Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Josephine Loizeau

Port Elliot

Josephine Loizeau was a schooner built in 1841 and lost on 10/07/1856. Strong southerly winds, crew chained boat to wrong mooring, broke & vessel went ashore.

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationPort Elliot
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1856
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceSchooner; Wood; Strong southerly winds, crew chained boat to wrong mooring, broke & vessel went ashore.

The oddity, explained

Why is Josephine Loizeau unusual?

Josephine Loizeau appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Josephine Loizeau was a schooner built in 1841 and lost on 10/07/1856. Strong southerly winds, crew chained boat to wrong mooring, broke & vessel went 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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