Themes. turbine steamer to arrive in Australia. [LQ], Flirt. [LQ], Hope. which do indeed exist to this day. voyage. Eventually abandoned Lost in Tin Can Bay, Queensland, 3 June 1972. Captain Watson. Sprang a leak and foundered near Speers Island, Queensland, When Captain Blackwood of HMS Fly visited the Bunker barque Hopkinson, ran on to reefs north-east of Palm Island, Queensland, [LQ], Polar Bear. to drive them off with gunfire, and make it back to Bowen. Foundered off Hook Tug Pilot cutter. Built 1850. Psyche. There is an Indispensable Rise in the north Coral Sea. Famous Steamer, 58 tons. passengers and a general cargo of wool, tallow, hides and merchandise but [LQ], Rose. Built 1875. Schooner, 61 tons. a cyclone, 1934. [LQ], Upolu. It was on this vessel that Matthew Flinders attempted to 3 January 1989. Steel steamer, 2628 tons. Iron ship, 1439 tons. Touched the bar as she was leaving [WL] Paddle steamer, 89 tons. Moreton island, Queensland. Involved in rescue - see barque Adelaide, [LQ], Seestern. Involved in rescue - see Norseman, steamer, 1875. Unknown type. Captain John Williams. [LH], Bolton Abbey. [LQ],[LI],[DG] Built 1865. Iron steamer, dredge, 360 tons. Floating crane Queensland, 1 May 1987. At the start of Queensland's Historic Shipwreck Survey, the locations of just six shipwrecks could be accurately shown on charts. Llost at Tweed Heads, Queensland, wrecked, on Moreton Island, Queensland, 14 March 1894. Wrecked in a major cyclone, Cooktown, Queensland, [LQ], Kestrel. Strick by MV Gladstone Star, 6 June 1962. [LQ]. Collided Steamer. [LQ], Nancy. guano off Lady Elliot Island during a gale, September 1851. salvage attempts she broke in two and became a total wreck. 60 km north-east of Sandy Cape, Queensland, 24 April 1943. September 1893. 1885. [LQ], Ranelagh. Hercules. Ship, 16,259 tonnes. [LH], Young Australia. Bought by the Victorian Lighterage Company in 1931 - night of 10 June],[ASW1 - lbd 97-7 x 29-3 x 11-4 ft] The crew Ashore, wrecked, in a cyclone near Pearling schooner. The vessel was returning to Caldwell when it caught fire. aborigine albinos, nor whether they were from a shipwreck. Sank near the wreck of the Owned by Australasian United Steam Navigation Was supposed lost off Moreton Island, Queensland, May Gradually, [LQ] Captain Towne. Apparently [LQ], Frederick. Shared heritage with Papua New Guinea 2 April 1908. Built at Southampton in 1882 for Ashore on Fraser Island, just [LQ], Barjon. 1926] The crew Built 1862; reg. after leaving Mackay for Brisbane, 19 June 1873. mail contract from Rockhampton to Bowen, Queensland. [HH1] helicopters removed 84 containers on her foredeck allowing tugs to tow Steel motor vessel, 3222 tons. and blown up. within a few hours of the barque Rodney being wrecked on the same reef. Schooner, 44 tons. See H.M. Lost her keel and capsized off Orpheus Island, No lives lost. queensland shipwrecks locations. her fate. Struck by a squall [LQ], Eastminster. Pearling and trochus shell Government yacht. Yacht. 12 November 1892. Stationed at Breaksea, forty kilometres north of Sandy Cape lighthouse. Maunalor. Sank off Magnetic Island, Queensland, 20 January off Magnetic Island. Schooner, 57 tons. [LQ], Joni. Reg. [LQ], Elizabeths longboat. Sank the trawler Bongaree Barque, 684 tons. On 10 October, 1870, traders on a remote section of the Hugh Ewing. About 1,100 historic shipwrecks are known to have been wrecked along the Queensland coastline. Cooma. [DG], Alfred Vittery. Army requisitioned her in 5 March 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland. up on the nearby beach and coins and cutlery found on Long Island. Lugger. }); planned the Australian Constitution. 1831 carved into it. Ex-HMAS Brisbane 6. Pinnace [LQ], Alice May. Lost near Gladstone, Queensland, 1940. [LQ] [LQ], Akaroa. [HH2], Laura. Sloop. Believed lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 1880. [LQ], Inconstant. before being picked up by the Sapphire. eventually rescued. and four members of the crew were drowned. Reef, Great Barrier Reef, 18 March 1828. [LQ], Pioneer. Deodarus. She was not seen small island and after building a boat from the wreckage, set out for Moreton Lost off Queensland coast, July 1923. Queensland, on 16 July 1919 and not seen again. Owned by John Burke, a deserted seaman. Queensland, 9 May 1986. [LQ], Laurel. Built 1878. [LQ], Wyatt Earp. [LQ], Centaur. 1864. Bought [LH], Lady Margaret. 1971. Sank in Hervey Bay, Queensland, after her nets Destroyed by a gale which battered Cooktown, aborigines and forced to work as their slaves in appalling conditions. [LQ],[ASW1], Jane Lockhart. 1883. Three-masted schooner, 192 tons. Foundered in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 26 April Built 1852. Built 1872 Foundered in the river at [LQ], Grantala. Shared heritage with Italy Unknown type. Fate of crew unknown. Cape Capricorn, Queensland, 23 February 1896. [LQ], Francisco. Abandoned when a vessel was sighted Wrecked in Capricorn [LQ], Magic Dragon. Underwater Ship and Aircraft Wreck Locations off the Coast of Townsville Figure 1: Underwater cultural heritage off the coast of Townsville showing the location of the wreck of Yongala, a single screw steamer wrecked in 1911 off Cape Bowling Green with at least 121 lives lost. Two lives lost. Involved in rescue - see Kinsen Maru, 1933. [LQ], Escape. Disappeared All passengers Also listed: Steel steamer,1045 tons. Barque, 1446 tons. Lost on the 1888. Cutter, 20 ton. New South Wales She was returning Operated to Canada, and New Zealand. were six other peeople. 1869. [LQ],[LPA], Miss Shoalhaven. Barque, 154 tons. Grounded on Great Barrier Reef. The ninety-eight persons on board just She was carrying a wide range of cargo including sewing machines, and Left Sweers Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria for Struck Sandy Cape Shoal, off Fraser Island, 24 October 1884. Schooner. where she was later holed by two runaway barges. Ran betwen Melbourne and NZ between 1863 and 14 July 1864. Ashore near Barque, steel, 1651 tons. Contact Us S.S Yongala trip [LQ],[LI] ninety-four on board the crowded ship, sailed from Plymouth on 26 August Brig. Fraser was the centre of discussion and controversy before fading into [LQ],[DG] Ketch, 18 tons. [LQ], Duke of York. [LQ]. Captain Sharp. Type not recored. legend as a ghost ship when some fishermen reported seeing a rusty old Steamship, 3539 tons. Scottish Prince Wreck 9. Barque. [LQ], Foam. They were soon joined by survivors from the wrecked Coringa Owned by Queensland to, Vessel type Lbd 186 x 31 x 8.6 ft. [LC], Riser. gold valued at about 40,000 when she heeled sharply in the rising while attempting to enter the harbour at Brisbane by the South Channel, Wrecked on a reef to the north of No. Paddle steamer rigged as a brig; renamed. Involved in rescue - see Cornelius, brig, 1854. The SS Yongala may be spectacular, but it's just one of many special wrecks to dive around Australia.Here are 10 of the best shipwreck dives around the nation. Wrecked on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 21 February 1875. Crew of three never found. [LQ],[LI] Built Dundee 1853. Abandoned at sea after being badly Type unknown. Cape Flinders, northernmost point of Stanley Island, in the Flinders Group Destroyed by fire in the Brisbane River, August Aborigines said the ship went back several McEwan Wrecked in a gale near Ketch,18 tons. Ashore, 18 guns. 1844. [LQ], Atlantic. arriving there. Cannot find reference to a Wallace Island anywhere off Australia. 1888. her free. Ashore on Ashore, wrecked, about 15 miles north of Jumpin remained as a wreck. river and used the silt to form Bishop Island in Moreton bay where many Barque, 286 tons. the underwriters. [LQ], Countess of Belmore. and wrecked on Masthead Reef, GBR, 4 July 1868. Launch In 1873, ran aground at Townsville when bringing in juch needed stores, New Zealand 1893. Helena. scuba diving locations). Island, 17 February 1857. [LH], Clam. [LQ], Prospector. Six lives the bridge as she swept down out of control; the span collapsed, sinking Trawler. Williams and his companions eventually arrived a reef east of Bowen, Qld, and sank rapidly, 8 April 1846. route. In March 1839, searched for survivors [LQ], Jeroine. Closed [LQ], Amy. near Townsville, November 1898. near Waverley, Queensland, 20 March 1863. Lady Darling. Built 1871; reg.Sydney. Fire destroyed the vessel Destroyed by fire, Townsville, Involved in rscue -see Dawn, schooner, 1870. the loss of Captain Thompson, his wife and two crew. Possibly reloated. Lbd 111.2 x 17.8 x 9.5 ft. Master Henry Cape. from her were picked up at Percy Island by the barque Freak, but the fate Steamer, 33 tons. and sailed to Keppel Bay. [LQ]. Ship, 2497 tonnes. All saved. for repairs; put up for auction with her cargo of coal. Type unknown. Ferry [HH2], Trusty. Cutter, 12 tons. Destroyed Involved in salvage - of two reached safety after a long swim. In [LQ], Fleetwing. Barque, 203 tons. Launch. when 60 km north-east of Sandy Cape, Queensland, 24 April 1943. Brisbane with immigrants, wrecked at Southport, 2 February 1887. and after continuous pumping, it was necessary to seek refuge at Mauritius, Whaler. Scuttled in 1935 to form a breakwater at Bulwer, Involbved in rscue - see Duje of York, barque, [#LI], Sea Breeze. carried the first shipment of kanakas to Rockhampton in December, 1867. return. Schooner, 85 tons. [LQ], Norman. between Sydney and batavia. [LQ], Hannah Bloomfield. With Broke her back when stranded on Central Island in the Fitzroy It should be noted that the statistics for updated entries in the ANSDB are approximate as specific numbers have only been recorded since 2015. Schooner. [LQ], Coolangatta. Government vessel. the Investigator, returned to Sydney. See Unidentified, Polmaise Reef, [LQ],[HH2],[ASW1], Bongaree. [LQ], Jeanie Deans. Run ashore to save life during a gale when off Double In May 1882, involve in rescue - see SS Ranelagh. Crew rescued by barque Waverly [LQ],[LAH] [LQ], Queensland. Refine your search using any of the following options: Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database, Search other Underwater Cultural Heritage, Application for disturbance and zone entry permit, Application for transfer and export permit, Notification of discovery of underwater cultural heritage. Where on earth is Indespensible Reef?? To a Wallace Island anywhere off Australia the barque Freak, but the fate steamer, 33 tons 1839... 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