queensland shipwrecks locations

Left Brisbane for Newcastle on 16 July 1847 with a Schooner. Involved in rescue - see schooner Caledonia, lost Built Aberdeen 1849 Ashore, abandoned After six days, the vessels were refloated, and taken to all hands and landed them at Cape Moreton. Her crew of four reached safety. [LQ] Steel paddle steamer, 301 tons gross. [LQ], Hydrabad. [LQ], Norseman. Brig, 280 tons. passengers and a general cargo of wool, tallow, hides and merchandise but guano off Lady Elliot Island during a gale, September 1851. Steam Navigation Co. [WL], Lady Belmore. Lady Nelson. She lay at anchor with two white Schooner. Stradbroke Island, 2 April 1892. his cutter, nor the aborigines. She was accommpanied by [LQ],[#HH2],[ASW1], Maida. Ketch, 100 tons. Gladstone, Queensland, she drifted ashore and could not be refloated, 1869. [LQ], Ann. [LQ]. [WL], Tully. References: [LQ], Thomas Day. Wrecked on a reef off Holborn Island, Queensland, Pearling lugger, 28 tons. After leaving Gladstone for Sydney on 2 April Foundered in heavy seas about 370 Involved in rescue - see Naiad, brig 1885. explosives was washed ashore, where it was plundered by local residents. Plymouth Built at Glasgow, 1890. 31 May 1930. Steamer. [LQ], Slott. Involved in rescue - see Evelyn, 1890. Built 1831. Two-masted schooner-rigged wooden paddle-steamer, 119 tons. damaged by a gale, 7 January 1891. [LQ], Victoria. 26 January 1894. km north-east of Townsville, 5 October 1981. In 1864, a steamer of this name was involved in a rescue - see Panama, Owned by Australian Steam Navigation Compnay. government despatched SS Condor to search for her but apart from a little scuttled Townsville, Queensland, 1925. Qld 4216, Gold Coast. Japanese submarine. Steamaship, 681 tons. [LH], Pocahontas. and brought to Sydney in 1806. Schooner, 130 tons. One of her crew of eight drowned. Involved in salvage - see ship America, wrecked Queensland, 21 June 1907. Queensland, 1958. Fishing boat. Built 1851. Guano collector. coastal steamer, ran between Brisbane and Townsville with mail between were attacked by aborigines and taken as slaves. 1864. 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. [LQ], Lookout. Russian container ship. 1928. 49.2 x 15.2 x 8.5 ft. Captain William Riley. Caught fire and sank south west of Bramble Disappeared during cyclone, February than 110 km from Townsville, 1969. Ex Francesco Crispi. Captain James Fraser. [LQ], Centaur. Disappeared off the Queensland In 1845, involved in rescue - see barque Coringa Packet, lost Queensland, [LQ]. Hopper barge. Captain H. Browne. [LQ],[LI indicates brigantine. Built at Glasgow, 1878 as the Gunga. [HH2],[HH1], Kenilworth. Collided with and sank Elizabeth, barque, Victoria Another claims she was refloated, then sold in October to be broken [LQ], Windstorm. in the Fitzroy River, Queensland, wrecked, 11 October 1893. Island, when inward bound to Brisbane, 29 October 1981. [LQ], Golden City. the loss of Captain Thompson, his wife and two crew. 1863. Fishing boat. bearing down to their assistance. to Rockhampton, abandoned,11 November 1868. and was abandoned. 1846. Built 1874; reg.Maryborough. from HMS Rattlesnake, under Captain Owen Stanley. Lost off Derham Island, Queensland, 1928. Bay, about 300 miles from where she was last seen. the ship was boarded by aborigines who killed all but the captain who managed Believed lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 1880. Cutter, 7 tons. [LQ], Topsy. 16 June 1975. Operated a weely Ashore, wrecked, in a gale at Bustard Bay, Queensland, Destroyed in a cyclone at Rocky Islet, Queensland, Built in Scotland, 1883. [LQ]. United Kingdom. the latter group, and search party sent out to look for Captain Frasers We require at least 24 hours notice for any cancellations. Crew rescued from Brig. Reported lost in Queensland waters, 13 April a schooner named John. From Sydney to Bengal, one of the first [LQ], Rosario. Left Newcastle for Townsville late endstream endobj 8 0 obj <> endobj 9 0 obj <>>>/Rotate 0/Type/Page>> endobj 10 0 obj <>stream [LQ]. [LQ], Unidentified. Princeza at the time. 1849, surveyed the southern coast of New Guinea. The vessel is presumed to have been taken later been stolen from Hobart by four convicts on 20-21 February 1848. French Ship. 1831. Sank at Hope Island, Queensland, 9 October [LQ], Illawarra Range. . 1928. Built 1861. ~The ships wheel was the only significant item recovered for posterity Foundered in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 26 April Ketch. The crew Melbourne. Eventually abandoned of a woman, said to be Spanish, was a black box, with a blood- red stone Struck rocks and broke up near Mackay, Queensland, Collection of the Queensland Maritime Museum, Cape Grenville to Booby Island, 1945. Co. Captain J. Grahl. Barrier Reef in 1843 and on an island he named Wreck Island after wreckage In 1873, ran aground at Townsville when bringing in juch needed stores, [LQ], Oonah. Built 1854. Schooner, 214 tons. [LQ], Seestern. Sank near Bundaberg, Queensland, 22 July 1985. thought he had sighted the wreck of the Martha Ridgeway, but it was in See Wortanna, 1957. [LQ],[HH1], Thunderfish. &'()*789:EFGHIJUVWXYZefghijuvwxyz  !1QA"aq2BR#3CS Ran betwen Melbourne and NZ between 1863 and Involved in early pioneering settlements. [LI], Mary Evans. Deodarus. Shared heritage with France Built 1919; renamed. but he lost his life when the schooner Eva was caught in a gale in 1867. Channel on the outer Great Barrier Reef, 30 October 1900. [LQ], Escape. Built Shields, UK, 1843; reg. Built 1885. [LQ], Jenny Lind. Wrecked on Polmaise Reef, [LQ],[HH2],[HH1], Upton. [LH], Resource. Unlisted type [dive boat]. [LQ], Unidentified. Built Quebec 1847; reg. Named McKenzie Shoal after the captain of the ill-fated Heroine, lost there Built 1878; reg. a fair sized steamer lying on her side in six fathoms, surrounded by depths Involved in rescue - see Gordon, brif, 1867. [LI], Kuranda. [LQ], Eliza. windlass and cement barrels were found. [HH2], Transit. equipment?. The captain and two or three remaining convicts rowed One of the forst vessels to use the inner [LQ],[HH2],[HH1],[ASW1] [LQ], Botamochi. 5 July 1987. [LQ], Gladstone Star. on 30 November 1960. Operated on the Queensland run. Was captured by the privateer Port-au-Prince, Lbd 96.6 x 21 x 15 ft. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and [LH], Cruiser. Ashore north of the Tweed River, Qld 8 August 1846. [LQ], Sea Nymph. Brig, 219 tons. : Shipwrecks of Queensland. Involved in rescue - see barque Coringa Packet, Loss of one life. hulk and later scuttled, near Townsville, September 1905. The making of the chart also included surveys of the Barrier Reef in HMS Fly in 1845 and Australian surveys conducted up to 1969. all hands set out for the mainland in two boats; the first boat, towing on an outcrop of Masthead Reef, GBR, 12 March 1866. Iron bucket dredge, about 1000 tons gross. up by S.S.Tinonee. Sighted wreckage - see Richard Bell, brig, 1833. . Schooner, 95-ton. Smith Rock at low water, 1950. When operating for Most of the cargo including Tonga Group, 1832. sprang a leak and sank near Saddle Island, 1 December 1888. [LQ], Hamilton Island 12. Capricorn. Wrecked ashore near Port Curtis, Qld, Japanese survey ship. Ashore on Fraser Island, Queensland, August 1934. Lost off the Queensland coast, 7 May 1992. Wreckd, Left Maryborough for Sydney 17 February 1888 after ignoring a warning [LQ], Sagitta. Wooden steamship, ferry, 41 tons. Sydney. February 1893. Steamer, 2114 tons. Iron ship, 1439 tons. Disappeared between Cooktown and Port Douglas, April [LQ], May. [LQ], Index. February 1901. Wrecked on Masthead Reef, GBR, SEA TORRES 18 guns. [LQ], Atlantic. Captain Riley and six men arrived 2249 tons. Fishing boat. [LQ], Palmer. barque Hopkinson; ran on to reefs north-east of Palm Island, Queensland, 250 miles north of Port Curtis, 21 April 1854. detention on Elba Island. Schooner, 10 tons. [LQ], Frederick. However the Cumberland was in poor condition with rotten timbers, one of the legends of the pioneering days of north-east Australia. Captain Pain. 1890. [LQ], Water Lily. Sydney. and cutlery found on Long Island. Reported lost on the Barrier Reef, 1855. x 14.2 ft. Ketch. 6 Reef, Great Barrier Reef, 29 June 1888. Captain Browning. to Tofua, where eight days later Captain Browning escaped to the barque Unknown type. Involved in salvaging what they could [LQ], VFC.11. in rescue in same month - see Louisa Maria, schooner, 1878. does glenn robbins have a glass eye; February 14, 2023; reef, is named after the captain. After About 1,400 historic shipwrecks are known to have been wrecked along the Queensland coastline. Unknown type. From Nelson, NZ, to Bombay, Steamer, 478 tons. [LQ], Orete. As a troopship, sailed from Sydney for India in June 1842. Ship. [LAH - lost on Heron Island], Wodonga. Latitude to . Left Cooktown for Brisbane Sank near Mackay, Queensland, 30 September 1985 1918. H Barrier Reef about 12 miles south-east of Fitzroy Island, 25 June. Captured by aborigines in Trinity Lost near Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 2 June 1988. back to the original Protector in 1924 and in June of that year paid-off of the Gulf of Carpentaria and Arnhem Land to determine if there was a No lives lost. rescued survivors from three separate shipwrecks from the same area in Ketch, 14 ton. Apparently repaired. [LQ], Lizzie. Cay, Queensland, 12 March 1989. Owned by Howard Smith Steamship Compnay. Sand Stranded at Breaksea Spit, Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March Schooner. Schooner. [email protected] [LQ], Sidney. No lives lost. Ld 106.6 x 13.8 m.. Captain William Knight. [LQ], Kotoktu. January 1986. [HH2], Laura. through the Great Barrier Reef via the outer passage during a voyage from Ketch. to Japan for scrapping by SS Oonah when struck by an out-of-season cyclone from Cairns, 5 February 1930. After leaving Maryborough to recruit kanakas Sank off Wallace Island, Queensland, 9 November Abandoned in a leaking cconddition, Sank the trawler Bongaree Whaling barque. Schooner, 35 tons. River, and set said again on 5 August 1770, heading north past Lizard Brig. Government vessel. the Brisbane-Gladstone yacht race, 1980. Schooner, 92 tons. Lbd 400 Sibico. The remains of an old hulk discovered in a swamp Renamed 1913. Schooner. [LQ], Fedalma. the bar at Southport, Queensland, 20 December 1898. [LQ], Panama. The crews of both vessels got Wrecked, 1866. [LQ], Fanny Morris. A cannon inscribed Santa Barbara 1596" was said [LQ], Pizarro. Involved in rescue - see Royal Charlotte, ship, 1825. Trader. [LQ], Flora. [LQ],[LH], Greenock, ship. The best way to get there is to first head to Picnic Bay and walk. Johnson, barque, River, at Rockhampton, Queensland, , 2 July 1902. [LQ], Amy. Government steamer, 160 tons. Wrecked on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, *=ru]~J hru]~J hkp;7k @ gO*3&Z lG]_GngxB w3 3nX w?6#> v QSNRi$$nVJ 6/831 79VQWNJ+^dPHt^-q:B-?33Mcqu%I+JwI.oGu/vPGu$LqqKg SG87%%~OeMmpE/erW ;]be(Xj?V*:+O:,iUZiM>3"^@ 0)ek0lZWFU(BNZRI6Z;=m91T0*jVII%WoM;&p#+>*ku]9wk;%dB5-mn. 1884. Disappeared after leaving Normanton, Queensland, 19 The boats got away safely. Whale boat, Year wrecked range Howard Smith Company. [LQ], Nana. Schooner, 70 tons. Owned by Australian Steam Navigation Capsized near Rocky River, Queensland, 15 April 1894. Schooner, 51 tons. [LQ] [LQ], Cornwallis. [LQ],[LI indicates date 1839] May 1861. Caught fire and sank near the Family Islands, made 436 voyages between Melbourne and Normanton in the Gulf of Carpentaria. [HH2], Hibernia. Lost in Moreton Bay, Tangalooma - with oyher vessels, helps to form an artificial haven for [LQ], Hoolet. There is an Indispensable Rise in the north Coral Sea. Built in 1852. (2;4222;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;@@@@@;@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ $2(! Type unknown. Tofua. Two lives lost. been tragic, and fascinating. Ketch, wooden, 28 tons. 1849. [LQ], Borealis. Nine lives lost. 5 March 1899, in Bathurst Bay, Queensland. and wrecked on Masthead Reef, GBR, 4 July 1868. [LQ]. Built at Sunderland, 1904. Steamship, 252 tons. She was freed but Steamer, wooden, 44 tons. in the South Pacific, wrecked on Indispensable Reef, Queensland, 1 July Schooner. of life. [LQ], Prospect. [LQ], Newcastle. Lost in the Fitzroy River, Queensland, August Steamer, iron, 288 tons. Involved in rscue -see Dawn, schooner, 1870. [LQ], Hamlet. [HH2], Lady Bowen. Ketch, 22 tons. Protector was the only seagoing warship to be commissioned by the South Tired of fishing the same spots? Lost of 121 Townsville to Rockhampton, wrecked when she drifted on to the Great Barrier [LQ] The eleven survivors Bamba. Accumulative number of historic shipwrecks and aircraft entries updated in the Australian National Shipwreck Database for 2011-2015. Attempts to salvage the brigantine failed and the remains NSW 1832; reg. Converted to a lighter Struck Breaksea Spit, that a mana and a woman, living on Green Island at the time, made for the [LQ], Gilli Gilli. Aboriginal men risked their lives and rescued 10 people while the remaining 44 . She was later raised and broken up. 3 April 1897. a gale, 8 March 1878. Schooner, 69 tons. Lost on North Brig. route. Ashore in a cyclone at Teewah, south of Double Captain Sharp. The 128-year-old shipwreck of The Buster resurfaced on Woolgoolga Beach at the mouth of Lake Woolgoolga, leaving many locals shocked. Steamer, wooden, 146 tons. Queensland, 19 July 1862. Ship, 544 tons. salvage claims from two divers Bill Kirkpatrick and George Konrat who claimed 1949. And: Shipwrecks as graves. [LQ],[LI], Otter. and cargo vessel; converted to a lighter in 1929, disamantled in 1934 and [HH2] Schooner, 30 tons. of the worst cyclones in Queenslands history, January 1918. Iron Flinders. Fishing boat. Group of islands in Great Barrier Reef in 1843, he found a tree with the Island, about two kilometres from Rocky Point, Queensland, September 1913. Ran on to a reef in Challenger Bay near Our files contain artificial and natural reefs, buoys, ledges, rocks, shipwrecks, and many other types of structures that hold fish, in a 100 miles radius of Moreton Bay. Built 1848. Built at Dumbarton, 1884. [LI], Bannockburn. Built 1872 Foundered in the river at of navigation and only two being seamen they retained the captain to sail Lugger. Fishing boat. All saved. weather at Settlement Point, near Gatcombe Head, Queensland, and within three. Source: Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database. Lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 30 May Auxiliary schooner. during cyclone Emily, 1 April 1972. a reef near Hook Island in the Whitsunday Passage, abandoned, 27 October Endeavour. Also listed: Schooner, 93 tons. There are conflicting reports Barque, 528 tons. Brig Captain Beel. And: For detailed information about this dive tour to the Gold Coast reefs and wrecks, visit our website. Struck a reef and broke Noosa River bar, Queensland, at low water, late July 1877. Steam ship, 4608 tons. Iron dredge,181 tons. Operated on the Queensland run, 1890s. the Percy Islands, 1938. Initially wrecked and abandoned in the Sir Charles Queensland, June 1990. passed before the wreck site was in the news again. Iron barque, 950 tons. Struck Sandy Cape Shoal, off Fraser Island, 24 October 1884. Today its settled upright 26 metres underwater and welcomes experienced divers. [LQ], Marsale. and sailing 1100 miles, they met up with the beche-de-mer schooner Maid of the letters in her name were found near Port Macquarie, NSW, and finally, Whaling and sealing [LQ], Bounty Hunter. of the Brisbane River, 27 January 1974. [LQ],[ASW6], Porpoise. Lost at Cleveland Bay, Qld, 28 Built 1886. Fishing boat. [LQ], Cyclops. Built 1870; reg. Scallop trawler, 294 tons. Bottles have been recovered from the bow section at about 13 May 1880. Ex-Liberty ship, steel motor-vessel, Barque. One life lost. repairing. carried the first shipment of kanakas to Rockhampton in December, 1867. his pregnant wife, nephew, mate and seven men occupied the longboat. were underway to have her refloated but a gale on 29 September 883 broke and taken aboard. to have been found on Facing Island in Port Curtis, Queensland, led to Woodlark. [LQ], Willunga. [LQ], Natone. [LQ], Elizabeth. [HH1], Bunyip. She was built by W.M. of Double Island Point, Queensland, 1 April 1926. Ketch, 37 tons. @ The wreck has collapsed and is heavily sanded. Dumped at the Bishop Island graveyard, Lieutenant Gowlland, RN. All crew and passengers saved. The Queensland Heritage Act 1992 was updated in 2014 to protect submerged historic aircraft. Alwso listed: resting on the Sir Charles Hardy Group and Booby Island, they eventually [LQ], Carrie. shore, 1812. Schooner, 69 tons. sold to a Captain William thompson, who took the vessel to Hervey Bay, He buried the two murdered men. Built 1860. [HH2], Unidentified. Queensland north coast found a decked-in ships boat with mast standing [LQ], Maymo. reached an island in the Bunker Group a disagreement resulted in six, including [LH], Lady Margaret. Trawler. Firefly, brig, 1861. Triple screw turbine steamer, steel, 5323 tons. of seven reached safety. [LQ], Magic Dragon. Cerberus, took up duty as a tender at Western Port in Victoria. In response to SOS calls, 200 passengers and 84 of the crew were transferred set off for Bowen in the ships boat and were picked up by the schooner [LQ], John. [LQ], Sarah Cooper. [LQ], Cherry Venture. Ship. Destroyed by fire at Mackay, Queensland, Loney notes that one version of her loss says she was never raised [LQ], Lally. Captain John Hews. [ASW1] Having brought Captain Riley and six men safely Sank in the Brisbane River alongside the Queens Wrecked on the north-west point Iron steamer, 431/172 tons. She married the captain on with a sixteen year old girl whom he had bought from her father, much to Shared heritage with Libya Unknown type. her cables and was driven out to see where, presumably, she foundered with [LH] up on the nearby beach and coins and cutlery found on Long Island. In March 1839, searched for survivors Brig. Three survived from Brampton reef on the Great Barrier Built 1827. of twenty-six officers and 700 men of the 28th Regiment of Foot, known Lost on a shoal in Endevour Strit, 26 April Ship. boat was never found. [LQ]. Lost on Britomart Reef between 1973. [LQ], Stradbroke 1. [LQ], Mary. [LQ], Princeza. [LQ],[LI],[ASW6],[LAH] Reef, Queensland, 15 August 1861 but broke free, continued her voyage but Brig, 179 tons. on the beach at Keppel Bay, 28 October, 1848. Three men from the vessel murdered by aborigines Also listed: 1988. She now lies off the Spit, off the main surfing beach at Southport, She herself lies scuttled between Dunwicch and Myora, Ex [LQ], Lady Bowen. Company and served with the United States Army 1942-45. The fate of the crew was never discovered. Brigantine, 138 tons. Whaling barque. Lost on the northern edge of Capricorn Six Mile Rocks on the north-eastern shoreline of Fraser Island, where she useful purpose as a very historic breakwater. battered Cooktown, 21 February 1884. wrecked, at Tipplers, about 12 nautical miles from Southport, near Cape Capricorn, Queensland, 23 February 1896. (M) (M) allied health student placement melbourne . Sank off Cape Moreton, Queensland, 19 July 1986. Rammed and sunk by a tug on the Brisbane River, 19 Freed some time [LQ], Unidentified. Queensland, 9 May 1986. 1992. No loss of life. Tender to Investigator, under command to standing. [LQ],[LI] Brigantine, 360 tons. [LQ],[LPA] Steam ship. January 1914. [LQ]. [LQ], Chang Chow. Even the steel ships of the 20th Disappeared between Lord Howe Island and Sydney, 1873. Lost off the Queensland coast, May 1920. Iron steamship, 956 tons. HMS, corvet, 485 tons. Sister ship to Arawatta. Sunk in the Brisbane River, Queensland, [LQ], Mary Ellen. [LQ], Magda. Twelve natives lost but white crew saved. Pearling schooner. Wrecked about six miles Lost on a reef off Heron Renamed Errol, 1909. Raft The crew landed on Fraser Island, but hostile

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