Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Seminole
North Arm Ships Graveyard, Garden Island, Port Adelaide, South Australia.
Seminole was a barque built in 1865 and lost on 1910. On the morning of 19th July 1906 a fire broke out on the coal hulk, moored at Birkenhead. Copious amounts of water were emptied into the hold but all efforts to extinguish the flames were unsuccessful. The Seminole was taken alongside the German steamer
The oddity, explained
Why is Seminole unusual?
Seminole appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Seminole was a barque built in 1865 and lost on 1910. On the morning of 19th July 1906 a fire broke out on the coal hulk, moored at Birkenhead. Copious amounts of water were emptied into the hold but all efforts to extinguish the flames were unsuccessful. The Seminole was taken alongside the German steamer. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.
Evidence and further exploration
The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.
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