''Agnes'' was a wooden
carvel ketch
A ketch is a two- masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch fr ...
built in 1877 at Williams River,
Eagleton, near
Newcastle Newcastle usually refers to:
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*Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England
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New South Wales
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Australia
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. She was wrecked when she foundered off
Jervis Bay
Jervis Bay () is a oceanic bay and village on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, said to possess the whitest sand in the world.
A area of land around the southern headland of the bay is a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia ...
, New South Wales, in 1883.
Shipwrecks of the Shoalhaven Region
Ships built in New South Wales
1877 ships
Maritime incidents in 1883
1871–1900 ships of Australia
Merchant ships of Australia
Ketches of Australia
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