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New South Wales
Name Adonis
Owner Patrick Hogan
Port of registry Sydney
Ship registration number: 79/1874
Ship official number: 71807
Builder Dent Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Completed 1874
Fate Wrecked 22 December 1889
General characteristics
Type Wood Brigantine
Tonnage 108 GRT
Displacement 104 NRT
Length 28.16  m
Beam 6.309  m
Draught 2.529  m

Adonis was a wooden brigantine built at Jervis Bay, New South Wales. She was wrecked on 22 December 1889, approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of Crowdy Head, when she sprang a leak whilst carrying coal between Wollongong and the Richmond River.

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