TOBA KETCH

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TOBA Ketch anchored in unknown Bay.

Description:

small 40foot Ketch used as for fishing, with one deck, straight stem and a counter stern.

Owner:

The joint owners of the vessel, and partners in the company, were James V. Clark, Robert Philp, Percival Pitman Outridge, Isabella Mitchell Campbell, all of Queensland, and one Western Australian, James Theodore Clewett McKenzie, from Broome.

Construction:

Timber

Sunk:

1933 15 December

Size:

Tons 17.56 gross, 14.81 net Length: 39.9 ft (12.2 m) Breadth: 12.85 ft (3.92 m) Depth: 6.45 ft (1.97 m)

Underwater:

The Toba is a very small wreck located on the south side of Peak Island less than a kilometre from the Hamelin Bay boat ramp. It is located in 7 metres of water and the site covers only about 10 metres by 5 metres right up against the reef shelf into shallow water. Although the site is not large the surrounding overhands and hard corals around Peak Island make the site a nice and easy dive.

Built:

1907 Dutch East Indies, by the Celebes Trading Company at the Aru Islands in the eastern part of what is now Indonesia,

Location:

the Toba lies very close to Peak Island, where it had presumably struck

Sinking:

A newspaper reported that the Toba had run ashore on Hamelin Island at about 8.00 p.m. on 15 December 1933, and had sunk in 20 ft (6.1 m) of water (West Australian 18 December 1933: 19c). This report appears to be in error as the wreck of the Toba lies very close to Peak Island, where it had presumably struck. The four men were picked up by a small fishing boat from Bunbury which landed them on the mainland at Hamelin Bay.

Longitude:

115.021255

Latitude:

−34.216667

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