Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Resulka

Farm Beach, Coffin Bay, South Australia

Resulka was a cutter built in 1914 and lost on 07/03/1968. On Thursday 7 March 1968 Resulka’s owner, Vic Pascoe, and his deckhand Don Grotto of Port Lincoln, were cleaning the vessel’s engine after repairs had been carried out the previous day. Don Grotto was in the engine room and Vic Pascoe was on the deck

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationFarm Beach, Coffin Bay, South Australia
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1968
Oddness signal84/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceCutter; Wood; On Thursday 7 March 1968 Resulka’s owner, Vic Pascoe, and his deckhand Don Grotto of Port Lincoln, were cleaning the vessel’s engine after repairs had been carried out the previous day. Don Grotto was in the engine room and Vic Pascoe was on the deck

The oddity, explained

Why is Resulka unusual?

Resulka appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Resulka was a cutter built in 1914 and lost on 07/03/1968. On Thursday 7 March 1968 Resulka’s owner, Vic Pascoe, and his deckhand Don Grotto of Port Lincoln, were cleaning the vessel’s engine after repairs had been carried out the previous day. Don Grotto was in the engine room and Vic Pascoe was on the deck. 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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