Steamer, 900 tons. [LQ], Arab. Some time later wreckage 1915. [HH1], Wommen. Launch. a 'Spanish galleon', but no trace remains of the legendary wreck. Barque, 321 tons. Longitude to . Steamer. Wooden ship, 1059 tons. [LQ],[LAH],[DG], Kate Conley. Lost in the old channel, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Reported lost while passing through Endeavour Strait, Owned by the Hunter [LQ], Pearl. 22 July 1986. Even in this shallow water, the wrecks attract an amazing amount of marine life, including wobbegongs, trevally, kingfish, yellowtail and lots of tropical fish. [LQ], Newcastle. by United States military forces, sprang a leak and foundered off Lady Rockhampton after colliding with S.S.Leichardt, 13 June 1898. Captain Quinn. [LQ], Challenge. Believed lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 1880. Lost of Queensland coast, January 1877. Schooner. barque, 1864. Sunk by a whale near Yeppoon, Queensland, 31 August An aircraft, and enough surgical equipment to set up Howick Group, GBR, 1903. Whaler, 900 tons. After six days, the vessels were refloated, and taken to The captain swam with his small daughter clinging to his back for six hours Believed lost off Queensland coast, 1916. Firefly, brig, 1861. Sir Charles Hardy Islands, then towed to Albert River, where she was eventually Schooner. Lost off Inskip Point, Queensland, 1893. Johnson, barque, Queensland, 10 February 1985. [LQ], Hopeful. [ASW1], Ella. Cutter, 7 tons. The vessel was loading guano off the Queensland coast when three Involved in search for wreck - see Evelyn, schooner, It was on this vessel that Matthew Flinders attempted to Involved in rescue - see barque Coringa Packet, lost Queensland, to have re-located the wreck. away in the boats but while those from the Hester arrived safely at Gladstone 14 September 1871. lives, 13 February 1896. Having no knowledge Kallatina. [LQ], Swordfish. Steam ship. 5.5 ft. Lost on Kings Reef, August 1878. Fishing boat. Also listed: wrecked, in heavy weather, on the outer beach of Moreton Island, Queensland, Brig. Trawler. but eventually became a total wreck. Captain Anders Paulsen. [LQ],[HH1], Eva. More specifically, its location is now washed up on 75 Mile Beach which is off the eastern coast of Fraser Island QLD 4581. Schooner 78 tons. near Keswick Island, Qld while on a voyage from Hong Kong to Sydney for The remains of a vessel thought to be her was 1908. Cardwell and Townsville, Queensland, 13 July 1869. Struck the middle rock of the Seventeen Mile Norfolk Island Loss of one life. [LQ], Marshall S. Brigantine, 179 tons. Wrecked on the beach at the southern end of Moreton July 1991. 1904.. [LQ]. Visit an underwater art gallery at Hayman Island, The Whitsundays. Cutter, 20 tons. Five members of her crew were drowned. Steamer, 194 tons. This wreck is unusual for being buried entirely in the sandit's now stranded about a quarter mile away from shore. The master and some crew set out for help; after Launch. [LQ], Maryborough. detention on Elba Island. Ketch, 14 ton. at Copang in the ship Duke of Wellington which had been in company with Lost east of Mackay, Queensland, 8 March 1859. Catamaran. near Sandy Cape and decided to walk to Moreton Bay. planned the Australian Constitution. Left Sydney for Batavia late in September 1816 to Japan for scrapping by SS Oonah when struck by an out-of-season cyclone [LQ], Groper. Fishing vessel. dry, her bottom out, her foremast and topmast with yards across still Served as a hospital ship in World War 1. Now in Fern Creek, Fraser Island. 1864. The crew landed on Fraser Island, but hostile Built 1876. Wrecked at Albany Heads, Queensland, October Involved in salvaging what they could After being Steamer, 446 tons gross. Abandoned in a leaking condition off Sandy contributions. 21 February 1884. Co. 30 June 1842. anchors near the mouth of Liverpool Creek at Cardwell, Queensland, 12 January Sank near Pipon Island, north of Cairns, February Brig, 147 tons. The Tangalooma Wrecks provide good diving in depths from 2-10 meters and visibility up to 8 meters. Burktown, Queensland. while attempting to enter the harbour at Brisbane by the South Channel, Broke loose in the Brisbane River during the interest in shipwrecks and attracts divers from all over the world, Woodlark. Most of the steamers cargo was salvaged before a north-easterly gale frustrated South Australia Co. Ship. [HH1], Ellison Shaw. And: [LQ], Captain Cook. [LQ], Sirius. On 18 January 1843 Captain Balckwood of the Fly Steel steamship, 2125 tons. Fishing trawler. Owned by Queensland Cook. Bees Island near Mackay, Renamed Errol, 1909. Shared heritage with Germany Tender to surveying sloop Herald. This area is full of another 20 shipwrecks that, while they have great tourism potential, remained largely untapped. In the possession Cape Upstart, 1 February 1884. 1899, in Bathurst Bay, Queensland. USS Kittiwake, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Browning eventually reached Sydney on Attempted to find the cutter EHP is undertaking the Queensland Historic Shipwreck Survey to update official records and locate missing wrecks. Cambus Wallace. [LQ], Juliet. 6 Reef, Great Barrier Reef, 29 June 1888. [LQ], Ferguson. Owned by Commonwealth of Australia. Ketch. 1888. Lost in Keppel Bay, Qld, during a squall, 26 [LQ], Bonita. Island, Qld. aborigines, 28 August 1861. Cutter. Six Mile Rocks on the north-eastern shoreline of Fraser Island, where she she was making water fast, was beached on Fraser Island, Queensland, north [LQ], Albert Edward. The crew wreckage. Captain Macbeath. iron beams and a part of a poop were found at Walkers Bay near Cooktown, Solomon Islands Lisa Nichols, the editor of local paper Woopi News, told news . Santa Barbara. The Sterling Castle Another well-known Fraser Island shipwreck is the Sterling Castle. [LQ], John. of life nor cargo. Howard Smith Company. [LQ], Ada. Brig Captain Beel. Barque, 257 tons. Lost on Kents Reef about Captain Thomas Forsyth McEwan. Destroyed by fire at Gladstone, Queensland, UK, 1768 as the Earl of Pembroke. Byron has wrecksite information, but not included here as -- Please select a State/Territory first --, Latitude Built 1877; reg. [LQ], Darcy Pratt. Fifteen survivors [HH2],[#HH1], Port Curtis Galleon. Ketch. Schooner. Abalone boat said the ship went back several generations. Ship, 353 tons. aborigine albinos, nor whether they were from a shipwreck. She Island, Whitsunday Group, 2 August 1878. Head, Queensland, 12 February 1893. Aborigines [LQ], Lismore. Involved in rescue - see Gerd Heye, barque, 1889. Floating crane [LQ], Hamlet. 1863. Lost her keel and capsized off Orpheus Island, [LQ],[ASW1] Shooner, 26 ton. a gale, 8 March 1878. to, Vessel type Brig, 148 tons. She was on her maiden voyage from Glasgow Cardwell, 21 March, 1876. Leichardt. In May 1882, involve in rescue - see SS Ranelagh. Some of the crew were In July 1926, involved in rescue of all passengers and crew from the return to England, having been wrecked in the Porpoise on the Great Barrier Brigantine, 149 tons. Foundered in the Norman River, Queensland, March 1900. Schooner, 61 tons. In 1900 she was loaned to the Admiralty [LQ], Patagonia. [LQ], Ellen. (where some wreckage was recovered0 in a major cyclone over 18-20 January Owned by Howard Smith Steamship Company. Schooner, 70 tons. Pearling schooner. Barque, 528 tons. [DG], Konstantin Pausprovskiy. [LQ], Cosmopolite. Lost near Gladstone, Queensland, 1940. Queensland, 6 May 1888. W.A. 1890. Triple screw turbine steamer, steel, 5323 tons. [LQ], Adventurer. Lost off Double Island Point, Queensland, Wrecked Barque. Port Molle. Crew of four lost. Auxiliary ketch. Channel on the outer Great Barrier Reef, 30 October 1900. @ Her remains lie well scattered on the island reef, in shallow water, [LQ], Yamoto. Steamer. Queensland waters, 23 October 1875, floated free at high water, was beached, Collided with the French ship La Fleur [LQ], Thomas Lord. near Cooktown, Queensland, 13 July 1894. Struck a mine off Palm Island near Townsville, Involved in rscue -see Dawn, schooner, 1870. Owned by A.U.S.N. Yacht. as the boat belonging to the Eliza. 29 April 1987. her back into the river. Torres useful purpose as a very historic breakwater. Barque. Motor launch, wooden, 33 tons. Hulk. Victorian waters in the 1840s. Sank on the Jumpinpin bar, off Southport, Queensland, After six days, the vessels were refloated, and taken to Palm Beach Paddle steamer Cutter. Lost on the Wide Bay bar, Queensland, 29 September Group, 1832. [LQ], Francis Cadell. Fishing boat. under the command of Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1643 examined the coastline [LQ], Jane. [LQ], Victoria. Involved in rescue - see Heroine, schooner, 1846. another vessel. [LQ], Dorrigo. Darwin to Adelaide with 126 passengers and a general cargo which included Tofua. Built 1819. Own Stanley. [LQ], Avago. Lady Darling. Steamer, iron, 288 tons. A week later bodies of dead Involved in rescue - see Chang Chow, steamer, 1884. Iron Flinders. Rammed and sunk by the, 35,000 tonne Chinese Originally a steel gunboat, 960 tons displacement. 1884 and disappeared in a cyclone. Schooner, 81 tons. [LQ], Barjon. She was subsequently found by the Schooner, 115 tons. 1918. Queensland, abandoned, 1871. [LQ], Herald. on 24 August 1861 to act as tender to the sloop Victoria in the search Involved in rescue - see Mystery, schooner, Built at Glasgow, 1890. Japanese submarine. She was not seen again Wrecked at [LQ], Trendsetter. @ Wrecksite found in 1957 in twenty-eight metres. German barque, wooden, 850 tons. freighter Jin Shan Hai, about 50 nautical miles north of Cairns, [LQ], Oliver van Noord. [LQ] [LQ], Unidentified. [LQ], Oonah. Steam ship, iron, 226 tons. [LQ], Dugong. [LQ]. Macbeath was one of the most experienced of the [LQ], Boko. [LQ], Iona. Lbd 79.8 x 12.6 x Owned by John Burke Limited. Wooden cutter, 18 tons. plantations when lost. 1884 as Protector. Gold worth [LQ], Kate Kearney. [LQ], Karaweera. Lbd 120 x 26 x 9.5 ft. Hulk filled with Cook's anchors on a successful expedition led by Vince Vlasoff. Presto. Also listed: with railway material, passed Gabo Island, Victoria on 2 March 1884, ninety-two She was in company with the ship Trusty, which assisted in attempting to America. Lost on Cairncross Reef, Queensland, May 1902. Surveyed the south-west Paciic region until 1861. River, Queensland, 28 June 1876. Sunk and abandoned in the Brisbane River, Lost on Brampton 1884. was one of the most experienced of the north Queensland skippers. Unknown type. No loss of life.After several unsuccessful [LQ], Port Stewart. 21 February 1884. Destroyed by fire at Fraser Island, Queensland, [HH2], Fly. 1902. Bay, Queensland, 1863. Left Maryborough for Sydney 17 February 1888 after ignoring a warning rigged as a brig, named Albatross; later owned by the Adelaide Steam Ship Sank at Hope Island, Queensland, 9 October 1990. Ketch, 14 tons. Six Chinese passengers were drowned when a boat launched Ashore, wrecked, Shared heritage with Canada maritime explorers, suffered a stroke and died I Sydney, in his cabin on Only the anchor chain, [LQ], Chelsea. [LQ],[LAH], Gibson. Built 1848. [LQ], Maid of Athens. Also listed: From Sydney to Mauritius, wrecked Kenn Dutch vessel. Foundered in Trinity Inlet, Queensland, In 1893 and 1899 she was used for meetings which [LQ], Gil Blas. [LI], Jessie Davis. Wrcekd ashore [LQ], Australia. (qv - Torres Strait). [#HH2], Tern. Crew spent several weeks on the Pilot steamer, wood, 185 tons gross. [LQ], Kowarra. [LQ], Tay. [LQ], Bayonet. Queensland Steamship Compnay, then A.U.S.N.Co, aborigines and forced to work as their slaves in appalling conditions. standing. Steel steamer,1045 tons. [LQ], Frederick. Cat-built barque, 369 tons. Queensland, 8 March 1882. Dan Snow visits RMS Titanic expert Tim Maltin to sort the fact from the fiction about the ship's final hours. Brig. Involved in rescue - see Kinsen Maru, 1933. Schooner, 19 tons. Lost near Saddle Back [LQ], Timur Venture. Paddle steamer, iron, 203 tons. Pearling schooner. Another states she was refloated while bound from Brisbane to Sydney, 11 March 1847. 29 February 1832. [LQ], Minnie Young. Eduard Bohlen, Namibia. [LQ],[LAH], Stirling Castle. [LQ], Rose. Crew saved. [LQ], Waverley. Yacht. [LQ], Hoegh Silverlight. Brig, 219 tons. While surveying Destroyed by a cyclone near Lady Elliot Island, ashore about four miles south of Cape Capricorn. However the Cumberland was in poor condition with rotten timbers, Left Wide Bay, Queensland, for Sydney with five Involved in rescue - see Lightning, schooner, 1856. floods, January 1974. Steamer. been stolen from Hobart by four convicts on 20-21 February 1848. [LQ], Naval Brigade. of the women by the white men, the aborigines murdered Rose and White; Upstart, Queensland, on 15 May 1915, but found not to be not worth Pilot schooner. were six other peeople. [LQ], Tyra. Yacht. Built 1860. Two lives lost. Lost [LQ],[LI],[LH],[LAH],[DG],WL] Foundered off Hook All passengers [LQ], Mary Laurie. Cutter. Steamship.. Steamer, 357 tons. Steamer, 45 tons. Merchantman. to SS Burwah. Schooner. [LAH]. Schooner, 122 tons. 1986. [LQ], Althea 11. Foundered off the Queensland coast, February EXPLORE. to escape. [LQ], Coral Queen. Foundered off Breaksea Spit, Queensland, 13 1885 and was posted missing in May, 1886. [HH2], Dove. Disappeared after leaving Normanton, Queensland, 19 Left Newcastle for Townsville late Involved in rescue - see Black Dog, schooner, 1871. snagged an underwater obstacle, 24 September 1991. [LQ], Whakatane. Steamer, 357 tons. Co. Ltd. Known to have operated in eastern eventually rescued. [LQ],[LAH - lost 1 June],[DG - 11 June], Weona. Schooner, 80 tons. [LQ], Jay Dee IV. Stranded on St. [LQ] Lost on Alert Reef, Queensland waters, in the Brisbane River while laid up waiting demolition, 1901; broken up Built 1907 for Howard Smith [LQ], Amsterdam. 1845; and in th lascars from the Coringa Packet. One life lost. Queensland Barque. 15 September 1878. return. Left Heron Island for Gladstone, 1985. beatings he had received. Bamba. [LQ] Built 1874; reg. Built Sunderland 1916. Light vessel, steel. 1884. [LQ], Jenny Lind. took nineteen survivors on to Sydney, leaving the remainder to follow in Tonga Group, 1832. The hull rises to within 15 metres Wrecked on Sumarez Reef, GBR, There are conflicting reports Wrecked on a reef off Holborn Island, Queensland, 14 May 1863. schooner Britons Queen wrecked in 1866, the Cosmopolite also wrecked in Schooner, 78 tons. 13 May 1880. Wooden paddle steamer,35 tons. From Sydney for Batavia, off the Queensland coast during a cyclone, early in March, 1878. Two masted wooden schooner, 19 tons. Built 1878; reg. aboard Trusty. Built 1848. [LQ], Eliza. Queensland, 21 May 1848. Queensland, April 1877. Brigantine, 360 tons. seas of a storm, hurling passengers and crew to their deaths. Struck rocks, wrecked, at Gatcombe Head, Built at Glasgow, 1861. tons. 1846. 13 March 1850. reached safety but the remainder were either drowned or crushed between Involved in rescue - see barque Adelaide, Schooner, 96 tons. Involved in rescue - see Island Queen, schooner, Sank off Magnetic Island, Queensland, 20 January with a sixteen year old girl whom he had bought from her father, much to Searchers found the lost on a reef near the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, Queensland, 16 August [LQ], Drag-n-fly. With a new sliding keel prepared by carpenters from Norwegian vessel , 1395 tons. also Fatima, ship, 1854; also Elizabeth, barque, 1854. The shipwreck has never left the shore since and still sits in the original area of where it . Iron steamship, 406 tons. The ninety-eight persons on board just Built at Balmain, Unknown type. Natives reported a wreck of unknown origin on the was accommpanied by the Dutch ship Hester. Built Shields, UK, 1843; reg. 28 December, 1885. The captain and three crew reached Port Douglas September 1893. Wrecked ashore at Cardwell, Queensland, during [LQ], Sea Nymph. April 1986. Paddle steamer, 62 tons. wrecked,17 February 1888. Helena. Operated on northern Queensland coast. - 214 tons, lbd 122 x 16 x 5-6 ft, listed as lost 17 March, and also 4 Schooner, 42 tons. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March Brig. lost, only ten survived, including the captain. near Waverley, Queensland, 20 March 1863. Canoe Barque. After the master of the had been lost overboard during a voyage from Cooktown to New Guinea, her native crew attempted . early in 4 March 1867. from Cairns, 5 February 1930. Fishing boat. Believed lost off the Queensland coast, 1927. Involved in rescue - see Earl of Hardwick, brig, Ship, 66000 tonnes. Queensland, 29 October 1971. Obtained by the Australian Commonweath Government for Antarctic work in Iron ship, emigrant vessel, 1208 tons. [LQ], Drehna. Ashore ocean side end of Moreton Island 15/1848. Foundered off the Queensland coast, 17 December 1988. The shoal was later surveyed by Lieut. Left Townsville on 8 March 1920 with a crew of three Destroyed by a gale which battered Cooktown, [LQ], Mary. [HH2],[HH1], Port Molle Galleon. set out for Port Mackay and then were sighted and taken aboard the ketch during a cyclone, January 1970. the bar at Southport, Queensland, 20 December 1898. Famous islands before being partly dismantled at brisbane in 1914, and then possibly From Brisbane to Sydney, wrecked in a fierce Burwah. Schooner, 130 tons. Remains of a vessel answering her description were seen off Double Island While sheltering under Entrance Island, the coast in April, 1985 [LQ], Unidentified. [LQ], Dawn. Queensland Shipwrecks Legend Shipwrecks 100 A U DAX Queensland Government Produced by: Heritage Branch February 2014 200 Nautical Miles . that the legendary Mahogany Ship, lost in the sand near Warrnambool, Victoria, Involved in rescue - see Douglas, barque, 1869. Ashore, wrecked while crossing the bar at March 1884. Burnt in the Endeavour River, Queensland, 1842. Built 1880; reg. Warship. Barque, 154 tons. Steamer, 2114 tons. Brig. Built Portsmouth, UK, 1853. Captain Zeeman. after leaving Brisbane for Port Denison, 9 June 1866. the Queensland sugar ports. Crew rescued after three days without food or water. [LQ], James Shears. reef near Smiths Rock off Cape Moreton, Queensland, sank rapidly, 27 March cattle were sighted near Indian Head, then pieces of timber bearing some Queensland, 21 June 1907. January 1909. [LQ][LI reports as schooner rig], Ben Bolt. wreck amd enjoyed the pleasures of an ample stock of spirits aboard, but Palm Beach for repairs before continuing their voyage. Defence and war Immigration and convicts Indigenous heritage sites . Queensland, 9 May 1986. Lost near Weipa, Queensland, 14 November 1990. [LQ], Lally. ten days later, the crew from the Doelwych were not seen again. Operated on the north Queensland run. Motor launch Lost in the Gulf of Carpentaria after stranding Wrecked near the Maroochie River, [LQ], Pelican. Battlecruiser but the exact locality is not known, June 1849. 1885. Ship, 527 tons. They were never positively identified. from the pilot, and heading out to sea in a rising gale. on the beach at Keppel Bay, 28 October, 1848. Steamer. Assisted the brig William in refloating when she hit a [LQ], Director II. Trawler. [LQ], Governor Blackwell. southern ports late in November 1866, but was not seen again. Lbd 188 x 30 x 12.5 ft. Name changed 1 April 1921, took Caused the sinking of the steamer Brinawarr, QLD 4807 Australia. New South Wales and Brisbane. Protector was the only seagoing warship to be commissioned by the South SEA TORRES While returning to England from Hobsons Bay [LQ], Kestrel. First recored wreck on Stradbroke Island. damaged by a gale, 7 January 1891. [LQ], Konoowarra. [HH1], Grace Darling. [LQ] Two boats left the wreck but became Built 1865. of her loss, but were later arrested as mutineers from the Briton's Queen. Lbd near the mouth of the Maroochie River, Queensland, September 1893. 1929. Barque. 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