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

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 schooner Colonist 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′S 151°47′E / 32.92°S 151.79°E / -32.92; 151.79.

References

Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast. By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995 Oceans Enterprises. 1993 ISBN 978-0-646-11081-3.
Australian Shipwrecks - Vol.1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0-589-07112-2, 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

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1898
Shipwrecks	19 Jan: Active 25 Jan: Koonya 5 Feb: Clara Nevada 6 Feb: Veendam 15 Feb: USS Maine March (unknown date): Eliza Anderson 1 May: Castilla, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzón, Marques del Duero, Reina Cristina, Velasco 5 May: Hereward 7 May: Merksworth May (unknown date): Adelaide 2 Jun: USS Merrimac 3 Jul: Almirante Oquendo, Cristóbal Colón, Furor, Infanta Maria Teresa, Plutón, Vizcaya 4 Jul: La Bourgogne 5 Jul: Reina Mercedes 12 Jul: Regulator 20 Jul: Wendouree 21 Jul: Jorge Juan 31 Jul: Lapérouse 14 Aug: USS Mangrove 22 Aug: Kate 4 Oct: Bessie Maude 14 Oct: Henry Chisholm, Mohegan 25 Oct: L.R. Doty 27 Oct: St. Peter 1 Nov: Infanta Maria Teresa 10 Nov: 104 26-27 Nov: Portland 23 Dec: Joys 29 Dec: Glenavon Unknown date: Gouverneur Generaal Loudon, Lofthus
Other incidents	February (unknown date): Coptic 27 May: Cestrian 4 Jul: Cromartyshire 14 Aug: Sarah Dixon 22 Aug: Oakland 9 Dec: Castalia 21 Dec: Oakland
1897 1899

Shipwrecks and scuttled vessels of New South Wales

Shipwrecks by region
Richmond–Tweed	Adventure Agnes Enterprize SS Friendship Tassie III HMAS Waree SS Wollongbar
Mid North Coast	Abbey Ability Absalom Acielle Acme Ada and Ethel Admiral Gifford Adonis Advance (wr.1933) Agnes Irving SS Catterthun Edwin MV Fairwind SS Fingal Fitzroy Governor Hunter Jane HMAS K9 Kalang Kooroongaba Titan Trial Wanganui SS Wollongbar
Hunter	Ability Active (1850) Active (1877) Ada Adelaide Adolphe Advance (1884) Agnes Alhambra Bee The Bluebell Collision SS Cawarra SS Colonist Contest Dundee Eleanor Lancaster Elizabeth Henrietta Estramina Excalibur Fido Francis Gertrude Governor King Grecian Hope SS Lindus Merksworth TSS Maianbar Norfolk SS Oakland Recovery MV Sygna Wendouree USS WST-1
Central Coast	Adelaide Advance HMAS Allenwood SS Bonnie Dundee Hazard Henri PSS Maitland MV Nimbin HMAS Paterson
Northern Beaches	Adelaide Aenid Argument Charlotte M24 Japanese Midget Submarine SS Myola Narara Queen Bee HMAS Swan Tuncurry Whale Windsor
Sydney Eastern Suburbs	Agnes Colonist Dunbar Edward Lombe HMAS Goolgwai Greycliffe PS Herald Hereward Iron Chieftain Iserbrook Itata HMAS Karangi SS Kate HMAS Kuttabul Martha Three Bees William Cossar HMAS Woomera
Southern Sydney	Adelphoi Advance (1872) Advance (1874) Koonya
Illawarra	Adele Adolphus Agnes SS Bombo Comboyne Hawkesbury Packet Queen of Nations Shockwave
Shoalhaven	Advance Aeolus Agnes Hive Koraaga Nancy HMAS Voyager Wandra
Far South Coast	Dureenbee George Iron Knight Ly-ee-Moon Olive Cam

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