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New South Wales
Tathra, NSW
Nelsons Beach, 1850s cedar schooner wreck
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Wreck timber
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS photo (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Unnamed timber schooner first recorded 1859, said to be an American vessel carrying cedar logs; exposed by big swell in the 1970s, 1999 and 2022.
Canberra Times Apr 2022: the Constable family found the wreck on 3 April 2022 after huge weekend swells shifted sand between the Bega River and Nelsons LagoonView source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Remote beach, rips, river mouth
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