A partial and incomplete model of the barge “Shark” washed up off Rottnest Island. Captured by MAAWA divers on the September 2021 Rottnest Island field trip.
SHARK (1939) HENRIETTA ROCKS, SOUTH EAST SIDE OF ROTTNEST http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/shark ‘Launch in Trouble - Towed Barge Cut Adrift. Because of a heavy swell between Rottnest and the mainland yesterday a barge belonging to the Fremantle Harbour Trust destined to be sunk off the island had to be cut adrift from the launch which was towing it and allowed to wash ashore at Porpoise Bay, Rottnest. The hawser which was being used to tow the barge became tangled in the propeller of the launch, which was afterwards towed to Thompson’s Bay, Rottnest, and later back to Fremantle..
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