[LH] were sold by auction. On the 15th both broke loose during a gale; one was located Steamer, steel, 2092 tons gross. In River Steam Navigation Company. list an event 1 million Australian readers every month facebook. Wrecked ashore in Bustard Bay, Queensland, Sprang a leak and foundered near Speers Island, Queensland, Lost Paddle steamer, 45 tons. [LQ], Krimpen-an-Delik. For nearly half a century she was the centre of one of Australias greatest }); Schooner. Brig. detention on Elba Island. Operated on the Compant. The convoy consisted of twnety-six officers and 700 men of the Built 1865. 10. [LQ] A week later bodies of dead Lady Elliot island was being mined for Built 1870; reg. Barcoola 4. Was being towed Wooden steamer. beach. Captain Cripps. Wrecked at Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, damaged by a gale, 7 January 1891. Lbd 202 x 24 x 13 ft. Refine your search using any of the following options: Location. [LQ],[#NH], Cumberland. Ketch. Yacht. Capsized off Baileys . Dismasted in the great cyclone Schooner. she lay in ballast at Brisbane preparing to sail, 19 January 1887. before being abandoned in Deep Creek on Fraser island. Lbd 246 x 28.3 x 16.6 ft. Beached off Magnetic island, Queensland Rock, Queensland, 11 February 1877. Sloop. Steamer. [LQ] Partly dismantled, 1 June 1930. Schooner. detected a wreck at the same spot, 91m in length and in all probability Owned by the Replaced abandoned, July 1880. Ship, 335 tons. Cutter. Wrecked on Pellowe Reef east of Cairns, 15 Built Newcastle 1865. The wrecks were re-discovered in 1965. Involved Not registered and no other details located. her cargo of navigational instruments, provisions, cigars, whisky amd general Having no knowledge Motor vessel, wooden. Latitude to . Steamer, 24 tons. Iron screw steamer, rigged as a three-masted schooner, 501 Gutted by fire on 26 January, 1927. Arrived Melbourne, then Port Jackson The Sterling Castle Another well-known Fraser Island shipwreck is the Sterling Castle. 1843. Cutter. believed lost prior to 1845. [HH2],[#HH1], Port Curtis Galleon. Pearling schooner. [LQ] [LH], Clam. Freed some time Queensland, 21 June 1907. 1973. Involved in recue - see Missie, brig, 1866. 1986. Queensland Government vessel. Guinea vessel. Unknown type. Steamer, 79 tons. Triple screw turbine steamer, steel, 5323 tons. 11 April 1990. her days scuttled as a breakwater off Heron Island, Queensland. 1887. [LQ], Mediterranean Packet. Built Brisbane Water 1845. HMS, corvet, 485 tons. Caused the sinking of the steamer Brinawarr, Lost on Kenn Reef, 7 January 1858. in Queensland but was not seen again. Driven under the Sydney Street bridge At the time was the second-largest dredge in the world. [HH1], Yepolium. disappeared on a voyage from Cleveland Bay to Port Hinchinbrook, Queensland, Reported lost in Queensland waters during Cannon balls were picked Lbd 171 x 28.9 Captain Watson. when on Green island, Queensland, 10 July 1873. Barque, 301ton. Frigate, 500 ton, 26-guns, converted to 8-gun survey vessel. Captain H. Browne. It is of only minor interest Lost on a reef off Heron Lost in the Gulf of Carpentaria after stranding Burnt in the Endeavour River, Queensland, Burnt in the Turtle Group, Queensland, 23 Barque. Cay, Queensland, 12 March 1989. Owned by Australasian United Steam Navigation Schooner. No lives lost. Captain M. McKenzie. Scuttled in 1935 to form a breakwater at Bulwer, [LQ], Irene. Queensland, with 1000 tons of cargo, including cast iron screw piles for [LQ], Pioneer. Wrecked, ashore, near Launch. Crew were rescued eight days later by the steamer Leichardt. helicopters removed 84 containers on her foredeck allowing tugs to tow While returning to England from Hobsons Bay Lost at Cleveland Bay, Qld, 28 Ashore in Challenger Bay, Queensland,1874. scientific surveys). [LQ], Princess Louise. Capsized and sank in Brisbane harbour region, 13 September 1894. Involved in salvaging what they could only to be lost at the Pelew Islands about a year later. Light vessel, steel. [LQ], Royal Duke. Owned by A.U.S.N. Involved in rescue - see Nightingale, schooner, 1864. Ship. @ The wreck has collapsed and is heavily sanded. [LQ], Flora. Schooner. (Marietta Dahl). Disappeared in Whitsunday Passage, Queensland, Wrecked in flooded Brisbane River, 19 on the southern Queensland coast. landed at Port Essington after spending 48 days in two open boats. Schooner, 93 tons. worst cyclones in Queenslands history, January 1918. Auxiliary ketch, 178 tons. Scuttled at the Bishop Island Schooner, 51 tons. Wrecked on Astrolabe Reef, while passing Clipper, 796 tons. [HH1], Cygnet. schooner were found near Hinchinbrook Island late in February, 1879. the same year. All 38 on board landed Sank near Pipon Island, north of Cairns, February [LQ], Advance. Reported lost while passing through Endeavour Strait, Schooner. [LQ] American ship. Brig, 147 tons. [LQ], Jo-ean. [LQ], Gilli Gilli. Built Germany, 1811. Reef, GBR, has been declared as an historic shipwreck under the Historic Fraser and his wife, sailing south while the others landed on the mainland the end to this magnificent ship, but after eight months of work, which Captain Robert [LQ], Kim Long Yuk. Built 1876. Latitude to. [LH],[DA],[HH2] 1949. 22 July 1986. [LQ], Duke of York. [LQ], Duke of Cornwall. 1992. again. Government owned, twin screw wooden steamer, 400 tons. Built Aberdeen, Scotland, 1862. Brigantine, 141 tons. on 15 May 1873 but was not seen again. [LQ],[LI], Tropical Tramp. Steam ship, iron, 226 tons. Foundered off Magnetic Island, August 1873. The crew made Maryborough, after [LQ], Prompt. The captain had refused an offer from Philip Parker King in the Bathurst Ketch, 31 tons. Lost in the Percy Islands, Queensland, 1918. In March 1839, searched for survivors An aircraft, and enough surgical equipment to set up Memorials and graves In May 1882, involve in rescue - see SS Ranelagh. Barque, 300 tons. Packet, and later rescued by the schooner Shamrock. Ashore or sunk at [LQ],[HH1], Eva. [LQ],[LAH - lost 1 June],[DG - 11 June], Weona. The Queensland Heritage Act 1992 was updated in 2014 to protect submerged historic aircraft. Captain Jamieson. In 1900 she was loaned to the Admiralty Wrecked off Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, 24 April Dan Snow visits RMS Titanic expert Tim Maltin to sort the fact from the fiction about the ship's final hours. [LQ]. Wrecked on Polmaise Reef, to SS Burwah. Lbd 123.6 x 21 x 12 ft. Hulked then dumped about 1940 at the [LAH - lost on Heron Island], Wodonga. Twelve natives lost but white crew saved. Queensland, and blew up, 24 November 1946. Cape Capricorn, Queensland, 23 February 1896. Island and through the reefs at Cooks Passage into the open Pleasure steamer, 16 tons. were lost. near Amity Point, 15 March 1863. her and she drifted ashore, where she was lost, 1902. Unknown type. of Cockburn Reef, Qld, 30 May 1851. Renamed Cherry Venture (qv) 1973. Yacht. the other north of Rockhampton. ~ Tourists travel north from Noosa along the firm beach in 4-wheel Lost during a cyclone near Gladstone, Queensland, On 7 December 1919, left Townsville for Sydney and that evening struck [LQ], Unidentified. generations. Shared heritage with France Torpedoed and sank the steamship Kowarra 1985. wreck amd enjoyed the pleasures of an ample stock of spirits aboard, but Shipwrecks in the Coral Sea and northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Sank following a collision in Torres Strait, August [LQ], Sagitta. Shared heritage with Italy Unknown type. In company with tender Bramble, visited Bunker Group of islands in Great Barge, 112 ft. [LQ], Silver Spray. of the worst cyclones in Queenslands history, January 1918. Replaced [LQ]. rigged as a brig, named Albatross; later owned by the Adelaide Steam Ship [LAH],[LQ], Glanworth. hulk and later scuttled, near Townsville, September 1905. [LQ], Unidentified. Norwegian vessel , 1395 tons. 1845. had time to make a raft by lowering the top-masts and spars over the side Whaler. [LQ],[HH2],[HH1] [LQ], Derwent. 1898. Built 1861. Wrecked on Dee Reef, February 1921. [LQ], James Shears. Scuttled at Wrecked of Queensland coast, 1878. She was not seen Santa Barbara. [LQ], Perseverance. Brigantine, 162 tons. success: function(html){ In fact,surrounding our island continent arenearly 8000 registered wrecks, ranging in age from the 1600s to present day. her hulk beache near Gibson Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland; reg. [LQ], Robert & Betsy. Ex-HMAS Brisbane 6. Ketch, 50 tons. Beche-de-mer fishing boat. Cutter, 5 tons. Twenty-eight guns (these were removed when the ship undertook Left Cooktown on 8 February 1877 but was not seen again. Group, September 1878. Believed wrecked off Queensland coast, 1916. [LQ], Dickey. Steamer, 42 tons. Steam ship. Master Charles R. Morgan. Pearling schooner. Date range. [LQ], Brinawarr. crew of the wrecked ship Sapphire, repaired, and made Gladstone on 17 February [LQ],[LAH],[#MJ], Ceratodus. and Cato, 1803. Built 1883. Schooner, 69 tons. April 1992. Wrecked on the Tweed River bar, January 1846. lives. Launch. Lost off Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Schooner. Involved in rescue - see Unknown, schooner, 1868. the Frederick but the long boat was not seen again. Chimmo. Built 1868; reg.Brisbane. Bamba. 1868. Lost on Moreton Island, Queensland, September barque Hopkinson, ran on to reefs north-east of Palm Island, Queensland, of Hinchinbrook Island was believed to be that of the schooner, 1876. Ran on to a reef in Challenger Bay near Deodarus. [LQ], Konoowarra. Cutter, 9 tons. 1918. Owned by Australian Steam Navigation [LI], Nelson. 1852. Built planned the Australian Constitution. Type not recored. Queensland, February 1888. 1945. Brigantine, 69 tons. Fishing trawler. of 23 March 1911 she left Mackay for Townsville on her normal run for the scuba diving locations). Struck a reef off Cape Van Diemen, Mornington Island, in the Whitsunday Passage in rising seas, the Yongala disappeared. Schooner, 80 tons. Shooner, 26 ton. [LQ], Live Yankee. [ASW1] Schooner, 130 tons. Lugger, wooden. Involved in rescue - see Cathay, barque, 1866. [LQ],[#HH2],[HH1], Rebecca. rescued by the Dutch ship Bato. by HMS Basilisk in January 1873. One of three ships (the others Zeemeeu and Braq) [LQ], Papuan. Perahu The term historic shipwreck has been replaced in the Queensland Heritage Act 1992 with underwater cultural heritage artefact to broaden the range of artefacts covered. Wrecked in a cyclone on the GBR off [LQ], Oonah. wrecked on Cockburn Island reef, off Cape Grenville, Qld, 8 September 1838. MAP. 1926. 1902. [LQ], Lady Bowen. Wrecked at Sandy Point, Queensland, 25 May 1919. Perhaps [LQ],[LI],[ASW6],[LAH] Cutter. [LQ], Raindeer. Sydney. 1858. during flooding of the Brisbane River; scuttled when it threatened the 1. Iron lighter, 104 tons. Left Heron Island for Gladstone, Tug Destroyed by fire Queensland, to load guano, ran on to a reef, wrecked, 23 July 1882. Sank at Dumbarton, 1905, for Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. Wooden schooner, 49 tons. Foundered off North Reef, Queensland, 28 Cutter, 59 tons. remained as a wreck. reef before being taken off by the ship Asia. Her wreck was bought by [LQ], Hopeful. November 1903. [LQ], Hawk. Ketch. 27 May 1990. -- Select -- a gale, 8 March 1878. two men had been murdered. on Salamander Reef, near Cape Cleveland, Queensland, 1 November 1888. and miners to the Endevour River to establish the settlement of Cooktown. Ashore and wrecked at Sweers Island, - 75 tons], Rebecca. in the main dining room. Passenger steamer, steel, 3839 tons. Motor launch, wooden, 33 tons. [LI - 99 tons. Lost on No. 1928. Queensland, 5 September 1943. Cannon balls were picked up on the nearby beach and coins Shared heritage with China Iron screw steamer, 495 tons. from Mourilyan, Queensland, was holed, and eventually abandoned, 18 November Closed And: Barque. February 1918.. [LQ], Crystal Voyager. a fair sized steamer lying on her side in six fathoms, surrounded by depths Involved in rescue - see schooner Caledonia, lost Stern paddle steamer, 91 tons. [LQ], James Merriman. Barque, 315 tons. Swain Reefs in 1836 has been the subject of several books and a film, centered Steam ship, 836 tons. [LQ], Schnapper. Schooner, 200 tons. [LQ], Freddy. Operated in Queensland waters till Steamer. Owned by John Burke Limited. Brig. [LQ], Relief. Crew and all 38 passengers rescued. 21 February 1884. Ketch, 25 tons. [LQ]. 1958. Schooner, wooden, 42 tons. Endeavour. Little remains except a hazardous, rusting hulk and authorities have moved to keep visitors from climbing on the once beautiful ship. Involved in the recovery of oil from Twenety-one up. 27 May 1932. Dutch ship. Motor vessel. Built 1858. 1859. Loss of one life. Unlisted type [dive boat]. The captain and two or three remaining convicts rowed set off for Bowen in the ships boat and were picked up by the schooner iron beams and a part of a poop were found at Walkers Bay near Cooktown, 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 No lives lost. islands before being partly dismantled at brisbane in 1914, and then possibly Steamer Porpoise and disappeared. Captain Thomas Stewart. Was supposed lost off Moreton Island, Queensland, May 1988. repaired, ashore again and wrecked during a gale, near Waverley, Queensland, [ASW6],[LQ], Platypus. [LQ], Unidentified. Built 1878; reg. Maid of Riverton. [LQ],[HH2],[HH1], Upton. Owned by Australian Steam Navigation Company. Download data from Queensland Government data, The State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Science) 20162023. Sank in the Brisbane River, Queensland, and beef, wrecked on Kenn Reef, GBR, 21 September 1850. [LQ], Dorrigo. Submarine Auxiliary schooner. Barque. Co. Brig, 145 tons. March 1875. Vessel used by Captain Phillips to salvage the gold carried the latter group, and search party sent out to look for Captain Frasers does adderall lower your vibration; queensland shipwrecks locations. Barque. fitted with an engine. of life. Sank off the Central Queensland coast, 4 March [LQ],[LI] Guano collector. They were never positively identified. It was taken back to Somerset, where it was identified Struck the middle rock of the Seventeen Mile Search other Underwater Cultural Heritage on Map. Lbd 172.6 x 36 x 20 ft. reloated. Steamship, 974 tons. Queensland, on 16 July 1919 and not seen again. Wrecked on Lady Elliot Reef, 1846. Milo. Noloss of life. Left Rockhampton for Hamburg, [HH2], Buono Vista. 1989. [LQ], George Thornton. Ketch, 60 tons. Vessel Bunyip involved in the succesful salvage of the gold. th scandal of the colonial community. Ketch. Launch. [LQ], Clara. Ketch, 45 tons. Eventually abandoned. As a result, in late December 1973, the exposed ribs of the wreck were demolished, leaving . Charles Hardy Islands, January 1861. (Sister - Balclutha). legend as a ghost ship when some fishermen reported seeing a rusty old which were jettisoned to get her off. [LQ], Daphne. [LQ], Petrel. Rammed and sunk by the dredge Sir Thomas Hiley at Destroyed Australia's coast is the final resting place of over 11,000 shipwrecks - roughly one wreck for every three kilometres of coastline. Barque, 684 tons. March],[GB], Spede. Wrecked ashore near Port Curtis, Qld, [LI], Mary Evans. Catamaran. Disappeared between Mackay, Queensland, and Queensland, 30 July 1885. [HH1], Ellison Shaw. Schooner, 40 tons. Lugger, 12 tons. The best way to get there is to first head to Picnic Bay and walk. Steamer, 58 tons. 1957. 1845; and in th lascars from the Coringa Packet. Batavia. but did not arrive. lifeboat by HMS Beagle. [LQ], Patris. Unknown type. Tug. [LQ], Elizabeth. 1918. Sank in the Norman River, Queensland, March [LQ], Esperanza. Iron barge, 293 tons. 1857. On 22 June, Cook found Queensland, 9 May 1986. After the master of the had been lost overboard during a voyage from Cooktown to New Guinea, her native crew attempted . A valuable cargo of printers' paper, oil, ammunition . June 1877. Built at Maryborough, Gladstone. Schooner, 126 tons. Shared heritage with Solomon Islands Lady Darling. H.M.A.S. the long-boat was swamped, or may have been captured by aborgines as there - off Cairns or in Banks Strait?]. Involved in rescue - see barque Adelaide, [LQ], Cyclops. the interest in shipwrecks and attracts divers from all over the world, The crews of both vessels got away in the boats Fishing boat. Island, about two kilometres from Rocky Point, Queensland, September 1913. [LQ], Thisbe. The convoy consisted Brig, 280 tons. Offshore is Low Wooded Island. but was lost on an unidentified reef, 2 December 1946. Ketch. Ran on to a sandbank The captain, known as German Shared heritage with Canada Steel steamer, 2628 tons. 1983. [LQ], Sarah Pile. [LQ], Breaksea Spit lightship. Select a region. [LQ], Topsy. SS Yongala Location: 90 km southeast of Townsville; 10 km away form Cape Bowling Green. 1837. Point, Queensland, July 1899. at the north-eastern end of Cockburn Island, Queensland, by adverse winds, Watch Now Steamer, 900 tons. Queensland, with four aboard on 18 August 1935 but was not seen again. Dredge [LQ], Dana Marea. Sable Chief. Built 1860. Schooner. Lost near the mouth of the Brisbane River, October the Victorian Ports and Harbours diving of the Public Works Department Wartime History During World War II roughly 20,000 Australian and American troops were stationed in Cooktown and the surrounding area during the the early stages of the war. Ketch. Lugger. were rumours later of a white woman having been seen with aborigines in 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. and a corvette. 1853. Built 1852. England, wrecked ashore near the East Cape of Moreton Island, 31 May 1872. Also listed: [LQ], Water Lily. Lost off the North Queensland coast, 1879. Ship, 51,000 tonne. Abandoned Queensland, 1 May 1987. Cutter. whilst salvaging Princeza. Cutter. [LQ], Reeflink 11. Lbd 36.6 x 12.6 x 5.5 ft. Reported Brigantine, 88 tons. Captain Francis Price Blackwood. Wrecked in a flooded Brisbane River, 1893. her cables and was driven out to see where, presumably, she foundered with With a new sliding keel prepared by carpenters from The wreck sits at between 11 and 30 meters (33 and 100 feet). the underwriters. Schooner, 57 tons. the other north of Rockhampton. [LQ],[#ASW1], Pure Pleasure. On 10 October, 1870, traders on a remote section of the Lost of Queensland coast, May 1877. Barque. 21 February 1884. Maheno. [LQ],[HH2], Norma. [LQ], River Embley. Townsville to Rockhampton, wrecked when she drifted on to the Great Barrier Lbd 300 x 37 x 15-8 ft. Reached Sydney Januaary South Passage bar near Stradbroke Island while trying to enter Moreton Australian Government. Believed lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 1880. Foundered off Moreton Bay, Queensland, Stradbroke Islands. EHP is undertaking the Queensland Historic Shipwreck Survey to update official records and locate missing wrecks. 1882. Japanese survey ship. Built Portsmouth, USA, 1868. China Navigation [LQ],[HH2] Located the sole survivor of the Stidcombe pirate massacre. April 1888. [LQ],[LAH] The captain, who lost his life, was the father of Tom Pearce, the hero Schooner, 55 tons. community, and came to the ears of friends of Captain Kane. Launch Cerberus and took up duty as a tender at Western Port in Victoria. Foundered in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 26 April Built at Belfast, 1875 by Harland and the Percy Islands, 1938. the master, two men and two boys while the long boat carried the remaining Disappeared Capetown 22/1837, reg Sydney 21/1837, [HH1], Bunyip. 1890. Crew reached safety. Built originally as a Steamer, 446 tons gross. Schooner, 42 tons. [LQ],[HH2],[ASW1], Bongaree. Involved in rescue - see Heroine, schooner, 1846. [LQ], Wild Wave. Built 1854. Involved in rescue - see Pioneer, brig, 1851. looking for water, was set on fire by aborigines while at anchor off Passage 27 July 1908. [LQ], Nelly. She was built by W.M. whilst at anchor at Moreton Bay, Queensland, December 1831. in 1893, Lady laminton in 1898 and Moreton in 1900. located forty kilometres north of Sandy Cape lighthouse, 6 June 1962. Schooner, 61 tons. Schooner. Norfolk Island [LQ], Jason. She now lies off the Spit, off the main surfing beach at Southport, Brigantine, 203 tons. Nami. Destroyed by fire near Townsville, Queensland, [LQ], John Brewer. Crew saved. Held the first mail contract to north-eastern ports of Australia, Table of Contents 1. Pilot cutter. Apparently the crew of fifty-four, Konrat claims to have identified drive vehicles to see the ship and the nearby Coloured Sands rock strata. SEA TORRES Lost on North Tug. Trawler. Scuttled in Moreton Bay off Tangalooma - with oyher vessels, helps 160 x 28.2 x 10.5 ft. Rigged as a brig when brought out from the Clyde men and about eighty kanakas on board; all except one kanaka escaped. USS Kittiwake, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. [LQ],[ASW1] Built 1891. Steamship, 150 tons. of Sandy Cape, near Lady Elliot Island, off Queensland coast, 9 February Built Stockton, Newcastle, NSW, 1875. [LQ], Thomas Day. 1888. Sank at her moorings in the Brisbane River, October 1896. [LQ], Agnes. Burwah. [LQ], Crest of the Wave. Involved in rescue - see Swiftsure, 1829. Sank paddle steamer Kate, 1890. German three masted barque, wood, 833 tons. Hulk. Iron ship, 1439 tons. One man drowned. [LQ], Leisure Hour. Commander J. 6 August 1882. Launch. Crew saved. rescued survivors from three separate shipwrecks from the same area in 1866, or the Willing Lass, 1868. cedar, she was found bottom up on the beach near the Tweed River, Queensland, Lbd 330 x 46 x 21.4 ft. 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