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- 1960 Shipwreck news -

Crew members of the RAN survey frigate Gascoyne are exploring a cemetery, littered with old cannons, anchors and other remnants of at least five old sunken sailing vessels.

The place is located near the outer Barrier Reef that is about 300 miles east of a point situated midway between Cairns and Townsville, on the Kenn Reef, Australia.

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An old wreck has been discovered by the sloop HMAS Alvis wedged in a coral reef off Cape Greenville, Queensland.

It is supposed she was a privateer. Inscribed on the ship’s bell is: “The gift of Lady Herbert, daughter of Sir John Knatchbull, of Mearchim Hatch, in Kent, in the Kingdom of England, November 30, 1711”.

The Knatchbulls had a long association with the British navy and later, with the infant colony of New South Wales.

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Near Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, skin divers have discovered the remains of six of the ten French men of war scuttled during the 17th century, to block the entrance leading to Port Français, for the British vessels.

Four other wrecks remain to be located. The wrecks have their guns, cannon balls and many other objects still in place. They lay on a sand bank, but it is out of the question – so it is said – to raise them as they would fell apart.