Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Tar Baby
Farm Beach, near Coffin Bay, South Australia
Tar Baby was a cutter built in 1884 and lost on 28/02/1948. During a northwest gale on 28 February 1948, the fishing cutter Tar Baby broke from its mooring at Farm Beach and was thrown ashore by waves onto the southern end of Farm Beach, northwest of Coffin Bay. Within a short space of time the vessel was complet
The oddity, explained
Why is Tar Baby unusual?
Tar Baby appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Tar Baby was a cutter built in 1884 and lost on 28/02/1948. During a northwest gale on 28 February 1948, the fishing cutter Tar Baby broke from its mooring at Farm Beach and was thrown ashore by waves onto the southern end of Farm Beach, northwest of Coffin Bay. Within a short space of time the vessel was complet. 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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