Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Friday 21 December 1917, page 8


OLD WRECK LOCATED.

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By their searching, operations on the ocean floor contiguous to our coastline the State trawlers have earned quite a reputation for locating wrecks. The trawler Koranga, which returned to port yesterday, after a successful fishing cruise on grounds reaching from off Botany to the vicinity of Coalcliff, located, four miles east of Wattamolla, an-other wreck. On this occasion a large stock anchor very old and heavily corroded was picked up, with also pieces of wooden wreck-

age. The anchor - or what remains of it - weighs about 4cwt or 5cwt.