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
schoonerColonist 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′S151°47′E / 32.92°S 151.79°E / -32.92; 151.79.
References
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]
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 1851–1871 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