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Coles Channel, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S127The Clarence is significant technically and archaeologically as an example of an early Australian-built vessel. The schooner was built in 1841 on the Williams River in northern NSW. Most…
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Port Albert Bar
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S132On 2 February 1857 the schooner Coila bound from Sydney to Melbourne and Geelong, was driven ashore on the East Spit, Corner Inlet VIC near where the steamer Clonmel had been lost in 1840.…
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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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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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Bass Strait, off Phillip Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S153The Coramba is socially and historically significant, as one of Victoria's worst shipwreck tragedies in living memory. Relatives of those who were lost are still alive, and the tragedy…
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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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Lakes Entrance
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S170The Despatch has social and historic significance for the role it played in the development of Gippsland, providing passenger and cargo transport to Gippsland ports, including the lime port…
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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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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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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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Bore Beach (McHaffies Reef), Western Port
Victorian Heritage Register
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Gabo Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S210The schooner Eleanor Johnstone was lost on Gabo Island while attempting to reach shelter from a westerly gale. The lighthouse keeper at Gabo Island reported that the schooner had gone ashore…
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Port Phillip Bay, approximately 18 miles from Williamstown
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S215The Eliza left Hobsons Bay at 4am. While reaching on the port tack, a squall struck. The jib sheets gave way, the fore spencer gaff broke and mainsail split. Anchor let go in about 14…
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Port Fairy
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S216The schooner Eliza arrived at Port Fairy with a cargo of timber from Tasmania and made fast to the government mooring. A gale from the south east caused the vessel to break free, and it was…
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Portland
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S222While anchored in Portland Bay, the schooner Elizabeth was struck by a south easterly gale. Fearing loss of life, the captain slipped the anchor cables and drove the vessel ashore. All on…
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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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Port Phillip Bay, Hobsons Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S230The schooner Ellen and Mary broke away from moorings at Sandridge Town Pier, stranded on the nearby beach, and rapidly broke up. The beach was strewn with wreckage. Only a few upright posts…
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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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St Leonards, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S236The loss of the Empire was not reported in newspapers. It was a general Bay trader, mostly out of Geelong. Registry closed 12 March 1894. Marine Board passed motion to prosecute part-owner,…
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Lady Bay, Warrnambool
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S238The schooner Enterprise was caught on a lee shore when a south easterly gale swept into Lady Bay, Warrnambool. The vessel began to drag its anchor, grounded, and went broadside onto the…
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Point Lonsdale, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S248The Elizabeth is historically significant for its association with colonial trade in Port Phillip.
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Lady Bay, Warrnambool
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S254A heavy south easterly swell in Lady Bay, Warrnambool, caused the schooner Fair Tasmanian to part its anchor cables. Sail was hoisted in an attempt to run it ashore in a safe place, but the…
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Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S256The schooner Favourite disappeared on a voyage from Melbourne to Sydney, taking the lives of all 21 passengers and crew.