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Bass Strait, off Cape Schanck/ Cape Patterson
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S665After leaving Andersons Inlet bound for Melbourne, the schooner Templar went missing. A search later found the wreck of the vessel off Cape Schanck. The crew of three lost their lives.
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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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Johnny Souey Cove, Wilsons Promontory
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S675The Tomatin site is one of three wrecks that sunk in the same gale along a three-kilometre section of the east coast of Wilsons Promontory. Despite the likelihood of salvage of parts of the…
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West Channel, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S676Left for Launceston, 22 May, not seen again. It probably foundered due to overloading as it was carrying one large flywheel shipped as deck cargo. Wreckage was found in the West Channel by…
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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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Oberon Bay, Wilsons Promontory
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S679The role of the ketch Trident is uncertain. Loney claims that it was unregistered, and the captain's log descibes it as a yacht. However, it was carrying cargo. After being driven ashore in…
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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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Portland
Victorian Heritage Register
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Cat Bay, Phillip Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S684The schooner Tyro left Bass River with 20,000 feet of timber, but the wind dropped and the vessel drifted along the western channel of Western Port. The crew discoverd a leak below decks and…
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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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Port Albert, near Snake Lake
Victorian Heritage Register
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Off Carrum, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S688The Uralba was the last vessel built for the North Coast Steam Navigation Co.,and fitted with second-hand machinery. It was also the last wooden coal burner built in Australia. Scuttled, with…
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East of Rhyll jetty, Phillip Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S690The Ventnor was no chicken, though her career on Western Port was brief. She had, prior to arrival there, served for many years on the Yarra, sometimes towing small sail craft of the Bass…
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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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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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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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Gabo Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S700While on a voyage from Warrnambool to Newcastle in ballast, the brigantine VICTORY sprang a leak off Cape Everard. Despite the best efforts of the crew, the leak quickly gained on the pumps.…
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Between Cape Liptrap and Cape Paterson
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S701The ketch VISION was a well known trader between Western Port and Melbourne. The vessel left Melbourne with a cargo of flour, pollard and general cargo in early July. The Vision sprang a leak…
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One mile north of Cowes jetty, Phillip Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S703The steam launch VIXEN sprang a leak while being towed by the Howard Smith Ltd tugboat SPRIGHTLY. An attempt was made to beach the vessel at Rhyll but it foundered about one mile east of the…
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Near West Cape Howe, South coast.
Victorian Heritage Register
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Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S711The bayside ketch came ashore during a storm. Register closed 31 December 1875. Mortgagee - Henry Alfred Coffey, auctioneer, of Melbourne, 27 March 1874. Loney states that the ketch was lost…
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Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
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Port Fairy
Victorian Heritage Register
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