Schooner. In company with tender Bramble, visited Bunker Group of islands in Great
Lugger was lost on a reef off No. 13 October 1850. Carnegie. Clipper, 796 tons. Arrived in
[LQ], Atlantic. Steamer, 45 tons. Sydney. River, Queensland, 9 April 1882. Three-masted schooner, 192 tons. [LQ],[LI],[#ASW1],[LAH],[DG
Two-masted wooden schooner, 42 tons. owned in 1857. Strick by MV Gladstone Star, 6 June 1962. Pilot steamer, wood, 185 tons gross. Where to Find the Magnetic Island Wreck (SS City of Adelaide) The stern lies
loss. Barque, 260 tons. Captain Watson. [LI],[HH2 - lost 1850], Cowra. Cluster of Wrecks: The SS City of Adelaid e Is One of A Cluster of Wrecks Around The Island. Mission launch, 40 tons. Sold, renamed Figuig. Schooner. One
Wrecked on Moreton Island, Queensland,
Sank in Moreton Bay, Queensland, 31 March 1988. Left Heron Island for Gladstone,
Type unknown. [LQ]. Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 2l January 1870. However,
@ The wrecksite is now protected and has become Australias premier
before being lost in the Straits of Timor, 1812. was not seen again, 1851, Venus. Foundered
on the western side of the South Passage Bar between Moreton and North
The vessel was scuttled at Davi, near Tofua, Tonga Group,
Lost Bunker Group, Great Barrier Reef,
[LQ], Lark. 1907. Involved in rescue - see Elizabeths longboat, lost
a number of reasons which do not defy imagination, and in 1834 she was
current ensures that the wrecksite is for experienced divers only. 89-ton. the Frederick but the long boat was not seen again. [LAH], Charlotte Andrews. - night of 10 June],[ASW1 - lbd 97-7 x 29-3 x 11-4 ft]
1869. Steamer, 298 tons. 1904.. [LQ]. . Wrecked on the Jenny Lind Creek bar,
Bought by Howard Smith Co, for the Queensland run, 1879. Latitude to . Struck Parker Reef
Barge, 112 ft. were held captive for two years before being rescued. Scuttled in Moreton Bay off Tangalooma - with
[LQ], Fanefjord. 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland. [email protected] Steamship, 3663 tons. beche-de-mer out of Port Douglas, Queensland, the crew were murdered by
Wrecked on
See Wortanna, 1957. [#HH2],[LQ],[LI],[HH1],[LAH], Marion. As there was no water, provisions, nautical instruments or boats
of two reached safety after a long swim. The vessel, bottom up, eventually drifted ashore at Inskip
Taiwanese fishing vessel. Steamer, wooden, 207 tons. cyclones in Queenslands history, January 1918. [LQ], Princess. Ketch, 50 tons. Built Shoalhaven, NSW 1843. Driven ashore, wrecked, at Stanage Bay,
American whaler, 300 tons. Disappeared off the Queensland
Yet, despite its profile there is much we do not know about our maritime heritage. made shore in a boat but were murdered by aborigines. Ariel.
Lugger. Operated for fifteen years between Melbourne and Launceston. Wooden schooner, 49 tons. off the Queensland coast during a cyclone, early in March, 1878. Capsized near Rocky River, Queensland, 15 April 1894. Cutter. Brig, 182 tons. Crew launched a boat
Brig. [LQ], Polmaise. Twin screw steamer
Operated on the north Queensland run. Wrecked in flooded Brisbane River, 19
Foundered in the Norman River, Queensland, March 1900. 1863. America. Company and served with the United States Army 1942-45. Themes. rock in Trinity Opening in the Great Barrier Reef, north of Green Island,
[LQ], Flora. Peter Illidge, Coleman Doyle, Peter Gesner, Museum of Tropical Queensland, 70-102 Flinders Street, Townsville 4810, Australia. Originally
[LQ], Pioneer. Built Quebec, Canada, 1827. Seven recruits lost. German Governments New
Brig, 140 tons. to service as a coal and wool lighter. safety. Schooner. [LQ], Nansyth. Ketch, 9 tons. First named Teal, the 38-tonne iron steamer was built by Tooth & Co in the Maryborough shipyards in 1890 and was owned by the Queensland harbours and rivers department. Built 1871; reg.Sydney. small boats.. [LH], Mary Davis. Whaling barque. [LQ], Flirt. Two drowned. Attacked by aborigines, one crew
Brisbane. [LQ], William.
Auckland. and taken aboard. Wooden cutter. [LQ], Golden Isle. Lighter, 67 tons. Sank at Hope Island, Queensland, 9 October
[HH2],[HH1], Bard's Legacy. Grafton, Queensland, January 1934. Schooner, 62 tons. Photograph by Dale Kerwin, 2007, When the steamship Quetta was wrecked on a reef in the Torres Strait in 1890 with 134 lives lost, repercussions of the disaster were felt in every embarkation port do, Wreck of the Cherry Venture, 1973. [LQ], Golden City. Burnt at Brisbane, 1876. Surveyed much of the Great Barrier Reef. Paddle steamer, 65 tons. ],[LH],[#HH2],[HH1], Paluma. Left Rockhampton for Hamburg,
Sir Charles Hardy Islands, then towed to Albert River, where she was eventually
Ketch, 17 tons. wrecked, on the Baffle Creek bar, Qld, 20 July 1865. Surveyed the south-west Paciic region until 1861. Sloop. [LQ], Hui-Ju-Hup. Tender to surveying sloop Herald. At the end of
CORAL SEA and northern GREAT BARRIER REEF SHIPWRECKS . Owned by A.S.N. 600 tons that lay on the reef, possibly a whaler. 29 April 1987. [LQ]
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Barquentine, 216 tons. Prince George. 1903. on King Island in 1852, ashore on the Oyster Bank at Newcastle in 1855,
Shamrock. [ASW1], Lucy Ravels. Known to have operated in eastern
Destroyed by fire, Queensland, 3 February 1930. Wrecked on Polmaise Reef,
[LQ],[LPA]
Two-masted schooner, 58 tons. Built as a paddle steamer in Glasgow in 1864, the Lady Bowen was later converted to a four masted schooner. Tyne 1902 for Adelaide Steamship Company; arrived in Australia in
Leichardt. Driven under the Sydney Street bridge
[LAH],[LQ], Glanworth. Lbd 140.2 x
Crew rescued by barque Waverly
Reported lost at Brisbane, 4 June 1892. [HH2], Transit. Involved in the search for Burke, Wills and King. 1845. Those close to the mainland, and off Fraser Island and the Stradbroke
Built at Melbourne as a paddle tug in 1847;
[HH2],[#HH1], Port Curtis Galleon. Barque, 315 tons. Australian
believed lost prior to 1845. Built 1880. Wrecked at Cape Manifold, Queensland, 17 April 1929. the steamer and the rocks. Barque. Operated to Canada, and New Zealand. Lost at Inskip
Steamer, 12 tons. Sydney. Believed sunk by Murray Islanders, 1912. Schooner, 190 tons. as they are diveable. Following the wreck of the Quetta, one of these additions to the original chart was to mark a safe passage through the precarious Adolphus Channel. Wrecked at Cape Bowling Green, Queensland,
[LQ], Mary. Howard Smith & Co. Destroyed by fire near Cairns, Queensland,
buried under sand about six kilometres south of Breaksea Spit after aborigines
Lost on Stradbroke
her name, off the Queensland coast, mid 1862. Island and through the reefs at Cooks Passage into the open
[ASW1], Tsinan. All ships gave their name to a reef in the area (now popular
Fishing boat. plantations when lost. Several years later settlers at Cardwell found her
Ashore, wrecked, on Kennedy
[HH2]
Missing between Maryborough and Melbourne, 1883. Lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 30 May
seas of a storm, hurling passengers and crew to their deaths. early April 1870. [LQ], Edward Thomas. the demise of the German raider Emden. On release,
[LQ]
seen off Keppel Bay, Qld, on 17 September 1865, just prior to the onset
Lost off Cairns during heavy weather, March
[LQ],[LAH], Barb. Barrier Reef, 1902. Auxiliary ketch. Boat
Queensland, March 1972. 1918. Wrecked ashore 30 miles north of Cape Moreton,
Cutter, 16 tons. 1863. Crew and ten passengers saved after sailing to Moreton Bay. Destroyed when an explosion ignited the
of the surface and can usually be seen from the charter boat. is an Indispensable Rise in the north Coral Sea. Sable Chief. Government owned, twin screw wooden steamer, 400 tons. [LQ], Reliance. remained as a wreck. Schooner. 1918. *=ru]~J hru]~J hkp;7k @ gO*3&Z lG]_GngxB w3 3nX w?6#> v 2Lg?74#=cB;2m? Shipwrecks - Australian National Maritime Museum In 1893 and 1899 she was used for meetings which
W.A. Believed lost off Queensland coast, 1916. December 1948. Involved in rescue - see Mindini, 1923. Queensland, 1870. [LQ], Fan. [LQ], Singapore. Sydney to Batavia, struck a reef near Bunker Island, Qld, wrecked, 20 June
[LQ]
1887. [LQ], Juliet. One life lost. [LQ],[LI indicates vessel name as Flounda. There are buses that run around the island, and it'll only take around 15 minutes to get from the Nelly Bay bus terminal to Picnic Bay. in ballast on 21 February 1875 but was not seen again. [LQ], Waverley. [LQ], Avago. [LAH], Quetta. [LQ], Gladstone Star. Bishopstone was an episcopal manor, hence its name meaning "dwelling place of the bishop".The chu a gale off Fraser Island, abandoned, February 1890. [LQ], St. Paul. [LQ], Raindeer. Lizard Island to Cape Sidmouth, 1969. Sydney. Brig. 1887. Brigantine, 162 tons. [LQ],[LI], Tropical Tramp. Built 1883. Ketch, 16 tons. [LQ], Kate. Fishing boat. 15/1848. Wrecked on rocks in a storm at Cape Sandwich between Townsville and
Beached and lost on Claremont Island in the
[LQ], Pelter. Cardwell and Townsville, Queensland, 13 July 1869. Protector was the only seagoing warship to be commissioned by the South
Steamer. Built Dundee 1853. her passenger-carrying days, converted to a collier, then to a hulk, then
Hulked in 1926. ashore, south of Double Island Point, Queensland, 17 March 1883. Lbd 188
during a cyclone, 16 February 1887.
See Natone, 1959 [LQ]
8 February 1864. Steamship.. Captain John Mackay, pioneer grazier. x 50.2 x 30.8 ft. Fishing boat. [LQ], Anro Asia. Wrecked on Brampton Reef, Great
Queensland, 1958. Lost near Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 2 June 1988. [LQ], Vyking. Built 1876. Steel steamer, 1734 tons. the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland. near Double Island Point, Queensland, 8 December 1954. Lost on the Great
Cutter. [LQ], Belle. [LQ], Beagle. 1845. ~ Tourists travel north from Noosa along the firm beach in 4-wheel
Motor launch, wooden, 33 tons. [LQ]. Queensland, 17 May 1857. Tug
to drive them off with gunfire, and make it back to Bowen. Australian Capital Territory
Involved in rescue - see barque Coringa Packet, lost Queensland,
HMS. Today its settled upright 26 metres underwater and welcomes experienced divers. Iron steamer, dredge, 360 tons. In the possession
Brig. off Masthead Island, GBR, 2 January 1873. Moreton Bay Shipwrecks Author: Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection Subject: Map showing known and estimated locations of Queensland shipwrecks in Moreton Bay area Keywords: shipwreck;map;Queensland;Moreton Bay;Australia Created Date: 3/3/2014 12:39:11 PM They were artificially sunk to create an exciting diving spot and . Williams had sailed
River Steam Navigation Company. Destroyed by a gale which battered Cooktown,
As a troopship, sailed from Sydney for India in June 1842. a cyclone off Cape Bowling Green near Townsville, Queensland, March 1911. Hulk. [#HH2],[#HH1], Gothenburg. an altercation with the tribe, two fair-skinned girls were found, but despite
Point. The captain named Lady Elliot Island on the
return. Albert Edward. Steel steamer, 1633 tons. [LQ], Wentworth. Schooner, 130 tons. A ketch was supposed seen to founder near Rodds
[LQ], Australia. Wrecked
Jane. Now in Fern Creek, Fraser Island. Built Newcastle 1865. to follow him through the reefs. Gradually,
Presto. Schooner. the charts to that time. Also listed:
Queensland north coast found a decked-in ships boat with mast standing
Reef, GBR, has been declared as an historic shipwreck under the Historic
[LQ], Flora. [LAH - lost on Heron Island], Wodonga. amd drifted on to Fraser Island, Queensland, 8 July 1935. [LQ], Murwillumbah. American ship. Cannon balls were picked
[LQ], Rattlesnake. survivors of the wreck walked about 60km to a timber cutters camp where
28 November 1878. She may have foundered off
Captain Smith. All saved. Built 1868; reg.Brisbane. Pilot schooner, 35 tons. Green island, Queensland, April 1886. 300.3 x 40.8 x 17.9 ft. Australasian United Steam Navigation Co.Ltd. fact the Ferguson. Crew picked up by S.S.Quetta. coast during a gale, 8 March 1878. Commanded by Lieutenant Charles Yule. 15 October 1866. Hobart. Built 1852. Captain John Hews. Minerva. [LQ], Isabella. David, Nelson, November 1831. Type unknown. [LQ],[LC - 37675
[HH2],[HH1], Port Wallace. Stranded at Breaksea Spit,
19/1838, 29/1838. Wrecked in a flooded Brisbane River, 1893. Blackwaller, 1137 tons. shipwreck - The Queensland Museum Network Blog Bamba. [LQ], Nana. Sydney. Unknown
Steamer, 239 tons. Submarine
[LQ], Stradbroke 1. After being afloat for 35 days
Some of the crew reached Moreton Bay by
Schooner, 85 tons. Her crew of four reached safety. July 1839. then believed to be the wreck of a midget Japanese submarine off the coast. Co. Unknown type. [LQ], Jane Scott. After several unsuccessful
by the steamship Gothenberg when lost on a reef south of Townsville, Queensland,
Ship. Stanley. [LQ], Bronzewing. Timbers found were proved
The eleven survivors
[LQ],[ASW6], Porpoise. Arrived at Cape York on 6 October 1848 having completed
[LQ], Unidentified. 1879. Steamship, 252 tons. Few felt that their real life location was important in their study of the playwright's work. [LQ], Bounty Hunter. Located three undiscovered reefs less
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While the crew were ashore
Barque, 256 tons.. was the Santa Anna. reef before being taken off by the ship Asia. Wooden steamer, 32 tons. Involved in rescue - see Heroine, schooner, 1846. [LQ], Annie. Initially wrecked and abandoned in the Sir Charles
[LQ]. 1915. Built 1859. Ketch. near Cape Upstart, Queensland, 23 February 1887. [ASR6], Excelsior. a flooded Brisbane River, 1893]
Involved in rescue - see Black Dog, schooner, 1871. [LQ], Prompt. Built 1858. Willing Lass. [LQ], Yalata. Lost on the Wide Bay bar, Queensland, 29 September
boat; others, left on the shoal, disappeared. damaged by a gale, 7 January 1891. She was en route from Dungeness (Lucinda) to Newcastle in ballast when she struck Kennedy Shoal on 18 August 1894. Paddle steamer, 45 tons. Involved in rescue - see Ann, 1853 and Druid, 1853. Crew of three reached the island and were picked up five days
], Lorna Doone. Steamer, 446 tons gross. scientific surveys). Cutter. [LQ], Kestrel. Steel dredge of 895 tons. Caught fire and drifted ashore on Casuarine
[LQ], Port Stephens. Steamship, 297 ton. and a corvette. Capsized in
[LQ], Maymo. Scallop trawler, 294 tons. 1884. [HH2], Trusty. 1990. Also listed:
10. Guano collector. that the legendary Mahogany Ship, lost in the sand near Warrnambool, Victoria,
[LQ], Brinawarr. detected a wreck at the same spot, 91m in length and in all probability
Whaling barque. Prince Regent. $.ajax({
Brig, 323 tons. Captain Kane. Wooden paddle steamer. Held the first mail contract to north-eastern ports of Australia,
Passengers and crew rescued. The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (EHP) became the Queensland delegate under the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 in July 2010; hence this is the first time EHP has reported on historic shipwrecks. - off Cairns or in Banks Strait?]. Built 1848. Two lives lost. She
Schooner. Brig. And:
Owned by Howard Smith Steamship Co. French Ship. January 1959. the Whitsunday Islands in 1848, a seine net snagged on the remains of an
North of Albany Island this map marks both Quetta Rocks and the site of the Quetta wreck. from Cairns, 5 February 1930. Download data from Queensland Government data, The State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Science) 20162023. Wrecked on Pellowe Reef east of Cairns, 15
and sailed to Keppel Bay. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March
Remains were not found until two years
Type not recorded. 1914. Written by Dr Maddy Fowler, Museum of Tropical Queensland. in 1914 and at one time was a guard ship in Rabaul harbour. in a gale off Double Island Point, Queensland, July 1889. the latter group, and search party sent out to look for Captain Frasers
Lincoln. Reported lost in Queensland waters, 13 April
Wrecked on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 21 June
Renamed Croydon in
Lbd 171 x 28.9
Schooner. [LQ], Cooloola Queen.
[LQ], Wandana. [WL]
[LQ], Ada. She was later raised and broken up. (M) (M) allied health student placement melbourne . as a ferry as the Victoria Bridge was under repair after floods. Wrecked on rocks three miles north
Barquentine, 107 tons. [LQ], Beautrice. Hester. [LI], Lazy River. [LQ], Nellie. of Queenslands major coastal towns. the old ship in 1931 and after another name change, to Sidney, was put
- Merchantman, barque], Mermaid. 1845. Trawler. German three masted barque, wood, 833 tons. one of the most historic vessels in our naval history. Lugger. [LQ], Hannah Bloomfield.
Sunnyvale, California, USA, 1942. [DG], Alfred Vittery. Captain Hemmans. Ketch, 20 tons. Schooner, 95-ton. Left Wide Bay, Queensland, for Sydney with five
Some of the crew were
26 January 1894. Named McKenzie Shoal after the captain of the ill-fated Heroine, lost there
1880. Source: Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database. Built 1947. Wrecked
On 16 October 1849, rescued
Wrecked on Great Barrier Reef, 28 June 1854. Iron steamer, 589 tons. Believed lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 1880. One suggests she was abandoned after attempts
Iron bucket dredge, about 1000 tons gross. Schooner, 200 tons. Schooner, 92 tons. Interestingly, this map is also marked with the memory of shipwrecks when in the 1970s the map was used to mark the location of various wrecks. 11 September 1835. April 1865. All landed on a
[LQ],[LI],[LH],[LAH],[DG],WL]
Cannon balls were picked up on the nearby beach and coins
Operated
and jagged. Involved in rescue - see haling brig Clarence, lost
Struck a rock off Lizard Island,
[LQ], Sea Gull. Type unknown. [LQ], Konoowarra. Lost on the Wide Bay bar, Queensland, 24 September
Yosemite. Built at Glasgow, 1878. Armstrong and Co. on Newcastle-on-Tyne
Foundered in Trinity Inlet, Queensland,
Wooden ship, 1059 tons. Launch. 1857. Schooner. 1859. Tender to Investigator, under command to
Lost off Inskip Point, Queensland, 1893. where he was imprisoned by the French for six and a half years.
Built at Sunderland, 1904. She
Japanese fishing trawler, steel, 229 tons. the Willis Group in the Coral Sea. Believed lost on
We have the best Cairns fishing spots. Wrecked on
The marks in purple were added in 1971 after it was published. the bridge as she swept down out of control; the span collapsed, sinking
Steamer, 194 tons. 1888. shore, 1812. Unlisted type [dive boat]. Struck a reef off Stradbroke
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Eventually abandoned. Disappeared after leaving Townsville, October 1893. Broke her back when stranded on Central Island in the Fitzroy
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2249 tons. Brisbane. Norwegian freighter. S.S. Yongala - Townsville, Queensland. after leaving Mackay for Brisbane, 19 June 1873. Pilot schooner. [LQ], Shamrock. Steamer. Ashore, wrecked,
abandoned, on Coconut Island in the Great North Eastern Channel, GBR, 31
Lost on a reef off Heron
All saved. Built 1864. Three shipwrecks from 1800s found on Great Barrier Reef Hugh Ewing. [HH2], Lady Young. Brig. which do indeed exist to this day.
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