- Did a 16th-century Portuguese vessel run aground here? Doubtful, but why not celebrate it anyhow?
- The afternoon is overcast, the ocean churning, between Port Fairy and Warrnambool, on the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia.
- A man and woman carry shovels and a metal detector along the beach.
- I ask if they are looking for Warrnambool’s notorious wreck, the Mahogany Ship. Without hesitation, the man answers: ‘I’ve been searching for the Mahogany Ship for 15 years.’
A recent news article...
https://mfame.guru/the-15-year-search-for-the-mahogany-ship/
When my husband worked for Viv Hand, a land surveyor in Warrnambool, he was browsing through old records and saw a notation of a set of bearings showing where the Mahogany shipwreck was located. My husband passed away in 1995 and consequently didn’t follow up.