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Ben Morowie

Wallaroo, Yorke Peninsula

Ben Morowie was a cutter built in and lost on 27/06/1870. During a heavy westerly gale, the vessel dragged its anchor and drifted onto the Smelting Works Company's slag bank and broke up.

CategorySHIPWRECK

LocationWallaroo, Yorke Peninsula

DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks

Listed/year1870

Oddness signal90/99

Data completeness90%

SignificanceCutter; During a heavy westerly gale, the vessel dragged its anchor and drifted onto the Smelting Works Company's slag bank and broke up.

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