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  • Batoe Bassi

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    sent to the scene of the wreck. It was not until 6 June that the weather moderated sufficiently for ...

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  • Charles Fox Bennett

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    mate travelled to the Vasse aboard the American whaler Henry and Mary to report the wrecking. The ...

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  • Shunsei Maru

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1931/02/05 Protected Federal N Y Carbaddaman Passage, north of Point Cloates N 3083.00 Kobe 31354 43 Refloated Java Melbourne K. Iida Tomamokosoji 209/80 330, A 329 32° 03 – 113° 42. Anchors used in the salvage located, channel was blasted into reef to ge ...

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  • Carnarvon Castle

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1907/01/31 Protected Federal N N 1100 miles from Cape Leeuwin in Indian Ocean N 1644.00 Liverpool 102670 3 27 Burnt Liverpool Melbourne General Evan Jones Robert Thomas & Co. Carnarvon Castle Ship Co. Ltd. 112/80 42° – 103°. Survivors 24 days in open ...

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  • Empire Grassland

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1947/01/18 Protected Federal N N North of Carnarvon 2 triple expansion steam engines 683.00 UK Paisley 1945 50.90 10.10 Missing while tow abandoned by sister ship off Carnarvon Abandoned Singapore Melbourne Melbourne Harbour Trust Fleming & Ferguson L ...

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  • Gold Digger

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1853/12/ Protected Federal N N Between Fremantle and Melbourne N Unknown All Unknown Fremantle Melbourne Passengers Possibly not wrecked Perth Gazette, 21 October 1853 NO Unknown 1184 gold-digger ...

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  • James Service

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    sighting of a wreck west of the mouth of the Peel Inlet. Holmes later wrote to his superintendent: I beg to ...

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  • Mariano

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1878/12/24 Protected Federal N N Perseverance Rocks, Cossack -20.6666666667 117.2 N 589.00 USA Boston 1861 Melbourne 74670 45.70 9.10 4.30 Cyclone sprang a leak Wrecked and sunk Lacepedes Melbourne Guano Captain McDonnel/ Walcott Francis Beaver of Melbourne 7/78, 119/80 5/12/1878 found ship sprung ...

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