Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Lord Roberts
At Myponga Jetty, south of Port Willunga
Lord Roberts was a cutter built in and lost on 07/06/1902. Collided with Myponga Jetty during a gale and went to pieces. At 2 am on Saturday 7 June 1902, the fishing cutter Lord Roberts was hove-to about 10 miles west of Port Willunga, in company with the fishing cutter Heather Bell, when it was struck by a stro
The oddity, explained
Why is Lord Roberts unusual?
Lord Roberts appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Lord Roberts was a cutter built in and lost on 07/06/1902. Collided with Myponga Jetty during a gale and went to pieces. At 2 am on Saturday 7 June 1902, the fishing cutter Lord Roberts was hove-to about 10 miles west of Port Willunga, in company with the fishing cutter Heather Bell, when it was struck by a stro. 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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