Maritime · Evidence-led place record
New Dolphin
North end of St Francis Island
New Dolphin was a none built in 1965 and lost on 06/12/1982. New Dolphin left Streaky Bay, with Jovo Vitlov as master and six crew, on Saturday 4 December 1982 and proceeded to St Francis Island, where it arrived on 5 December to catch pilchards for tuna bait. At daylight on 5 December the vessel left St Francis I
The oddity, explained
Why is New Dolphin unusual?
New Dolphin appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as New Dolphin was a none built in 1965 and lost on 06/12/1982. New Dolphin left Streaky Bay, with Jovo Vitlov as master and six crew, on Saturday 4 December 1982 and proceeded to St Francis Island, where it arrived on 5 December to catch pilchards for tuna bait. At daylight on 5 December the vessel left St Francis I. 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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