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  • Geographe’s Chaloupe

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1801/06/05 Wonnerup Area France 89.00 2.70 1.20 Aus 755 & WA 859 THE VESSEL The Géographe and the Naturaliste were two corvettes under the command of Post-Captain Nicolas Baudin sent by the French Government on a voyage of discovery to the south-west, ...

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  • Lily

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1889/03 West of Cossack 4 4 Lost in cyclone The willy Willy at the North - The Losses Roebourne March 12 By Telegraph The latest news about the blow to the westward is that Ah Wee’s Lily with Ah Wee and three Chinese, are missing. The Ivy is ashore and th ...

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  • Unidentified lugger

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    they were ashore the tide went out causing the lugger to bump heavily and it became a wreck. They were ...

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  • PS Lady Stirling

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    unidentified vessel relocated from GIS research (D. Cooper wreck report 26/7/2013. Murray, K.O., 1949 From Oar ...

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  • Cutter from Scaleby Castle

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1821/12/06 8 8 Lost at sea The Scaleby Castle deployed a cutter off the North West coast of New Holland to search for Cloates Island, which disappeared with all 8 men aboard. Transcription of original letter H.C.S. Scaleby Castle off N.W. Point of New Hol ...

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  • UNID steam boat

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    (presumably on the Swan), some time c. 1832-33. It was wrecked by the captain off Carnac, as he told a friend, ...

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  • Water Police boat

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1880/05 Protected State N N Butcher Inlet, Cossack Australia Fremantle Caught in mooring chain of lugger Ariel in strong tide Sank at moorings WA Government, Water Police State Records Office Item 29/516 Cons 430, Police boat sunk by Ariel North-West 1678 ...

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  • Flora

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    CONS 430 Wreck of lugger Flora North-West 1679 flora-1 ...

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  • USAAC B-24A Liberator #40-2370

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    03/03/1942 N N About 10 miles off Broome 4 engined bomber USA 40-2370 Shot down by Japanese Zero fighter Broome Perth 33 wounded from Java including 20 USAAF personnel United States Army Air Corps A Zero, piloted by Warrant Officer Osamu Kudo immediately ...

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  • Bandicoot Bay UNID

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    end of Barrow Island indicative of a small cutter or lugger wreck. Porbably associated with late 19th or early 20th century pearling. Wreck Report #185 July 2014. Located during Barrow Island ...

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