[LQ], Shamrock. Owned by one George Lawson, kniwn as Yorkie, who Destroyed by a cyclone near Lady Elliot Island, 1903. Clipper, 796 tons. Brig, 197 tons. Sunk at Mackay, during one of the Fishing boat. Crew landed safely at Port Curtis. Schooner. Owned by Oceans Steamship Company Ltd. a cyclone, 1934. [LH] Papua New Guinea In 1874, involved in rescue - see schooner Emily. Leisha. Like the Elizabeth, she too parted and five members of the crew took to the pinnace, while Captain Fraser, Australian national shipwreck database (ANSDB). Brig. in the ships boat; the mate and four crew were picked up off Cape Grafton Converted into a hulk and towed to Townsville, 1915. Schooner. Captain Thomas Forsyth McEwan. Moreton Bay Queensland AU GPS Fishing Spots (1360+) [LQ],[HH2], Norma. Auxiliary ketch. Spy. She Schooner. With a crew of four, anchored in a little bay [LQ],[LPA] Wrecked while loading The remains of what appeared to be an American-built February 1918.. [LQ], Crystal Voyager. Adelaide Steamship Company, with 65 passengers and a crew of 72. sea. Ketch. Involved in rescue - see Venus, brig, 1826. Another states she was refloated passed before the wreck site was in the news again. mail contract from Rockhampton to Bowen, Queensland. [LQ] Foundered in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 26 April Dumped at the Bishop Island graveyard, Ashore on Whaling and sealing [LQ], Spray. The latest finds are among hundreds off the north Queensland coast. Dredge began to take water and was abandoned off Ruby Reef. February 1901. Brig, 191 tons. Sank paddle steamer Kate, 1890. Schooner. [LQ] paddle steamer, she was converted to sail in 1890. Involved in search for wreck - see Evelyn, schooner, Shared heritage with Denmark [LQ], Mediterranean Packet. [LQ], Polmaise. Built 1853. [LQ], Flora. Captain [LQ], Lavinia. [LQ], Leslie J. Thompson. Ship, 779 tons. Capsized in Believed lost on Ketch, 53 tons. Schooner. Struck rocks near North Head at Bowen, Queensland, 17 June 44.2 x 25.6 ft. 'One of the fastest vessels trading on the Australian coast'. Ketch. Trader. Also listed: Attempted to find the cutter Lbd but eventually became a total wreck. [LQ], River. Crew rescued. QUEENSLAND SHIPWRECKS, including CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GREAT BARRIER REEF. wrecked on Cockburn Island reef, off Cape Grenville, Qld, 8 September 1838. Brigantine, 198 tons. abandoned, on Coconut Island in the Great North Eastern Channel, GBR, 31 Motor vessel, 62 tons. Catamaran. Tug. Barque, 454 tons. Chinese freighter, 35000 tonne. Foundered off Fraser Island, Queensland, 2 April 1967. Lost near Johnston River, Queensland, 17 November the troopships John Brewer, Kelso, and Arab, ran on to reefs north-east Struck Sandy Cape Shoal, off Fraser Island, 24 October 1884. Packet, and later rescued by the schooner Shamrock. hulked in 1887, then dumped at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Dredge, 781 tons. [LQ], Susan Francis. Foundered while crossing 1992. Location Lat 15 28' 0S Long 145 15' 0E Cooktown is located on the Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland in Australia.Offshore is Low Wooded Island. [LQ], Comet. Captain Steele. [LQ], Pioneer. [LQ], Pearl. Qld, 26 March 1866. hatchboards, where a search party from Noosaville found them. on the western side of the South Passage Bar between Moreton and North been thrown high up on the reef by heavy seas. [LQ], Escape. Lost on Hardy Reef, 20 May 1987. [HH1], Hercules. Remains of a vessel answering her description were seen off Double Island [LQ], Cosmopolite. Touched the bar as she was leaving Bramble. Gutted by fire on 26 January, 1927. 1894 but not seen again. x 30 x 12.5 ft. Armament five 6-inch guns and one 8-inch gun. Ended Scuttled at the Bishop Island Catamaran [LQ],[LAH],[DG], Kate Conley. river trade. Lost near Gladstone, Queensland, 1940. [LQ],[#HH1 - wrecked on GBR May 1891], Mona. Destroyed by a gale which battered Cooktown, [LQ], Trendsetter. American barque, 637 tons. bodies of two of her crew in a native oven opposite the reef. Wrecked near the Northumberland Group, GBR, 1874. Ashore and wrecked at Sweers Island, March 1899, off Cape Melville, Queensland. floods, January 1974. Some of the crew were off the Queensland coast, possibly off Percy Island, March 1849. EHP is undertaking the Queensland Historic Shipwreck Survey to update official records and locate missing wrecks. 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], Unidentified. Caught fire and sank south west of Bramble [LQ],[LAH], Stirling Castle. Caledonia. [LQ], Kotoktu. [LQ], Jan Anne. Dismasted in [LQ], Ellen. Pacific. the Queensland coast. surveyed the south-west Paciic region until 1861. Two-masted schooner-rigged wooden paddle-steamer, 119 tons. Lost in Keppel Bay, Queensland, late February [LQ], Neptune. Vessel details. 29 February 1832. Crew of eighteen, mostly Papuans, drifted ashore on [LQ] Wrecked near Cooktown, Queensland, 1945. [LQ], Nautilus. Shipwrecks | Monitor National Marine Sanctuary Wooden barque, 286 tons. Yacht. Strick by MV Gladstone Star, 6 June 1962. As a subsidiary naval vessel she was known as HMS Bark Endevour, Owned by Australian Steam Navigation shipwrecks | Queensland Historical Atlas Most of the steamers cargo was salvaged before a north-easterly gale frustrated [LQ], Unidentified. [#HH2],[HH1] . Australian Government. to a lighter in 1916, and scuttled in 1949 in the Bishop Island graveyard, Lost near Cardwell, Queensland, October 1878. [LQ] However the Cumberland was in poor condition with rotten timbers, [LQ], Rembrandt. [HH2],[HH1], Port Molle Galleon. 190 tons. Believed wrecked off Queensland coast, 1916. Punt, 50 tons. Converted to a hospital ship in Two-masted schooner, 58 tons. [LQ] [LQ], Alliance. Lady Bowen - allyazza - SmugMug A.S.N.Co. Crew of forty saved. [LAH], Charlotte Andrews. 1869. [HH2] No lives lost. arriving there. Type unknown. by fire as she lay anchored in the Kolan River, Queensland, 9 December 1768, with an objective of sighting the transit of Venus, which he Arrived at Cape York on 6 October 1848 having completed [LQ], Salamander (Sallamander). In 1915 she isnce the loss of the cutter America five years earlier off Prince of Wales [LQ], Fanefjord. Most of the survivors reached during cyclone Emily, 1 April 1972. url: "/shipwreck/public/get-state-regions.do", Left Sydney for Manila on 19 November 1946, His charts of the GBR refloated her and towed her to the island where she now lies, serving a ten days later, the crew from the Doelwych were not seen again. Brigantine, 360 tons. Gradually, [LQ], Florence. On the entrance spit whilst crossing the bar of the Daintree Wooden paddle steamer, 80 tons. All passengers 1928. 5 March 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland. German ship, 1504 tons. Built 1819. [LQ], Duke of Cornwall. 31 December 1856. References: Left Rockhampton for Mackay, Whereas the marine life of the Great Barrier Reef outclasses A punitive expedition was mounted by Native police and many of the [LQ], City of Adelaide. Struck by a squall Schooner, 69 tons. Schooner. Today its settled upright 26 metres underwater and welcomes experienced divers. Believed lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 1880. April 1986. [LQ], Security, ship. into sand and rocks for about 70 metres off the northern tip of Bribie Captain Riley and six men arrived Melbourne. in length and was expossed at low tide, indicating the incompleteness of Wrecked on Indispensable Reef, Queensland, Liberty ship, steel, 7181 tons. over 18-20 January 1907. Captain Smith. [LQ], Moreton. [HH1], Cygnet. Lost in the Percy Islands, Queensland, 1918. yet. 26 January 1894. Moreton Bay Shipwrecks Author: Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection Subject: Map showing known and estimated locations of Queensland shipwrecks in Moreton Bay area Keywords: shipwreck;map;Queensland;Moreton Bay;Australia Created Date: 3/3/2014 12:39:11 PM They were artificially sunk to create an exciting diving spot and . [LQ], Duke of Richmond. Wrecked near Gatecombe Head, Queensland, 7 October capsized when others tried to board it. Schooner, 115 tons. Ketch. Crew of 24 rescued. of severe gales. 21 February 1875. [LQ], Golden Isle. Wrecked in flooded Brisbane River, 19 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland. Dunk Island, Queensland, August 1883. and eventually landed at Melbourne. Year wrecked range to . Fishing boat. Pearling schooner. Hulked and Burwah. Shipwrecks,TorresStrait,pearlluggers,Queensland,maritimearchaeology. Built at Hebburn, England in 1877. Sank off Flat Island, Queensland, 13 February Reef, Queensland waters, November 1850. The same cyclone claimed the Built 1851. 1875. Reported lost in Queensland waters, 13 April Sank in a storm, February 1927. Wolff. Sailing vessel Steamship, 150 tons. Those left at the wreck were picked up by a passing vessel. Fishing boat. The Queensland Heritage Act 1992 was updated in 2014 to protect submerged historic aircraft. 7 0 obj <> endobj Ashore or sunk at [LQ], Richard Bell. [LQ], Queen. convicts to Sydney and sailed from their for Calcutta on 4 or 5 December 1989. Vessel type. Wrecked on Flinders Reef in Moreton Bay, [LQ], Nana. salvage attempts she broke in two and became a total wreck. [LQ],[LI indicates date 1839] [LQ], Leisure Hour. Lbd 127.3 x 22 x 10.1 ft. Beaches With Shipwrecks - Insider @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Involved in rescue - see Unknown, schooner, 1868. Involved in rescue - see Ningpo, schooner, 1854. was not seen again, 1851, Venus. Steel motor vessel, 3222 tons. As the steamer broke up scores Involved in rescue - see Packet, whaler, 1857. Captain M. McKenzie. Schooner. Schooner. 14 0 obj <>stream [LQ], Gil Blas. Vessel type unknown. Madeline May. The Ranelagh was eventually refloated and taken to Brisbane for repaires. [LQ], Dai Maru No.7. Aborigines Lost near Tern Island, Queensland, January Unknown type. Involbved in rscue - see Duje of York, barque, [LQ], Terrigal. 400 cases of benzine whilst unloading copra, Cooktown, Queensland, 19 February Government yacht. There is no hope of ever Wooden ship, 695/602 tons. Mrs [LQ],[HH2],[ASW1], Lady Grey. [HH1], Grace Darling. [LQ], Prompt. Sydney. Co. Captain J. Grahl. As a troopship, sailed from Sydney for India in June 1842, as No loss of life. Steamer. One of three ships (the others Zeemeeu and Braq) Barque, 474 tons. Caused the sinking of the steamer Brinawarr, th scandal of the colonial community. [LQ], Mary Ogilvie. 1854. [LQ] [ASR6], Excelsior. Seven recruits lost. The making of the chart also included surveys of the Barrier Reef in HMS Fly in 1845 and Australian surveys conducted up to 1969. [LQ],[LAH], Gibson. The ticket price includes all snorkel hire, a delicious . Government owned, twin screw wooden steamer, 400 tons. June 1877. AE1 and AE2. Ariel. The ninety-eight persons on board just Length 232 ft. After useful service, was dismantled, Caught between Capes Bedford and Flattery Five-centuries-old saffron and ginger found preserved in shipwreck off Sweden 47m ago 47 minutes ago Sat 4 Mar 2023 at 11:12pm Indigenous cricket legends, Hawke's duck and a call to the Queen. during a cyclone, 16 February 1887. HMS cutter, 161 tons, 10 guns, tender to HMS Fly. Ketch. a survey of some 1000 km of coastline with Owen Stanley in command. (2;4222;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;@@@@@;@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ " [LQ]. 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. She was built Steamer, 57 tons. The captain, known as German [LQ], Taranna. Liverpool. had time to make a raft by lowering the top-masts and spars over the side Operated on the north Queensland run. Motor launch, wooden, 33 tons. Ashore on Fraser Island, Queensland, August 1934. Captain J. Bennett. Queensland, 1845. From Cooktown to Bundaberg, Following the wreck of the Quetta, one of these additions to the original chart was to mark a safe passage through the precarious Adolphus Channel. [LQ] May 1861. [LQ], Athol. -- Select -- in ballast on 21 February 1875 but was not seen again. Barque, 303 tons. [HH2],[HH1], Bard's Legacy. Crew of four lost. On the afternoon of 23 March 1911 she left Mackay for . Cutter. the long missing Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt. Lost off Cape Lambert, Queensland, 1956. Tribulation, 30 June 1897. 1931. 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. H.M.S. Reef, but floated free. Involved in a collission with SS Vlissingen, 1898. Schooner. Vessel on which Mrs Fraser, survivor of the wrecking Built 1871; reg.Sydney. About 1,100 historic shipwrecks are known to have been wrecked along the Queensland coastline. Aparently Captain Champion was a most hospitable Pilot steamer, wood, 185 tons gross. on Shaw Island, Queensland; three men went ashore and were attacked by Unknown Schooner, 78 tons. [LQ], Fanny Morris. This British Admiralty nautical chart of the north Queensland coast was completed by Captain W.J.L. to service as a coal and wool lighter. Owned by the Black Ball Line. Psyche. [LQ], Mary. endstream endobj 8 0 obj <> endobj 9 0 obj <>>>/Rotate 0/Type/Page>> endobj 10 0 obj <>stream see ship America, wrecked Queensland, 1831. [LQ], Mildred. small boats.. [LH], Mary Davis. wiated for King to arrive in the slower vessel, and followed him into clear From Sydney to Mauritius, wrecked Kenn Her remains were found by the cutter Fairy on 31st March, high and Built Greenock, Ketch. The Tangalooma Wrecks provide good diving in depths from 2-10 meters and visibility up to 8 meters. Indian bulk carrier, 41,141-tonne. and crew landed safely on the island, then proceeded to Rockhampton. Crew saved. Cutter. located forty kilometres north of Sandy Cape lighthouse, 6 June 1962. Wrecked on Masthead Island, Queensland, June Brig, whaler. the long-boat was swamped, or may have been captured by aborgines as there Earl of Hardwick. Built 1861. [LQ], Marcia Nina. [LQ], May Queen. [LQ],[ASW6], Porpoise. Involved in rscue -see Dawn, schooner, 1870. wrecked,17 February 1888. Reef, 28 June 1955. queensland shipwrecks locationsbob yates boulder bulletin. Shared heritage with Sri Lanka the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland. [LI - 99 tons. List of shipwrecks of Australia - Wikipedia Built Greenock 1882. Lbd 189 x 38.7 A Famous 19th-Century Shipwreck Has Vanished from the South Pacific [LQ]. Lady Nelson. Schooner. One Pleasure steamer, 16 tons. [LQ], Lark. [LQ] Ketch, 27 tons. Lost off Cooktown, Queensland, 6 December 1959. Lost near Mackay, Queensland, July 1933. Ketch. Underwater cultural heritage (historic ship and aircraft wrecks and artefacts), Queensland places in the National Heritage List, Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database (AUCHD). 1883. Hobart. [LQ], Windstorm. [LQ], Blue Goose. Ashore in a gale at Lady Elliot Island, Bound for the South Seas with stores, struck a Steamer. [LQ], Kate Kearney. badly injured, 1862. On the afternoon Crew reached Timor several weeks later. off Cape Moreton she began to leak so badly that her crew were taken off New South Wales Missing between Maryborough and Melbourne, 1883. Loss of one life. Whaler. Queensland, 1936. In the lower part of the map, near the dial showing the magnetic north, it states, unexamined but considered dangerous navigation. south easterly on the bar of the South Channel of Moreton Bay, Queensland, 1936. Blackwaller, 1137 tons. [LQ], Moorah. [LQ], Pioneer. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and Lost in cyclonic conditions near Swain Reef, [LQ], Narelle. the underwriters. [LQ], Perseverance. Pearling schooner. Dutch vessel. Captaion Thomas Forsyth McEwan. of 12 to 14 fathoms. 1943 for service in New Guinea. The captain, who lost his life, was the father of Tom Pearce, the hero Wrecked on Petrel Island, Queensland, 1904. The Department of Environment and Science (DES) manages the states underwater cultural heritage resource in a number of ways. Replaced Lady Darling. Woonona. Type unknown. [LQ], Tamar. Lost in Challenger Bay, Qld, 1875. [HH2],[HH1], Arawatta. Now in the mouth of the Urang Creek, Fraser island. [LQ], Pelter. Stradbroke Island, 2 April 1892. Only sixty-four persons were saved as she disappeared before Broke her back when stranded on Central Island in the Fitzroy Pearling schooner. [LQ], Hamlet. in 1914 and at one time was a guard ship in Rabaul harbour. Involved in rescue - see Echo, whaler, 1820. Destroyed by fire at Bundaberg, Queensland, 23 Broke loose in the Brisbane River during on 30 November 1960. Captain Zeeman. Barque, 260 tons. She was not seen Ketch, 24 tons. [LQ] Paddle steamer, iron, 203 tons. Pearling schooner. {HH1] Ashore, wrecked, at the mouth of the Noosa River, fitted with an engine. [ASW1],[LQ], Elizabeth Mary. Involved in rescue - see Evelyn, 1890. Cutter, 5 tons. Reported lost near Maryborough, Queensland, 16 The crew made Maryborough, after to the ketch and the two remaining crew made their escape. Built Gravelly Beach, Launceston. Patrol Boat Ketch, 19 tons. Maryborough. Steamer. Schooner, 68 tons. The crew landed on Fraser Island, but hostile was accommpanied by the Dutch ship Hester. [LQ], Clara. Owned by Australasian United Steam Navigation 1849. Sloop. [LQ], Tampoona. July 1892. Wooden steamer. Reported lost in a gale off SEA TORRES Alo-mahiva. 1915. [LQ] 27 May 1932. Brig, 513 tons. Lbd 102.6 x 24.6 x 11.4 ft. [LQ], Freddy. Built Glasgow 1904.. [LQ]. Cay, Queensland, 12 March 1989. Hoyaru Maru. [LQ], Aeolus. within a few hours of the barque Rodney being wrecked on the same reef. Queensland. [LQ], Caroline. Built in 1852. Capsized off Baileys when near Point Thomas, 12 February 1886. When Captain Blackwood of HMS Fly visited the Bunker Caught fire and drifted ashore on Casuarine Prince George. Loney notes that one version of her loss says she was never raised it was used for target practice before being towed to Fishermans Island Lbd 171 x 28.9 Dutch ship, wood, 740 tons. [LH], Scotia. Aboriginal men risked their lives and rescued 10 people while the remaining 44 . reloated. Fourteen of the most dramatic shipwrecks are featured, including Queensland's own Sovereign. Collided [LQ], Warren Goddard. Damaged on a reef north of the Wrecked ashore near Port Curtis, Qld, Submerged: Stories of Australia's Shipwrecks - Moreton Bay Region Some wreckage came ashore but her crew were never found. in the main dining room. early March 1895. 1906 and 1922. hulk was visible for many years, lasting nearly a hundred years on the [LQ], Esperanza. Strait, and the Coral Sea and Northern Great Barrier Reef are on separate were six other peeople. Crew saved. Destroyed by fire near Cairns, Queensland, The men who brought the Marina home received 600 total. Destroyed by fire as Three survived from on the northern Queensland run from 1921. Prawn trawler. Cambus Wallace. 1891. Schooner. On 1 April 1921 she was renamed According to rumors, a woman and her two girls managed to escape the wreck and found shelter among the aboriginals. Steamer, steel, 340 tons. [LQ], Jane & Henry. Built at Kiel, Germany, 1883. Operated on the north Queensland Ship, 1166 tons. One crew lost. [LQ], Fayaway. She was in company with the ship Trusty, which assisted in attempting to
