Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Fanny Wright
Waterloo Bay, near Elliston, South Australia
Fanny Wright was a schooner built in 1873 and lost on 07/08/1877. The schooner Fanny Wright, under Captain R. Glenn, left Port Adelaide on 20 July 1877 bound for Eucla, Western Australia, with a cargo consisting of iron tanks, timber, chaff, oats and other materials. The cargo was required to complete the construction
The oddity, explained
Why is Fanny Wright unusual?
Fanny Wright appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Fanny Wright was a schooner built in 1873 and lost on 07/08/1877. The schooner Fanny Wright, under Captain R. Glenn, left Port Adelaide on 20 July 1877 bound for Eucla, Western Australia, with a cargo consisting of iron tanks, timber, chaff, oats and other materials. The cargo was required to complete the construction. 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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