Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Lucretia

Buffalo Reef, Spilsby Island, Spencers Gulf

Lucretia was a schooner built in 1885 and lost on 08/09/1899. Sailed with no ballast, hit reef during bad weather and wrecked.

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationBuffalo Reef, Spilsby Island, Spencers Gulf
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1899
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceSchooner; Wood; Sailed with no ballast, hit reef during bad weather and wrecked.

The oddity, explained

Why is Lucretia unusual?

Lucretia appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Lucretia was a schooner built in 1885 and lost on 08/09/1899. Sailed with no ballast, hit reef during bad weather and wrecked. 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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