Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Dashing Wave
Louth Bay, north of Port Lincoln, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
Dashing Wave was a ketch built in 23/12/1865 and lost on 25/12/1926. On Christmas Eve in 1926 Dashing Wave departed Port Pirie with a load of timber, joinery and furniture for delivery to Messrs Geddes and Co. in Port Lincoln. Within a short distance of Port Lincoln the ketch was becalmed and the master anchored to await
The oddity, explained
Why is Dashing Wave unusual?
Dashing Wave appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Dashing Wave was a ketch built in 23/12/1865 and lost on 25/12/1926. On Christmas Eve in 1926 Dashing Wave departed Port Pirie with a load of timber, joinery and furniture for delivery to Messrs Geddes and Co. in Port Lincoln. Within a short distance of Port Lincoln the ketch was becalmed and the master anchored to await. 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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