Active(1877)

For other ships with the same name, seeActive (ship).

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 WoodwardBrisbane Water,New South Wales,AUSTRALIA
Completed	1877
Fate	Wrecked
General characteristics
Type	Ketch
Tonnage	49GRT
Displacement	49NRT
Length	20.6 m
Beam	5.4 m
Draught	1.9 m
Installed power	NA
Ship primary use:	Transport
Ship industry:
Ship passenger capacity:	0
Crew	4

Activewas a woodenketchthat was wrecked on 19 January 1898 on the Oyster Bank at the entrance ofNewcastleHarbour,New South Wales,Australia, near the previously wreckedschoonerColonistwhile carrying a cargo ofironbarktoMorpeth,New South Wales, under the command ofCaptainP. Williams. There were no casualties but the ship was lost. The wreck has not been located, but the approximate co-ordinates of the shipwreck are32.92°S 151.79°E/-32.92; 151.79.

Further reading

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. ByLoney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth),1925–1995 Oceans Enterprises. 1993ISBN978-0-646-11081-3.
• Australian Shipwrecks - Vol.1 1622-1850,Charles Bateson,AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972,ISBN0-589-07112-2,Call number 910.4530994 BAT
• Australian shipwrecks Vol. 2 1851–1871ByLoney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth),1925–1995. Sydney. Reed, 1980 910.4530994 LON
• Australian shipwrecks Vol. 3 1871–1900ByLoney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth),1925–1995. Geelong Vic: List Publishing, 1982 910.4530994 LON
• Australian shipwrecks Vol. 4 1901–1986ByLoney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth),1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1987 910.4530994 LON
• Australian shipwrecks Vol. 5 Update 1986ByLoney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth),1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1991 910.4530994 LON