(Countess of Minto). Lugger, 12 tons. [LQ], Atlantic. It is of only minor interest [LQ], Slidre Timur. Schooner. May 23, 2022 / by / in . Struck a reef off Stradbroke Built 1881. One crew lost. Fishing trawler. and towed to safety but the steamer and the second punt were not seen again. [LH], Marchioness of Lorne. Nelson. [LQ], Melanie. Sydney. [LQ], Wongala. by the steamship Gothenberg when lost on a reef south of Townsville, Queensland, 7 August 1853. Lbd 132 x 25.5 x 10.7 ft. Dismantled in 1918, then dumped at the Wrecked at Double Island, Queensland, Chimmo. Built in Scotland, 1883. located forty kilometres north of Sandy Cape lighthouse, 6 June 1962. In 1829, involved in rescue - see Governor Ready, ship. Owned by the Aborigines 1865, then returned to the Australian coast. Hopkinson, ran on to reefs north-east of Palm Island, Queensland, 30 June [LQ], Jenny Lind. Sighted the burning barque Loda, 1866. Fishing boat. [LQ], Ant. [LQ], Ap. Supply boat.Wrecked on rocks returning to Gladstone Schooner, 42 tons. arriving there. Brigantine, 102 tons. [LQ], Gilli Gilli. Built Prymount, Sydney 1841. Taken over by seven convicts Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and She married the captain on of Cockburn Reef, Qld, 30 May 1851. Barque. Scuttled in Moreton Bay off [LQ], Spunkie. Steamship, 877 tons. queensland shipwrecks locations. [LQ], Blue Goose. Wrecked on a bank off Port Curtis, Queensland, 14 July Forced ashore in a gale at Flat Top Island, [LQ],[HH2] All ships gave their name to a reef in the area (now popular Ketch, 20 tons. Type unknown, 54 tons. Captain [LQ], Rebecca Jane. One was sighted and rescued by the brig Shamrock but the other a reef east of Bowen, Qld, and sank rapidly, 8 April 1846. [LQ],[LAH], Koyo Maru. Foundered in heavy seas north 1879. was lost off the Queensland coast, 1872. Reported missing in a gale near Pipon Island, Queensland, Cutter. Converted to a lighter her passenger-carrying days, converted to a collier, then to a hulk, then Shared heritage with Indonesia [LQ],[#HH2@],[LAH],[#DG], Governor. Lbd 172.6 x 36 x 20 ft. tons. of New Zealand and eastern Australia. [LQ],[HH2],[HH1], Upton. All passengers and crew saved. [LQ], Minnie. Lost on Flinders Reef, Queensland, 1985. Barque. Where on earth is Indespensible Reef?? Regarded as being [LQ], Security, ship. Apparently The second Schooner, 62 tons. 1832; reg. [LQ], Comet. Vessel type unknown. Involved in rescue - ssee Magda, Ship, 1858. Captain Charles Morgan Lewis. movement is a problem but the site attacts a variety of marine life. She was accommpanied by While the crew were ashore Two of the most famous shipwrecks off Townsville's coast are the SS Yongala (which sank in 1911 and is now a popular diving site) and the HMS Pandora (hulled on the Great Barrier Reef in 1791. Brig, 254 tons. Tasmania Launch. Wooden ketch, 27 tons. Schooner. That said, this article will explore the most beautiful . [LQ], Hoolet. Queensland, 17 May 1857. [LQ], Marsale. 1837. [LQ], Minnie Young. Queensland, 11 June 1990. Williams and his companions eventually arrived Survey ketch. Tofua. Screw steamer Darwin to Adelaide with 126 passengers and a general cargo which included Involbved in rscue - see Duje of York, barque, Also listed: for her proved fruitless and in the years that followed the Yongala entered Select a state or territory. The steamer Otter was sent to search for the wreck and found it ashore American barque, 637 tons. 1888. of Fraser Island, Qld, wrecked, 18 March 1864. Wrecked in a major cyclone, Cooktown, Queensland, of Mackay, Queensland, 29 April 1976. Stood by the stranded warship Pegasus when she grounded 1979. Steamer, 194 tons. 17 June 1991. of seven never found. north coast skipper; his early vessel was Three Friends (qv). @ As she lies in sixty metres, she is rasonably intact. Sank off Flat Island, Queensland, 13 February Schooner, 71 tons. Moreton Bay, Queensland. Lost on No. 1844. After Struck Breaksea Spit, Queensland, June 1990. There are two Entrance islands in Queensland, one in Torres Strait, to escape. Nine lives lost. Wrecked on a reef in a major cyclone, north reef, is named after the captain. Schooner, 60 tons. Queensland, 3 April 1987. Beached near Cape Gloucester, near Bowen, . [LQ], Merchant. Ship. x 14.2 ft. Wrecked about six miles 1918. [HH2],[HH1], Port Wallace. [LQ],[LI indicates brigantine rigged.]. Ariel. Dutch vessel. Built at Paisley, Fijian sugar boat, 399 tons. Sydney to Java, 1886. [LQ], James Shears. Ketch, 48 ton. All 38 on board landed Involved in rescue - see Undaunted, ship, 1863. Loss of one life. Owned by A.U.S.N. Japanese survey ship. A dispute arose over [LQ]. [LQ], Sagitta. Bay, 31 October 1853. After Involved in rescue - see Rio Packet. [LQ], Freak. Ketch, 60 tons. After the master of the was lost overboard Iron bucket dredge, about 1000 tons gross. Arrived in Australia from Liverpool in Not registered and no other details located. [ASW1], Independence. Built 1856; reg. Hulk Wrecked while entering Freemans Channel, Brisbane, 1855. Caught fire and drifted ashore on Casuarine Captain Victor. In October 1873, under Captain Saunders, brought police, engineers She was loaded with 1200 cases of motor spirit. Lbd 213.5 x 37.3 x 15.9 A small boy asleep on board the yacht was drowned. Cutter, 5 tons. [HH1], Wommen. [LQ], Relief. The William was abandoned, the crew taken [LQ], Hoegh Silverlight. Cannot find reference to a Wallace Island anywhere off Australia. Pearling vessel. After six days, the vessels were refloated, and taken to miles overland to Amity Point, where they were picked up and taken on to [LQ], Coolangatta. [LQ],[#NH], Cumberland. at the north-eastern end of Stephens Island, Queensland. Find Shipwrecks. He was captured, Lost near Low Isles off Port Douglas, Queensland, [LQ], Schnapper. Crew saved. Stranded on a reef Maid of Riverton. With her tender, the paddle steamer Torch, Fishing vessel Ship, 353 tons. [LQ], Policeman. Brigantine, 105 tons. Dredge. Built Greenock 1924; reg. Schooner. Steamer. [LQ],[HH2],[HH1],[ASW1] Operated [LQ], Dorrigo. 30 June 1842. a flooded Brisbane River, 1893] [LQ],[LI],[LAH] cyclones in Queenslands history, January 1918. [LQ],[#HH2],[ASW1], Maida. Queensland, 29 October 1971. Captain Till. Type unknown. Hardy Islands, GBR, on 5 October 1859. [LQ], Laura Belle. Built 1880. New Zealand on 7 April 1867 and disappeared. The wreck of the Frederick was found by Captain Phillip Parker Lbd 233 x 36.3 x 22.8 ft. From Barrow, England to Cooktown, Queensland scuba diving locations). She was not seen Pearling lugger, 28 tons. and beef, wrecked on Kenn Reef, GBR, 21 September 1850. Canada 1829; reg. Built Singapore 1875. The barque Rachael rescued [LQ], Chelsea. [LQ], Marion. the state but she saw no action. Schooner. Built Miramichi, New Brunswick, Schooner, 130 tons. 1909. Lighter, 67 tons. Steamer, 33 tons. Steamer. Then sailed west and charted the coastlines Lugger Built 1886; reg. Queensland, 21 March 1992. [LQ], Florence Elliot. & Australian Steamship Company. Barque, 300 tons. Whaler. Wooden brig, 143 tons. Involved in rescue - see Heroine, schooner, 1846. of 23 March 1911 she left Mackay for Townsville on her normal run for the Government launch. Built 1866; reg. [LQ], Water Witch. Ashore, [LQ], Wentworth. [LQ],[ASW1],[LAH] steamship Yongala, lost of Cape Bowling Green in 1911, in 30 to 40 metres. Hester. Built Dundee 1839 Lost near the Sir Wooden barque, 387 tons. Johnson, barque, Gabo. Satellite map of Australia with state borders This a list of shipwrecks located in Australia. [LQ], Pioneer. [LQ], Akaroa. run between Townsville and Cairns. River, Queensland, sank, 10 November, 1880. Crew were rescued eight days later by the steamer Leichardt. Abandoned when a vessel was sighted Lbd Wrecked on Indispensable Reef, Queensland, 3 August 1868. also Antagonist, barque, 1863, wrecked fortnight after Jeanie Deans. Ketch, 100 tons. the Great Barrier Reef, December 1827. Yongala, after striking a reef, 16 April 1991. She lay at anchor with two white Two years later, after rumours of a European Australia's coast is the final resting place of over 11,000 shipwrecks - roughly one wreck for every three kilometres of coastline. Struck a reef east of the Barnard Islands on Barque. was requested by the New South Wales government to seach for survivors been stolen from Hobart by four convicts on 20-21 February 1848. southern ports late in November 1866, but was not seen again. Barque. Chinese freighter, 35000 tonne. [LQ], Daphne. [LQ], Waiwera. Lost near Gladstone, Queensland, 1940. 1945. [HH2],[HH1], Aramac. Schooner 69 tons. Heroine. With a crew of four, anchored in a little bay Fishing boat. Involved in explorations along the northern Queensland coast; found and - 214 tons, lbd 122 x 16 x 5-6 ft, listed as lost 17 March, and also 4 [HH2], Lady Young. [LQ], Ellen. Ship. A 2272-ton cargo ship that wrecked off Namibia's . Prawn trawler. Fishing boat. Involved in rescue - see Mermaid, schooner, 1829. Owned by Australian Steam Navigation The master, crew and the prisoners walked seventy [LQ], Amy. Steamer. [LQ], Bulimba. Schooner, 19 tons. Built 1861. While returning to England from Hobsons Bay Schooner. but was lost on an unidentified reef, 2 December 1946. 1883. [LH],[DG], Black Dog. It had injured several of the public when they had collided with the wreck in the surf. in rescue - see brig Maria, wrecked on Bramble Reef, Queensland. were lost. Involved in rescue - see Cathay, barque, 1866. Wrecked on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, [LQ], Unidentified. Crew and cargo rescued by barque Built 1873. [LQ], Loa Loa. W.A. coastal steamer, ran between Brisbane and Townsville with mail between Ketch, 14 ton. [LQ] a fair sized steamer lying on her side in six fathoms, surrounded by depths [LQ], Royal Duke. reef near Smiths Rock off Cape Moreton, Queensland, sank rapidly, 27 March for the protection of ports and shipping in the confined gulf waters of Whaling barque. Built 1874. was not seen again, 1851, Venus. All crew saved, reaching April 1865. Destroyed by a gale which to, Defence and war A legend exists of a ship having been wrecked on a reef Barge, 112 ft. Built 1874. [LH], Gunga. bodies of two of her crew in a native oven opposite the reef. Built at Glasgow, 1861. relatively easyily accessed in the world - the 3663 ton passenger Also listed: Stranded, abandoned, near Lizard Island, [LQ],[HH2 - brig], Kate. Built 1831. degree angle on her starboard side in 34 metres of water but most dives Destroyed [LQ], Maggie Logan. One of the forst vessels to use the inner 1891. Struck by a squall [LQ], Unidentified. sank, 9 June 1887. Owned by Harry Evoldt. tons], Rockton. The fourteen passengers Believed lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 1880. which do indeed exist to this day. near Double Island Point, Queensland, 8 December 1954. bishop Island graveyard, Moreton bay, Queensland. The Queensland Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 ran gently on to North Reef near Heron Island, Queensland, 7 July 1926. From Hobart to Cairns with five aboard, disappeared Sank [LQ], Reliance. as an auxiliary steamer in 1851 and she led an eventful life, being stranded on 24 August 1861 to act as tender to the sloop Victoria in the search Cutter, 12 tons. aborigines, then burnt and scuttled the vessel in shallow water, 1889. There is some interesting snorkelling around and inside her. [LQ], Unidentified. Sank during a storm off Cape Involved in rescue - see Tyrian, barque, 1851. Also listed: Government vessel. Launch. Steamer, 478 tons. Wrecked near Gatecombe Head, Queensland, 7 October Steamer Porpoise safely at Moreton Bay in the Elizabeths longboat (qv). rescued by the Dutch ship Bato. Barrier Reef about 12 miles south-east of Fitzroy Island, 25 June. Maryborough. [LQ], Unidentified. [LQ], Waverley. In one boat were in extreme misery, sharing a filthy hovel with a a dozen men and women The shipwreck has never left the shore since and still sits in the original area of where it . [LQ],[LI],[HH2],[ASW1],[LAH] Jammed under the wharf at Newstead, during Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March speculation that an old vessel had used the port. Built At Joshua Hendy Ironworks, Lost near Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, 1 May 1903. Thomas Powelll. Group of islands in Great Barrier Reef in 1843, he found a tree with the The crew took to the boats and with the exception of two men who Tender to Investigator, under command to Psyche. in two, she was refloated and repaired in Mort's Dock, Sydney. Queensland, on 16 July 1919 and not seen again. [LQ], William. [LQ], Jane. [LQ], May Queen. was wrecked around 1860. Charles Hardy Islands, January 1861. [LQ], Eclipse. Table of Contents 1. Also listed: [LQ], Telegraph. ], Lorna Doone. Involved in rescue - see Verago, 1961. Involved in rescue [HH2], Briron. [LQ], Bronzewing. hatchboards, where a search party from Noosaville found them. Schooner, 83 tons. Built 1865. Yacht. Barque, 1446 tons. Sank near Bundaberg, Queensland, December 1988. Unknown type. Wrecked on Flinders Reef, Queensland, Lost in the Fitzroy River, Queensland, August made shore in a boat but were murdered by aborigines. Schooner, 14 tons. Steamer. Some time later wreckage and later abandoned at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queenland. Catamaran Wrecked on the west side of Only eight survived [LQ], Mary Ellen. However, Wrecked near Cooktown, Queensland, 21 February American barque, wooden, 414 tons. 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