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Portsea Back Beach, 3 miles east of Point Nepean
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S264Formosa is historically significant as a rare Australian example of the technical innovation of Thomas B. Seath?s shipbuilding. The vessel has interpretive significance as an example of…
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Lady Bay, Warrnambool
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S266After loading a cargo of wheat, barley and flour for Sydney, the schooner Freedom was driven ashore at Warrnambool by a south easterly gale. Although refloated, another gale drove the vessel…
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Geelong, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S274Register closed December 1859 with "missing". Vague newspaper reference vessel may have been burnt in Geelong and not repaired late 1854. The Forerunner had survived a battering from heavy…
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Gabo Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S288Previously wrecked Blythe River, Emu Bay, Tasmania, August 21, 1882, but salvaged. Some doubts over the date of wrecking. Both Loney and Parsons indicate that the vessel was wrecked on or…
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Bass Strait, near Lakes Entrance
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S291SS Glenelg is historically significant as one of the worst maritime disasters in Victorian history, with the deaths of at least 38 people and only three survivors. The wreck has the potential…
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Marlo
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S292The schooner Glengarry was a well-known trader on the Gippsland coast and had been stranded on a number of previous occasions. In May 1898, the vessel struck a submerged object while crossing…
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Tarwin Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
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Schnapper Point, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S304Heavy gales over a few days in April 1867 claimed several ships including the Schooner Greyhound, which with about 150 of firewood on board, went on shore at Snapper Point, and became a total…
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Limeburners Lagoon, Corio Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S316Register closed 3 June 1862 when the Harriett drifted ashore at Duckponds near Geelong and became a total wreck (UID 28). No other details known. In 1850 traded between Melbourne and…
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Tarwin Beach
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S318The remains of a wooden vessel near the wreck of the Magnat at Tarwin Lower are believed to be the schooner Helen. The vessel was seized by escaped convicts in Tasmania who fled across Bass…
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Point Cook Reef, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S319The Henrietta left Geelong before dawn in a SW breeze that soon strengthened. When well under way crew found no chart of Bay was on board (previously removed by a pilot for updating and not…
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Portland
Victorian Heritage Register
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Portland
Victorian Heritage Register
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Port Albert Bar
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S344The wreck of the Isabella is historically significant for its role in the early development of Port Albert and Gippsland.
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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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Cape Bridgewater, east end of Discovery Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S358The barque JANE under the command of Captain Lakie came ashore in blustery conditions on 6 June 1863 just below the farmhouse of a well known Portland Settler, Mr Joshua Black. The alarm was…
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Entrance to Gippsland Lakes
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S359The entrance to the Gippsland Lakes VIC claimed another victim on 8 August when the schooner Jane was lost. After arriving from Melbourne with a cargo of spirits and flour she was towed…
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Joanna Beach between Moonlight Head and Rotten Point
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S366The maiden voyage of the schooner Joanna proved to be its last. It left Launceston bound for Port Fairy, but encountered bad weather. Leaking badly, the vessel was driven ashore at what is…
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West Channel, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S367Joanna is archaeologically significant as a rare, well-preserved example of an Australian-built wooden sailing vessel. There are 46 Australian-built vessels wrecked in Victorian waters, only…
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Near Schnapper Point, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S369The John Nicholson was a Bay trader, regularly docking in Yarra. Owned by George Stevens, it was wrecked in 1862 near Schnapper Point
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Griffiths Point, Western Port
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S370Hurricane force wiIds caused the destruction of the brigantine JOHN NUSSEY at Westernport on August 14th. A vessel of 150 tons, in charge of Captain Brodie, she left the River Mersey on…
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Lakes Entrance, Ninety Mile Beach
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S376The schooner Julius was damaged in a gale and began to take water. After the pumps failed, the vessel was run ashore on the Ninety Mile Beach in an attempt to save the lives of those on…
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Point Nepean, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S386There is some confusion about this ship - the press called her Anne and Jane, and Anne and Elizabeth in contemporary reports. Other secondary source reports only blur the issue of identity…
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Bass Strait, 26 miles off Cape Schanck
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S395The KOORINGA had been trading between Tasmania and Melbourne for the last 6 years and was previously engaged in the passenger service between Adelaide and the South Australian coastal ports.…
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Port Phillip Bay, Hobsons Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S403The Lady Flora's register was closed 31 Dec. 1854 with the notation: 'Lost Hobsons Bay 1854. However, the vessel was still sailing until 16 Dec 1854, when it arrived at Geelong from Melbourne…