SS ''Perth'', formerly SS ''Penola'' was a
steamship operated by the
Adelaide Steamship Company
The Adelaide Steamship Company was an Australian shipping company and later a diversified industrial and logistics conglomerate. It was formed by a group of South Australian businessmen in 1875. Their aim was to control the transport of goods b ...
. ''Penola'' was notable for ramming and sinking , a passenger steamship, in
Port Phillip Bay
Port Phillip (Kulin: ''Narm-Narm'') or Port Phillip Bay is a horsehead-shaped enclosed bay on the central coast of southern Victoria, Australia. The bay opens into the Bass Strait via a short, narrow channel known as The Rip, and is completel ...
on 19 November 1865. Renamed ''Perth'', the steamship ran aground and was wrecked off
Point Cloates
Point Cloates (), formerly known as Cloate's Island, is a peninsula approximately 100 kilometres south south-west of North West Cape, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It features Point Cloates Lighthouse and the ruins of a previous li ...
in Western Australia on 17 September 1887.
See also
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List of shipwrecks in 1887
The list of shipwrecks in 1887 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1887.
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Ships of South Australia
Steamships of Australia
Shipwrecks of Western Australia
Adelaide Steamship Company
1863 ships
Maritime incidents in September 1887