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Port Fairy, 2.5 miles west of Port Fairy
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S631The Squatter was battered by heavy weather after leaving Melbourne for Portland and was forced to shelter in Westernport and over at Circular head TAS. On resuming her voyage the Captain…
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Port Fairy
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S639Weather: NNE force 4. Clear night. Estimated loss 1200 pounds. Crew landed safely.
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Port Phillip Bay, Hobsons Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S640Fore and aft schooner, Bay trader Register closed 9 Oct.1880. Heavy rains, wind and sea caused damage in Bay,according to press reports, although Sybil not mentioned.
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Sylvanus Channel, Port Albert
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S641Outward to Hobart with a cargo of livestock, the schooner Sylvanus ran ashore at Port Albert in the channel that now bears its name. A new schooner, the Mary Ann, was chartered to salvage the…
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Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S656This vessel was last seen leaving Melbourne on a voyage to New Zealand in December 1855 but was not seen again. Uncertain as to if the vessel wrecked in Victorian waters.
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Williamstown, site of royal Victorian Yacht Club
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S660Vessel capsized trying to enter the Rip, found adrift on beam ends 8 miles SWS of Point Nepean, towed by tug Resolute to Williamstown. Stewart`s body had been found entangled in the rigging…
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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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Johnson s Swan Lake, Discovery Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S668The TRIUMPH left Port MacDonnell on August 26, 1874 with a cargo of potatoes, bound for Port Adelaide. Captain Buler is reported in the press as being unhappy wth the sailing abilities of…
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Port Fairy
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S669Thistle, built in 1825 in Bengal, is an early example of an Indian-built vessel. Thistle is historically and socially significant to the settlement and early development of the state of…
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West bank of Port Albert entrance
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S670Thistle was a mid 19th century iron paddle steamer and has historical significance for being at the forefront of the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company's establishment and push further…
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Point Castries, east of Lorne
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S678The wreck of the Trader is significant as being representative of a type ie: an Australian built schooner once part of a fleet of small vessels trading in Bass Strait between Port Phillip,…
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Lady Bay (Refuge Cove), Wilsons Promontory
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S681The Tasmanian schooner Truganini attempted to seek shelter in Lady s Bay (Refuge Cove). In the darkness, the vessel ran onto rocks and began to break up. All on board reached safety. After…
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Sorrento Back Beach
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S686Was loading timber at Apollo Bay when worsening weather forced it to sail for Melbourne at 3 pm. After passing CapeSchank had to lie to. By morning too close in to beat aboutso master ran…
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About 7 miles east of West Channel Lightship, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S692Loss probably caused by unusually heavy deck load. One report in Argus and later secondary sources state that the voyage was from Port Phillip Heads but the death notice states the voyage was…
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Napier St Pier, Maribyrnong River, Footscray
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S697A fire in the lime cargo was discovered about 9 pm. The Footscray Fire Brigade, called to the scene, extinguished the flames that had burnt through the deck, leaving the fire smouldering…
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Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
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Port Fairy
Victorian Heritage Register
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Port Phillip Bay, off Brighton
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S715Carried general cargo around the Bay, including lime from PortPhillip Heads. Details of a wreck, assumed to have been the Water Witch, appeared in the Government Gazette, 23 October 1870. No…
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Eastern bank of Port Albert entrance
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S717The schooner Wave was chartered to carry stone to be used in improving the roads around Port Albert and Tarraville. The vessel approached the Port Albert bar with a load from Corner Inlet,…
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William Sand, West Channel, Port Phillip
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S727The Will O' The Wisp is archaeologically and technically significant as the wreck of an opium clipper schooner, i.e. representative of a particular type or design. As the wreck lies in only…
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Curdie s Inlet, Peterborough
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S748The Young Australian is historically significant for its asociation with the Fijian and Queensland blackbirding trade in native Fijian labour. The builder of the Young Australia(n) George…
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8 miles from Cape Otway lighthouse, and Apollo Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S817The Geelong Advertiser reported on 8 October 1851 that: Mr William Marryat, keeper of the lighthouse informs us that a schooner has been wrecked near Cape Otway light, one half of the vessel…
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Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S835The schooner May Jennings never arrived at its home port of Lakes Entrance after departing Penguin in north-west Tasmania on 11th August 1890. By September fears were held for the schooner…
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Port Albert, west bank of Sylvanus Channel
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S836The Lapwing is historically significant for its association with the early development of Wilsons Promontory and Port Albert.
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Phillip Island, Westernport
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S837In the letters to the Editor in the Argus of 30 May 1913 Mr Jas. C. Hann wrote that in 1852 or 1853 there were two vessels wrecked in Westernport Bay. One was the Little John from Tasmania,…