Agnes (1853)

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Career
Name: Agnes
Owner: Henry Hardy
Port of registry: Sydney
Ship registration number: 35/1853
Ship official number: -
Builder: James Bevan Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Completed: 1853
Status: Wrecked
General characteristics
Type: Wood carvel Cutter
Tonnage: Gross tonnage (GT) of 13  tons
Displacement: Net tonnage (NT) of 13  tons
Length: 11.97  m
Beam: 3.169  m
Draught: 1.432  m
Installed power: NA
Ship primary use: Unknown
Ship industry:
Ship passenger capacity: Unknown
Wreck Event
When lost: 1860/07/13
Where lost: Newcastle Bight
Reason for loss: Ashore in gale
Cargo: Unknown
Travelling from: Newcastle
Travelling to: Sydney
Master: Henry Hardy
Deaths: 0
Wreck Location
Discovered: No
Position: 32°48′S 152°00′E / 32.8°S 152°E / -32.8; 152Coordinates: 32°48′S 152°00′E / 32.8°S 152°E / -32.8; 152

Agnes (1853)
The Agnes was a wooden carvel cutter built in 1853 in Sydney Harbour, that was wrecked when it was blown ashore in a gale whilst travelling between Newcastle, New South Wales and Sydney and was lost at Newcastle Bight, New South Wales on the 13 July 1860


Further reading

Online Database's
Australian National Shipwreck Database[1]
Australian Shipping - Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968 including shipwrecks [2]
Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks - New South Wales Shipwrecks [3]

Books

  • Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast. By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995 Oceans Enterprises. 1993 ISBN 9780646110813.
  • Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0 589 07112 2 910.4530994 BAT
  • Australian shipwrecks Vol. 2 1851–1871 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Sydney. Reed, 1980 910.4530994 LON
  • Australian shipwrecks Vol. 3 1871–1900 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Geelong Vic: List Publishing, 1982 910.4530994 LON
  • Australian shipwrecks Vol. 4 1901–1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1987 910.4530994 LON
  • Australian shipwrecks Vol. 5 Update 1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1991 910.4530994 LON

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