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Bass Strait, between Cape Schanck and Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S17SS Alert is historically significant as one of the worst maritime wrecks in Victorian history, with the deaths of 15 of the 16 people on board the vessel. It is archaeologically significant…
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Ant Spit, Thirteenth Beach, Barwon Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S33The remains of the wreck of the SS Ant have not been inspected, and therefore an assessment of its archaeological significance cannot be made. The Ant is historically significant as an early…
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Beware Reef, near Cape Conran
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S47The vessel is archaeologically significant due to the construction of the steamers engine. The engine represents the first attempt in Australia to manufacture compound steam machinery and was…
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Outer Corsair Reef, Point Nepean
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S49The vessel is of historical significance due to the events that took place soon after the wrecking. It is of limited archaeological significance as a result of the heavy salvaging that took…
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Bass Strait, off Gabo Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S66The vessel is historically significant for international trade and transportation during the 1870s when the Balclutha made several trips to San Francisco. As the location of the vessel has…
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Cape Bridgewater
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S69On 3 April 1871, while steaming between Adelaide and Sydney with 28 passengers, the S.S. BARWON struck a reef in foggy conditions off Cape Bridgewater and commenced to sink. The passengers…
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Clonmel Island, Port Albert
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S75The SS Blackbird is archaeologically and recreationally significant as a representative example of auxillary steamer involved in the Australian colonial coastal trade, with well preserved…
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Mushroom Rock, Lonsdale Reef, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S76Had been chartered at 20 pounds per day to take cargo from wreck of the ship George Roper (sank 4 July 1883). Bad weather had hampered salvage operations. In heavy seas, alongside George…
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Ships Graveyard, Commonwealth Area No.3, Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S91The vessel is historically and socially significant is that it has been employed in the dredging operations around Port Phillip Bay for almost 50 years before being scuttled.
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Apollo Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S108The SS Casino is historically significant for its vital role in the Western District coastal and passenger trade. This significance is enhanced by the longevity of the Casino's service to…
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Bass Strait, off Cape Otway
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S110The wreck of the SS Champion is significant historically as one of Victoria's worst shipwrecks. As an early steamship it played an important part in the development of and communications…
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Half Moon Bay, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S117The former flagship of the Victorian Colonial Navy, HMVS Cerberus is internationally significant as a surviving example of a turret ship, or breastwork monitor class of warship. It was the…
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60 miles NE of Wilsons Promontory
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S123The City of Hobart was an iron steamer built for the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company for use in the inter-colonial passenger and cargo trade. Towards the end of its working life, it was…
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north of West Channel, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S124The City of Launceston is one of Victoria's most significant shipwrecks. The discovery and reporting of the wreck and subsequent lobbying of the State Government led to the proclamation of…
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Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S139The Commissioner was built for the Melbourne Harbour Trust as an armed launch and was capable of firing Whitehead torpedoes. It had been sold by the Melbourne Harbour Trust and was being…
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Lonsdale Reef, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S140The Conside is historically significant for being the earliest screw steamer wreck in Victoria, was the first purpose built steam collier, was the first screw steamer to travel between Sydney…
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Swan Island, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S154The Countess of Hopetoun is historically significant as the last vessel to be built for the Victorian naval force. It is also significant for the vessel's role in patrolling Port Phillip Bay…
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Port Phillip Bay, Maribyrnong River
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S199The SS Edina was an iconic and affectionately regarded part of Port Phillips maritime history and culture. It is historically significant for being internationally famous as the worlds oldest…
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Gabo Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S204The wreck of the Easby has recreational and aesthetic significance as the remains of a large steamship in shallow depth. The collapsed hull plating, engine and boilers provides a habitat for…
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Portsea Back Beach, 3 miles east of Point Nepean
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S264Formosa is historically significant as a rare Australian example of the technical innovation of Thomas B. Seath?s shipbuilding. The vessel has interpretive significance as an example of…
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Sandringham Breakwater, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S273Registry cancelled 11 Sept. 1951. Initially a dredge, it was later used as a cable layer. Lies at end of the rocky breakwater near Sandringham Pier. In 1890 the dredge's master was W. Rodick
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Port Phillip Bay, between Queenscliff and Pope s Eye Shoal
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S281The Gambier is historically and socially significant for its association with the wrecking incident that involved the loss of many lives and had an enormous impact on Victorian society
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Apollo Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S283The Gazelle is technically significant as an early iron hulled steamship. As the site has not been located its archaeological significance has not been determined. It has local historical…
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Bass Strait, near Lakes Entrance
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S291SS Glenelg is historically significant as one of the worst maritime disasters in Victorian history, with the deaths of at least 38 people and only three survivors. The wreck has the potential…
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Between Cleft and Anser Islands, Wilsons Promontory
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S299The Gulf of Carpentaria is historically significant as the wreck of an international cargo and passenger vessel, and for its role as a link between Britain and her colonies. It is…