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Portland
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S141The barque Constant parted from its anchors during a gale at Portland and was driven ashore. Later investigation found that the anchor stocks had broken.
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Waratah Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S143The Coquette was engaged in recovering anchors and chains used in salvaging the barque Drumblair in Waratah Bay. During the recovery operation, one of the large anchors struck the side of the…
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Corsair Rock, Point Nepean, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S144The Corsair is historically significant as the wreck of a Port Phillip Pilot vessel, and for naming Corsair Rock at the entrance of Port Phillip Heads.
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Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S147Vessel supposed to have foundered in Hobsons Bay in July 1873, although registry kept open until 13 Dec. 1875 in the hope that the wreck would turn up. It was never found. (UID52) Purchased…
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Tarwin Bay, near Cape Liptrap
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S149Built in Canada, the schooner Cremona was carrying cargo from Launceston to Melbourne when it was driven ashore in Tarwin Bay by a strong gale.
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Great Glennie Island, Wilsons Promontory
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S150The Curlew was a New Zealand-built scow, a distinctive type of broad, flat-bottomed sailing vessel that evolved for use in shallow water and for crossing dangerous bars at river mouths. The…
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Mouth of the Snowy River at Marlo
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S151The Curlip was a small paddle steamer that worked on the Snowy River towing barges and carrying cargo. Vessels such as the Curlip were an important link in the economic development of a once…
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Dromana, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S152The wreck of the Cygnet is significant as an early Australian-built ship. It is typical of the fleet of small coastal schooners and ketches which traded between the ports of Victoria and…
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Reclaimed Land, Newport, Port Phillip Bay, Yarra River entrance
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S163Potentially historically significant as example of convict hulk. Archaeological significance could be limited due to ships being broken up. A the time of the first gold rushes, many vessels…
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Bass Strait, disappeared between Gabo Island and Melbourne
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S164The ketch Dauntless was typical of the many small sailing vessels that once worked on the Victorian coast. In 1888 the Dauntless disappeared on a voyage from Gabo Island to Melbourne.
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Queenscliff, Port Phillip Bay, near Swan Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S166Historically significant as an example of an early 'sail trader' which were the lifeline of early settlers around Port Phillip Bay, and often became household names (Watson 1981, 17)
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Point Lonsdale, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S167Historically significant as an example of an early well-known timber trader
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Sandridge, Port Melbourne, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S168Berthed at Old Pier, Sandridge, cargo only partly discharged. During night severely buffeted against wharf by gale. So severely damaged, the cutter sank and broke up in the heavy seas. A…
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Port Albert Bar
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S171Schooners of this type traded between Hobart, Port Phillip and Port Albert. Cargos were usually typical of the small vessels operating in this trade. Namely; From Port Albert - Cattle and…
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Port Fairy
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S172The Tasmanian-built brig Diana was wrecked at Port Fairy when driven ashore by a gale. Captain Mills, the Harbour Master, and some whalers rowed to the vessel and secured a line, allowing the…
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Point Cook Reef, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S173The cutter, Diana sprang a leak on Saturday 23 December 1877 off Point Cook and for the safety of those on board she was run ashore on Point Cook Reef .The cutter was laden with firewood and…
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Wingan Inlet
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S174The Dophin was a small cutter engaged in oyster fishing, an industry that has long since disappeared from Victoria. The vessel was working on a hazardous and exposed part of the Gippsland…
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Shallow Inlet, Waratah Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S175The Domain was an early colonial cutter built in Hobart, and was a regular trader to Port Albert. On a voyage there from Melbourne in 1846, the vessel was blown ashore in Waratah Bay by a…
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Lonsdale Reef, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S176The Don drifted onto a reef in a calm. When danger was seen, a boat was launched with a kedge to haul the Don away, but an unseen outlying rock caught the vessel on its starboard bow and…
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Ten Mile Creek, Tarwin Lower
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S179The barque Duke of Wellington was on a voyage from Melbourne to Newcastle for coal when it was becalmed. Although the anchors were dropped, the vessel drifted ashore at Tarwin Lower. The Duke…
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Near the Victoria sugar works, Sandridge, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S180The Dunedin is historically significant for its association with international trade into Port Phillip, with possible associations with the goldrushes.
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Port Fairy
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S181The barque Dundee parted from the government mooring at Port Fairy during a violent south easterly gale. There was no loss of life, but the vessel went to pieces on the beach. The barque…
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40 miles east of Wilsons Promontory
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S182The barque Dunkeld was last seen near Wilsons Promontory, and became one of the many vessels that disappeared without trace along the Victorian coast.
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Griffiths Island, Port Fairy
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S183A sudden gale caused the destruction of the schooner Dusty Miller at Rocky Point, Port Fairy. As the master attempted to bring the vessel under the lee of Griffiths Island, the steering chain…
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Gippsland Lakes at Eagle Point, near the old wharf
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S184Destroyed at moorings by fire near Eagle Point wharf. Had been converted to a cafe and moored at the Mitchell River at Eagle Point. Dargo was the last of the Gippsland Lakes passenger…