Nautilus was the scene of the campsite where PC William Griffis, pearling worker George Breen, pearling master Henry Jermyn and Aboriginal police assistant Peter, were speared in retaliation ...

    More information

  • Unidentified wreck

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    unidentified-wreck-1-2-3-4 ...

    More information

  • RAAF Beaufighter A19-163

    Wreck | Updated 9 Mar 2018

    18/09/1944 Unknown Y N Cable Beach Broome GPS Twin engines UK A19-163 2 2 Crashed into sea Bristol Aircraft Industries Crashed just after takeoff from Broome airfield at 0435 hours. Flt Sgt Ronald S. Kerrigan, pilot, 20 years old, North Perth and Sgt Rona ...

    More information

  • Mary

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1882/03/07 N N Lewis Island, Dampier Archipelago Blown ashore in cyclone Possible refloat Mr McVean ‘Mr McVean’s boat, the Mary, was “piled up” at Lewis Island, and his buildings blown down’ (West Australian Tuesday 4 April 1882 p.3) http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks ...

    More information

  • Lugger No. 3

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    01/03/1889 Enderby Island, Dampier Archipelago McRae and Pearse ‘When Lost’ date needs checking for day/ month ' ‘Messrs. Mc Rae and Pearse's lugger "No. 3 " is a total wreck on Enderby Island, and the schooner Annie Taylor is stranded in Black Cock [sic] Bay, with a prospect of ...

    More information

  • Graveyard (Site 15) Commiles

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Y Graveyard -32.066322 115.394849 Metro 1668 graveyard-site-15-commiles ...

    More information

  • Eva

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    as Walter and Mary Worsley and Worsley. Wrecks of the South Coast (in prep) http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/id-272 South-Coast 1669 eva-1-2-3-4 ...

    More information

Filter by owner:

Filter by master:

Filter by builder:

Filter by sinking:

Filter by port to:

Filter by port from: