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west of Point Lonsdale, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S290The Glaneuse is significant historically as the wreck of a large European built iron hulled sailing barque. The wreck resulted in intense scrutiny on the pilot service and a Public Enquiry…
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Portland
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S487Was probably refloated, according to Loney. Weather: Force 4. The Barque NESTOR had made numerous voyages from England to Australia as well as intercolonial trips. After arriving at Portland,…
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Point Cook Reef, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S319The Henrietta left Geelong before dawn in a SW breeze that soon strengthened. When well under way crew found no chart of Bay was on board (previously removed by a pilot for updating and not…
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UNIDENTIFIED: YARRA RIVER No 2
Stony Creek backwash, Yarra River, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S786The unidentified wreck is significant as evidence of bluestone ballasting operations in the Stony Creek backwash area. Ballasting using bluestone quarried from Williamstown and Stony Creek…
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Bass Strait, off Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S737Fishing vessel, part of fleet fishing off Torquay when big ocean swell came up. Fleet made for Heads. All but Winifred managed to negotiate the Rip. With seas too heavy to enter, vessel…
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eastern side of Cape Schanck
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S873Site comprises 2 iron knees, a brass pin and timbers indicating a wooden wreck, or part of one.
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West Channel, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S367Joanna is archaeologically significant as a rare, well-preserved example of an Australian-built wooden sailing vessel. There are 46 Australian-built vessels wrecked in Victorian waters, only…
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Lonsdale Reef, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S667The Thetis is the first vessel known to be wrecked on Lonsdale Reef. It was a 95-ton, two-masted wooden schooner built at Moruya River on the south coast of New South Wales (NSW) by…
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Ships Graveyard, Outer Heads Area, Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S189The Don Diego is an early iron sailing ship and is one of the many ships scuttled in the Ships Graveyard.
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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
Victorian Heritage Register
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Barwon Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S202The wreck site of the Earl of Charlemont is historically and archaeologically significant for the remains of its cargo and passengers' belongings from an international immigrant ship of the…
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Port Phillip, between Melbourne and Werribee River
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S844The wreck of the Nil Desperandum is significant as an early Victorian coastal trader, with an unsalvaged cargo.
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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, 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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Lonsdale Reef, Port Phillip heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S326The Holyhead is historically and archaeologically significant as an example of an A1 classified ship from a renowned Liverpool shipyards on its maiden voyage.
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Donaldsons Jetty, Port Melbourne, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S330Captain G Rudolph and Dr & Mrs Casterton had retired for the night on board the Herald of the Morning which had arrived from Liverpool with some government immigrants (UID 9). The ship…
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Godfrey Creek, near Artillery Rocks, west of Lorne
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S718The W.B. Godfrey is historically significant as the then named Min it had previously been one of the great tea clippers of the 1860s-1880s, racing against other clippers such as the Fiery…
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Lake Nagambie
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S1076Prior to the completion of the Goulburn Weir, and creation of Lake Nagambie, the PS Agnes was bought by the Nagambie Steam Navigation and Sawmilling Co, from Echuca for 800 pounds. The vessel…
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Ships Graveyard, Outside Port Phillip Heads Area, Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S720Rig listed as coal hulk 3 masts and 2 stumps One deck, elliptical stern, clincher built . Originally a steam collier owned by Bellambie Coal Co and traded between Newcastle and Sydney.…
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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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Middle Island, Warrnambool
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S886The lighter wreck has local significance for its involvement with the development of Warrnambool as a safe harbour, and as part of the maritime infrastructure of Middle Island Lightstation.
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Thirteenth Beach, Barwon Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S636The Sussex is historically significant as an immigrant ship that made a number of voyages from England to Australia carrying thousands of immigrants. It is archaeologically significant as the…
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Port Phillip Bay, off Ann Street Pier, Williamstown
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S368The John Bull was an old Tasmanian built ship that was Originally rigged as a schooner and owned by J. Bellion, pilot, of Launceston. Came to Melbourne in 1850, carrying palings. In 1850s…
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Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S70The Bat has not been located and therefore its archaeological significance has not been assessed. It's historical significance lies in the fact that it was a typical type of vessel involved…