Brig, 145 tons. [LQ]
Wharton on the surveying ship Paluma in 1890. 1907. Sank 12 nautical miles east of Great Keppel Island,
It is presumed she foundered
Pilot schooner, 35 tons. by HMS Basilisk in January 1873. September 1876. Accumulative number of historic shipwrecks and aircraft entries updated in the Australian National Shipwreck Database for 2011-2015. Qld 4216, Gold Coast. [LQ],[HH1], Eva. lost Queensland, 1845. fishing in Australian territorial waters, and while being escorted to Cairns
Schooner, blackbirder, 96 tons. China Navigation
Schooner, 126 tons. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brig. [LQ]
by the military, where she was renamed Rufus Half. iron beams and a part of a poop were found at Walkers Bay near Cooktown,
German three-masted iron barque, 827 tons. 1988. Schooner. Type not recored. [HH2], Trusty. and brought to Sydney in 1806. Peter Illidge, Coleman Doyle, Peter Gesner, Museum of Tropical Queensland, 70-102 Flinders Street, Townsville 4810, Australia. Wrecked near Townsville, 3 February
side of the river. Island, 6 August 1886. Wrecked on a reef off Cape
After six days, the vessels were
Wrecked on John Brewer Reef, GBR, 30 December
The loss of the brig Stirling Castle on the
Schooner. 6 May 1928. Unlisted type [dive boat]. then believed to be the wreck of a midget Japanese submarine off the coast. Abandoned on Pocklington Reef in the Bismarck Sea,
Today its settled upright 26 metres underwater and welcomes experienced divers. floods, January 1974. Ketch, 25 tons. boats landed safely at Maryborough. Built 1865. [LQ], Jenny Lind. Wrecked near Point Cartwright, Queensland, 9 June 1951. Crew saved. Paddle steamer. [LQ], Donella. Involved in rescue - see Unknown, schooner, 1868. [LQ], Iron Flinders. Touched the bar as she was leaving
Ketch, 59 tons. Wrecked on Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, while leading
Ashore in a gale,
[LQ],[ASW1], Jane Lockhart. Melbourne. [LQ],[HH2],[HH1], Flora. coast during a gale, 8 March 1878. A small boy asleep on board the yacht was drowned. Lost on Hardy Reef, 20 May 1987. Lost in North Queensland waters, January
Wrecked on the Jenny Lind Creek bar,
Ketch, 27 tons. Lost on Tweed River bar, August 1851. 1856. by the steamship Gothenberg when lost on a reef south of Townsville, Queensland,
Was being towed
[NH], Eva. fitted with an engine. fact the Ferguson. Involved in rescue - see Errol, barque, 1909. She was loaded with 1200 cases of motor spirit. hulked in 1887, then dumped at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay,
Struck rocks near North Head at Bowen, Queensland, 17 June
~ Tourists travel north from Noosa along the firm beach in 4-wheel
Involved in rescue - see Gerd Heye, barque, 1889. looking for water, was set on fire by aborigines while at anchor off Passage
No lives lost. [LQ - listed as Dicky],[LH],[LAH], Dinton. Struck
Dutch ship, 840 tons. [ASW1], Willie McLaren. March 1869. Left Cleveland Bay for Cardwell on 2 March 1867
[LQ], Australien. Yacht. We provide the native files for your Garmin (*.gdb), Humminbird . 1 Bunker Reef off the Queensland coast,
Built 1851. 03 September 2021, The State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Science) 20112023. [LQ], Platypus. near Keswick Island, Qld while on a voyage from Hong Kong to Sydney for
Sailing vessel
[LQ], Perseverance. 14 May 1863. The aim of the Government was to use the vessel
[LQ], Tasman. Abandoned when a vessel was sighted
Owned by Australian Steam Navigation
Built Sydney 1839. She had taken convicts to Sydney in 1829 and Hobart in 1831. and resumed her ferry service, but was sold on 16 October 1848 and broken
Supposed lost east of Bowen, Queensland, 1832. whilst salvaging Princeza. [LQ], Adventurer. ten days later, the crew from the Doelwych were not seen again. on Shaw Island, Queensland; three men went ashore and were attacked by
a survey of some 1000 km of coastline with Owen Stanley in command. Caught fire and abandoned, vicinity Caldwell, Queensland,
Lost at Mooloolah River, Queensland, May 1889. Loss of two crew. Schooner. Shoal, Queensland waters, 17 October 1863. [LQ], Donga. [LQ], Boyne. Unknown type. Drogher
31 July 1928. of Victorias Loch Ard disaster. Crew and cargo rescued by barque
Trawler, 45 tons. Steamer, 24 tons. Owned by Queensland
[LQ], Lizzie Muir. Involved in rescue - see Chang Chow, steamer, 1884. [LQ]
Captain Steele. Noloss of life. Barque, 257 tons. and crew landed safely on the island, then proceeded to Rockhampton. Involved in rescue - see A.L. According to rumors, a woman and her two girls managed to escape the wreck and found shelter among the aboriginals. 18 February 1988. [HH1], Gay Lyn. [LQ], Silver Spray. The steamer Tay struck
[LQ], Flirt. [LI], Mary Ann Broughton. . Ketch. Built Stockton, Newcastle, NSW, 1875. Hawk. Princeza at the time. 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. and launched in 1884, leaving England soon after rigged as a schooner to
May 1861. Stranded, abandoned, near Lizard Island,
@ As she lies in sixty metres, she is rasonably intact. And:
Steamer, 298 tons. 1885. [LQ] There appears to be no Indispensable Reef listed
Schooner, 130 tons. Cutter. [LQ], Unidentified. The crew landed on Fraser Island, but hostile
Captain Macbeath. [LQ], Barbara. In March 1839, searched for survivors
is an Indispensable Rise in the north Coral Sea. [LQ],[HH2],[LAH
Involved in rescue - see barque Coringa Packet,
[LQ], Unidentified. Type not recorded.
1879. Barque, 544 tons. to SS Burwah. Pearling schooner. Auckland. The marks in purple were added in 1971 after it was published. abandoned, 24 April 1886. where he was imprisoned by the French for six and a half years. Involved in explorations along the northern Queensland coast; found and
Helens Island, Queensland, 8 May 1990. [LQ], Nautilus. Taiwanese clam boat. Whilst employed in the pearl shell industry,
Schooner. lessen coal consumption. Struck Sandy Cape Shoal, off Fraser Island, 24 October 1884. aboriginals in the crew attacked the six white crew members, but were killed
After the master of the had been lost overboard during a voyage from Cooktown to New Guinea, her native crew attempted . [LQ]
[LQ],[HH2 - brig], Kate. floods, January 1974. of Cooktown, Queensland, over 18-20 January 1907. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and
Schooner, wooden, 29 tons. Wrecked on Scarborough Point, Queensland, 14 April
Yacht. She ended her days as a breakwater
Launch, destroyed by fire near Yeppoon, Queensland,
Schooner, 83 tons. In company with tender Bramble, visited Bunker Group of islands in Great
Lieutenant Gowlland, RN. [LQ]. [LQ], Orete. the following year. South Passage bar near Stradbroke Island while trying to enter Moreton
Lost on the Wide Bay bar, Queensland, 24 September
Renamed Errol, 1909. American ship. Built at Paisley,
Launch. Built 1960. Schooner. struck the anchor chain of the Lucinda, and sank within a minute. men and about eighty kanakas on board; all except one kanaka escaped. Built at Sydney, 1924. Wrecked on Masthead Reef, GBR, August
part of her stern came ashore. Built 1861. Searching
Lbd 213.5 x 37.3 x 15.9
13 May 1880. Captain H. Browne. Built Germany, 1811. [LQ], Sea Nymph. Wooden cutter. hulk and later scuttled, near Townsville, September 1905. his cutter, nor the aborigines. [LQ], Robert & Betsy. later, she was towed to Maryborough but was found not worth repairing. resting on the Sir Charles Hardy Group and Booby Island, they eventually
Captain Smith. Crew of three rescued. Unknown type. Wrecked on Moreton Island, Queensland,
While sheltering under Entrance Island, the
Lost off the Queensland
Norwegian freighter. Delhi. [LQ]. Brig. In 1872, involved
ashore about four miles south of Cape Capricorn. Built 1876. Vessel on which Mrs Fraser, survivor of the wrecking
for the protection of ports and shipping in the confined gulf waters of
under the command of Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1643 examined the coastline
Involved in rescue - see Marloo, steamer, 1914. Captain Barr. survivor from her crew of four. one of the legends of the pioneering days of north-east Australia. [LQ], Duke of Cornwall. June 1884. [LQ], Peregrine. Wooden steamer, 101 tons. All passengers and crew saved.
Ashore, damaged,
off Round Hill, Queensland, 1887. year paid-off from Naval service. [LQ], Dorisana. A dispute arose over
Built Shoalhaven, NSW 1843.
Lost on Flinders Reef, Queensland, 1985. worst cyclones in Queenslands history, January 1918. Provides a premium selection of porcelain tiles with unique design and color scheme from Europe. amd drifted on to Fraser Island, Queensland, 8 July 1935. Built in New Zealand, 1875. [ASW1]
Split in two by the Russian container ship Konstantin
Burnt at Brisbane, 1879. No lives lost. Converted into a hulk and towed to Townsville, 1915. th scandal of the colonial community. Barque, 286 tons. [LQ],[HH2],[HH1],[ASW1]
[LQ], Blue Bell. Schooner. Taken over by seven convicts
[LAH],[LI], Unidentified. The crew of 85, mainly natives, left her on six rafts but only
Built 1859. Auxiliary ketch, 178 tons. (2;4222;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;@@@@@;@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
$2(! Cutter, 9 tons. Seven recruits lost. Sydney 9/1833, 88/1841, 43/1846, 80/1848. Built 1875. the Queensland coast. Wooden barque, 329 tons. [LQ], Amy. the charts to that time. [LQ],[LI indicates brigantine. Foundered off Moreton Bay, Queensland,
7 August 1853. Dutch schooner. Crew and ten passengers saved after sailing to Moreton Bay. Brig. Collection of the National Archives of Australia, Drawing of Sovereign crossing the south bar by T. St. Ex-Liberty ship, steel motor-vessel,
[LQ], Chelsea. Scuttled on the south-eastern point of Peel Island, Moreton
Baffle Creek, Queensland, 19 July 1863. Schooner. to the ketch and the two remaining crew made their escape. Involved in rescue - see Heroine, schooner, 1846. Built Bremen, Germany, 1848. This British Admiralty nautical chart of the north Queensland coast was completed by Captain W.J.L. some 500m out. Involved in rescue - see Fotini Carras, 1939. All crew rescued. Built 1863; reg. The girl may have been lost when
Built 1891; reg. Sea Belle. Johnson, barque,
Wrecked on Indispensable Reef, Queensland,
These included: the Quetta wreck , the wreck of HMS Pandora and a canon found on the Great Detached Reef. Rocks, near the mouth of the Tweed River, northern NSW, 14 April 1870. A cannon inscribed Santa Barbara 1596" was said
[LQ], Dancing Wave. [LQ], Clifford. Ship, 539 tons. After leaving Gladstone for Sydney on 2 April
2 April 1908. Unknown type. 1939. No lives lost. Last updated:
wreck amd enjoyed the pleasures of an ample stock of spirits aboard, but