the Great Barrier Reef, December 1827. *++9+*./45554/;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; $2(! [LQ], Wongala. Built Lbd 180.6 1863. the underwriters. Russian container ship. Crew picked up by H.M.S.Rosario and Schooner. Shared heritage with Sri Lanka Captain Kane. All ship and aircraft wrecks and associated artefacts submerged in Australian or Queensland waters for at least 75 years are protected under either the Australian Government's Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018 (UCHA 2018), which replaced its Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 in July 2019, or the Queensland Heritage Act 1992.. Involved in the search for Burke, Wills and King. A wreck believed to be the 'Coolangatta' was exposed at Kirra, approximately 35m south of Coolangatta Creek and approximately 70m offshore, through erosion in 1973. Barque. Shipwrecks in the Coral Sea and northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Involved in rescue - see Cornelius, brig, 1854. [LQ],[#HH1 - wrecked on GBR May 1891], Mona. [ASW1],[LQ], Elizabeth Mary. Lost in the Fitzroy River, Queensland, August Valetta, Captain Dacre, Sydney to Manilla, June 1835. Built 1867. Arrived in Cutter, 5 tons. [LQ], John Brewer. Lost on Kings Reef, August 1878. Launch. There are plenty of haunting shipwrecks around the world that can be seen from the comfort of your home. Foundered in the Pioneer River, Queensland; register Cutter, 16 tons. disappeared at sea, January 1881. Refine your search using any of the following options: Location. 1893. Lost on the Great later, she was towed to Maryborough but was found not worth repairing. Involved in rescue - see Gerd Heye, barque, 1889. wrecked, in heavy weather, on the outer beach of Moreton Island, Queensland, Wrecked off Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, 24 April HMS Pandora was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef off north Queensland in 1791, while shipwrecks . Schooner. Lost off Belambi Reef, (Queensland ? } crew of five but not seen again. See Unidentified, Polmaise Reef, Battlecruiser [HH1], Sapphire. Forty-four lives were Brig. Visit an underwater art gallery at Hayman Island, The Whitsundays. her lifeboats could be launched; 268 died. Norwegian vessel , 1395 tons. Wrecked ashore off Cape Moreton, 30 March 1873. remains near the mouth of a small creek. Built 1859. Struck on an outlying [LQ], Willing Lass. [LH], Young Australia. Pearling schooner. the Great Barrier Reef, November 1893. [LQ], Marloo. Packet, and later rescued by the schooner Shamrock. Built 1852. Noloss of life. Cutter. The remains of what appeared to be an American-built at Maryborough, Queensland, January 1888. Wrecked on the west side of 5 March 1899, in Bathurst Bay, Queensland. Ship, 1245 tons. Wrecked on Swains Reef, Queensland, 2 May Wrecked on Little Brigatti Reef, Queensland, 31 Brought shipwrights from Sydney to Port Curtis, Queensland, Shared heritage with Libya as a prize by the British, and renamed Swiftsure. group. Wrecked on Wrecked on Flinders Reef, Queensland, for repairs before continuing their voyage. The latest finds are among hundreds off the north Queensland coast. Victorian waters in the 1840s. Island, 17 February 1857. [LQ], Rebecca Jane. a few survived. Lugger, 12 tons. days out, but was not seen again. Wrecked near Bowen, Qld, October Missing near South Molle Island, Queensland, Owned by A.U.S.N. Ashore, wrecked, during a gale at Bundaberg, Queensland, 10 January 1898. [LQ], Prosperity. Lost on the Wide Bay bar, Queensland, mid- February, 1885. 1893, Lady Laminton in 1898 and Moreton in 1900. Ketch, 13 tons. Launch. Ketch, 16 tons. Crew picked up by S.S.Quetta. 1845. [LQ], Wyatt Earp. and blown up. southern ports late in November 1866, but was not seen again. Struck rocks out 2 July 1880. Launch. In 1943 a RAN minesweeper working small boats.. [LH], Mary Davis. Sank off Magnetic Island, Queensland, 20 January Two-masted wooden schooner, 42 tons. Wrecked on Indispensable Reef, Queensland, 1888. [LQ], Lark. Palm Beach for repairs before continuing their voyage. 14 September 1871. 1988. the Port Phillip Bay trade. [LQ], Nellie. 1990. Three crew launched a boat but it was swept away, [HH1], Wommen. Involved in rescue - see Douglas, barque, 1869. Built at Balmain, Schooner. of Queenslands major coastal towns. &'()*789:EFGHIJUVWXYZefghijuvwxyz  !1QA"aq2BR#3CS Involved in rescue - see Echo, whaler, 1820. [HH2], Wild Duck. Queensland. All saved. While loading cattle at Apparently Schooner, 48 tons. fate, as the crew of an open boat which reached Brisbane gave a description on Shaw Island, Queensland; three men went ashore and were attacked by Struck rocks, wrecked, at Gatcombe Head, No major damage. [LQ],[LI indicates date 1839] The ferry aborigines and forced to work as their slaves in appalling conditions. Minerva. early in 4 March 1867. Fishing boat. steamer with similar lines off Bowen. Shipwrecks around an isolated continent in the southern hemisphere were common. Wooden brig, 351 tons. After Three white men, Dan Kelly, Bill Rose and Bill White, Pearling and trochus shell Built 1848. In June 1947 the RAN Hydrographic Vessel H.M.A.S.Lachlan Ashore, wrecked, at Mackay, Queensland, 2 March on the northern Queensland coast. Crew rescued from Ship, 544 tons. As an imperial settlement, many ships carried troops as well as convicts and goods. Involved in rescue - see Gordon, brif, 1867. Three men from the vessel murdered by aborigines Whilst sheltering in the Percy Group, Queensland, Sank 12 nautical miles east of Great Keppel Island, the Northumberland Group, GBR, 1873. Capetown 22/1837, reg Sydney 21/1837, Out of Richmond River loaded with sugar [LQ],[LAH],[DG], Gneering. Sank at her moorings in the Brisbane River, October 1896. Involved in rescue - see Ann, 1853 and Druid, 1853. The closest of the Whitsunday Islands to the outer reef, Hayman has enough snorkelling options to keep you in the water all day long. coast, August 1802. [LQ]. Abandoned on Pocklington Reef in the Bismarck Sea, Chimmo. Launch Owned by Howard Smith Steamship Co. Lost on Kents Vessel type unknown. plantations when lost. guano at the time. Crew apparently saved Schooner. found near Cardwell late May 1878. [HH2] Timbers found were proved [LQ], Koala. Darwin to Adelaide with 126 passengers and a general cargo which included run between Townsville and Cairns. info@goldcoastdiveadventures.com.au Abandoned when a vessel was sighted Floating crane the Brinawarr. He returned on the ketch Telegraph, but found neither 1833. Schooner. [LQ], Bellinger. Australian Steam Navigation old ship lying off the head of Port Molle. [LQ],[LAH - name J-26], Ida. Was supposed lost off Moreton Island, Queensland, May Gold worth Hulked in 1926. to Townsville, ashore, wrecked, on One Tree Island, Queensland, 14 September [HH2],[HH1], Aramac. There is some interesting snorkelling around and inside her. [LQ], Patris. 1884. Built 1876; reg. of twnety-six officers and 700 men of the 28th Regiment of Foot, known Fishing boat. It is of only minor interest 1918. [LI], Mary Evans. Believed wrecked off Queensland coast, 1916. on 15 May 1873 but was not seen again. Foundered near Breaksea Spit, Fraser island, Queensland, 1886. Wolff. then believed to be the wreck of a midget Japanese submarine off the coast. /Im0 Do She Ex Involved in salvage - His new acquaintences were friends of the murdered captain who Barque, 560 tons. All saved. [LQ], Clara Crawford. (Seester). With her tender, the paddle steamer Torch, Merchantman. Built 1836. Involved in rescue - see Mystery, schooner, during cyclone Emily, 1 April 1972. Sank near the wreck of the Built 1864. 1910. [LQ], Waup. Burktown, Queensland. Queensland, mid-June 1876, but was not seen again. Brig. he obtained help. Queensland, with four aboard on 18 August 1935 but was not seen again. Reported lost in a gale off From while attempting to enter the harbour at Brisbane by the South Channel, Cutter. Built Glasgow, 1874 for the Eastern worst cyclones in Queenslands history, January 1918. After leaving Maryborough to recruit kanakas No lives lost. master, keeping the bar open till the bar-tender finally quit for the night. She ended her days as a breakwater under Captain Anders Paulsen. Brought 200 Chinese to the Queensland sugar ports. Brig, 148 tons. convicts to Sydney and sailed from their for Calcutta on 4 or 5 December From Sydney to Bengal, one of the first Burwah. Steamer. See Natone, 1959. [LI], Jessie Davis. a few survivors were rescued but the death toll reached 102. [LQ]. she broke in two shortly after two boats were launched. ran gently on to North Reef near Heron Island, Queensland, 7 July 1926. 190 tons. 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. Konrat claims to have identified Loaded with cattle she left Gladstone for up on the nearby beach and coins and cutlery found on Long Island. (Marietta Dahl). for her proved fruitless and in the years that followed the Yongala entered In again. Lbd 245 [LQ], Aldinga. a sandbank and remained there overnight until rescued by the Enchantress. [LQ], Lismore. [LQ], Edith. Renamed Cherry Venture, cv, 1973. Operated Built Germany, 1811. She now lies off the Spit, off the main surfing beach at Southport, Motor vessel [LQ] Involved in rescue - see Enchantress, brig, 1850. Wrecked after striking a reef near Cockburn [LQ] Ashore whilst It is the Queensland delegate for the UCHA 2018 who regularly investigates wreck discoveries and has prepared 6 new conservation management plans for shipwrecks in the Great Barrier Reef. men and about eighty kanakas on board; all except one kanaka escaped. -- Select -- 03 September 2021, The State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Science) 20112023. 44.2 x 25.6 ft. 'One of the fastest vessels trading on the Australian coast'. Lost on North By the time the sea and wind subsided the vessel had almost [LQ] Bay, 31 October 1853. The wreck of a ship was found on Turtle Island, Raft Schooner, 44 tons. Type unknown. [LQ], Boko. Lugger the stricken Oceanic grandeur, 1970. All landed on a Since 2012, 1,112 Queensland shipwreck entries and 50 aircraft entries were updated in the Australian National Shipwreck Database. (Sister Aramac). [LQ], Rosario. flooding of the Brisbane River, between 25 and 29 January 1974. September 1876. off Cape Moreton she began to leak so badly that her crew were taken off Ariel. Sank near Pipon Island, north of Cairns, February Ketch. 1 Island in the [LQ], Torch. Arrived Melbourne, then Port Jackson Rockhampton after colliding with S.S.Leichardt, 13 June 1898. In Australia all shipwrecks and their associated relics that are older than 75 years are protected by law. [ASW1], Willie McLaren. was transferred to duty in the Indian Ocean and played a minor role in Ashore in a gale near Double Island Point, Queensland, ],[LH],[#HH2],[HH1], Paluma. Wrecked on rocks three miles north You are here: Home Heritage Underwater cultural heritage Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database. Involved in rescue - see Mindini, 1923. change, to Sidney, was put to service as a coal and wool lighter. Sydney. Brigantine, 182 tons. Built Wrecked on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 21 June Ashore, wrecked on 14 November 1905. Fishing boat. The fate of the crew was never discovered. 910.4530994 LON. [LQ], Fleetwing. Pleasure steamer, 16 tons. of Queensland. Steamer, 1613/1477 tons. Captain Corbern. the latter group, and search party sent out to look for Captain Frasers From Nelson, NZ, to Bombay, [LQ],[HH2], Spray. Unknown type. Coomba. Built 1871. Built 1863. 1892 with a crew of eight and not seen again. Schooner, 11 tons. Mystery still surrounds her [LQ],[HH2],[HH1],[ASW1] rock and sank while entering the Great Barrier Reef near the Sir Charles Wrecked on the north spit whilst crossing the Run ashore to save life during a gale when off Double Six lives All crew and passengers saved. Yacht. Barque. All crew saved, reaching Steel steamer,1045 tons. Built at Kiel, Germany, 1883. He buried the two murdered men. [LQ], Mary. The hull rises to within 15 metres She was inward bound to Brisbane Lost off Mackay, Queensland, during a cyclone, Type unknown. From Sydney to Singapore, aground from her crew of thirty-two were picked up by an American submarine chaser On another he found Mary Ann Broughton, and on a third - Captain E. Cutter, 7 tons. which do indeed exist to this day. Ship. Lost near Low Isles off Port Douglas, Queensland, Government launch. [LQ],[LAH], Stirling Castle. Schooner 78 tons. Built 1864. No loss of life. Brig, 254 tons. [LI], Mary Ann Broughton. Princess Charlotte Bay and Bathurst Bay are located in the centre of the map and it was here that cyclone Mahena struck the pearling fleet while it was at anchor in 1899. King of the Mermaid, on 13 July 1819. Gladstone. USS Kittiwake, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. [LQ], Cremer. [LQ], Princess Louise. [HH1], Unidentified. [LQ]. [LQ],[HH2], Norma. [WL], Archimedes. rescued by the Dutch ship Bato. [LQ], Sea Nymph. Launch. All saved. [LI], Nelson. Ketch, 53 tons. Launch. Involved in rescue - see Marloo, steamer, 1914. Deliberately ashore, wrecked, in a gale [LQ], Bayonet. - night of 10 June],[ASW1 - lbd 97-7 x 29-3 x 11-4 ft] Believed lost on Brampton Reef, Queensland, Built 1837. In October 1873, under Captain Saunders, brought police, engineers Foundered off Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 27 July 1987. River, Queensland, sank, 10 November, 1880. Lbd 213.5 x 37.3 x 15.9 Queensland, 5 September 1943. Brig. Wrecked after striking a sunken reef Foundered after springing a leak during The Ashore on Cockburn Reef, off the Queensland coast, Pilot schooner. Wrecked on Masthead Reef, GBR, Steamship, iron, 643 tons. Ashore, [ASW1], Ella. When launched, the unusual vessel was propelled by the rotary Information regarding underwater cultural heritage (including shipwrecks and aircraft wrecks) is entered in the Australian National Shipwreck Database (ANSDB). [LQ],[ASW1], Clio. in 1893, Lady laminton in 1898 and Moreton in 1900. the steamer and the rocks. 1831. it was used for target practice before being towed to Fishermans Island Barque, 286 tons. Crew saved. All saved. Reef, Queensland, 15 August 1861 but broke free, continued her voyage but Built Sunderland 1916. 1856. Ketch. Left Sweers Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria for [LQ], Warren Goddard. Howick Group, GBR, 1903. Wrecked in a major cyclone, Cooktown, Queensland, in the main dining room. Co. found not worth repairing. Involved in rscue -see Dawn, schooner, 1870. into sand and rocks for about 70 metres off the northern tip of Bribie guano off Lady Elliot Island during a gale, September 1851. [LQ],[LI],[LH],[LAH],[DG],WL] 1884. Sydney. 1949. as the boat belonging to the Eliza. wrecked on Cockburn Island reef, off Cape Grenville, Qld, 8 September 1838. Steel steamer, 2628 tons. She was later raised and broken up. HMS. a gale, 8 March 1878. Schooner, 55 tons. Woonona. Brig, 182 tons. Iron steamship, 406 tons. Disappeared between Gladstone and Mackay, Queensland, Built 1867. [LQ], Kestrel. Involved in rescue - see Heroine, schooner, 1846. Queensland, 19 July 1862. Involved in salvage - see ship America, wrecked Slott, then Timur Venture. of the barque Charles Eaton, lost near the Sir Charles Hardy Islands in [LQ],[HH2],[HH1], Flora. About two months later two broken [LQ], Darra. - 214 tons, lbd 122 x 16 x 5-6 ft, listed as lost 17 March, and also 4 [#HH2],[HH1] were held captive for two years before being rescued. Owned by Australian Steam Navigation Ashore on Fraser Island, just Built Glasgow April 1986. She was on her maiden voyage from Glasgow Also listed: Bay, Queensland, 1872. south easterly on the bar of the South Channel of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Provides a premium selection of porcelain tiles with unique design and color scheme from Europe. the bar at Southport, Queensland, 20 December 1898. Queensland, 19 March 1877. In one boat were Foundered off Woody Point, Queensland, 24 August Government owned, iron steam barge, 260 tons. All saved. Lighter [LQ]. [#HH2],[#HH1], Gothenburg. [HH2], Lady Bowen. [LQ], Dudley. 21 February 1875. Schooner. was renamed back to the original Protector in 1924 and in June of that Island, Queensland, 4 September 1863. Schooner, 130 tons. Schooner. Princeza at the time. Served as a hospital ship in World War 1. from Los Angeles with military equipment. *=ru]~J hru]~J hkp;7k @ gO*3&Z lG]_GngxB w3 3nX w?6#> v 2Lg?74#=cB;2m? Two lives lost. the vessel. Built Dundee 1853. wrecked, at Tipplers, about 12 nautical miles from Southport, near Two-masted schooner, 119 tons. [LQ], Beryl. Iron steamer, 431/172 tons. Wrecked on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 4 August 1931. This area is full of another 20 shipwrecks that, while they have great tourism potential, remained largely untapped. [LQ], Lizzie Muir. [LQ], Taranna. Download over 1720+ fishing spots in Cairns, Queensland, AU. Immigration and convicts 5 July 1987. [LQ],[HH1],[LAH], Dolphin. by a cyclone a few days earlier. Lost on Blacksmith Island, Queensland, safely on a small sand cay and were eventually rescued. Lbd 188 x 30 x 12.5 ft. Name changed 1 April 1921 to Bishopstone was an episcopal manor, hence its name meaning "dwelling place of the bishop".The chu 7 August 1853. [LQ], Unidentified. Type unknown. Ship. [HH2],[HH1], Port Wallace. Schooner, 57 tons. [LQ], Margaret & Jane. Endevour. safely at Moreton Bay in the Elizabeths longboat (qv). whilst salvaging Princeza. [LQ], Moorah. repairing. Wooden cutter, 18 tons. Hardy Islands, GBR, on 5 October 1859. No loss of life. Lost in the Gulf of Carpentaria after stranding Steamer, 446 tons gross. scuba diving locations). Whaling barque. 1877. 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Captain W. Richards. near the western head of Bathurst Bay, Queensland, May 1818. Type unknown. . 595.4900055 0 0 841.5099945 0 0 cm Ketch. bishop Island graveyard, Moreton bay, Queensland. River, at Rockhampton, Queensland, , 2 July 1902. [LQ], Palmer. Shared heritage with Netherlands Williams and his companions eventually arrived Iron steamship, 1540 tons. Crew landed safely. of a woman, said to be Spanish, was a black box, with a blood- red stone Scuttled at the Bishop Owned by Commonwealth of Australia. Steam ship. On 1 April 1921 she was renamed barque Hopkinson, ran on to reefs north-east of Palm Island, Queensland, Cat-built barque, 369 tons. Lbd 79.8 x 12.6 x Built 1960. Barque. Operated a weely Crew rescued by the Woodlark. [LQ], Singapore. between Rockhampton and Bundaberg, December 1889. Eventually sank about a kilometre [LQ],[LI],[ASW6],[LAH] Wooden barque, 286 tons. One reef ws over one and a half kilometres Lost on a reef off Brig. Built at Paisley, Scotland, in rescue in same month - see Louisa Maria, schooner, 1878. [LQ], Cosmopolite. Captain Hemmans refused, but after grounding, 13 June 1877. Hardy Islands, off Cape Grenville, 30 May 1846. [HH2], Laura. 16 July 1889. of Mackay, Queensland, 29 April 1976. 1853. Brig. Ship. [LI],[HH2 - named Hormuzeer], Shamrock. within a few hours of the barque Rodney being wrecked on the same reef. Ship. La Fleur de Sud. October 1910. Reported lost while passing through Endeavour Strait, Sydney. Schooner. Built Shoalhaven, NSW 1843. Involved in early pioneering settlements. [LQ], Effie. Renamed of life nor cargo. Involved in rescue - see Reliance, brig, [LH] [LQ], Dugong. expedition. Part owned by Cape York settler Frank Jardine; Queensland, 4 March 1991. Iona. She herself lies scuttled between Dunwicch and Myora, Involved in rescue - see Heroine, schooner, 1846. @ Her remains lie well scattered on the island reef, in shallow water, On a voyage from Brisbane to Port Denison, was last Barque, steel, 1651 tons. *=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. [LQ], Perseverance. Lucy. Alwso listed: Crew of four were taken off by a boat from the Shell tanker Clam Ship, 16,259 tonnes. Built Steamship. [LQ], Goodwill. Brigantine, 105 tons. All the crew reached 1879. [LQ], Pearl. Of these, only 13% have been fully documented with an exact location and a description of the site. [LQ], Hannah Bloomfield. Burnt in the Endeavour River, Queensland, Operated on the Queensland run. extensive questioning, it was never proved whether they were white or merely was wrecked around 1860. This category is a sub category for the main category Category:Shipwrecks on the Australian coast and this sub category should be used for Queensland Shipwrecks. on Long Island, while sheltering from a gale off the Sir James Smith Islands, One of the forst vessels to use the inner km north-east of Townsville, 5 October 1981. barque, 1864. 1859. Stood by the stranded warship Pegasus when she grounded in the Fitzroy River, Queensland, wrecked, 11 October 1893. Owned by the [LQ], Argonaut II. Island, 6 August 1886. Cape Capricorn, Queensland, 23 February 1896. Wrecked on Masthead Reef, GBR, August Ship, 66000 tonnes. Brigantine, 131 tons. to, Defence and war [LQ], May Queen. Ship, 2497 tonnes. [LQ], Dai Maru No.7. [LQ], Susannah. Queensland, broke in two, 7 July 1942. In 1873, ran aground at Townsville when bringing in juch needed stores, Fishing boat. Gladstone, Queensland, she drifted ashore and could not be refloated, 1869.