Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Jack and Jill

Smoky Bay

Jack and Jill was a cutter built in and lost on 11/04/1948. On 11 April 1948 the vessel was driven ashore from its mooring during a storm to the ‘Shell Pit’ area, south of the Smoky Bay jetty

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationSmoky Bay
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1948
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceCutter; Wood; On 11 April 1948 the vessel was driven ashore from its mooring during a storm to the ‘Shell Pit’ area, south of the Smoky Bay jetty

The oddity, explained

Why is Jack and Jill unusual?

Jack and Jill appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Jack and Jill was a cutter built in and lost on 11/04/1948. On 11 April 1948 the vessel was driven ashore from its mooring during a storm to the ‘Shell Pit’ area, south of the Smoky Bay jetty. 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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