Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Corsair

Port Adelaide, near site of "Grecian", South Australia.

Corsair was a cutter built in and lost on 15/05/1865. Bad quality sails and gear, sank in bad weather.

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationPort Adelaide, near site of "Grecian", South Australia.
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1865
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceCutter; Bad quality sails and gear, sank in bad weather.

The oddity, explained

Why is Corsair unusual?

Corsair appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Corsair was a cutter built in and lost on 15/05/1865. Bad quality sails and gear, sank in bad weather. 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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