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Rambler

Between Wool Bay & Stansbury, 2 miles north of Wool Bay

Rambler was a schooner built in 1871 and lost on 17/01/1877. On the evening of Monday 15 January 1877 Rambler departed Port Adelaide bound for Wool Bay, Yorke Peninsula with a NE wind. While crossing the Gulf, the wind shifted to the SW and the vessel anchored off Stansbury, where it rode out the strong breeze the

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationBetween Wool Bay & Stansbury, 2 miles north of Wool Bay
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1877
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceSchooner; Wood; On the evening of Monday 15 January 1877 Rambler departed Port Adelaide bound for Wool Bay, Yorke Peninsula with a NE wind. While crossing the Gulf, the wind shifted to the SW and the vessel anchored off Stansbury, where it rode out the strong breeze the

The oddity, explained

Why is Rambler unusual?

Rambler appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Rambler was a schooner built in 1871 and lost on 17/01/1877. On the evening of Monday 15 January 1877 Rambler departed Port Adelaide bound for Wool Bay, Yorke Peninsula with a NE wind. While crossing the Gulf, the wind shifted to the SW and the vessel anchored off Stansbury, where it rode out the strong breeze the. 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.

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