DUCHESS OF KENT (1875-1895)
Ketch Coomba 1876 painting
Description
Ketch with elliptical stern
Construction
Timber
Size
60.08 tons length 21.4m beam 6.1m draft 2.1m
Built
1875 at Franklin, Tasmania
Owner
William Reid, Bunbury Master: Captain Ehlert
Sunk
1895/08/28
Location
Near Cervantes Island, south of Geraldton
Latitude/Longitude
(-30.523895, 115.046151)
Sinking
En route from Geraldton to Fremantle to load another cargo of explosives for the WA Government. Struck reef in storm
Underwater
Went over outside reef and then struck inner reef, wreck not found