Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Daring
Hog Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Daring was a ketch built in and lost on 10/08/1885. On 10 August 1885 the hawking ketch Daring broke its mooring during a gale and ran up the harbour at Hog Bay eventually striking against an anchor left in the fairway by H.F. Bates and became a total wreck. The anchor came up through her bottom. The anch
The oddity, explained
Why is Daring unusual?
Daring appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Daring was a ketch built in and lost on 10/08/1885. On 10 August 1885 the hawking ketch Daring broke its mooring during a gale and ran up the harbour at Hog Bay eventually striking against an anchor left in the fairway by H.F. Bates and became a total wreck. The anchor came up through her bottom. The anch. 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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