Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Enterprise

Ceduna Jetty, West Coast of South Australia

Enterprise was a cutter built in 1918 and lost on 31/10/1948. Enterprise dragged its anchor during a rough gale on Sunday 31 October 1948 and crashed into the Ceduna jetty. The vessel then sank in front of the crowd of onlookers who had gathered, and soon began to break apart, leaving wreckage floating about Murat

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationCeduna Jetty, West Coast of South Australia
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1948
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceCutter; Wood; Enterprise dragged its anchor during a rough gale on Sunday 31 October 1948 and crashed into the Ceduna jetty. The vessel then sank in front of the crowd of onlookers who had gathered, and soon began to break apart, leaving wreckage floating about Murat

The oddity, explained

Why is Enterprise unusual?

Enterprise appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Enterprise was a cutter built in 1918 and lost on 31/10/1948. Enterprise dragged its anchor during a rough gale on Sunday 31 October 1948 and crashed into the Ceduna jetty. The vessel then sank in front of the crowd of onlookers who had gathered, and soon began to break apart, leaving wreckage floating about Murat. 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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