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  • Eclipse

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1900/12/14 Protected Federal N N Middle Island N 78.00 VIC Footscray 1864 Port Adelaide 43142 5 Struck reef Refloated Adelaide Esperance General cargo Captain Wheadon William Jacob Arnold and Griffith McKay 69/72 Co-ordinates 1' off SRO 430 ITEM-1900 ...

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  • Harlequin

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    George Sound. INITIAL SALVAGE A newspaper advised of the sale of the wreck of the Harlequin: By a letter we have received from our correspondent at Albany, we hear that the wreck (or rather the remnants) of ...

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  • Franklin

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    abandoned as a total wreck.” (Albany Advertiser, 26 April 1902: 3a). The Euro left to return to Adelaide on ...

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  • Lady Franklin

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1875/12/21 Protected Federal N N Arthur Head N 235.00 Unknown Drifted ashore Refloated Adelaide Fremantle General Register of Arrivals at Fremantle George Forsyth to Col. Sec., 29 December 1875, C.S.R. 813, fol. 254 NO Metro 1319 lady-franklin ...

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  • Lady Lyttleton

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    parties return from the wreck at Oyster Harbour. They found 2 dishes, 1 canteen, 2 coils of rope, some ...

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  • Marten

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Its position within the line of breakers would have made this very difficult. The wreck was still ...

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  • Monarch

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1897/03/16 Protected Federal N N Halfway across Great Australian Bight N 191.20 SA Goolwa 1879 South Australia 79313 37.50 7.90 2.40 Sprung leak Foundered Adelaide Fremantle Captain T.W. Smith of Fremantle G. and P. G. Johnston of Port Pirie and Goolwa, S ...

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