Maritime · Evidence-led place record

May

Cape Willoughby, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

May was a cutter built in and lost on 10/03/1951. At 8:30pm May ran onto rocks under the Cape Willoughby lighthouse. The vessel was badly holed and was beached.

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationCape Willoughby, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1951
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceCutter; Wood; At 8:30pm May ran onto rocks under the Cape Willoughby lighthouse. The vessel was badly holed and was beached.

The oddity, explained

Why is May unusual?

May appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as May was a cutter built in and lost on 10/03/1951. At 8:30pm May ran onto rocks under the Cape Willoughby lighthouse. The vessel was badly holed and was beached. 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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