Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Seale

Torrens Island

Seale was a ketch built in 1851 and lost on 30/04/1908. Cargo caught alight, vessel burnt to keel, beached

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationTorrens Island
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1908
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceKetch; Wood; Cargo caught alight, vessel burnt to keel, beached

The oddity, explained

Why is Seale unusual?

Seale appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Seale was a ketch built in 1851 and lost on 30/04/1908. Cargo caught alight, vessel burnt to keel, beached. 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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