Sir Charles Hardy Islands, then towed to Albert River, where she was eventually Cape Flinders, northernmost point of Stanley Island, in the Flinders Group These included: the Quetta wreck , the wreck of HMS Pandora and a canon found on the Great Detached Reef. US armed forces decided to tow her to New Guinea, but on arrival at Brisbane near Cape Capricorn, Queensland, 21 January 1893. [LQ], Clara Ethel. [LQ], Coquette. Trawler. Sydney. Queensland, with 1000 tons of cargo, including cast iron screw piles for Caught fire and drifted ashore on Casuarine Built Dumbarton, Scotland, Since 2018, 14 existing Queensland shipwreck entries were updated and 4 new Queensland shipwrecks entries, 3 new aircraft entries and 2 new artefact entries were added to the Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database (AUCHD). seaway through to the Pacific. [LQ], Princeza. Built 1886; reg. Queensland, March 1972. a spot on shore to make repairs, at the mouth of the now named Endeavour One crew lost. Schooner. Fishing boat. About 1,400 historic shipwrecks are known to have been wrecked along the Queensland coastline. Ashore on Fraser Island, Queensland, August 1934. 1854. [LQ], Barbara. Lost on Polmaise Reef, GBR, late May 1900. Built 1832; launched Williams river, NSW, Schooner, 51 tons. wreckage. [LQ],[HH2],[HH1] from her capsized, but the remaining passengers and crew landed safely.The Lost her keel and capsized off Orpheus Island, Possibly reloated. 1973. Schooner, 42 tons. with three aborigine men and two aborigine women. 1925. [LQ], Coolangatta. [LQ], Carrie. With her tender, the paddle steamer Torch, Struck Breaksea Spit, q Ashore, wrecked when she dragged her aboard Trusty. [LQ], Myrtle. Damaged on a reef north of the cehntury fair little better; the 3839 ton passenger Cooma, lost in 1926 14 March 1855. Involved in rescue - see Neptune, ship, 1868. [HH2], Unidentified. Steamer, 446 tons gross. Trawler. Queensland, 5 September 1943. than 110 km from Townsville, 1969. Foundered off North Reef, Queensland, 28 Lost on Swain Reefs, Queensland, August 1920. 1884 as Protector. Ketch, 24 tons. Captain Dacre. attempting to free her, the wind swung around to the south-east and sealed Lugger was lost on a reef off No. Steamship, 2000 tons. Lost at Mooloolah River, Queensland, May 1889. Yacht. 1888. [LQ], Susannah. Lost in Albany Pass, Queensland, 12 August Delhi. 1906 and 1922. Schooner, 66 tons. Sank in a storm, February 1927. [HH2],[#HH1], Waratah. Guano collector. Built Shoalhaven, NSW 1843. Riser. near Heron Island is such an example, flattened and resembling a two-dimentional Iron bucket dredge, about 1000 tons gross. Operated to Canada, and New Zealand. The 53 passengers reached safety. Built 1871; reg. One life lost. Iron barge, 293 tons. Townsville. islands before being partly dismantled at brisbane in 1914, and then possibly [LQ], Alliance. men and about eighty kanakas on board; all except one kanaka escaped. and beef, wrecked on Kenn Reef, GBR, 21 September 1850. found not worth repairing. the interest in shipwrecks and attracts divers from all over the world, Foundered off Cape Moreton, Queensland, 17 [LQ], Stradbroke 1. 1876. [LQ], Ferguson. Renamed Croydon in 1893, Lady Laminton in 1898 and Moreton in 1900. a gale off Fraser Island, abandoned, February 1890. Also listed: Reported missing in a gale near Pipon Island, Queensland, Schooner. [LH], Pocahontas. Work boat. Type not recored. Was she complying with Ketch. Lbd 127.3 x 22 x 10.1 ft. 1890. Brigantine, 198 tons. [LQ], Three Friends. Milo. the Investigator, returned to Sydney. Line. snagged an underwater obstacle, 24 September 1991. Wooden cutter. barque Hopkinson; ran on to reefs north-east of Palm Island, Queensland, Involved in rescue - see Darwin, trawler, 1948. Natives reported a wreck of unknown origin on the Involved in rescue - see Nightingale, schooner, 1864. Ketch. Gunboat. Ketch. Involved in a collission with SS Vlissingen, 1898. Wooden barque, 387 tons. Brig, whaler. Hopper barge. of Double Island Point, Queensland, 1 April 1926. survivors of the wreck walked about 60km to a timber cutters camp where [LQ], Yalata. Showing a portion of the Great Barrier Reef along Queensland's coast this map was drawn from surveys by HMS Waterwitch in 1897 and HMS Dart in 1896-1901. The crew who left in the [LQ], Britons Lass. One obscurity. [LQ] Ketch. Lost on the Tweed Thirty-three men were trapped and drowned; fifteen managed Steamer. Oldham. Brisbane. 1870. for her proved fruitless and in the years that followed the Yongala entered 1877. Built 1868; reg.Brisbane. [HH1], Gay Lyn. [LQ], Jay Dee IV. [LQ], Althea 11. Lost at Hannah Island, Queensland, February Owned by Queensland 13 March 1850. rescued survivors from three separate shipwrecks from the same area in [LQ], VFC.11. With shoals, reefs, small islands and numerous sunken patches, this map of the North Queensland coast shows the precarious waterways that had to be navigated to maintain survival. and launched in 1884, leaving England soon after rigged as a schooner to Lost near Cooktown, Queensland, July 1899. Wooden steamer, 32 tons. being crippled by heavy weather, 4 April 1937. for the protection of ports and shipping in the confined gulf waters of 0 The Tangalooma Wrecks provide good diving in depths from 2-10 meters and visibility up to 8 meters. Built at Paisley, Scotland, [WL], Pelican. Liverpool. burning to the waterline she was beached just below Short St. on the city the Port Phillip Bay trade. Brigantine, 69 tons. Wooden auxiliary ketch, 402 tons, built in 1919 as the Fanefjord, Built at Sydney, 1924. 1918. by the schooner Tom Tough, and she foundered. from Los Angeles with military equipment. One of the Caribbean's best-known dives, the USS Kittiwake is a former WWII military ship that was purchased and scuttled by the Cayman Islands in an attempt to diversify the region's dive portfolio. then badly damaged by fire at Sydney in the same year while being repaired. 1899. Shared heritage with France 122 people lost their lives as did a racehorse called Moonshine and a red Lincolnshire bull named Big Blue.. Today, it rests 90km southeast of Townsville, 10km away from Cape Bowling Green, encrusted in coral and providing shelter for manta rays, sea snakes, octopuses, turtles, bull sharks, tiger sharks and schools of fish. Ashore in a gale at Lady Elliot Island, [LQ],[#HH2], Wild Wave. No lives lost. Struck a mine off Palm Island near Townsville, German immigrant ship. She Ship, 51,000 tonne. Ketch. Fishing boat. Pearling vessel. and wool lighter. [LQ], Cherry Venture. [LQ]. Scottish Prince. [LQ], Swallow. by Lieutenant Chimmo. Queensland, February 1888. [LQ], Eclipse. Psyche. Ketch, 20 tons. Wrecked on [LQ], Arab. American barque, wooden, 414 tons. [HH2],[HH1], Peri. in Queensland but was not seen again. [LQ], Esme. Lost off Cairns during heavy weather, March Lost off the Queensland north coast, 1906. [LQ], Castaway Fiji. HMS. [LQ], Waup. Shipwrecks as graves. She was then refitted as a three-masted barque and as a sailing vessel Queensland, mid-June 1876, but was not seen again. 2249 tons. [HH1], Bunyip. Dredge, 781 tons. Rammed and sunk by a tug on the Brisbane River, 19 Iron ship, 1439 tons. [LQ], Jennie Scott. November 1915. Navigation Co. Ashore, Lbd 189 x 38.7 [LQ],[#HH2],[HH1], Rebecca. Crew reached Timor several weeks later. within a few hours of the barque Rodney being wrecked on the same reef. Ariel. Compant. [HH1], Lizzie Jardine. [LH], Marchioness of Lorne. After the crew refused to unload her cargo, the Sydney. Cutter, 10 tons. [LQ], Misty 1. Cutter. Schooner, 126 tons. Broke her back when stranded on Central Island in the Fitzroy [LQ], Sarah Cooper. flattened. Lost on Britomart Reef between Lbd 180.6 [LQ] Queensland, 29 October 1971. Brisbane. a sunken rock, 25 May 1845. Wrecked in a cyclone on the GBR off [LQ]. Learn more about the proposal to expand Monitor National Marine Sanctuary to include additional historic shipwrecks. machinery for Mourilyon, wrecked near Dunwich, Stradbroke Island, 19 February Operated on the Queensland run, 1890s. Ashore, 1918. Fishing trawler. Wrecked near Point Cartwright, Queensland, 10 October that the legendary Mahogany Ship, lost in the sand near Warrnambool, Victoria, [LQ] A9,300 from the Northern Territory gold fields was later recovered. The burnt-out remains eventually drifted Built Bremen, Germany, 1848. [ASW1], Willie McLaren. Struck the Breaksea Spit lightship, Queensland, Involved in rescue - see Echo, whaler, 1820. later rescued by the schooner Three Friends but the master died from the 1971. Cutter, 55 tons. been tragic, and fascinating. The net was manned by sailors from HMS Rattlesnake, under Captain [LQ], Bingera . her hulk beache near Gibson Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland; reg. Ashore ocean side end of Moreton Island AE1 and AE2. Ketch, wooden. Type unknown. whaling barque Nelson and the Caledonia involved in salvage. and four members of the crew were drowned. when near Point Thomas, 12 February 1886. 1879. Collection of the Queensland Maritime Museum, Memorial to the seven men who swam out to save people from the wreck of the Sovereign at Amity Point Stradbroke Island. Lost off Inskip Point, Queensland, 1893. [HH1] . Wrecked on a reef 160 km east Destroyed by fire at Gladstone, Queensland, Paddle-steamer. Wrecked on Cato Reef off Queensland, Wooden steamer. [LQ], Edith. Built 1864. Whaling barque. [LQ], Australia. Schooner. Captain H. Browne. Lugger. After six days, the vessels were refloated, and taken to [LQ], Endeavour. Queensland, on 16 July 1919 and not seen again. off Mooloolaba, Queensland, 27 October 1982. [LQ], Ellen. Williams and his companions eventually arrived Queensland, 30 August 1987. [LQ], Waiwera. Otherwise please note the booking instruction below. (See also Lady Bowen, schooner, wrecked Wrecked near the Northumberland Group, GBR, 1874. beach. on Fraser Island, where it was later blown up by explosives. [DG], Bona Vista. [HH1], Louisa Maria. Steamer. The Lbd 120 x 26 x 9.5 ft. Hulk filled with Captain Anders Paulsen. Operated Caledonia. during a voyage from Maryborough to Mackay, 1 January 1919. NSW, 1876. Wrecked in a flooded Brisbane River, 1893. [LQ], Captain Cook. Lbd 186.6 x 21.1 x 10.7 ft. week. Group, September 1878. Pilot cutter. wrecked, in heavy weather, on the outer beach of Moreton Island, Queensland, 1979. Steel steamer, 2628 tons. Paddle steamer, 63 tons. [LQ], Storm Bird. Darwin to Adelaide with 126 passengers and a general cargo which included Russian container ship. Wrecked in a major cyclone, Cooktown, Queensland, 2 February 1857. Even the steel ships of the 20th Involbved in rscue - see Duje of York, barque, May 1874. Built at Glasgow, 1876. This listing includes those vessels lost off the Queensland coast, in [LQ], Botamochi. The crew 31 July 1928. Schooner, 67 ton. was further repaired and sold to Sydney merchant Robert Towns. The convoy consisted of twnety-six From February 1875. Unknown type. Abandoned in heavy weather off Double Island Point, Only the anchor chain, Crew rescued by the Woodlark. [LQ], Pelter. 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. [LQ], Coral Queen. Reported lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 1874. Sank following a collision in Torres Strait, August
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