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East Coast, Lakes Entrance
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S11This vessel is historically significant as a representation of an early Australian built vessel employed in inter-colonial trading.
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Port Phillip Bay, Point Gellibrand
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S15Hugh and Anne Bennett had been living on the empty wool-lighter for a few months and lost all their possessions. With their dog they spent a gruelling 28 hours on board after stranding,…
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East Coast, Waratah Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S16The vessel is significant historically as an example of an inter-colonial coal trader around Australia during the mid to late 19th century.
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Lady Bay, Warrnambool
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S19The vessel is historically significant for its participation in the inter-colonial trades around Australia during the 19th century.
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Bass Strait, off Lake Tyers
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S30It is impossible to assess the significance of the vessel as it has neither been located or inspected.
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Beware Reef, near Cape Conran
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S47The vessel is archaeologically significant due to the construction of the steamers engine. The engine represents the first attempt in Australia to manufacture compound steam machinery and was…
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Bass Strait, off Gabo Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S66The vessel is historically significant for international trade and transportation during the 1870s when the Balclutha made several trips to San Francisco. As the location of the vessel has…
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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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Clonmel Island, Port Albert
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S75The SS Blackbird is archaeologically and recreationally significant as a representative example of auxillary steamer involved in the Australian colonial coastal trade, with well preserved…
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Point Henry, Corio Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S86The wreck is significant socially for its use as a landing stage for the popular Bellarine Tea Gardens. It is difficult to assess archaeological significance due to the structure being…
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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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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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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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Lady Bay, Warrnambool
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S208A mistake by the pilot resulted in the barque Edinburgh Castle going ashore in calm weather at Warrnambool. The vessel was loaded with cement for the new breakwater, and hopes were high that…
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Five mile beach, Wilsons Promontory
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S231There were only two survivors when the barque Elm Grove was driven ashore on the Five Mile Beach at Wilsons Promontory. Seven seamen lost their lives. Capt Leddra had previously been in…
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Two miles east of Shoal Inlet, Port Albert.
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S245The brigantine Emily was carrying a cargo of maize from Sydney to Melbourne when forced ashore near Shoal Inlet by a severe gale. The same gale also wrecked the brig Colchester and the barque…
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Cape Schanck
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S323The barque Helen had a career spanning over 70 years. It was a trader, immigrant ship and whaler, but in its later years was reduced to a coal hulk. In 1938 it was towed through Port Phillip…
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Bass Strait, disappeared between Melbourne and Port Campbell
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S336Early in October the cutter Ida left Melbourne for Port Campbell and vanished. No further details of her disappearance have been found.
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Point Nepean back beach
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S351The Isabella was a small colonial schooner outward bound from Melbourne to Western Port. Caught in a sudden southerly squall, the ship was driven ashore by 7pm, despite having 2 anchors down.…
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Snowy River Entrance
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S407The paddle steamer Lady of the Lake stranded on the Snowy River bar in 1880 and was declared a total wreck. The hull was salvaged and used as a barge on the river. During floods in 1893, it…
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Wreck Beach, Moonlight Head
Victorian Heritage Register
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Cape Patton
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S457The wreck site of the Mary Cumming has not been positively located nor identified, so an assessment of its archaeological significance cannot be made. It has historical significance for its…
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Portsea Back Beach, near London Bridge
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S491Went ashore at London Bridge, just west of Sierra Nevada. Hulked 1895
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Warrnambool
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S502During a storm was caught by a south-easterly, driven ashore near the Warrnambool lighthouse. All life saved. Bow nearly dry at low tide, upright. turned broadside later
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No. 6 Victoria Dock, Yarra River
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S513The former barque was rammed and sunk by SS Clan MacArthur, also damaging berth at No. 6 Victoria Dock. Costs of 2255 pounds borne by Clan MacArthur 's agents, William Houghton & Co.…