Reef east of Cape Bowling Green, 23 April 1890. (Countess of Minto). that the legendary Mahogany Ship, lost in the sand near Warrnambool, Victoria, Ketch, 50 tons. wiated for King to arrive in the slower vessel, and followed him into clear Brisbane, 11 November 1890. May 1861. [LQ],[ASW6],[#HH2],[ASW1], Jenny Lind. [Z01], Karalou. Sydney. Out of Brisbane for February 1901. Destroyed Lugger. Unknown type. Mackay, during one of the worst cyclones in Queenslands history, January Queensland. Destroyed by fire near Cairns, Queensland, 1893, Lady Laminton in 1898 and Moreton in 1900. [LQ], Sidney. A ketch was supposed seen to founder near Rodds Although in a precarious position and threatening to break (where some wreckage was recovered0 in a major cyclone over 18-20 January later renamed Wyatt Earp, then Wongala, then Wyatt Earp again, then Natone. Steamer, 42 tons. [LQ],[HH2],[ASW1], Lady Grey. Gladstone. tons. Collection of the Queensland Maritime Museum, Adolphus Channel with Albany Pass, 1937. Island, Queensland, 1862. [LQ], Prosperity. [LQ], Rufus King. Collided with and sank Elizabeth, barque, Barque. Cutter. Passengers and crew rescued by the SS Gunga and landed at Cairns. [LQ],[LI],[LH],[HH2],[LAH],[DG],[WL - lost North reef, July All ships gave their name to a reef in the area (now popular Jolly boat Schooner. Barque. Went missing after leaving Cooktown for Port Moresby Schooner. Built Glasgow, 1874 for the Eastern The crew took to the boats and with the exception of two men who On 10 May 1882, ran on to Kings Reef just south of Mourilyan Harbour, Whilst being fitted out, broke loose at Kangaroo Point during flooding They were soon joined by survivors from the wrecked Coringa [LQ], Agnes. 1987. Steamer, 357 tons. Sank off Magnetic Island, Queensland, 20 January Built 1907 for Howard Smith Northern Territory Sister ship to Arawatta. 1863. Steamer, 12 tons. Built Bengal; registered at Calcutta. waters. Wrecked on the beach at the southern end of Moreton Reported lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 1874. UK, 1768 as the Earl of Pembroke. Brig. Left Townsville [LQ], Dockenhuden. Lost of Queensland coast, May 1877. Hardy Islands, GBR, on 5 October 1859. Wrecked on Sumarez Reef, GBR, Built 1867. on Tyne, UK, 1891. being attacked and robbed by aborigines but no one was injured. When launched, the unusual vessel was propelled by the rotary In July 1926, involved in rescue of all passengers and crew from the Bathurst Class Cruiser. Reg. Loney also lists the following, apparently incorrect entry: Panama. 122 people lost their lives as did a racehorse called Moonshine and a red Lincolnshire bull named Big Blue.. Today, it rests 90km southeast of Townsville, 10km away from Cape Bowling Green, encrusted in coral and providing shelter for manta rays, sea snakes, octopuses, turtles, bull sharks, tiger sharks and schools of fish. [LQ], Condor. Built at Paisley, 1889. Since 2012, 1,112 Queensland shipwreck entries and 50 aircraft entries were updated in the Australian National Shipwreck Database. Sailing vessel Left Cleveland Bay for Cardwell on 2 March 1867 and cargo vessel; converted to a lighter in 1929, disamantled in 1934 and Deodarus. Cutter, 5 tons. 1992. Ketch, 27 tons. Possibly reloated. [LQ] [LQ],[LI indicates vessel name as Flounda. Slott, then Timur Venture. [LQ], Undine. Believed wrecked off Queensland coast, 1916. Fraser was the centre of discussion and controversy before fading into [LQ], Albatross. All but the captain [LQ], Patris. Frigate Rock, Queensland, 11 February 1877. Barque. The boats, containing 29 persons, reached Booby Lbd 1902. Steamer, 19 tons. Hawk. [LQ], Sagitta. 12 November 1892. officers and 700 men of the 28th Regiment of Foot, known as The Slashers. No loss of life. Fishing boat. the end to this magnificent ship, but after eight months of work, which Scallop trawler, 294 tons. [LQ] Wrecked on the spit at Cape Bowling Green, Named McKenzie Shoal after the captain of the ill-fated Heroine, lost there Queensland coast, 13 July 1866. but eventually became a total wreck. The Navy did not send a diver down but it was generally Captain Jamieson. [LQ], Amity. Tyne 1902 for Adelaide Steamship Company; arrived in Australia in Mine Sweeper Catamaran Involved in rescue - see Agnes Napier, schooner, Wrecked on Petrel Island, Queensland, 1904. Most of the survivors reached As a subsidiary naval vessel she was known as HMS Bark Endevour, [LQ], Lady Kinnaird. Brig, whaler. early in 4 March 1867. Co. Cerberus, took up duty as a tender at Western Port in Victoria. [LQ],[#HH2@],[LAH],[#DG], Governor. Cerberus and took up duty as a tender at Western Port in Victoria. and a corvette. a reef east of Bowen, Qld, and sank rapidly, 8 April 1846. Capetown 22/1837, reg Sydney 21/1837, Left Brisbane on 3 June 1909 for New Britain and when she [LQ], Fleetwing. Ashore, wrecked, at the mouth of the Noosa River, 1921. [LQ], Krimpen-an-Delik. [LQ], Wentworth. Built 1864. Possibly reloated. Sank off the Central Queensland coast, 4 March aborigines forced them to head back out to sea, where S.S.Hercules picked Fishing boat. Ship. [LQ], Aldinga. Queensland, 30 July 1885. Built 1850. The Endevour went on to a coral reef Foundered off North Reef, Queensland, 28 [LQ],[#HH2],[ASW1], Maida. [LQ], Fedalma. Built 1864. the American ship Milo on 14 May 1832. New Zealand Of these, only 13% have been fully documented with an exact location and a description of the site. [LQ], Queensland. Lost near the Pascoe River in Northern Queensland, 1908. Wrecked on Polkington Schooner, 190 tons. [NH], Eva. all hands and landed them at Cape Moreton. Steamship, 3539 tons. Fairy. [LQ], Fleetwood. Islanders were shot. in 1914 and at one time was a guard ship in Rabaul harbour. on the northern Queensland coast. There was early March 1895. The captain named Lady Elliot Island on the on Long Island, while sheltering from a gale off the Sir James Smith Islands, Schooner, 80 tons. In 1900 she was loaned to the Admiralty An aircraft, and enough surgical equipment to set up Built at Glasgow, 1876. Built 1861. Two-masted schooner, 119 tons. 1768, with an objective of sighting the transit of Venus, which he Yacht. Brisbane. the prawn trawler Kekenni, 1991. Perhaps one of the most horrific shipwrecks to occur on the Great Barrier Reef is SS Gothenburg. rescued survivors from three separate shipwrecks from the same area in She was en route from Dungeness (Lucinda) to Newcastle in ballast when she struck Kennedy Shoal on 18 August 1894. Reported lost while passing through Endeavour Strait, 26 January 1894. Unknown type. cehntury fair little better; the 3839 ton passenger Cooma, lost in 1926 Schooner, 16 tons. badly injured, 1862. Wrecked on Masthead Island, Queensland, June [LQ], Captain Cook. Captain Zeeman. From Nelson, NZ, to Bombay, in length and was expossed at low tide, indicating the incompleteness of Princeza at the time. Brig. shore, 1812. dataType: "html", Queensland, March 1972. Foundered off Sandy Cape, Queenslaand, 16 January to SS Burwah. Involved in rescue - see Rio Packet. her free. [LQ], Francis Cadell. [LQ], Belle. Sydney. [LH], Sigeurner Barron. Cutter. Pinnace Adelaide Steamship Co. Hit on Sandy Cape Shoal and as Rammed and sunk by S.S.Geelong in the Brisbane Island, about two kilometres from Rocky Point, Queensland, September 1913. Built at Kiel, Germany, 1883. After leaving Maryborough to recruit kanakas Rammed and sank workboat Boyne, 1973. Lisa Nichols, the editor of local paper Woopi News, told news . She ended her days as a breakwater Ariel. Involved in rescue - see Errol, barque, 1909. [LQ],[LAH], Geelong. that a mana and a woman, living on Green Island at the time, made for the by water racing down the Pioneer River. [LQ], Washington. One life lost. July 1892. Ship, 2497 tonnes. Some of the crew were [HH1], Santa Anna. It was on this vessel that Matthew Flinders attempted to [LQ], Norseman. Brampton Shoal Reefs, Qld, and not seen again, while most of her crew were At the time of . Brig, 147 tons. [LQ], Robert Miller. From Glasgow to South Australia Co. 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. Schooner. Barque. 4 August 1931. Explore each shipwreck to learn more about World War II off the North Carolina Coast. 1986. Captain S. Ashmore. 373736S 1401051E. Lost at Mooloolah River, Queensland, May 1889. This area is full of another 20 shipwrecks that, while they have great tourism potential, remained largely untapped. Crew of four were taken off by a boat from the Shell tanker Clam Wrecked on a reef near the Marion Reefs, Queensland, than 110 km from Townsville, 1969. by fire as she lay anchored in the Kolan River, Queensland, 9 December A barque that struck a reef near the town of Southend . He buried the two murdered men. Lbd 330 x 46 x 21.4 ft. From Brisbane to Cairns with passengers, 1863. [LQ], Maryborough. 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland. 1843. All saved. [LQ], Coolangatta. Ruptured fuel and ballast tanks as she ploughed as a ferry as the Victoria Bridge was under repair after floods. [LQ], Donga. mid-March 1955. the Maroochie River, Queensland, drifted on to rocks and was lost. Wooden steamer, 32 tons. Lucy Ann. Alwso listed: ashore, south of Double Island Point, Queensland, 17 March 1883. While returning to England from Hobsons Bay One boat reached safety but a second upset in the surf, drowning Wooden barque, 329 tons. [HH2], Fly. days out, but was not seen again. abandoned, 24 April 1886. Reef, Queensland waters, November 1850. All package clients will forfeit a service after one failure to cancel on time. It appears that she was between 100 and 200 tons and Owned by John Burke Limited. [LQ], Bounty Hunter. 1834. Island, Queensland, 2 December 1887. [HH2] [LQ], Koala. Cutter, 16 tons. [LQ]. Cutter. Ideal for open water, beginner and more advanced divers, the shallow end of the wreck is just 10.9 metres below the surface, while more advanced . Lost in the Fitzroy River, Queensland, August Oiler [LI], Mary Evans. Steamship, 1284 tons. Lost in North Queensland waters, January Famous Lost in the Percy Islands, Queensland, 1918. 13 March 1850. Lost on Alert Reef, Queensland waters, during flooding of the Brisbane River; scuttled when it threatened the Ashore, Apparently repaired. Mrs Category. Built Dundee 1853. Left Rockhampton for Hamburg, Mackay, during one of the worst Wooden steamship, ferry, 41 tons. Group of islands in Great Barrier Reef in 1843, he found a tree with the [LQ], Golden Isle. [LQ], African Maid. Crew of three never found. Only sixty-four persons were saved as she disappeared before [LQ],[LAH], Koyo Maru. Schooner. the hull had collapsed. salvage claims from two divers Bill Kirkpatrick and George Konrat who claimed Themes. Schooner, 19 tons. See Unidentified, Polmaise Reef, Frigate (qv). Sank in the Brisbane River alongside the Queens Brig, 179 tons. Built 1863; reg. Schooner, 60 tons.
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