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White Cliffs, Rye, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S68The vessel is of historical significance as it was an early Australian built coastal trader constructed during the early 1840s. Due to the unknown location of the wreck it is impossible to…
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Nelson Bay, Cape Grant
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S104A sudden south east gale put the schooner Captain Cook on a lee shore off Cape Grant. As the wind drove the vessel towards the rocks, the crew made desperate efforts to sail out of danger.…
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Portland
Victorian Heritage Register
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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…
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Near mouth of Hopkins River, Warrnambool
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S416The Lillias has archaeological significance as an early Australian built schooner with potential to answer questions about early Australian shipbuilding ie: representative of a theme or type…
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Portland Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
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Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S496Apparently disappeared with crew in Port Phillip Bay. Registration Certificate endorsed 'not heard of in years',10 January 1863. One of the 'mosquito fleet' of Geelong -light draught…
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Lorne, Loutit Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S508The remains of the Osprey are archaeologically and historically significant as evidence of the timber trade and early development of Lorne. It is the only positively located wreck site in…
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Lonsdale Reef, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S536Portland blown right over reef and struck it about 10pm, settled in hole, accessible at low water, but a total wreck. It was alleged that lights on board the wrecked Portland misled the…
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Sylvanus Channel, Port Albert
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S641Outward to Hobart with a cargo of livestock, the schooner Sylvanus ran ashore at Port Albert in the channel that now bears its name. A new schooner, the Mary Ann, was chartered to salvage the…
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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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8 miles from Cape Otway lighthouse, and Apollo Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S817The Geelong Advertiser reported on 8 October 1851 that: Mr William Marryat, keeper of the lighthouse informs us that a schooner has been wrecked near Cape Otway light, one half of the vessel…
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Phillip Island, Westernport
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S837In the letters to the Editor in the Argus of 30 May 1913 Mr Jas. C. Hann wrote that in 1852 or 1853 there were two vessels wrecked in Westernport Bay. One was the Little John from Tasmania,…