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A Sea organ memorial for W.A.

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A Sea organ memorial for W.A.

FISHING LIVES LOST INTERACTIVE MAP

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FISHING LIVES LOST INTERACTIVE MAP

W.A. Fishers Lost at Sea Memorial Association

In 1916, two fishing vessels left Port Denison to fish as this was their livelihood. Harold, the father, and young son Francis in one boat, with elder sons Theodore and Albert in the other.

By mid-afternoon with the breeze freshening Harold and young Francis returned to port, leaving brothers Theodore and Albert to do one more drift before heading home. They never returned.

For many years each evening their grieving mother would go to the water and light her hurricane lamp in the hope this would one day guide her boys’ home. They never came home.

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Leonard Brigham at age 17

Fishers' Lives Lost at Sea

Read the tragic stories of loss at sea in Western Australian waters from the 1800s to the present day. Meticulously researched by our historians, these accounts will take you back in time.

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Memorial grave stone on the beach

Memorial Trail

Explore the W.A. Fishers’ Lost at Sea Memorial Trail, a collection of memorial sites commemorating fisher’s lives lost off our coast.

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Arthur Frank and Joe Bombara c1945

fishing families
of w.a.

Fishing is a family effort for the fishers and those at home supporting them, and here at FLatSea we are privileged to tell the stories of WA fishing families.

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