Adelaide was a wooden cutter used in the cedar trade that was wrecked and lost off the Hawkesbury River in Broken Bay, New South Wales, in July 1837 while carrying a load of cedar. The wreck has not been located, but a vessel of its description was reported capsized between Cabbage Tree Bay and Bird Island at approximately 33.6ðS 151.3ðE.
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Further reading
Online Databases<br /> Australian Shipping - Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968 including shipwrecks https://web.archive.org/web/20110423022433/http://www.ozships.net/ozships/<br /> Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks - New South Wales Shipwrecks https://web.archive.org/web/20091002083826/http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/nsw-main.html
Books
- Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast. By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925âÂÂ1995 Oceans Enterprises. 1993 .
- Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, , Call number 910.4530994 BAT
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 2 1851âÂÂ1871 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925âÂÂ1995. Sydney. Reed, 1980 910.4530994 LON
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 3 1871âÂÂ1900 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925âÂÂ1995. Geelong Vic: List Publishing, 1982 910.4530994 LON
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 4 1901âÂÂ1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925âÂÂ1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1987 910.4530994 LON
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 5 Update 1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925âÂÂ1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1991 910.4530994 LON