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  • Bertha

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1874/07/20 Protected Federal N N Reef off Point Cloates N 31.00 Unknown Launceston 61036 4 On reef Wrecked and sunk Shark Bay Port Walcott Shell J. Moreah Fremantle chemist Daniel Congdon 209/80 A 745 5 tons in SRO 21/207 2/8/1874 cutter Fortescue arrived Port Walcott with master and passengers Sergeant ...

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  • Oleander

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1884/03/01 Protected Federal N N 48 Km off Wedge Island N 353.00 342.00 UK Sunderland 1861 London 43921 35.70 8.30 5.20 Leaked and sank Foundered Shark Bay Hamburg Guano Captain James Joass A. Rixen and Company 118/80 Aus 333 & BA 1033 Oleander was bu ...

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  • Perseverant's Boat 2

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1841/06/15 Protected Federal N N South of Java Head N Unknown 6 6 Unknown Shark Bay Java NO Mid-West 341 perseverants-boat-2 ...

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  • Perseverant's Boat 1

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1841/06/02 Protected Federal N N N Unknown 5 5 Foundered Shark Bay Java NO Mid-West 342 perseverants-boat-1 ...

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  • Star

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1876 Protected Federal N N Shark Bay to Geraldton N 5.00 WA 24.10 5.30 2.30 4 3 Went missing Unknown Shark Bay Geraldton Shell Charles Brennan The Star  with Charles Brennan in command supposedly left Shark Bay on 5 April 1876 for Geraldton, and disappear ...

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  • Cambria

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1837/03/11 Protected Federal N N Woodmans Reef N 362.00 USA New Bedford Refloated Shark Bay Fremantle Whale oil Captain Nathaniel Cary W.T. Russell 10/78 http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/id-1288 NO Metro 570 cambria ...

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  • Two Whaleboats Grey expedition

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/id-983 NO Mid-West 983 two-whaleboats-grey-expedition ...

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  • Mootiara

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1899/12 Protected Federal N N Point Petit N Unknown Went ashore, wrecked Refloated Shark Bay Flint Cliff near Hamelin Pool 1056 Co-ordinates 3' off West Australian, 14 December 1899, p. 4g. NO Mid-West 1523 mootiara ...

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