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Portland Bay, west of the Fitzroy River
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S375The vessel left Port Adelaide bound for Hobartown with sheep onboard and some valuable fowl purchased in Adelaide for Governor Brown. After leaving Adelaide the Julia encountered heavy swells…
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Discovery Bay, 30 miles west of Portland
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S377Vessel left Port Adelaide for Sydney in October 1861. On the evening 21st October ship encountered a heavy gale off Cape Northumberland. Vessel heeled over onto beams end and began to take in…
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Portarlington, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S379Wooden fishing smack. No death notices published in press at this time to give any information on casualties.
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Clonmel Sands, Port Albert
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S431The brigantine Macclesfield left Newcastle for melbourne with a cargo of coal, but was twice compelled to put into Twofold Bay for shelter. On rounding Cape Howe, the vessel encountered…
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Brighton Beach, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S445The Margaret Russel is historically significant as an example of a Canadian built ship trading in Victorian waters.
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Lorne, Louttit Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S510The Otway is historically and archaeologically significant as evidence of the early development of the Otway timber trade and development of Lorne. It is also archaeologically significant for…
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Port Phillip Bay, Railway Pier, Hobsons Bay.
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S539After catching fire, efforts made to tow vessel clear but bowsprit jammed against ship Alfred - with danger of a further fire. Masts went over side, ship became a mass of flames, burned to…
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Point Lonsdale, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S541Ran ashore about 10.30 pm, while beating in through Heads. Crew and passengers landed safely at 4.30 am in two boats. Customs and health officer's boats, with pilot schooners Prosperpine and…
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Bass Strait off Ninety Mile Beach
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S564The barque Rembrandt encountered a gale off the Ninety Mile Beach that carried away most of the sails and caused the vessel to leak badly. As the crew prepared to abandon ship, the vessel…
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Portland Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S567The Regia has historical, archaeological, technical, social and interpretive significance for its construction, location and role in Portland's history. The Regia represents the boom period…
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Cape Liptrap
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S568According to A.S.R. the brigantine REINDEER along with the schooner CAROLINE departed Geelong for Hobart in mid September 1862. Both vessels encountered heavy seas with the schooner seeking…
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West of Kate Kearney Channel, Port Albert.
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S606The schooner Saracen ran ashore in a storm near the Port Albert bar. When the sea abated, rescuers found that the vessel had broken up and there were no survivors from the crew of six, except…
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Portland Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S664In November 1860 severe gales struck the south west coast of Victoria. In Portland a number of vessels including the barque TAMORA, schooner EVA and the brig REGIA were driven ashore. The…
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Port Albert Bar
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S696When the barque Victoria ran onto the bar at Port Albert, it broke up rapidly drowning most of the cargo of livestock. The timber in the hull was later found to be rotten although the vessel…
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Corinella, Western Port
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S719The Western Port trader Wasp dragged its anchors during a gale, and was driven onto rocks near Corinella, Western Port . The cargo was very much damaged. The Mate A . Ellis broke his arm.…
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St Leonards, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S722According to Loney, anchored alongside hulk of Boujah Maiden, citing Geelong Advertiser, but that report merely states 'hulk'. Wrecked in dreadful gales in which several small vessels were swamped.
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Ninety Mile Beach
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S876The Gippsland Guardian reported on 13 March 1860 that a 120 feet length of ship's keel from a vessel "of light build" was washed ashore on Ninety Mile Beach . The Gippsland Times on the same…