Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Trucanini
Point Malcolm (1/4 mile south of Fort Glanville)
Trucanini was a ketch built in 12/10/1876 and lost on 05/01/1923. Trucanini departed Port Adelaide at 6.00pm in 5 January 1923, bound for Coobowie, near Edithburgh on Yorke Peninsula, with a full cargo of general goods. The vessel was motoring, but when the vessel was off Semaphore, the engine failed and the growing no
The oddity, explained
Why is Trucanini unusual?
Trucanini appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Trucanini was a ketch built in 12/10/1876 and lost on 05/01/1923. Trucanini departed Port Adelaide at 6.00pm in 5 January 1923, bound for Coobowie, near Edithburgh on Yorke Peninsula, with a full cargo of general goods. The vessel was motoring, but when the vessel was off Semaphore, the engine failed and the growing no. 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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