Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Mabel

Elliston, Waterloo Bay, South Australia

Mabel was a cutter built in and lost on 1930. Mabel broke from its moorings during a storm in Waterloo Bay in c.1930, and drove ashore becoming a total wreck.

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationElliston, Waterloo Bay, South Australia
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1930
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceCutter; Wood; Mabel broke from its moorings during a storm in Waterloo Bay in c.1930, and drove ashore becoming a total wreck.

The oddity, explained

Why is Mabel unusual?

Mabel appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Mabel was a cutter built in and lost on 1930. Mabel broke from its moorings during a storm in Waterloo Bay in c.1930, and drove ashore becoming a total wreck. 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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