Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Lady Flinders

Front Beach, east side of Flinders Island

Lady Flinders was a ketch built in 1937 and lost on 25/09/1937. During a storm on 25 September 1937, Lady Flinders broke away from its moorings at the ‘Front Beach’ on the east side of Flinders Island and was carried onto the rocks on the south end of the beach. The vessel broke its back, which allowed the engine

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationFront Beach, east side of Flinders Island
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1937
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceKetch; Wood; During a storm on 25 September 1937, Lady Flinders broke away from its moorings at the ‘Front Beach’ on the east side of Flinders Island and was carried onto the rocks on the south end of the beach. The vessel broke its back, which allowed the engine

The oddity, explained

Why is Lady Flinders unusual?

Lady Flinders appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Lady Flinders was a ketch built in 1937 and lost on 25/09/1937. During a storm on 25 September 1937, Lady Flinders broke away from its moorings at the ‘Front Beach’ on the east side of Flinders Island and was carried onto the rocks on the south end of the beach. The vessel broke its back, which allowed the engine. 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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