Agnes (1877)

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Career
Name: Agnes
Owner: Benjamin Lloyd, Ed Davies, William Grisdale
Port of registry: Newcastle, New South Wales
Ship registration number: 3/1877
Ship official number: 70814
Builder: William Mc Pherson at Williams River, Eagleton, near Newcastle, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Completed: 1877
Status: Wrecked
General characteristics
Type: Wood carvel Ketch
Tonnage: Gross tonnage (GT) of 38  tons
Displacement: Net tonnage (NT) of 38  tons
Length: 22.95  m
Beam: 4.328  m
Draught: 1.798  m
Installed power: NA
Ship primary use: Transport
Ship industry:
Ship passenger capacity: Unknown
Crew: Unknown
Wreck Event
When lost: 1883
Where lost: Jervis Bay, off
Reason for loss: Supposed foundered
Wreck Location
Discovered: No
Position: 35°07′S 150°49′E / 35.12°S 150.82°E / -35.12; 150.82Coordinates: 35°07′S 150°49′E / 35.12°S 150.82°E / -35.12; 150.82

Agnes (1877)
The Agnes was a wooden carvel Ketch built in 1877 at Williams River, Eagleton, near Newcastle, New South Wales, that was wrecked when it foundered off Jervis Bay, New South Wales in 1883


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]

Other Online sources
Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954 [4]
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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