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Reef Head, Cape Spencer [B 7224] • Photograph

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Summary

Reef Head in the distance with line of breakers, near Cape Spencer, with S.S. Ferret on the right and the remains of the barque Ethel on the left. (Information supplied by a researcher) The S.S. Ethel damaged her rudder on Emmes Reef about 2 km offshore. Her final resting place along with the Ferret, is now known as Ethel Beach. S. S. Ferret was an iron screw steamship of 460 tons built in Glasgow in 1871 by J & G Thomson of Glasgow. The ship was built for use in the River Clyde ferry service. This ship was wrecked in fog near Stenhouse Bay, Yorke Penninsula, while in service for the Adelaide Steamship Company. She was carrying 100 tons of beer and many of these casks washed up on nearby beaches to the amusement of the locals.

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Physical description

Photograph; 13.9 cm x 7.7 cm

Dates / Publication details

1920

Collection

Part of Reef Head Collection

Subject

Ferret (Ship)
Ethel (Ship)
Shipwrecks -- South Australia -- Reef Head

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Digitisation information

Date

11/10/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,394 x 2,077 pixels (7.0 MP)

Size

7.07 MB

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