Active (1877)

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History
New South Wales
Name| Active
Owner| John Breckenridge, Cape Hawke
Port of registry| Sydney
Ship registration number| 11/1877
Ship official number| 74902
Builder| William Woodward Brisbane Water, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Completed| 1877
Fate| Wrecked
General characteristics
Type| Ketch
Tonnage| 49 GRT
Displacement| 49 NRT
Length| 20.6  m
Beam| 5.4  m
Draught| 1.9  m
Installed power| NA
Ship primary use| Transport
Ship industry| \- cargo - coastal
Ship passenger capacity| 0
Crew| 4

Active was a wooden ketch that was wrecked on 19 January 1898 on the Oyster Bank at the entrance of Newcastle Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, near the previously wrecked schooner Colonist while carrying a cargo of ironbark to Morpeth, New South Wales, under the command of Captain P. Williams. There were no casualties but the ship was lost. The wreck has not been located, but the approximate co-ordinates of the shipwreck are 32°55′S 151°47′E﻿ / ﻿32.92°S 151.79°E﻿ / -32.92; 151.79.

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## Further reading

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Online databases
Australian National Shipwreck Database[1]
Australian Shipping - Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968 including shipwrecks [2]
Encyclopaedia of Australian Shipwrecks - New South Wales Shipwrecks [3]

Books

* Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast. By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995 Oceans Enterprises. 1993 ISBN 978-0-646-11081-3.
* Australian Shipwrecks - Vol.1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0-589-07112-2, Call number 910.4530994 BAT
* Australian shipwrecks Vol. 2 1851–1871 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Sydney. Reed, 1980 910.4530994 LON
* Australian shipwrecks Vol. 3 1871–1900 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Geelong Vic: List Publishing, 1982 910.4530994 LON
* Australian shipwrecks Vol. 4 1901–1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1987 910.4530994 LON
* Australian shipwrecks Vol. 5 Update 1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1991 910.4530994 LON

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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1898

Shipwrecks|

* 19 Jan: Active
* 25 Jan: Koonya
* 5 Feb: Clara Nevada
* 6 Feb: Veendam
* 15 Feb: USS Maine
* March (unknown date): Eliza Anderson
* 1 May: Castilla, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzón, Marques del Duero, Reina Cristina, Velasco
* 5 May: Hereward
* 7 May: Merksworth
* May (unknown date): Adelaide
* 2 Jun: USS Merrimac
* 3 Jul: Almirante Oquendo, Cristóbal Colón, Furor, Infanta Maria Teresa, Plutón, Vizcaya
* 4 Jul: La Bourgogne
* 5 Jul: Reina Mercedes
* 12 Jul: Regulator
* 20 Jul: Wendouree
* 21 Jul: Jorge Juan
* 31 Jul: Lapérouse
* 14 Aug: USS Mangrove
* 22 Aug: Kate
* 4 Oct: Bessie Maude
* 14 Oct: Henry Chisholm, Mohegan
* 25 Oct: L.R. Doty
* 27 Oct: St. Peter
* 1 Nov: Infanta Maria Teresa
* 10 Nov: 104
* 26-27 Nov: Portland
* 23 Dec: Joys
* 29 Dec: Glenavon
* Unknown date: Gouverneur Generaal Loudon, Lofthus

Other incidents|

* February (unknown date): Coptic
* 27 May: Cestrian
* 4 Jul: Cromartyshire
* 14 Aug: Sarah Dixon
* 22 Aug: Oakland
* 9 Dec: Castalia
* 21 Dec: Oakland

1897 1899

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Shipwrecks and scuttled vessels of New South Wales

Shipwrecks by region

Richmond–Tweed|

* Adventure
* Agnes
* Enterprize
* SS Friendship
* Tassie III
* HMAS Waree
* SS Wollongbar

Mid North Coast|

* Abbey
* Ability
* Absalom
* Acielle
* Acme
* Ada and Ethel
* Admiral Gifford
* Adonis
* Advance (wr.1933)
* Agnes Irving
* SS Catterthun
* Edwin
* MV Fairwind
* SS Fingal
* Fitzroy
* Governor Hunter
* Jane
* HMAS K9
* Kalang
* Kooroongaba
* Titan
* Trial
* Wanganui
* SS Wollongbar

Hunter|

* Ability
* Active (1850)
* Active (1877)
* Ada
* Adelaide
* Adolphe
* Advance (1884)
* Agnes
* Alhambra
* Bee
* The Bluebell Collision
* SS Cawarra
* SS Colonist
* Contest
* Dundee
* Eleanor Lancaster
* Elizabeth Henrietta
* Estramina
* Excalibur
* Fido
* Francis
* Gertrude
* Governor King
* Grecian
* Hope
* SS Lindus
* Merksworth
* TSS Maianbar
* Norfolk
* SS Oakland
* Recovery
* MV Sygna
* Wendouree
* USS WST-1

Central Coast|

* Adelaide
* Advance
* HMAS Allenwood
* SS Bonnie Dundee
* Hazard
* Henri
* PSS Maitland
* MV Nimbin
* HMAS Paterson

Northern Beaches|

* Adelaide
* Aenid
* Argument
* Charlotte
* M24 Japanese Midget Submarine
* SS Myola
* Narara
* Queen Bee
* HMAS Swan
* Tuncurry
* Whale
* Windsor

Sydney Eastern Suburbs|

* Agnes
* Colonist
* Dunbar
* Edward Lombe
* HMAS Goolgwai
* Greycliffe
* PS Herald
* Hereward
* Iron Chieftain
* Iserbrook
* Itata
* HMAS Karangi
* SS Kate
* HMAS Kuttabul
* Martha
* Three Bees
* William Cossar
* HMAS Woomera

Southern Sydney|

* Adelphoi
* Advance (1872)
* Advance (1874)
* Koonya

Illawarra|

* Adele
* Adolphus
* Agnes
* SS Bombo
* Comboyne
* Hawkesbury Packet
* Queen of Nations
* Shockwave

Shoalhaven|

* Advance
* Aeolus
* Agnes
* Hive
* Koraaga
* Nancy
* HMAS Voyager
* Wandra

Far South Coast|

* Dureenbee
* George
* Iron Knight
* Ly-ee-Moon
* Olive Cam

Scuttled vessels

* HMAS Adelaide
* HMAS Anzac
* HMAS Australia
* SS Balgowlah
* SS Bantam
* SS Barcoo
* Bellubera
* Brighton
* HMAS Colac
* Curl Curl
* Dee Why
* HMAS Doomba
* HMAS Encounter
* HMAS Geranium
* HMAS Huon
* HMAS Kara Kara
* HMAS Kianga
* HMAS Kuramia
* HMAS Kookaburra
* HMS Lewes
* HMAS Marguerite
* HMAS Mallow
* HMAS Medea
* HMAS Mercedes
* USS Osborne
* HMAS Pioneer
* HMAS Stalwart
* HMAS Swordsman
* HMAS Tingira
* HMAS Torrens
* HMAS Vendetta
* HMAS Vigilant
* HMAS Yarra

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