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  • Neptune

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    McKenna (1959) state that the vessel was wrecked in the Geelvinck Channel near Geraldton while Loney ...

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  • Sea Bird

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    damaged. The wreck was auctioned at Gingin on 3 August 1874. There is also a record of the wreck having ...

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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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  • Stanford

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    crew to sail and row the lifeboat to the Koolinda, by then some five miles from the wreck. The ...

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  • Albatross

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    Aborigine, were recovered two days after the wrecking. On 29 June the body of John Bryan (Brian) was also ...

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  • Alexandra

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1872/06/16 Protected Federal N N Geraldton N 234.00 287.00 USA Maine 1862 Fremantle 48420 35.50 8.10 5.10 Refloated Port Darwin Geraldton Sandelwood Captain Thisleton 117/80 Inquirer, 3 July and 17 July 1872, 2 April 1873 Herald, 29 January 1876 NO Mid-We ...

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  • May

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1872/03/10 Protected Federal N N Geraldton N 25.00 Unknown Refloated Geraldton 117/80 Minutes of Investigation into cause of Stranding of the Cutter May on 9 (sic) March 1872, C.S.R. 727, fol.52 NO Mid-West 1463 may-1 ...

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  • Mayhill

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    within a couple of hundred metres of the wreck, and had to hurriedly rig a jury mast in order to get back ...

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  • Mikado

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1890/05/10 Protected Federal N N Fremantle to Geraldton N 1889 Lost at sea Wrecked and sunk Fremantle Geraldton Burton (?) 3/79 Inquirer, 29 January 1890, p. 3d West Australian, 10 May 1890, p. 2f and 12 May 1890, p. 3d and 16 May, 17 May. NO Mid-West 1511 mikado-1 ...

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