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Mercury
Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011
The Mercury left Calcutta on 3 October 1833 and was never seen again. A number of rumours from Aboriginal groups could point to the fact that the Mercury was wrecked near Shark Bay. The rumours surfaced in 1834 from Aboriginals to the north of Perth, and t ...
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Minnie
Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011
The Minnie, another pearling ship, was wrecked in November 1872 on Fortescue Island. There were three men on board and they reached the island but without many supplies. They were George Forthcut, Liberty Joe and an Aboriginal who was not named. They remai ...
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Mountaineer
Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011
The Mountaineer was a cutter that had been involved with the sealing trade along the south coast of Australia. The ship was wrecked at Thistle Cove near Esperance on 24 March 1835 and the three crew and six passengers survived and got to shore in the whale ...
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Napier Broome Bay Cannon
Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011
From the late 18th century Macassans were visiting northern Australia. Each year a fleet of perahus arrived on the north-western and Northern Territory coasts to collect trepang. A number of these vessels were known to be wrecked but to date there has been ...
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Nautilus
Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011
The Nautilus was a pearling ship that seems to have disappeared and then appeared at intervals during the 1860’s and 1870’s. It was known to have been blown ashore at Nickol Bay by the cyclone of 4 January 1868 and was refloated for the following season, b ...
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Occator
Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011
The Occator was wrecked near Carbaddaman Passage, North West Cape on 5 February 1856. It had been chartered by J. F. Jones to go to Muiron Island to check the possibility of guano mining. In rough seas the lifeboat was smashed but the Captain and crew mana ...
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Ocean Queen
Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011
The Ocean Queen was wrecked on the southern group of the Abrolhos Islands 13 September 1842. The ship was carrying a chest of specie which was saved by Captain Harrison and his crew. They landed on Pelsaert Island initially and remained at this location fo ...
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Perseverant
Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011
The French whaler Perseverant was driven ashore during a gale on 16 March 1841. The crew were stranded on Dirk Hartog island for ten weeks and five men died of scurvy during that time. The remaining crew were becoming desperate and set off in four small bo ...
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Stefano
Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011
The Stefano was wrecked on 27 October 1875, just west of Point Cloates. In the heavy sea, the crew had great difficulty with launching the boats which were either swamped or broken and the ship was rapidly destroyed. A number of crew were drowned and event ...
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Sunbeam
Stranger on the Shore | Updated 22 Feb 2011
The Sunbeam was a steam yacht that had arrived in the North-West to take up a pearling venture in 1892. On 27 March 1892, while in Admiralty Gulf, the yacht developed a leak which was not able to be repaired. The Captain endeavoured to run ashore but the s ...
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