Shipbucket

Part-time I search for shipwrecks, going through old newspapers and files about a bay in Victoria, when I came a cross this one from 1913

"In May 1913, while attempting to locate the sunken grab punt, divers came across an old wreck at a depth of about 30 metres. It appeared to be a ship with a beam of almost 40 feet, and some of the timbers which seemed to be of oak measured 12 inches wide and 8 inches thick. Old residents recalled the discovery of several skeletons in the sand hills opposite the wreck many years earlier"

Now that makes it very old, seeing that the latest the wreck could have been is 1850, however no ship of that size was ever wrecked in the bay, the largest were about the 300-400 ton mark and a beam of 20-25 feet. The question is, how can such a large ship disappear from all records, especially seeing it was pre 1850 and easily the size of a fourth rate ship?

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Given how many ships were written up as lost to causes unknown I'm not surprised.

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Yeah especially in that area but I mean, its a fair sized wreck, especially since its at least 40m long

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"Loitering on the High Seas" (Named after the good ship Rodondo)
There's no such thing as "nothing left to draw" If you can down 10 pints and draw, you're doing alright by my standards

Given how little we know of the ships construction it could have been anything from a prisoner transport to an East Indiaman that got blown south by a typhoon fifty years before James Cook came by.

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True, thats a strong possibility, the earliest at least is wayward early VOC ships, especially seeing they were made, usually, of oak and the first ships in the area to be 40 ft beamers. hence a 250 year window, seems you're right its a huge area of possibily

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How to mentally pronounce my usernameRow-(as in a boat)Don-(as in the short form of Donald)Dough-(bread)
"Loitering on the High Seas" (Named after the good ship Rodondo)
There's no such thing as "nothing left to draw" If you can down 10 pints and draw, you're doing alright by my standards