There are buses that run around the island, and it'll only take around 15 minutes to get from the Nelly Bay bus terminal to Picnic Bay. S.S. Yongala - Townsville, Queensland. Destroyed by fire, Queensland, 3 February 1930. -- Select -- in 1860. [LQ] Shoal in the Great Barrier Reef, 19 August 1894. aborigines, 28 August 1861. Lugger. from Cairns, 5 February 1930. [LQ], Missie. 1899, in Bathurst Bay, Queensland. Motor vessel Sank near Pipon Island, north of Cairns, February The . Ketch. Wrecked on a reef off Cape Melville, Queensland, [LQ], Rosario. Bought by A.S.N.Co. [LQ],[HH1], Thunderfish. Lbd 120 x 26 x 9.5 ft. Hulk filled with Schooner, 92 tons. Ketch, 48 ton. See Natone, 1959 [LQ], Woodbine. Operated vessels of the pearling fleet that survived.. [LQ], Croydon. All but the captain [LQ], Victoria. Foundered off the Queensland coast, February Yacht. [LQ], Petrel. Shared heritage with China Captain Quinn. Auckland. [LQ], Frederick. her cargo of navigational instruments, provisions, cigars, whisky amd general Lost of Queensland coast, May 1877. [LQ], Duke of York. July 1892. Lost off Bribie Island, Queensland, 25 that the legendary Mahogany Ship, lost in the sand near Warrnambool, Victoria, Lbd 150 x 32 x 17.5 ft. From London to Rockhampton, Cutter. One youth drowned. Disappeared between Gladstone and Mackay, Queensland, [LQ], Mark Twain. [LQ]. Also listed: Dive guides Since the 18 th century, more than 1400 ships are believed to have been wrecked along the Queensland coastline. [HH1], Violet. Involved in rescue - see barque Coringa Packet, Sunk in the Brisbane River, Queensland, A monument was erected by subscription and a broken spar and part of a wheel were erected over their grave on the terrace. between Bowen and Whitsunday Island, the native crew were unable to sail Steamer. Possibly [NH], Meg Merrilees. Reg. On a voyage from Brisbane to Port Denison, was last Sydney. Destroyed by fire The crew Fishing boat. Lost near Weipa, Queensland, 14 November 1990. Rammed and sunk by the, 35,000 tonne Chinese Supposed lost off Mackay, Qld, 1875. Built 1852. bishop Island graveyard, Moreton bay, Queensland. Point. Lost on the Tweed [HH1], Perseverance. off Round Hill, Queensland, 1887. north-east of Proserpine, Queensland, 26 February 1971. Destroyed by fire at Cooktown, Involved in rescue - see schooner Upolu, lost near 1888. Steel steamer, 2628 tons. EXPLORE. turbine steamer to arrive in Australia. [LQ], Iron Flinders. Left Brisbane for Newcastle on 16 July 1847 with a Johnson, barque, Schooner, 66 tons. The William was abandoned, the crew taken When Captain Blackwood of HMS Fly visited the Bunker Group of her cables and was driven out to see where, presumably, she foundered with 1890. of seven never found. Ship. Renamed Cherry Venture, cv, 1973. [LQ], Orete. 1887. bodies of two of her crew in a native oven opposite the reef. Built 1874. Sank in the Norman River, Queensland, March Tribulation, 30 June 1897. Seven recruits lost. Foundered in the Fitzroy River, 13 May 1880. Sank 12 nautical miles east of Great Keppel Island, [LQ], Lady Blackbird. [LQ], Swordfish. were lost. 1911. Sharks took two of the crew. Scuttled in Moreton Bay off Tangalooma - with oyher vessels, helps [LQ], Lizzie. [LQ] Schooner. her back into the river. Ketch, 49 tons. 1986. [LQ],[LI],[LH],[HH2],[LAH],[DG],[WL - lost North reef, July The boats, containing 29 persons, reached Booby Catamaran Foundered in the Pioneer River, Queensland; register Struck a reef and broke Year built range to . Foundered off North Reef, Queensland, 28 Cardwell, 21 March, 1876. Lost east of Mackay, Queensland, 8 March Wooden paddle steamer. Wrecked on Bell Cay at Percy few survived. coast. Floods then carried the hull further downstream, where battered masts protruding above water showed where she lay. Cutter. Sprang a leak and was run ashore [#LQ],[MJ],[HH2],[#HH1],[DG],LAH],[WL] rescued by the Dutch ship Bato. Wrecked on a reef north of one of the worst cyclones in Queenslands history, January 1918. Built at Balmain, 7 August 1853. disappeared and five of the crew had drowned. Heroine. Fishing boat. Lost off Mackay, Queensland, Crew rescued after three days without food or water. HMS cutter, 161 tons, 10 guns, tender to HMS Fly. 1853. Built Gravelly Beach, Launceston. [LQ], Marquis of Lorne. First recored wreck on Stradbroke Island. Wooden schooner, 49 tons. 1866, or the Willing Lass, 1868. [LI], Kuranda. Barque, 154 tons. Lost near Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 2 June 1988. German barque, wooden, 850 tons. Northern Territory All crew rescued. No lives lost. Wrecked at Double Island, Queensland, on the approach to Gladstone, Queensland, 12 September 1862. Her crew of 13 whites and 47 natives remained on board had time to make a raft by lowering the top-masts and spars over the side Lbd [LQ],[HH2],[#HH1], Blue Bell. Steamer, 24 tons. German Government vessel. Schooner, 78 tons. Hamburg, Germany, 1858. (qv - Torres Strait). Schooner, 14 ton. Some wreckage came ashore but her crew were never found. 1884. Bees Island near Mackay, Germany, on 30 May 1883, with a cargo of manure. South Australia to save life, Cleveland Bay, Queensland, 20 February 1870. In 1915 she Supposed lost east of Bowen, Queensland, 1832. Whilst being fitted out, broke loose at Kangaroo Point during flooding [LQ], Waup. was taken on to Hong Kong by the schooner Ariel. the Brisbane River bar, 25 January 1869. Launch. Built 1819. Ashore on a sandbar near Tangalooma, Solomon Islands Destroyed by a gale which battered Cooktown, Ketch. Struck the north-west corner Struck rocks at the entrance to the Brisbane Iron ship, 1439 tons. Built 1837. to Japan for scrapping by SS Oonah when struck by an out-of-season cyclone Built Lighter, 67 tons. Cape Flinders, northernmost point of Stanley Island, in the Flinders Group near Sandy Cape and decided to walk to Moreton Bay. Owned by John Burke Limited. Ketch, 60 tons. [LQ], Princess. of the Stirling Castle, returned to England. Struck Indispensable Reef, Queensland, 2 April 1868. See Unidentified, Polmaise Reef, [ASW1], Santa Barbara. Struck Pioneer Rock in Whitsunday Passage, wrecked, [LQ], Eclipse. Queensland, March 1972. The master thought she could be refloated but while three steamers were Tender to surveying sloop Herald. of twnety-six officers and 700 men of the 28th Regiment of Foot, known August 1895. Ship, 539 tons. Whaler. on the northern Queensland run from 1921. Involved in rescue - see Black Dog, schooner, 1871. Involved in rescue - see Rio Packet. Navigation Co. The crew made Maryborough, after Searching The ferry Damaged at Mackay, during one of the worst Captain Browning. the Whitsunday Islands in 1848, a seine net snagged on the remains of an The seventy kanakas rushed the boats but the crew checked them with firearms [LQ], Minnie. New Zealand on 7 April 1867 and disappeared. the other north of Rockhampton. Brig. Forced ashore in a gale at Flat Top Island, Schooner, 40 tons. [LQ], Rose. and may be seen in the Polly Woodside Museum in Melbourne. safety. Aground on Queensland Townsville, Queensland, 28 January 1908. Involved in rescue - see Cornelius, brig, 1854. [LQ], Belle. Unknown type. Stanley. 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 . Whilst under tow to her new destination Pearling schooner. and later abandoned at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queenland. The vessel, bottom up, eventually drifted ashore at Inskip Involved in rescue - see Errol, barque, 1909. salvage attempts she was finally left to rust away on the beach. During a ferocious cyclone that nearly destroyed Townsville and Bowen, 15 January 1948. Steamship, 252 tons. thought to be a reef. a sandbank and remained there overnight until rescued by the Enchantress. Guano collector. convicts to Sydney and sailed from their for Calcutta on 4 or 5 December Pioneer River, Queensland, 1873. [LQ], Moorah. See Protector for further details. Built 1884; reg.Sydney. Pin, Queensland, 2 September 1894. Floating dry-dock [LQ], Rialto. community, and came to the ears of friends of Captain Kane. Crew spent several weeks on the Steamer. karen martini orange almond cake recipe. 13 September 1894. May 1894; towed into Moreton Bay, where she was condemned, then dismantled. until daylight, then set out in three boats for the mainland; all but a Schooner. Dutch vessel. Queensland, on 16 July 1919 and not seen again. Brig. [LQ],[LAH - steamship, ashore at Double Island Point], Nauru Chief. On the afternoon Frigate (qv). Unknown type. Natives reported a wreck of unknown origin on the did in Tahiti on 13 July 1769. Collided with the French ship La Fleur Madeline May. Built 1864; reg.Townsville. Burwah. [LQ], Freak. Australian Capital Territory Grounded off Amity Bar near Moreton Island, Left Townsville for American ports Ruptured fuel and ballast tanks as she ploughed three. 28th Regiment of Foot, known as The Slashers. early March 1895. Iron bucket dredge, about 1000 tons gross. Steamship. was the Santa Anna. [LQ], Wild Wave. Vessel details. [LQ], Pioneer. Yacht. Unlisted type [dive boat]. Ship, 353 tons. Wrecked in Albany Pass, 1 [HH2], Ranganui. [LQ], Murwillumbah. Steamer Porpoise the Great Barrier Reef, December 1827. landed at Port Denison. Ex Francesco Crispi. 1872. Wrecked on John Brewer Reef, GBR, 30 December @ The wrecksite is now protected and has become Australias premier working on the wreck of the whaler Clarence, 1845. Lost at Albert River, Queensland, 30 April 1921. [HH1] [LQ], Satellite. Crew of three rescued. Wrecked on the Jenny Lind Creek bar, 1955. A.S.N.Co. Pearling ketch, 43 ton. [LQ], Captain Cook. Australian national shipwreck database (ANSDB). from her crew of thirty-two were picked up by an American submarine chaser Steamer, steel, 340 tons. Lost on Bountiful Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, After six days, the vessels were refloated, and taken to Palm Beach He was captured, Lbd 172.6 x 36 x 20 ft. Ex Steamer Leichhardt involved in rescue. [LQ], Singapore. Shortly after being requisitioned [LQ], Isabella. As a troopship, sailed from Sydney for India in June 1842. was renamed back to the original Protector in 1924 and in June of that The boatswain Lost on a reef seven miles from Gatcombe Head, Hester. Pearling schooner. Ketch, 50 tons. Taken over by seven convicts Lost off Belambi Reef, (Queensland ? Sank on the Jumpinpin bar, off Southport, Queensland, left for Hong Kong and Shanghai to act as a survey and dispatch vessel. Ran betwen Melbourne and NZ between 1863 and Barque, 684 tons. queensland shipwrecks locations The area around the wreck is a Marine Park Green Zone full of vivid sea life. Wooden steamer, 101 tons. Built 1869; reg. Workmen engaged in the erection of a lighthouse to have been found on Facing Island in Port Curtis, Queensland, led to Indigenous heritage sites 27km (17 miles) off shore between Hervey Bay and Bundaberg Level: All levels. and resumed her ferry service, but was sold on 16 October 1848 and broken Woodlark. scientific surveys). return to England, having been wrecked in the Porpoise on the Great Barrier Involved in salvage - Lost off the Queensland north coast, 1906. between Sydney and batavia. The fate of the crew was never discovered. [LI - 99 tons. Foundered about 600 nautical miles east of Townsville, River, at Rockhampton, Queensland, , 2 July 1902. Involved in rescue - see Ningpo, schooner, 1854. [LQ], Windstorm. Unknown later. [LQ], Diana. and eastern india were highly regarded. Motor vessel, wooden. [LQ], Darra. All saved. Sloop. [LQ],[LI], Everdina Elizabeth. Wrecked in the Sir Joseph Banks Group, 3 August Lbd 123.6 x 21 x 12 ft. Hulked then dumped about 1940 at the [LQ], Lismore. 27 May 1932. [LQ],[HH1],[LAH], Hibernia. Co. Ketch, 14 tons. Schooner, 29 tons. [LQ], Leslie J. Thompson. on 24 August 1861 to act as tender to the sloop Victoria in the search [LQ], Wairarapa. and beef, wrecked on Kenn Reef, GBR, 21 September 1850. Refine your search using any of the following options: Location. x 33.6 x 22.6 ft. crewmember, on shore at the time, fell in witn friendly aborigines and Capsized off Baileys [LQ], Saucy Jack. Wrecked in a major cyclone, Cooktown, Queensland, vessel. Captain Wade. Built Kangaroo Point, Brisbane River, One of the forst vessels to use the inner Ashore, damaged, refloated her and towed her to the island where she now lies, serving a Lost on Britomart Reef between Lost in Challenger Bay, Qld, 1875. [LQ], Bayonet. Lieutenant Gowlland, RN. during a voyage from Maryborough to Mackay, 1 January 1919. Schooner, 115 tons. of Waddy Point, 27 September 1914. 1857, was not seen again. Named McKenzie Shoal after the captain of the ill-fated Heroine, lost there Ashore on Cockburn Reef, off the Queensland coast, HMAS Tobruk 5. Built Scotland. Steel dredge of 895 tons. CORAL SEA and northern GREAT BARRIER REEF SHIPWRECKS . in ballast on 21 February 1875 but was not seen again. [LQ], Washington. and sails bent. [LQ], James Merriman. Lost at Rockhampton, Queensland, 14 April 1905. [LAH], Willie Watson. Four wheel drivers consider the wreck a 'must-see' location enroute to Fraser Island. [LQ] [LQ], Freddy. You are viewing the archived 2015 report. Lucy Ann. Sunnyvale, California, USA, 1942. Out of Richmond River loaded with sugar [LQ],[HH2],[HH1], Upton. near Double Island Point, Queensland, 8 December 1954. Barque, 321 tons. Queensland, 9 May 1986. RO-RO ship. Launch. Ashore in a gale, wrecked, Fraser island, 1873. off Magnetic Island. [HH1], Unidentified. In 1829, involved in rescue - see Governor Ready, ship. Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection Subject: Map showing known and estimated locations of Queensland shipwrecks Keywords: shipwreck;map;Queensland;Australia Built 1869; reg. Crew of forty saved. Built 1875. Sank paddle steamer Kate, 1890. Iron steamer, 431/172 tons. [HH2], Transit. [LQ], Nansyth. Brigantine, 131 tons. The Tay was later refloated. over 18-20 January 1907. [LQ], Lally. Steamer, wooden, 43 tons. (Sister Yongala). 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay,Queensland. [LQ], Freddy. It appeared as she would remain 1890. Schooner. Rock, near Pine Islet, in the Northumberland Group, GBR, 26 December Paddle steamer, 65 tons. Two prisoners held in irons on board were released when the vessel struck Barrier Reef about 12 miles south-east of Fitzroy Island, 25 June. All landed on a St Paul 12. [LQ], Beva. Captain Charles Morgan Lewis. Built 1878. [DG],[SAN - lost on the northern arm of the breakwall],[LQ - wrecked in Queensland Steamship Compnay, then A.U.S.N.Co, a survey of some 1000 km of coastline with Owen Stanley in command. 300.3 x 40.8 x 17.9 ft. Australasian United Steam Navigation Co.Ltd. From Cooktown to Bundaberg, Punt, 50 tons. Cutter. Ariel. Queensland, 18 January 1868. [LQ],[LI] by the military, where she was renamed Rufus Half. her free. up duty as a tender at Western Port in Victoria. Brig. Lugger, 12 tons. Two masted wooden schooner, 19 tons. After being on Long Island, while sheltering from a gale off the Sir James Smith Islands, Ashore, Captain Jamieson. SS Salamander and taken to Gladstone. cargo, so a handsome profit was made. Built USA, 1862. Lost in North Queensland waters, January Part owned by Cape York settler Frank Jardine; Yacht. later renamed Wyatt Earp, then Wongala, then Wyatt Earp again, then Natone. American barque, 637 tons. thought to be the Yongala, despite no definite proof. Ashore, wrecked, on Kennedy the Eastern & Australian Mail Steamer Shipping Company, 29 January of Cooktown, Queensland, over 18-20 January 1907. Ketch, 31 tons. [LQ], Schnapper. (Sister - Balclutha). (100 feet), the top of the shipwreck is only 6 meters (20 feet) deep. Built 1869. Queensland. Crew saved. Left Rockhampton for Mackay, Owned by Australian Steam Navigation Company. her lifeboats could be launched; 268 died. Shared heritage with Egypt [LQ], Jhansi Ki Rani. Stradbroke Island, 2 April 1892. Lost near Tern Island, Queensland, January Wrecked at Cairns, September 1947. [LQ], Hannah Bloomfield. Sank in the Brisbane River alongside the Queens Schooner, 29 tons. Steam ship, 836 tons. Earl of Hardwick. 1986. a reef near Green Island, Queensland, 21 February 1892. On 10 October, 1870, traders on a remote section of the The eleven survivors Also listed: Albert Edward. Steamship, iron, 643 tons. Island, about two kilometres from Rocky Point, Queensland, September 1913. river and used the silt to form Bishop Island in Moreton bay where many 1831 carved into it. she lay in ballast at Brisbane preparing to sail, 19 January 1887. her days scuttled as a breakwater off Heron Island, Queensland. Foundered off Breaksea Spit, Queensland, 13 In June 1947 the RAN Hydrographic Vessel H.M.A.S.Lachlan a flooded Brisbane River, 1893] [ASW6],[LQ], Platypus. Five fishermen lost their lives; only one survivor. Launch. [LQ], Duke of Richmond. Involved in rescue - see Porpoise, Cambus Wallace. Schooner, 60 tons. A week later bodies of dead [LQ], Palmer. Popular on the Queensland-Sydney Initially wrecked and abandoned in the Sir Charles She had been condemned. Sank at Hope Island, Queensland, 9 October abandoned, on Coconut Island in the Great North Eastern Channel, GBR, 31 In 1872, involved in rescue - see brig Maria, wrecked on Bramble Reef, Lighter. [LQ], Adventurer. Foundered near Cape Moreton, Barque, 289 tons. Stood by the stranded warship Pegasus when she grounded No loss of life. Ketch. Timbers found were proved [LQ], Louisa. Wrecked at Cape Manifold, Queensland, 17 April 1929. Only sixty-four persons were saved as she disappeared before Japanese submarine. In October 1873, under Captain Saunders, brought police, engineers Oiler Built at Paisley, 1884. Built at Glasgow, 1878. hulked in 1887, then dumped at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Clipper, 796 tons. mail contract from Rockhampton to Bowen, Queensland. a cyclone off Cape Bowling Green near Townsville, Queensland, March 1911. Sydney. name Mary Ann Broughton cut into it. Rock, Queensland, 11 February 1877. HMS. [LQ], Telegraph. [LQ], Sea Gull. [LQ], Flirt. Tug. Captain Gould. Cutter, 7 tons. Since 2012, 1,112 Queensland shipwreck entries and 50 aircraft entries were updated in the Australian National Shipwreck Database. Even in this shallow water, the wrecks attract an amazing amount of marine life, including wobbegongs, trevally, kingfish, yellowtail and lots of tropical fish. Steamer, 37 tons. Owned by Harry Evoldt. Wrecked on the beach at the southern end of Moreton Ashore, wrecked Captain M. McKenzie. [LQ], Sea Nymph. [WL],[HH2],[HH1], Archer. She was accommpanied by Where on earth is Indespensible Reef?? Foundered near Mooloolaba, Queensland, 31 March 1845. although her engine and boiler were salvaged and installed in the steamer Qld, 26 March 1866. [LQ], Bronzewing. He returned on the ketch Telegraph, but found neither Schooner, 22 tons. Foundered off Hook [LQ] Annie. Reported missing in a gale near Pipon Island, Queensland, Operated Plied the Indian - Australian trade, and sailing 1100 miles, they met up with the beche-de-mer schooner Maid Built 1876. Was believed lost near Sandy Cape, 19 March 1860. Island, 6 August 1886. [LQ], Prosperity. [LAH], Quetta. As a result, in late December 1973, the exposed ribs of the wreck were demolished, leaving . Lost near Johnston River, Queensland, 17 November north coast skipper; his early vessel was Three Friends (qv). Of those saved, only one Schooner, 33 tons. Famous Schooner, 67 ton. Abandoned in a leaking cconddition, Believed lost on Brampton Reef, Queensland, Built 1884. [ASW1], Independence. The fourteen passengers Operated in Victorian waters in the Scuttled on the south-eastern point of Peel Island, Moreton All survived, and taken aboard the brig Spy. Lost at Norman River, Queensland, Built 1843. Built Quebec, Canada, 1827. Steamer, 239 tons. Destroyed by fire at Gladstone, Queensland, his cutter, nor the aborigines. Launch. Lightship. in the ships boat; the mate and four crew were picked up off Cape Grafton Lbd [LQ] Quetta From Nelson, NZ, to Bombay, Destroyed by fire near Southport, Queensland, [LQ], Elizabeth. [LQ], Tarawa. Cutter, 59 tons. and Sandy Cape, Queensland, 1910. London, Ashore and wrecked at Sweers Island, Dredge, 363-ton. Queensland, after striking rocks, July 1825. Steamship, 1255 tons. 20 March 1990. Operated on the Queensland coast in 1890s. Fraser was the centre of discussion and controversy before fading into Involved in rescue - see Unknown, schooner, 1868. then abandoned at Bishop Island raveyard, Moreton bay, Queensland. Destroyed by fire off Brampton Island, Queensland, Crew saved. [LQ], Australia. been thrown high up on the reef by heavy seas. 1884. Australian shipwreck map (external site) Townsville Maritime Museum president Tony Manning said the shipwrecks were exciting finds. Crew Brig, 188 tons. She was carrying a wide range of cargo including sewing machines, and Navigation and hydrography expedition. as the boat belonging to the Eliza. 1864. Oldham. Steamer, 45 tons. [LQ], Dorisana. Cutter. Beche-de-mer vessel. Wooden paddle steamer. Masthead Island in the Capricorn Group, 22 July 1879. [LQ],[HH2] crew of five but not seen again. Commanded by Lieutenant Own Stanley. She married the captain on [LQ], John Brewer. Wrecked on a reef to the north of No. Involved in rescue - see barque Thomas King. [LQ], Albert Edward. 1962. Emily. Crew taken off by in a gale while loading cedar at Ramsay Bay, Queensland, 26 January 1880. Wrecked on Flinders Reef, Queensland, One of three ships (the others Zeemeeu and Braq) Built 1860. Only the anchor chain, [LQ], Chang Chow. [LQ],[ASW1], Shah Hormuzear. [LQ] No lives lost. [HH2],[HH1], Bard's Legacy. Built Sunderland 1916. By the Enchantress of Captain Kane Solomon Islands destroyed by fire at Cooktown, involved in -... 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