Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Osprey

St Vincents Gulf

Osprey was a ketch built in 7/1871 and lost on 11/09/1903. The ketch Osprey departed Port Julia on 11 September 1903 bound for Port Adelaide, a trip taken regularly by the ketch. Wreckage from an unknown craft had been passed by several coastal craft on the western side of Gulf St Vincent, and the government ste

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationSt Vincents Gulf
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1903
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceKetch; Wood; The ketch Osprey departed Port Julia on 11 September 1903 bound for Port Adelaide, a trip taken regularly by the ketch. Wreckage from an unknown craft had been passed by several coastal craft on the western side of Gulf St Vincent, and the government ste

The oddity, explained

Why is Osprey unusual?

Osprey appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Osprey was a ketch built in 7/1871 and lost on 11/09/1903. The ketch Osprey departed Port Julia on 11 September 1903 bound for Port Adelaide, a trip taken regularly by the ketch. Wreckage from an unknown craft had been passed by several coastal craft on the western side of Gulf St Vincent, and the government ste. 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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