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Wreck at Rottnest Island
- When
- 12 July 1899
- Where
- Rottnest Island
After a record passage, the City of York approached Rottnest Island from the north on 12 July 1899 in stormy weather and sank after striking a reef.
On the afternoon of 12 July 1899, following a record passage to Western Australia, the City of York approached Rottnest Island from the north in stormy weather including blinding rain and heavy seas. In the last few kilometres of her voyage from San Francisco to Fremantle, she hit a reef and sank.
Sources
- City of York (barque) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-07
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.