Abandoned Shipwrecks Act particular case of the salvage of the "Nuestra Señora de Atocha", an historic and culturally significant wreck off the coast of Florida, in which the State of Florida was unable to prevent illegal salvage operations due to a lack of a suitable law that would disallow it, spurred action at the federal level to address the situation. On April 29, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the bill (Abandoned Shipwrecks Act of 1987, Pub. L. 100-298, 102 Stat. 432) into law. The law provides that any wreck that lies embedded in a state's submerged lands is property of that state and
Shipwrecks of Western Australia Dawn", a former American Whale ship, the wooden whalers "Star", "Lively", "Lady Lyttelton" . The iron hulled SS "Macedon", the composite barque "Lady Elizabeth" and the other Rottnest Island shipwrecks assume considerable prominence as a suite of sites presented in the 'wreck trail', 'wreck access' or 'museum-without-walls' mode. In the modern era and the German auxiliary cruiser "Kormoran", adversaries in World War II, have been the subject of extensive study. They were both found in 2008. This is a listing of all shipwrecks recorded on the WA Museum database. Shipwrecks of Western Australia Over 1400 ships have been wrecked on