Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Lurline

Sellicks Beach

Lurline was a ketch built in 27/11/1873 and lost on 16/03/1946. Battered by two gales in succession, lost steering and sails, and driven ashore.

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationSellicks Beach
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1946
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceKetch; Wood; Battered by two gales in succession, lost steering and sails, and driven ashore.

The oddity, explained

Why is Lurline unusual?

Lurline appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Lurline was a ketch built in 27/11/1873 and lost on 16/03/1946. Battered by two gales in succession, lost steering and sails, and driven ashore. 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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