Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Kingfisher

Daly Head Reef, Spencer Gulf, 10 miles from Corny Point, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia

Kingfisher was a cutter built in and lost on 26/10/1936. Kingfisher anchored just outside Daly Head Reef on Sunday 25 October 1936. At about 6.45 am the following morning the vessel, along with Canowie, another cutter from Port Adelaide, moved off together towards Corny Point, despite a strong westerly gale. T

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationDaly Head Reef, Spencer Gulf, 10 miles from Corny Point, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1936
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceCutter; Wood; Kingfisher anchored just outside Daly Head Reef on Sunday 25 October 1936. At about 6.45 am the following morning the vessel, along with Canowie, another cutter from Port Adelaide, moved off together towards Corny Point, despite a strong westerly gale. T

The oddity, explained

Why is Kingfisher unusual?

Kingfisher appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Kingfisher was a cutter built in and lost on 26/10/1936. Kingfisher anchored just outside Daly Head Reef on Sunday 25 October 1936. At about 6.45 am the following morning the vessel, along with Canowie, another cutter from Port Adelaide, moved off together towards Corny Point, despite a strong westerly gale. T. 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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