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Bass Strait (possible location)
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S4The vessel is historically significant for its inclusion in the inter-colonial trades and for its contribution to the development of the colony.
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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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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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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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Frankston, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S72This vessel is historically significant as it represents a type of vessel, being an early Australian built wooden cutter that was employed in the intrastate trades around Australia. Its…
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Cape Liptrap
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S74This vessel is significant as a representative for a type of vessel. It is likely that this vessel was of Australian construction similar to those that were employed in the intrastate trades…
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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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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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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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60 nm south of Cape Howe
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S195The ship Harlech Castle with Captain Davies, left Melbourne for Newcastle on 26th June with a crew of 23. A vessel resembling her was seen by the schooner Alcandre to be listing badly. The…
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Sandridge, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S201The clipper Eliza is historically significant for its association with international trade into Port Phillip
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Clonmel Island, Port Albert
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S207There was only one survivor when the barque Eclyptic went ashore on Clonmel Island. The vessel was on a voyage from Newcastle to Melbourne, and was one of the many sailing colliers that…
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Cape Schanck
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S217The small coastal cutter Eliza was a regular trader between Melbourne and Western Port. In January 1873 it sprang a leak and was beached near Cape Schanck to prevent loss of life.
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Andersons Inlet, Venus Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S227The Elizabeth and William was a small Tasmanian-built cutter driven ashore at Andersons Inlet in 1872.
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Entrance to Gippsland Lakes
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S228The flat-bottomed schooner Ella was ideally suited for navigating the shallow entrance to the Gippsland Lakes, but capsized there in 1870 when struck by huge seas. Two of the crew were lost.
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Indented Head, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S233The Emily is significant as an example of a vessel built at the convict settlement of Port Arthur
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Gippsland Lakes
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S246The ketch Esperance Belle foundered off the entrance to the Gippsland Lakes, but the crew was saved.
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Snake Island, Port Albert
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S269After leaving Port Albert for Melbourne with forty tons of barley, the cutter Frolic encountered strong head winds and was forced ashore on Snake Island, becoming a total wreck.
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Drysdale, Port Phillip Bay.
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S357Part of cargo (timber for new jetty) had been discharged. Dragged anchors and about 1 am began to strike, so run onshore, close to old jetty. During the afternoon wind changed to west and…
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Port Phillip Bay, off Point Richards
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S365The Jim is historically significant for its association with the Portarlington onion trade which was extremely prosperous
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Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S374The Josephine foundered, filled and sank on 23rd April 1870. The crew of 2 men and a boy managed to get off just before the vessel sank in a howling SSW gale (UID 9). The wreck was buoyed but…
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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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Wilsons Promontory, off the Glennie Islands
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S490The schooner Nil Desperandum was on a voyage from Belfast (Port Fairy) to Sydney with a cargo of potatoes. The vessel was last sighted by Captain Harless of the brig Tower Hill when abreast…
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Portarlington, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S494Went ashore about the same time as the Jim grounded, as well as another unnamed vessel, a water carrier [almost certainly Sea Flower ]. Sailed between Geelong and Westernport in 1857, 1859;…