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East Coast, Cape Conran, Beware Reef
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S13This vessel is significant historically for its employment in the experimental state trawling industry in Victoria in the early stages of the 20th century.
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Bass Strait, between Cape Schanck and Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S17SS Alert is historically significant as one of the worst maritime wrecks in Victorian history, with the deaths of 15 of the 16 people on board the vessel. It is archaeologically significant…
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Ant Spit, Thirteenth Beach, Barwon Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S33The remains of the wreck of the SS Ant have not been inspected, and therefore an assessment of its archaeological significance cannot be made. The Ant is historically significant as an early…
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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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Outer Corsair Reef, Point Nepean
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S49The vessel is of historical significance due to the events that took place soon after the wrecking. It is of limited archaeological significance as a result of the heavy salvaging that took…
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Bass Strait, off Cape Liptrap
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S50The vessel is of historical significance for its participation in the coastal passenger and cargo trades around Southern Australia during the early 1900s. It is impossible to assess the…
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Apollo Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S53At time of writing the Black Witch I is not classified as an historic shipwreck, however along with its replacement the Black Witch II wrecked four years later in similar circumstances, are…
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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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Ships Graveyard, Commonwealth Area No.3, Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S71Due to lack of information it is difficult to assess the vessels historical significance. Assessing archaeological significance is also difficult due to it being scuttled. It may be…
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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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Mushroom Rock, Lonsdale Reef, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S76Had been chartered at 20 pounds per day to take cargo from wreck of the ship George Roper (sank 4 July 1883). Bad weather had hampered salvage operations. In heavy seas, alongside George…
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West of the Snowy River Mouth
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S80The vessel is significant in that it represents a type of vessel, an Australian built wooden steamer and is historically significant in the fact that is was a regular trader around the…
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Ships Graveyard, Outside Port Phillip Heads Area, Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S87The vessel is significant socially for its transportation of passengers around the Australian coast. As it has not yet been inspected it is difficult to assess archaeological significance.
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Ships Graveyard, Commonwealth Area No.3, Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S91The vessel is historically and socially significant is that it has been employed in the dredging operations around Port Phillip Bay for almost 50 years before being scuttled.
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Bass Strait, 3.7nm SE of Wilsons Promontory
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S101The wreck of the SS Cambridge is historically significant as the first Allied vessel to be lost in Australian waters in World War II. Along with the wrecks of the MS City of Rayville (1940),…
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Campbell Rock, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S102The wreck of the Campbell represents the extension of 20th century Norwegian whaling industry into the Southern Oceans of Australia, New Zealand, South America, South Africa and Antarctica,…
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Apollo Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S108The SS Casino is historically significant for its vital role in the Western District coastal and passenger trade. This significance is enhanced by the longevity of the Casino's service to…
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Bass Strait, off Cape Otway
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S110The wreck of the SS Champion is significant historically as one of Victoria's worst shipwrecks. As an early steamship it played an important part in the development of and communications…
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Cheviot Beach, Point Nepean
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S113The Cheviot is historically significant as a typical example of a coastal trading passenger and cargo steamship. It has the tragic distinction of being one of Victoria's worst shipwrecks with…
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Half Moon Bay, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S117The former flagship of the Victorian Colonial Navy, HMVS Cerberus is internationally significant as a surviving example of a turret ship, or breastwork monitor class of warship. It was the…
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Bass Strait, off Gabo Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S119The SS Christina Fraser, loaded with coal, became overdue on a voyage from Newcastle to Geelong. The vessel was last seen battling a strong gale off Gabo Island. Although some wreckage washed…
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60 miles NE of Wilsons Promontory
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S123The City of Hobart was an iron steamer built for the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company for use in the inter-colonial passenger and cargo trade. Towards the end of its working life, it was…
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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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Bass Strait, off Cape Patterson
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S138