Maritime · Evidence-led place record

St. Kevin

7 miles west of Point Sinclair, south of Penong

St. Kevin was a built in 1968 and lost on 30/09/1971. In September 1971 St Kevin, skippered by Robert J. Lakey of Portland, and with one deckhand, was on a voyage from Esperance to Streaky Bay to undergo an overhaul before commencing to fish in SA waters. While off Eucla, in the Great Australian Bight, the

CategorySHIPWRECK
Location7 miles west of Point Sinclair, south of Penong
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1971
Oddness signal84/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceSteel; In September 1971 St Kevin, skippered by Robert J. Lakey of Portland, and with one deckhand, was on a voyage from Esperance to Streaky Bay to undergo an overhaul before commencing to fish in SA waters. While off Eucla, in the Great Australian Bight, the

The oddity, explained

Why is St. Kevin unusual?

St. Kevin appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as St. Kevin was a built in 1968 and lost on 30/09/1971. In September 1971 St Kevin, skippered by Robert J. Lakey of Portland, and with one deckhand, was on a voyage from Esperance to Streaky Bay to undergo an overhaul before commencing to fish in SA waters. While off Eucla, in the Great Australian Bight, the. 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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