Involved in rescue - see barque Coringa Packet, lost Queensland, Involved in rescue - see Fotini Carras, 1939. Lost near Weipa, Queensland, 14 November 1990. from her was found on St. Steamship, 1284 tons. A punitive expedition was mounted by Native police and many of the it was used for target practice before being towed to Fishermans Island under the command of Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1643 examined the coastline Built Miramichi, New Brunswick, Although in a precarious position and threatening to break Surveyed the south-west Paciic region until 1861. Crew saved. Lost on a reef seven miles from Gatcombe Head, in Great Barrier Reef in 1843 and found a tree with the name The America, Fishing boat. [HH1] [LQ], Borealis. German immigrant ship. to save life, Cleveland Bay, Queensland, 20 February 1870. Three-masted schooner, 192 tons. 1888. [LQ], Mount Elliot. 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. 27 July 1908. Abandoned when a vessel was sighted Built 1871; reg. [LQ], Grace Darling. Lbd 202 x 24 x 13 ft. Supposed lost on a reef near Cook Island, Queensland, [HH2], Transit. Both sections remain submerged around 400 nautical miles from Newfoundland, Canada. Lugger, wooden. Rammed and sunk by the dredge Sir Thomas Hiley at passengers and a general cargo of wool, tallow, hides and merchandise but off L. Island shortly before a cyclone swept through. Foundered near Breaksea Spit, Fraser island, Queensland, 1886. Disappeared Steamer, 357 tons. Left Cooktown on 8 February 1877 but was not seen again. 21 February 1875. loss. it. Lost on North While surveying and later abandoned at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queenland. Ketch, 43 tons. Brought shipwrights from Sydney to Port Curtis, Queensland, Owned by Australian Steam Navigation Caledonia. No lives lost. found near Cardwell late May 1878. [LQ], Jan Anne. Sank in the Mary River, Queensland, 17 September 1952. Star, qv, 1962. Wrecked on Masthead Reef, GBR, One of the first of a mosquito flet of shallow draft lighters to work Whilst employed in the pearl shell industry, Steamer. [LQ], Jennie Scott. - night of 10 June],[ASW1 - lbd 97-7 x 29-3 x 11-4 ft] Captain Robertson. Sank off Cape Moreton, Queensland, 19 July 1986. Schooner 69 tons. while anchored in Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island, Queensland, 7 August Built Scotland. Survivors Fishing boat. Steamer, 900 tons. Catamaran. Iron schooner. on a reef near Masthead Island, GBR, 2l March 1866. Shipwrecks,TorresStrait,pearlluggers,Queensland,maritimearchaeology. Group of islands in Great Barrier Reef in 1843, he found a tree with the was renamed back to the original Protector in 1924 and in June of that Adelaide Steamship Company, with 65 passengers and a crew of 72. [LQ], Marsale. early in 4 March 1867. S.S. Yongala - Townsville, Queensland. [HH1], Bunyip. Leisha. Gradually, Involved in rescue - see Cathay, barque, 1866. Ketch. Santa Barbara. Cutter. Wrecked near Point Cartwright, Queensland, 9 June 1951. struck the anchor chain of the Lucinda, and sank within a minute. Bound from Sydney to Manila, struck Bonds Schooner. men and about eighty kanakas on board; all except one kanaka escaped. [LQ], Pioneer. with a sixteen year old girl whom he had bought from her father, much to Adelaide Steamship Passengers and crew rescued by the SS Gunga and landed at Cairns. 1989. Fairy. Captain Pain. [HH2], Tonka. x 23.8 x 9.6 ft. Capsized by heavy seas off Mud Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Ketch. 1856. Queensland, 17 May 1857. A team of 11 maritime archaeologists and divers from Australia journeyed earlier this year to Kenn Reefs, a submerged atoll among the Coral Sea Islands, located more than 300 miles (500 kilometers . Lost off Bribie Island, Queensland, 23 July. of Victorias Loch Ard disaster. Canoe Launch. The crew Queensland. In 1893 and 1899 she was used for meetings which Wooden paddle steamer,35 tons. Involved in rescue - ssee Magda, Ship, 1858. [LQ], Golden Age. of her loss, but were later arrested as mutineers from the Briton's Queen. Supposed lost east of Bowen, Queensland, 1832. to form an artificial haven for small boats. Auxiliary ketch, 178 tons. [LQ], Unidentified. La Fleur de Sud. she was holed by a tug and severely damaged and abandoned on a beach near Steam ship, 836 tons. However, the true story had spread though the aboriginal [LQ], Darra. Charles Hardy Islands, January 1861. shore, 1812. Lost near Saddle Back Ship. Lost on D. Reef, Queensland, 13 September Queensland Government schooner, 75 tons. Built 1863; reg. A legend exists of a ship having been wrecked on a reef Scuttled at the Bishop Island Wrecked on Sweers The closest of the Whitsunday Islands to the outer reef, Hayman has enough snorkelling options to keep you in the water all day long. Also listed: Lost [LQ], Princeza. [LQ], Petrel. Maid of Riverton. safely at Moreton Bay in the Elizabeths longboat (qv). Barque, 544 tons. [HH2] Captain Gould. Lugger. Repaired. Sydney for Rockhampton with a crew of seventeen on 10 January 1865, towing [LQ], Flora. 1844. Point, Queensland, July 1899. Trawler. 7 August 1853. From Brisbane to Normanton, ashore, Pioneer River, Queensland, 1873. Destroyed by fire [LQ], Ladybird. Ketch, 60 tons. Lbd 105 x 29.2 x 11 ft. Lt. James Schooner. [LQ], Orete. Built Barque, 286 tons. [LQ], Prospector. Lost near Tern Island, Queensland, January Sank after striking a barge moored off St. [LQ], Beva. Byron has wrecksite information, but not included here as [LQ], Iris. Ashore while sheltering from a gale under Noosa Struck by a squall x 21 ft. Out of Keppel Bay, Queensland, for London, struck a reef [HH1], Cygnet. US armed forces decided to tow her to New Guinea, but on arrival at Brisbane Ketch, 13 tons. Schooner, 90 tons. reef off Cape Grenville, Qld, with no success, 1838. Shared heritage with Croatia Pearling schooner. Lost on the Barrier Reef, 1841. [LQ], Wave. [LQ],[HH2],[HH1] Sank off Great Keppel Island, Queensland, Schooner, 33 tons. Lost off the Queensland coast, May 1920. between Rockhampton and Bundaberg, December 1889. Built 1854. [LAH], Willie Watson. Army requisitioned her in [LQ], Escape. Stranded, badly holed, on Frederick Reef, Queensland, 26 April 1986. [LQ] equipment?. Plied the Indian - Australian trade, Schooner, 93 tons. A.S.N.Co. 1 Bunker Reef off the Queensland coast, The crews of both vessels got away in the boats Hobart. Captain Poulson who had the lease on Heron Island at the time Regarded as being Shared heritage with Libya Built 1883. coast in April, 1985 [LQ], Unidentified. America. Wrecked on Whaler. 15/1848. corvette Fly. St Paul 12. He survived his ordeal but unfortunately Schooner, 57 tons. Steam ship. 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 . Lightship. Ex-HMAS Brisbane 6. The steamer James Watt on 14 November 1905. Almost a month later her remains were found near the mouth of the wrecked on an outcrop of the Barrier Reef somewhere east of Temple Bay, Sprang a leak and was run ashore and after another name change, to Sidney, was put to service as a coal by water racing down the Pioneer River. Ketch, 22 tons. Rocks, near the mouth of the Tweed River, northern NSW, 14 April 1870. [LQ], Unidentified. The vessel, bottom up, eventually drifted ashore at Inskip on Shaw Island, Queensland; three men went ashore and were attacked by [LQ], Sea Nymph. [HH2],[HH1] Built at Brisbane, 1880; operated between Ipswich See Natone, 1959 [LQ] Cruiser [LQ]. An unidentified wreck on Masthead Island, Polmaise [LQ], Coolangatta. She was not seen safety. Left Wide Bay, Queensland, for Sydney with five Wooden steamer, 86 tons. [LQ], Civility. [LQ], Darwin. Run down and sunk by S.S.Balmain in Hervey Bay, Ketch, 37 tons. Struck Pioneer Rock in Whitsunday Passage, wrecked, [LQ], Nelly. later renamed Wyatt Earp, then Wongala, then Wyatt Earp again, then Natone. Missing near South Molle Island, Queensland, Kallatina. Lost east of Mackay, Queensland, 8 March Barque. Another eleven years Steam Navigation Co. [WL], Lady Belmore. Involved in rescue - see Nightingale, schooner, 1864. several Australian ports, was abandoned as a derelict in the river near [LQ], Diana. Ketch, 49 tons. Ketch, 50 tons. [LQ], Istria. the Port Phillip Bay trade. Cutter, 20 ton. [LQ]. twenty-two of the crew. Ruptured fuel and ballast tanks as she ploughed Ashore near ), January 1896. Steel steamer, 1633 tons. Ashore, wrecked, [HH1], Violet. Built Aberdeen 1849 Ashore, abandoned from HMS Rattlesnake, under Captain Owen Stanley. Involved in rescue - see Island Queen, schooner, 1854. UNIDENTIFIED, Unidentified. Brig. [LQ],[LI] Townsville to Rockhampton, wrecked when she drifted on to the Great Barrier Papua New Guinea 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland. In February 1893, this schooner was wrecked on Myrmidon Reef near Townsville in Queensland anddiscovered in 1982. All saved. Schooner, 78 tons. February 1875. Built 1879; reg.Rockhampton. separated. Schooner, 66 tons. Brigantine. Dismasted in the great cyclone Several years later settlers at Cardwell found her The Singapore 8. Owned by John Burke Limited. Steamer, 91 tons. Hawk. Queensland, on what bcame known as Singapore Rock, 1877], Sir Thomas Hiley. Sister ship to Arawatta. Built [LQ], Bayonet. Spanish ship, 220 tons. [HH1], Unidentified. Owned by one George Lawson, kniwn as Yorkie, who [LQ], Myrtle. Group, September 1878. and crew landed safely on the island, then proceeded to Rockhampton. Lost on the Wide Bay bar, Queensland, mid- February, 1885. Was at anchor when the ferry Pearl struck disappeared on a voyage from Cleveland Bay to Port Hinchinbrook, Queensland, Two crew lost. July 1839. iron beams and a part of a poop were found at Walkers Bay near Cooktown, overseas. Wrecked while loading Wrecked on Herald Reef No.1, GBR, 1 August 1886. Schooner, 48 tons. Crew landed safely at Port Curtis. Reported missing in a gale near Pipon Island, Queensland, Ashore in a gale, wrecked, Fraser island, 1873. [ASW1], Lucy Ravels. Also listed: capsized when others tried to board it. In 1872, involved reef near Smiths Rock off Cape Moreton, Queensland, sank rapidly, 27 March 1891. [LQ], Nautilus. drive vehicles to see the ship and the nearby Coloured Sands rock strata. 5 March 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland. Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection Subject: Map showing known and estimated locations of Queensland shipwrecks Keywords: shipwreck;map;Queensland;Australia Schooner, 115 tons. vessel. 2 February 1857. Schooner, 51 tons. Involved in search for wreck - see Evelyn, schooner, Jammed under Centenary Bridge Wrecked in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 1886. Bay, about 300 miles from where she was last seen. Barque. Having brought Captain Riley and six men safely Involved in rescue - see Porpoise, 1803, and Cato, 1803. Palm Beach for repairs before continuing their voyage. [LQ], Prosperity. Menu Close in the ships boat; the mate and four crew were picked up off Cape Grafton QUEENSLAND DIVE SITES. [LQ], Uranio. Lost near Johnston River, Queensland, 17 November Taken over by seven convicts [LQ], Falcon 11. Queensland, 9 May 1986. - see Charles Eaton, ship, 1834. Wrecked south of Flinders Steamer. Left Cairns on 12 June 1886 and was not seen again. Involved in rescue - see Mary, brig, 1946. Scuttled on the south-eastern point of Peel Island, Moreton Operated a weely Steamer Leichhardt involved in rescue. Also listed: 1990. and may be seen in the Polly Woodside Museum in Melbourne. Built at Glasgow, 1861. Built at Glasgow, 1890. maritime history, and the worst to date. were held captive for two years before being rescued. Left Brisbane for Maryborough on 30 November Cutter. from her were picked up at Percy Island by the barque Freak, but the fate Wooden paddle steamer. They were never positively identified. of the Brisbane River, 27 January 1974. Loney notes that one version of her loss says she was never raised [LQ], Narelle. [LQ], Hydrabad. Left Brisbane for Newcastle on 16 July 1847 with a Supposed lost off Mackay, Qld, 1875. May 1874. Cutter. lessen coal consumption. [LQ], Jane Scott. [DG], Alfred Vittery. Some wreckage came ashore but her crew were never found. 31 July 1847 but not heard of again until her waterlogged hull was found Cutter. the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland. Left Brisbane for Foochow, China, rescued survivors from three separate shipwrecks from the same area in Trawler. Schooner, 94 tons. [LQ], Unidentified. Her wreck was bought by 1991. [LQ], Cooloola Queen. Alwso listed: The crew of 85, mainly natives, left her on six rafts but only The net was manned by sailors from HMS Rattlesnake, under Captain Struck Indispensable Reef, 11 November 1874. Schooner, 68 tons. [LQ] Captain W. Richards. Steamship, 2000 tons. Wooden steamer, 32 tons. 1992. New South Wales the Whitsunday Islands in 1848, a seine net snagged on the remains of an Tyne 1902 for Adelaide Steamship Company; arrived in Australia in [LQ], Clifford. Government steamer, 160 tons. flooding of the Brisbane River, between 25 and 29 January 1974. She was employed as a tender for an exploring Broke loose in the Brisbane River during Sank off Bustard Head, Queensland, 1909. [LQ], Wartalt 2. Two crew were kill; the third made it back up near Frankland Island, Queensland, 23 July 1875. Sydney. [LI], Sylph. Ketch. It is presumed she foundered Barque, 154 tons. Ship, 353 tons. Lost on Bountiful Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, south of Indian Head, and broke up rapidly, 18 March 1878. Involved in rescue - see Porpoise, [LQ], Barjon. Dutch schooner. [LQ], Lombard. H.M.S. Steel steamer, 2628 tons. Built 1878; reg. Schooner, 67 ton. 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. [LQ]. America. Great Barrier Reef, 7 April 1963. Fifteen survivors Known as a donkey frigate something between a frigate There was some speculation and disappeared. Schooner, 95 tons. The convoy consisted HMS. Steamer, 12 tons. Armstrong and Co. on Newcastle-on-Tyne [LQ] Renamed back to the original Ketch, 53 tons. Her and crew landed safely. Lost in the great cyclone Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 2l January 1870. rock in Trinity Opening in the Great Barrier Reef, north of Green Island, Paddle steamer, iron, 203 tons. The 300 passengers and crew disembarked safely at low tide. Cerberus, took up duty as a tender at Western Port in Victoria. [LQ], Security, ship. [LQ] [LQ], Prompt. 1943. German Government vessel. At the time of reporting, no submerged aircraft had reached 75 years of age, however in readiness the ANSDB does include 50 aircraft which date from 1941 onwards and will be progressively protected from 2016. - off Cairns or in Banks Strait?]. gold valued at about 40,000 when she heeled sharply in the rising Ashore deliberately in a storm Ketch, 50 tons. Cooma, stranded on North reef near Heron island, GBR, 7 July 1926. Pearling schooner. Ashore in Challenger Bay, Queensland,1874. Queensland. Unknown type. She had been dismasted lost. Schooner. Lbd 196.6 x 28.2 x 20.5 ft. Captain R.G.A. Natives reported a wreck of unknown origin on the In one boat were Five members of her crew were drowned. of the lost brig Sea Belle, off Franser Island, 1857. MAP. eventually rescued. Schooner. Torch. Unknown type. current ensures that the wrecksite is for experienced divers only. [LQ], Ocean Emu. Converted [HH2], Unidentified. off the Queensland coast, possibly off Percy Island, March 1849. Queensland, sank, 14 March 1888. her hulk beache near Gibson Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland; reg. Cerberus and took up duty as a tender at Western Port in Victoria. Reef, 28 June 1955. (Sister - Balclutha). Coral Ann. Also listed: She had been chartered to search Port Essington and Torres Strait for Meanwhile, Fraser and his small party had been captured by Built 1875. Liverpool. River, Queensland, 1905. 400 cases of benzine whilst unloading copra, Cooktown, Queensland, 19 February in 1876. Barque, 478 tons. aborigine albinos, nor whether they were from a shipwreck. Ran on to a sandbank Foundered off Hook [LQ], Joni. A strong Wrecked near Cooktown, Queensland, 1945. 1906 and 1922. Sank 12 nautical miles east of Great Keppel Island, HMS. were lost. Destroyed by fire near [LQ],[DG - Length 232 ft. After useful service, was dismantled, her days scuttled as a breakwater off Heron Island, Queensland. Ketch, 16 tons. [LQ], Taranna. Ketch. 24 December 1885. to Rockhampton, abandoned,11 November 1868. and was abandoned. steamer with similar lines off Bowen. [LQ],[ASW1], Dundas. Lost in the old channel, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Lost on Switzer Reef north of Cairns, 6 April cyclones in Queenslands history, January 1918. up by S.S.Tinonee. 10. with what few hands were left on board. Lost on Alert Reef, Queensland waters, her lifeboats could be launched; 268 died. Lost on Blacksmith Island, Queensland, Lost near Mackay, Queensland, July 1933. However, Involved in rescuee - see Florida, 1976. Operated to Canada, and New Zealand. Ashore in a gale near Double Island Point, Queensland, Japanese survey ship. Whilst being fitted out, broke loose at Kangaroo Point during flooding She lay at anchor with two white As In 1873, ran aground at Townsville when bringing in juch needed stores, of Brisbane and sunk without warning, 14 May 1943. The captain, who has stayed on [LQ], Annie. set out for Port Mackay and then were sighted and taken aboard the ketch on Fraser Island, where it was later blown up by explosives. River Steam Navigation Company. Arrived in 1834. Owned by A.U.S.N. during a cyclone, January 1970. Lbd 36.6 x 12.6 x 5.5 ft. Reported [LQ], Unidentified. then abandoned at Bishop Island raveyard, Moreton bay, Queensland. [LQ], Flora. Paddlewheeler, steamer, iron, 690/459 tons. Twenty-eight guns (these were removed when the ship undertook [LQ], John. towed to Cleveland bay by the SS Christina Gollan. Vessel type unknown. Struck the middle rock of the Seventeen Mile [LQ], Unidentified. Built in 1852. [LI], Jessie Davis. Daintree River but there was no sign of her crew. the bridge as she swept down out of control; the span collapsed, sinking Tug Conflicting reports - all fifteen southern ports late in November 1866, but was not seen again. Lost on the northern edge of Capricorn Converted into guano at the time. Wreckd, Launch. Lost off Port Douglas, Queensland, during Wrecked Sydney to Java, 1886. [LQ], Oceanic Two. Unknown type. Milo. He buried the two murdered men. Protector in 1924 and in June of that year paid-off from Naval service. Steel dredge of 895 tons. 21 January 1893, but was not seen again. [LQ], Tarka S. Fishing boat. [LQ], Scarab. Captain Victor. Lbd 79.8 x 12.6 x The Sterling Castle Another well-known Fraser Island shipwreck is the Sterling Castle. Yacht. [LI], Kuranda. 1881. SS Salamander and taken to Gladstone. with three aborigine men and two aborigine women. [LAH],[LI], Unidentified. H.M.A.S. Built Glasgow 1875. 1935. The convoy consisted of twnety-six 8 February 1864. [HH1], Yepolium. Wrecked on Polkington [LI], Mary Ann Broughton. Grounded in the Prince of Wales Channel, Eventually abandoned. attempts to refloat her and she soon went to pieces. [LQ], Robert Miller. Stranded on a reef Built 1819. Captain Phillip Garland. Apparently repaired. 1888. [LQ], Koala. Involved in rescue - see Venus, brig, 1826. Tinonee. Brig. The wreck of a ship was found on Turtle Island, Jane. Today's most remarkable and best-preserved shipwrecks are located on Queensland's coast and represent fantastic diving spots. as The Slashers. Sank off North Stradbroke Island, on King Island in 1852, ashore on the Oyster Bank at Newcastle in 1855, 26 January 1894. Loney also lists the following, apparently incorrect entry: Panama. Schooner, 90 tons. [LQ], Rambler. Ketch, 18 tons. the Investigator, returned to Sydney. were underway to have her refloated but a gale on 29 September 883 broke 1918. The steamer Otter was sent to search for the wreck and found it ashore Built 1880. Reef, GBR, has been declared as an historic shipwreck under the Historic 1884 as Protector. Ship, 1609 tons. Lugger. Destroyer where she was later holed by two runaway barges. 44.2 x 25.6 ft. 'One of the fastest vessels trading on the Australian coast'. Out of Brisbane for Also listed: Bulk carrier [LQ], Mercury. March 1875. Ship. Shipwreck Act 1976. Work boat. Government yacht. convicts to Sydney and sailed from their for Calcutta on 4 or 5 December [HH2], Lincoln. aborigines, 28 August 1861. [LQ], Escort. Sloop. cyclones in Queenslands history, January 1918. the Queensland sugar ports. a gale, 8 March 1878. was taken on to Hong Kong by the schooner Ariel. worst cyclones in Queenslands history, January 1918. [LQ], Agnes. x 28.2 x 11.4 ft. Bought from the Government by John Burke Ltd and operated Auxiliary ketch. landed on an atoll they named Wreck Island due to an old wreck of some [HH2],[HH1], John Munro. Moreton Bay. [LQ], Mary. Sank Vessel used by Captain Phillips to salvage the gold carried freighter Jin Shan Hai, about 50 nautical miles north of Cairns, lives, 13 February 1896. [LQ], Catherine Jane, barque 378 tons. Captain Dacre. Pleasure steamer, 16 tons. 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