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Sorrento Back Beach
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S686Was loading timber at Apollo Bay when worsening weather forced it to sail for Melbourne at 3 pm. After passing CapeSchank had to lie to. By morning too close in to beat aboutso master ran…
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Port Albert, near Snake Lake
Victorian Heritage Register
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About 7 miles east of West Channel Lightship, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S692Loss probably caused by unusually heavy deck load. One report in Argus and later secondary sources state that the voyage was from Port Phillip Heads but the death notice states the voyage was…
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Port Albert Bar
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S696When the barque Victoria ran onto the bar at Port Albert, it broke up rapidly drowning most of the cargo of livestock. The timber in the hull was later found to be rotten although the vessel…
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Napier St Pier, Maribyrnong River, Footscray
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S697A fire in the lime cargo was discovered about 9 pm. The Footscray Fire Brigade, called to the scene, extinguished the flames that had burnt through the deck, leaving the fire smouldering…
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Point Impossible, west of Thompsons Creek, Breamlea
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S698The Victoria Tower is archaeologically significant as the wreck of an international inward-bound passenger and cargo vessel. It is educationally and recreationally significant as a coherently…
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Gabo Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S700While on a voyage from Warrnambool to Newcastle in ballast, the brigantine VICTORY sprang a leak off Cape Everard. Despite the best efforts of the crew, the leak quickly gained on the pumps.…
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Near West Cape Howe, South coast.
Victorian Heritage Register
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Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S711The bayside ketch came ashore during a storm. Register closed 31 December 1875. Mortgagee - Henry Alfred Coffey, auctioneer, of Melbourne, 27 March 1874. Loney states that the ketch was lost…
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Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
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Port Fairy
Victorian Heritage Register
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Port Phillip Bay, off Brighton
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S715Carried general cargo around the Bay, including lime from PortPhillip Heads. Details of a wreck, assumed to have been the Water Witch, appeared in the Government Gazette, 23 October 1870. No…
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Eastern bank of Port Albert entrance
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S717The schooner Wave was chartered to carry stone to be used in improving the roads around Port Albert and Tarraville. The vessel approached the Port Albert bar with a load from Corner Inlet,…
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Godfrey Creek, near Artillery Rocks, west of Lorne
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S718The W.B. Godfrey is historically significant as the then named Min it had previously been one of the great tea clippers of the 1860s-1880s, racing against other clippers such as the Fiery…
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Corinella, Western Port
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S719The Western Port trader Wasp dragged its anchors during a gale, and was driven onto rocks near Corinella, Western Port . The cargo was very much damaged. The Mate A . Ellis broke his arm.…
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St Leonards, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S722According to Loney, anchored alongside hulk of Boujah Maiden, citing Geelong Advertiser, but that report merely states 'hulk'. Wrecked in dreadful gales in which several small vessels were swamped.
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North of Popes Eye, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S725The William Salthouse is one of Victoria's oldest and most important wrecks. It was the first merchant vessel to sail between Canada and Port Phillip and was flouting British Navigation Laws…
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William Sand, West Channel, Port Phillip
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S727The Will O' The Wisp is archaeologically and technically significant as the wreck of an opium clipper schooner, i.e. representative of a particular type or design. As the wreck lies in only…
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Port Phillip Bay, off Queenscliff
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S728Was at anchor as a strong wouth-westerly breeze prevented proceeding to sea, head pointing north-east. At about 11 am fire broke out in lazarette (aft of vessel). The crew immediately took to…
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Cape Otway, disappeared at sea
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S730The W. Gordon is significant as an international vessel bound from Scotland for Australia. As the site has not been located its archaeological significance is not known.
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Lonsdale Reef, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S731Although a regular trader between Tasmania and Melbourne and along the coast for the previous 5 years, on this occasion chartered for a fishing and shooting trip by 8 young men, mostly from…
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Mounts Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S733The Wollomai has archaeological and technical significance as it is likely to be a well preserved example of a late 19th century Victorian/ Australian-built coastal trading ketch, and is…
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Ships Graveyard, Commonwealth Area No.3, Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S735Not rigged. One deck, round stern, clincher built.
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Indented Head, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S739Previously stranded Apollo Bay June 1850. Traded between Launceston, Portland, Melbourne, Port Adelaide,Port Albert, Geelong. Driven ashore in 1849 and 1850. Had carried passengers, spirits…
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Queenscliff, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S741