Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Fides
Jervois Basin, Port River, Port Adelaide, South Australia
Fides was a schooner built in 1918 and lost on 18/01/1934. Seized for non-payment of harbour dues and eventually broken up for timber and remains abandoned.
The oddity, explained
Why is Fides unusual?
Fides appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Fides was a schooner built in 1918 and lost on 18/01/1934. Seized for non-payment of harbour dues and eventually broken up for timber and remains abandoned. 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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