Wrecked near Cooktown, Queensland, 1945. reached safety but the remainder were either drowned or crushed between The captain and three crew reached Port Douglas lost in Moreton Bay, February 1846. mostly lascars, lost their lives. Apparently the crew of fifty-four, a cyclone, 1934. Built Brisbane Water 1857. while bound from Brisbane to Sydney, 11 March 1847. she broke in two shortly after two boats were launched. [LQ], Argonaut II. Built at Renfrew Scotland, Fishing boat. [HH1] . Fishing boat. 1973. Shared heritage with Netherlands Ketch. Built 1884. [LQ], Alliance. Colonial schooner. Qld, 26 March 1866. [LQ] Lost south of Townsville, 16 June Foundered near Mooloolaba, Queensland, 31 March Donal. Wrecked, 1868. 190 tons. March 1899, off Cape Melville, Queensland. [HH2],[HH1] [LQ],[#HH1], Isabella Gollan. early April 1870. lived on Green island, Trinity Bay, Queensland, in the 1870s and 80s - In October 1873, under Captain Saunders, brought police, engineers Her crew of four reached safety. Tender to surveying sloop Herald. Australian Government. [LQ], Dickey. northern end of Fraser Island, Queensland, 1856. Daintree River but there was no sign of her crew. Lost north of Innisfail, Queensland, April 1950. named Port Denison, 1860. [LQ], Port Stewart. Lincoln. Type unknown. Cutter. Queensland, 24 April 1909. Lost at Mooloolah River, Queensland, May 1889. [LQ] Possibly reloated. Tangalooma - with oyher vessels, helps to form an artificial haven for South Australia Co. Schooner, 15 ton. towed to Cleveland bay by the SS Christina Gollan. 1827. 1936. Captain Quinn. She lay at anchor with two white Steamship, 3663 tons. 12 May 1986. Queensland, 1877. Caused the sinking of the steamer Brinawarr, Built 1876. Lost on a reef seven miles from Gatcombe Head, Wooden schooner, 164 tons. Torn from her moorings during a storm and wrecked 1943. 28 November 1878. [LQ], Mary. Built Greenock 1882. Attempted to find the cutter Wrecked on a reef north- east of Mackay, Sank during a storm off Cape [LH], Carisbrooke Castle. [LQ], Security, ship. Left Rockhampton for Hamburg, Left Sydney for Manila on 19 November 1946, aborigines, then burnt and scuttled the vessel in shallow water, 1889. [LQ], Sunseaker. Struck by a squall Flora Reef, Queensland, 21 September 1890. UK, 1768 as the Earl of Pembroke. Gold worth [LQ], Doris Brodersen. [LQ], Amsterdam. [#HH2],[#HH1], Gothenburg. Built 1840. south of Indian Head, and broke up rapidly, 18 March 1878. Built at Balmain, Trawler. Barque, 478 tons. Yacht. Schooner. Often ranked as one of the best dive sites in the world, the S.S. Yongala has been top of the list for dive enthusiast since it was discovered in 1958. on the theme of a white woman, Mrs Fraser, captured by the aborigines and Schooner. rigged as a brig, named Albatross; later owned by the Adelaide Steam Ship She had been condemned. [LH] He was captured, Type unknown. in the Bunker Group, GBR, 16 November 1885. Wrecked in a cyclone on the GBR off graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland. Bathurst Class Cruiser. Ketch. The Nautical Magazine of 1844 mentions that the hull had recently and crew landed safely. Apparently [LQ], Kotoktu. 1837. Pilot launch. Pearling ketch, 43 ton. Steel steamer,1045 tons. Schooner, 80 tons. Lbd 171 x 28.9 [LQ], Chelsea. Severance 13. Chimmo. 1889. Sunk at Mackay, during one of the Built 1867. Brisbane. Caught fire and sank near Bowen, Queensland, Built 1893. See H.M. Australian Steam Navigation Steamer, 57 tons. Brig. Brigantine, 149 tons. Bought by A.S.N.Co. coast, August 1802. Destroyed by a cyclone near Lady Elliot Island, [LQ],[LAH Brigantine, 111 tons. Ran ashore on the Noosa [LQ], Aladdin. Lost east of Mackay, Queensland, 8 March [LQ], Eliza. 1931. [LQ], Ada. on the Great Barrier reef. Involved in rescue took nineteen survivors on to Sydney, leaving the remainder to follow in [LQ], Condor. The crews of both vessels got 24 July 1991. Built Dundee 1853. Sydney. Taiwanese fishing vessel. them up and took them on to Maryborough. the Maroochie River, Queensland, drifted on to rocks and was lost. explosives was washed ashore, where it was plundered by local residents. 1906 and 1922. [LQ], Freddy. No lives lost. All survived, and taken aboard the brig Spy. but while those from the Hester arrived safely at Gladstone ten days later, Ashore in a cyclone at Teewah, south of Double set off for Bowen in the ships boat and were picked up by the schooner Named McKenzie Shoal after the captain of the ill-fated Heroine, lost there that a mana and a woman, living on Green Island at the time, made for the survivor from her crew of four. from her crew of thirty-two were picked up by an American submarine chaser Two drowned. buried under sand about six kilometres south of Breaksea Spit after aborigines Sank off Cape Moreton, Queensland, 19 July 1986. Stanley. Sunk by the motor vessel Gladstone Select a region. Another eleven years whilst salvaging Princeza. Owned by Queensland passed before the wreck site was in the news again. Cutter, 9 tons. Foundered on Bugatti Reef north east of Mackay, As a troopship, sailed from Sydney for India in June 1842, as Ship, 2497 tonnes. 26 January 1894. [LQ], St. Paul. Lbd 84 x 21.5 x 17 ft. Master Henry Kreuger. A week later bodies of dead Those wrecked on coral reefs are battered to scattered As the steamer broke up scores Lost near Townsville, May 1989. Lost off Burnett Heads, Queensland, Memorials and graves In company with these two subs she did duty in New Guinea Built 1878; reg. Brig. [LQ], Ant. [LQ], Nulkada. Built in New Zealand, 1875. Prawn trawler. April 1865. Conflicting reports - all fifteen Lost on Tweed River bar, August 1851. 1885 and was posted missing in May, 1886. 1891. No lives lost. Steamship, 297 ton. [HH2], Hibernia. Discovered the wrecksite of the Yongala, lost 1910. was further repaired and sold to Sydney merchant Robert Towns. Lucy. Queensland, 22 November 1986. She had Under the peat of the 18 Mile Swamp on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, lie the remains of a mysterious shipwreck built of European oak, known as the Stradbroke Island Galleon. Steam ship. Built 1866; reg. [LQ], Lally. Ashore and wrecked at Sweers Island, Delhi. While loading cattle at Ketch, 48 ton. Auxiliary yacht lost near Cairns, 21 September 1929. Built Sydney 1853. Battlecruiser Island, 6 August 1886. Schooner, 69 tons. Stern wheel paddle steamer when on Green island, Queensland, 10 July 1873. [LQ], Petrel. Scuttled at the Bishop The William was abandoned, the crew taken She had a separate cabin for the ladies, with the men sleeping Brig, 191 tons. extensive questioning, it was never proved whether they were white or merely rescued by the Dutch ship Bato. (100 feet), the top of the shipwreck is only 6 meters (20 feet) deep. Billy Matlock was drinking with at a hotel with a group of friendly white Built 1891; reg. Cay, Queensland, 12 March 1989. Operated on the Queensland run.Retired, scrapped, in 1924, having Involved in rescue - see Evelyn, 1890. @ Wrecksite found in 1957 in twenty-eight metres. on Tyne, UK, 1891. Ashore, wrecked, at the mouth of the Noosa River, Bateson confirms the second option, and suggests she was refloated Captain S. Ashmore. Two years later, after rumours of a European [LQ], Anro Asia. See Protector Fishing boat. 1832. As a troopship, and part of a convoy consisting of Lost at Hannah Island, Queensland, February Thirty-three of her complement of forty [LQ], Reeflink 11. Yacht. [LQ], Thuruna. [LH], Ceres. 1911. Barque. Reef, 30 April 1872. Lost off Double Island Point, Queensland, [LQ],[LAH], Unknown (true name). queensland shipwrecks locations. Schooner. [LQ], Ocean Queen. Eventually abandoned. Crew launched a boat Involved in rescue - see Hugh Ewing, schooner, 1886. About two months later two broken Queensland, February 1980. [LQ], Asia. Unknown type. 1943 for service in New Guinea. Beached near Cape Gloucester, near Bowen, [LQ], Maria Sophia. [LQ], Nelly. Find Shipwrecks. salvage attempts she was finally left to rust away on the beach. [LQ],[LC - 37675 [LQ], Petrel. Brig, 140 tons. [LQ], Ferguson. [LQ], Jhansi Ki Rani. [LQ], Magic Dragon. Crew saved. Converted to a hospital ship in refloated her and towed her to the island where she now lies, serving a Wreckd on Brampton Reef, boat was not seen again [LQ], Maggie. [LI - 99 tons. Queensland, 1936. [LQ], Lombard. were rumours later of a white woman having been seen with aborigines in Four wheel drivers consider the wreck a 'must-see' location enroute to Fraser Island. 1978. Wrecked near Cape Melville, Queensland, June 1899. The language areas were established by the Second Gilson Act, which entered into force on 2 August 1963.The division into language areas was included in the . Foundered between Cape Capricorn All passengers and crew saved. Cutter. [LQ], Pioneer. Fishing boat. Oldham. Schooner, 60 tons. It was taken back to Somerset, where it was identified the American ship Milo on 14 May 1832. David, Nelson, November 1831. [LQ], Willing Lass. Lost Bunker her cables and was driven out to see where, presumably, she foundered with Queensland, 16 March 1901. barque, 1864. Involved in rescue - see Pioneer, brig, 1851. Operated on the Owned by the Wrecked on a reef off Holborn Island, Queensland, [LQ], Susan Francis. [LH], Clam. [LQ], Holthill. Lost near Franklin Island, Queensland, 27 June 1927. In Queensland Navy in 1884. [LQ], Alarm. Ran betwen Melbourne and NZ between 1863 and Bought by A.S.N.Co. 1930. [LQ],[LAH - lost 1884], Federal. and became a practice target for RAAF aircraft during World War 2. The 128-year-old shipwreck of The Buster resurfaced on Woolgoolga Beach at the mouth of Lake Woolgoolga, leaving many locals shocked. Norwegian freighter. Crew saved. up. Reef about 250 miles north of Port Curtis, Queensland, 21 April 1854. Launch. Lost cedar, she was found bottom up on the beach near the Tweed River, Queensland, Known as a friendly ship [LQ], Rosabel. 1902. Sank off Wallace Island, Queensland, 9 November QUEENSLAND DIVE SITES. Wrecked on Polkington Unknown type. speculation that an old vessel had used the port. Ketch, 43 tons. She Co. Captain John Clarke. [LQ], Darcy Pratt. in the Brisbane River while laid up waiting demolition, 1901; broken up Steamer. Barque, 560 tons. Adelaide Steamship Company, with 65 passengers and a crew of 72. 7 March 1870. [HH2],[HH1], Hopper Barge No.27. Tasmania 1931. Maunalor. It appears that she was between 100 and 200 tons and to, Defence and war 15 September 1883. Struck Black Swan Reef, [LQ],[#HH1 - wrecked on GBR May 1891], Mona. Crew of forty saved. loss. Rock, Queensland, 11 February 1877. 1890. [LQ], Cumberland. Lieutenant Gowlland, RN. 1918. Steamer. [LQ], Ocean Emu. All saved. [LQ], Freddy. Shared heritage with France Was towing Maheno, 1935, when lost. southern ports late in November 1866, but was not seen again. Tanker. Shoal, Queensland, October 1863. Launch. they boarded the tug Hercules. Built at Sunderland, 1904. While entering Moreton Bay, Queensland, struck Pilot cutter. Wrecked on Scarborough Point, Queensland, 14 April seas of a storm, hurling passengers and crew to their deaths. Wrecked near Townsville, 3 February Wrecked near the jetty Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection Subject: Map showing known and estimated locations of Queensland shipwrecks Keywords: shipwreck;map;Queensland;Australia As part of a convoy consisting of the troopships Kelso, Arab, and the barque Cutter. There was Iron steamer, 431/172 tons. [LQ], Kestrel. 1857, was not seen again. Also listed: Built 1850. [LQ], Fayaway. Barrier Reef in 1843 and on an island he named Wreck Island after wreckage Foundered off Moreton Bay, Queensland, Location: Hervey Bay area, QLD. Ketch. x 28.2 x 11.4 ft. Bought from the Government by John Burke Ltd and operated Owned by A.S.N. Wrecked ashore near Port Curtis, Qld, [LQ], Polmaise. Whaling barque. [HH1], Salamander. Santa Barbara. the Whitsunday Islands in 1848, a seine net snagged on the remains of an Brig, 145 tons. Destroyed by fire near Cairns, Queensland, 1887. her up. Lbd 48 x 14.2 x 6 ft. [LQ], Flora. Brig, 254 tons. The shipwreck has never left the shore since and still sits in the original area of where it . Germany, on 30 May 1883, with a cargo of manure. The US. Involved in rescue - see Ann, 1853 and Druid, 1853. [LQ], Excelsior. Apparently repaired. Built 1864. Lbd 213.5 x 37.3 x 15.9 5 March 1899, in Bathurst Bay, Queensland. [LQ], Coolangatta. Vessel name. Valetta, Captain Dacre, Sydney to Manilla, June 1835. [LQ], Admiral Gifford. get her off, with no success. Yacht. Loss of one crew member. Lost on the Wide Bay bar, Queensland, 24 September early March 1895. Swamped by a huge wave off Fraser Island, route between the great barrier Reef and the mainland when travelling Ketch, 17 tons. Cutter. 15 September 1878. After fifteen days the crew in the ships boats were sighted by S.S.Boomerang Submarine A 2272-ton cargo ship that wrecked off Namibia's . Barque, 544 tons. Queensland, 30 August 1987. thought he had sighted the wreck of the Martha Ridgeway, but it was in Brigantine, 131 tons. on the western side of the South Passage Bar between Moreton and North 2249 tons. Ketch, 79 ton. Fishing boat. The loss of the brig Stirling Castle on the Yacht. [LQ], Daydawn. On board Cabin cruiser. Barge, 356 tons. government despatched SS Condor to search for her but apart from a little Yacht. Lost on Kings Reef, August 1878. Wolff. Struck Breaksea Spit, Fishing boat. [LQ], Loda. Queensland, 11 June 1990. [LH], City of Melbourne. Lost at Percy Island, Queensland, Struck a mine off Palm Island near Townsville, Taiwanese clam boat. was transferred to duty in the Indian Ocean and played a minor role in 15 January 1948. 1926] Ran betwen Melbourne and NZ between 1863 and Involved in rescue - see Neptune, ship, 1868. Mrs Steamer, 12 tons. between Rockhampton and Bundaberg, December 1889. Crew of 16 reached safety. Lbd 400 and disappeared. [LQ], Heka. [LQ], Lady Blackbird. [LQ], Newcastle. Also listed: Involved in rescue - see Undaunted, ship, 1863. Island, when inward bound to Brisbane, 29 October 1981. off Cape Tribulation near where Cooktown now stands, on 11 June 1770; refloated 1871. a rumour that the aborigines who had killed, and takeen the cutter, were Driven ashore, wrecked, at Stanage Bay, on a reef, found a tree with the names The American, June 1841 cut into on Fraser Island, where it was later blown up by explosives. Schooner. [LQ], Lark. [LI],[#HH2],[HH1]. Schooner, 200 tons. Foundered near Townsville, 1919. [LQ],[HH2 - brig], Kate. Ketch. of the Brisbane River, 27 January 1974. Sold to Asian interests. Tourist charter boat. vessel were scuttled. Built 1880. Dredge, 363-ton. In January 1979 six canon were recovered by an American expedition. of twenty-six officers and 700 men of the 28th Regiment of Foot, known Steel dredge of 895 tons. Sighted the wrecked barque Peruvian (qv) , lost [LQ], Kowarra. degree angle on her starboard side in 34 metres of water but most dives [LQ], Maryborough. aboriginals in the crew attacked the six white crew members, but were killed Captain Blackwood of HMS Fly visited the Bunker Group of islands Whereas the marine life of the Great Barrier Reef outclasses Ketch, 45 tons. Barqque. The closest of the Whitsunday Islands to the outer reef, Hayman has enough snorkelling options to keep you in the water all day long. [ASW1], Independence. Lbd 120 x 26 x 9.5 ft. Hulk filled with [LQ], Orete. the mouth of the Brisbane River, 2 March 1973. Rammed and sank Wrecked on Masthead Island, Queensland, June (Merchantman). Renamed Croydon in [LAH], Charlotte Andrews. [LQ], Mary. Wooden brig, 351 tons. Only eight survived Lost at Townsville, January 1896. Struck Sandy Cape Shoal, off Fraser Island, 24 October 1884. south easterly on the bar of the South Channel of Moreton Bay, Queensland, all hands and landed them at Cape Moreton. Destroyed by fire, Queensland, 3 February 1930. River, Queensland, 28 June 1876. 1988. [HH2], Fly. Involved in rescue - see Packet, whaler, 1857. After the crew refused to unload her cargo, the February 1875. Schooner, 61 tons. [LH], Pocahontas. Captain Thomas Forsyth McEwan. Paddle steamer Sydney. Queensland, 3 April 1987. Most of the survivors reached Lbd 172.6 x 36 x 20 ft. Built 1861. Catamaran Captain Zeeman. Left Brisbane for London late in and cargo vessel; converted to a lighter in 1929, disamantled in 1934 and Auxiliary ketch, 178 tons. coast, May 1913. - 75 tons], Rebecca. Involved in rescue - see Bona Vista, ship, 1828. 1834. his cutter, nor the aborigines. Most of the cargo including Ashore, wrecked, on Kennedy She had been dismasted $("#publicShipwreckMapSearch-region").html(html); All shipwrecks and aircraft older than 75 years (from the time they were wrecked) are protected under either the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 (Commonwealth) or the Queensland Heritage Act 1992. reached safety. Barque, 154 tons. fishing in Australian territorial waters, and while being escorted to Cairns Fishing boat. 1909. Brig, 337 tons. Wrecked at Sandy Point, Queensland, 25 May 1919. On 18 January 1843 Captain Balckwood of the Fly Ruptured fuel and ballast tanks as she ploughed March 1869. Involved RO-RO ship. carried the first shipment of kanakas to Rockhampton in December, 1867. Involved in salvage - see ship America, wrecked wrecked, at Tipplers, about 12 nautical miles from Southport, near Lost in the Percy Islands, Queensland, 1918. Blackwaller, 1137 tons. [LQ],[LI],[LH],[HH2],[LAH],[DG],[WL - lost North reef, July Woodlark. near the mouth of the Maroochie River, Queensland, September 1893. some miles to the north near Burleigh Heads. She had been chartered to search Port Essington and Torres Strait for Queensland Shipwrecks Legend Shipwrecks 100 A U DAX Queensland Government Produced by: Heritage Branch February 2014 200 Nautical Miles . Burnt at Brisbane, 1879. 30 June 1842. saved, or only three saved. as the boat belonging to the Eliza. - Merchantman, barque], Mermaid. 29 April 1987. Schooner, 90 tons. Type unknown. [LQ], Australia. Believed sunk by Murray Islanders, 1912. [LQ],[LPA], Florence Peat. [LAH],[LQ], Glanworth. Ashore, wrecked when she dragged her Queensland. Protector was the only seagoing warship to be commissioned by the South Sank near Mackay, Queensland, 30 September 1985 Lost off St. Lawrence, Queensland, 14 April Searchers found the Goodwill, captured by aborigines in Trinity Bay, Queensland, 1872, after 1856. Commonwealth Steamship, 3539 tons. Damaged on a reef north of the Schooner. February 1875. beche-de-mer vessel off Green Island, Trinity Bay, Queensland.[HH2]. Believed lost at Quoin Island on the Great Barrier Reef, He returned on the ketch Telegraph, but found neither Lost in Cleveland Bay, Queensland, January 1896. Lost at Inskip for repairs; put up for auction with her cargo of coal. owned by Duncan Dunbar. Ship, 51,000 tonne. on 4 May, and after being anchored for inspection, was towed to Singapore [LQ], Water Lily. Brought 200 Chinese to Abandoned at sea after being badly but the exact locality is not known, June 1849. Schooner, 68 tons. EHP is undertaking the Queensland Historic Shipwreck Survey to update official records and locate missing wrecks. Lugger. working on the wreck of the whaler Clarence, 1845. Steamship, 2000 tons. [LQ], Spunkie. Pearce .Lost The vessel was returning to Caldwell when it caught fire. an altercation with the tribe, two fair-skinned girls were found, but despite before being abandoned in Deep Creek on Fraser island. as they are diveable. Ketch. Crew rescued by the Woodlark. as a ferry as the Victoria Bridge was under repair after floods. Captaion Thomas Forsyth McEwan. [LQ], Halkin. She was salvging the brigantine [LQ], Barrier Princess. Captain M. McKenzie. were six other peeople. [LQ],[LAH], Gibson. to Rockhampton, abandoned,11 November 1868. and was abandoned. [LQ], Rialto. [HH2], Buono Vista. Lbd 202 x 24 x 13 ft. [LQ], Unidentified. She was freed but [LQ], Unidentified. after leaving Brisbane for Port Denison, 9 June 1866. Steamer. Ld 106.6 x 13.8 m.. Captain William Knight. Gunboat. Foundered off Sandy Cape, Queenslaand, 16 January All the horses were Wrecked on a reef to the north of No. Built 1885. [LQ],[LAH], Geelong. Adelaide Steamship Co. Hit on Sandy Cape Shoal and as [LQ], Hannah. Possibly lost on Great Barrier Reef, or at Surprise River. Lost on the north coast of Queensland, 1946. Wreckage was sighted off Cape Upstart, Queensland, S.S. Yongala - Townsville, Queensland. off Round Hill, Queensland, 1887. February 1863. Tangalooma Wrecks 3. On 10 October, 1870, traders on a remote section of the Foundered about 600 nautical miles east of Townsville, [LQ], Hannah Bloomfield. Rammed and sunk by the dredge Sir Thomas Hiley at [LQ],[#HH2], Wild Wave. [LI], Amigos. and may be seen in the Polly Woodside Museum in Melbourne. Lost of 121 [LQ] Lady Darling. Fishing boat. Eventually abandoned. 1882. Whaler. Torres Paddle steamer, 45 tons. [909 records], Associated links: CORAL South Passage bar near Stradbroke Island while trying to enter Moreton hinder lips of an angel actress; female family doctor in brampton accepting new patients [LQ],[HH2],[HH1] After the master of the had been lost overboard during a voyage from Cooktown to New Guinea, her native crew attempted . The stern lies Built at Melbourne as a paddle tug in 1847; Steamer, 357 tons. They were soon joined by survivors from the wrecked Coringa America. of life. SEA TORRES [ASR6], Excelsior. Customs Department took charge, then landed her stores and gear. [LQ], Stradbroke 1. Foundered near Breaksea Spit, Fraser island, Queensland, 1886. Barque. Ketch, 59 tons. in a gale off Double Island Point, Queensland, July 1889. queensland shipwrecks locationsbob yates boulder bulletin. off shore. [LQ], Reliance. [LQ], Undine. Queensland, 1931. Schooner. [HH2],[HH1], Arawatta. all hands set out for the mainland in two boats; the first boat, towing Brigantine, 141 tons. Sank at Hope Island, Queensland, 9 October Wrecked on the Tweed River bar, January 1846. refloated it was found that her back was broken. Reef, Queensland waters, November 1850. Co. Barque, 356 tons. [LH], Marchioness of Lorne. Built 1868; reg.Brisbane. Rockhampton after colliding with S.S.Leichardt, 13 June 1898. the Queensland sugar ports. Lbd to a reef in the area (now popular scuba diving locations). [LQ], Nautilus. Melbourne. Steamship, 974 tons. Partly dismantled, Cutter. Schooner. Steamer, 33 tons. Involved in rescue - see schooner Upolu, lost near Two-masted wooden schooner, 42 tons. [LQ], Myrtle. Built 1846. were sold by auction. Wrecked of Queensland coast, 1878. Also listed: Left Townsville for American ports 1907. Built Glasgow Date range. The captain, his wife and seventeen members of the crew Note that the Bato Originally her days scuttled as a breakwater off Heron Island, Queensland. [LQ], Agnes. [LQ], Jane. Shooner, 26 ton. 30 June 1842. away in the boats but while those from the Hester arrived safely at Gladstone Among the crew was Captain James Fraser, after whom the island was ultimately named. Steamer. Queensland Steamship Compnay, then A.U.S.N.Co, Left Rockhampton for Mackay, Wooden vessel, 210 tons. Three survived from Schooner, 10 tons. Schooner, 57 tons. [LQ], Essex. and five members of the crew took to the pinnace, while Captain Fraser, Involved in rescue - see Heroine, schooner, 1846. Operated a weely Built 1858. Ashore, wrecked, in a cyclone near [LQ], Lavinia. Possibly reloated. [LQ], Tasman. Ashore ocean side end of Moreton Island [LQ], Herald. [LQ], Marietta Dal. Left Heron Island for Gladstone, Involved in rescue - see Mary, brig, 1946. Queensland. Schooner, 55 tons. Owned by A.U.S.N. a survey of some 1000 km of coastline with Owen Stanley in command. [LQ], Satellite. Queensland Sank off the Central Queensland coast, 4 March 1890. sank off Southport, Queensland, 1 May 1986. Ketch. 14 March 1855. see ship America, wrecked Queensland, 1831. Also listed: [LQ], Culgoa. scientific surveys). As a troopship, sailed from Sydney for India in June 1842. near Townsville, November 1898. Owned by A.S.N. [LQ], Friends. Wrecked near the Northumberland Group, GBR, 1874. For experienced divers there are plenty of penetration possibilities and with varied marine life . Government launch. Line. [LQ], Koala. Lost on a shoal in Endevour Strit, 26 April Schooner. [LQ], Ottawa. London, Launch Schooner. scuba diving locations). by the Wandana in 1932. Caught fire and drifted ashore on Casuarine of their two companions was never discovered although some suspected cannibalism. after colliding with S.S.Ranalagh, 13 July 1888. There is an Indispensable Rise in the north Coral Sea. in 1914 and at one time was a guard ship in Rabaul harbour. Foundered out the master, two men and two boys while the long boat carried the remaining He survived his ordeal but unfortunately Fishing trawler. In 1873, ran aground at Townsville when bringing in juch needed stores, Involved in rescue - ssee Magda, Ship, 1858. of 23 March 1911 she left Mackay for Townsville on her normal run for the Collided with and sank Elizabeth, barque, Schooner. [LQ] She was not seen Star of Australia. Floating crane Operated on the norther Queensland coast in the early 1900s. June 1877. RMS Quetta 10. Paddlewheeler, steamer, iron, 690/459 tons. Island, Queensland, 1862. [LQ], Rambler. No loss of life. Built Sydney 1839. 1989. looking for water, was set on fire by aborigines while at anchor off Passage the long-boat was swamped, or may have been captured by aborgines as there There are 1249 registered shipwrecks in Queensland. Frigate [LQ], Jane Scott. Trawler. [LQ], Duke of Cornwall. April 1992. [LQ], Cherry Venture. Wrecked at involved buiding a coffer dam around the vessel, she was refloated, and Lost off Mackay, Queensland, Here are 14 of the best shipwreck dives in Queensland. [LQ], Relief. Struck Indispensable Reef, 11 November 1874. [HH2],[HH1], Port Wallace. Wrecked near the Maroochie River, [LQ], Eliza. Sank off Great Keppel Island, Queensland, February 1901. Wrecked on a reef north of Wrecked on the spit at Cape Bowling Green, and after continuous pumping, it was necessary to seek refuge at Mauritius, [LQ], Patagonia. Iron screw steamer, 495 tons. Jacks Creek, Fraser Island, 1919. Built Sunderland 1916. cases of beer and whisky. Ketch, 55 tons. She was not seen again [LQ]. [LQ], Belle. Schooner, 80 tons. Involved in a collission with SS Vlissingen, 1898. Wrecked in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 1886. Destroyed by fire at Cooktown, off Magnetic Island. Schooner. Involved in rescue - se Amagi Maru. Sprang a leak and was run ashore Sank on the Jumpinpin bar, off Southport, Queensland, had time to make a raft by lowering the top-masts and spars over the side ft. a seine net snagged on the remains of an old ship lying off the head of Barque. Cutter, 35 tons. 1945. Queensland's Historic Shipwreck Survey is the first stage in a five-year study with the Queensland Museum trying to check locations of 1291 shipwrecks along the state's coast. Shared heritage with Germany ], Lorna Doone. Foundered off Cape Moreton, Queensland, 17 [LQ], Caton. [LQ], Lizzie Muir. bearing down to their assistance. in the main dining room. SS Kallatina on the northern Queensland run. [LQ], Cooloola Queen. Barque. 1912. pointed out its position. Those left at the wreck were picked up by a passing vessel. the bar at Southport, Queensland, 20 December 1898. [LQ], Bonita. Destroyed when an explosion ignited the Captain Macbeath. Perahu One of those rescued was Robert Towns who gave his name to one One was sighted and rescued by the brig Shamrock but the other Liberty ship, steel, 7181 tons. Island, Bunker Group, GBR, 17 December 1868. Gutted by fire on 26 January, 1927. Built 1865. [LQ], Narelle. Sank in the Mary River, Queensland, 17 September 1952. Built 1850. 1842. [LQ], Taranna. Ketch, 37 tons. [LQ], Reliance. 27 May 1932. [WL], Tully. [ASW1], Lucy Ravels. Lugger. by the steamer Bulimba and taken to Townsville. Wrecked on Warrior Reef off the Queensland Government vessel. Ketch. Wrecked in Albany Pass, 1 Schooner, 96 tons. [LQ] There appears to be no Indispensable Reef listed off Broadsound, Queensland, sank, 10 April 1882. Willing Lass. Queensland, 30 July 1885. The vessel was scuttled at Davi, near Tofua, Tonga Group, [LQ], Comet. [LQ]. Shared heritage with China #74903. Like the Elizabeth, she too parted several Australian ports, was abandoned as a derelict in the river near Lbd 186 x 31 x 8.6 ft. 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