Falls of Halladale
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Marker: recorded wreck position (Date not recorded).
Key facts
| Name | Falls of Halladale | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Ship type | ship, shipwreck | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Cause of loss | Grounding or wreck on rocks | Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence |
| Nationality / flag | Australia | Wikidata P8047 country of registry |
| Sea / ocean | Great Australian Bight | Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon |
| Nearest coast | Australia | Natural Earth (public domain); approx. 3 km from land |
| Position | -38.6082, 142.8571 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
Falls of Halladale was a four-masted iron-hulled barque, built at Greenock in Scotland in 1886 for the Falls Line of Glasgow. She was operated in the long-distance trading of bulk cargos. On 14 November 1908, she was wrecked on the Australian coast near Peterborough, Victoria, due to the negligence of the captain.
Diving & visiting
Falls of Halladale is best known for her spectacular demise in a shipwreck near Peterborough, Victoria on the shipwreck coast of Victoria, Australia. On the night of 14 November 1908, in dense fog, she was sailed directly onto rocks due to a navigational error. The crew of 29 abandoned ship safely and all made it ashore by boat, leaving the ship foundering with her sails still set. For weeks after the wreck, large crowds gathered to view the ship as she gradually broke up and sank in the shallow water.
Soon after the accident, the ship's master, Captain David Wood Thomson, was brought before a Court of Marine Inquiry in Melbourne.
Location
- Recorded position: -38.6082, 142.8571 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Sea / ocean: Great Australian Bight
- Nearest coast: Australia
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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Falls of Halladale (revision 1327125607), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section and section(s) “Wreck”; condensed by selecting paragraphs; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
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