Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Brothers
Cape Cassini, near Kingscote, Kangaroo Island.
Brothers was a cutter built in 1880 and lost on 13/06/1911. The cutter chafed through the anchor line while the crew slept. When the crew woke up the vessel had drifted to within metres of the reefs off Cape Cassini, Kangaroo Island. The crew managed to hoist the mainsail but the swell caught the vessel and dashe
The oddity, explained
Why is Brothers unusual?
Brothers appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Brothers was a cutter built in 1880 and lost on 13/06/1911. The cutter chafed through the anchor line while the crew slept. When the crew woke up the vessel had drifted to within metres of the reefs off Cape Cassini, Kangaroo Island. The crew managed to hoist the mainsail but the swell caught the vessel and dashe. 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
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