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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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Apollo Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S283The Gazelle is technically significant as an early iron hulled steamship. As the site has not been located its archaeological significance has not been determined. It has local historical…
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Cape Everard (Point Hicks)
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S393The iron steamer Kerangie ran ashore at Cape Everard in a dense fog and soon broke up. No lives were lost, but the master was severely criticised for travelling at high speed in the…
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West bank of Port Albert entrance
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S670Thistle was a mid 19th century iron paddle steamer and has historical significance for being at the forefront of the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company's establishment and push further…
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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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Lonsdale Reef, Port Phillip Heads
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S140The Conside is historically significant for being the earliest screw steamer wreck in Victoria, was the first purpose built steam collier, was the first screw steamer to travel between Sydney…
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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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Port Phillip Bay, Indented Head
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S511The Ozone is socially significant as one of the well known 'Bay Steamers' that used to ply Port Phillip and Corio Bay with passengers on short trips and excursions. The Bay Steamer 'wings' on…
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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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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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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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Gabo Island
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S204The wreck of the Easby has recreational and aesthetic significance as the remains of a large steamship in shallow depth. The collapsed hull plating, engine and boilers provides a habitat for…
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West of Pearl Point
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S585The steamer ROSTREVOR left Hobart bound for Sydney on the 25th August 1919 but grounded on a beach between Cape Everand and Gabo Island. All hands reached shore safely but the vessel soon…
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Between Cleft and Anser Islands, Wilsons Promontory
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S299The Gulf of Carpentaria is historically significant as the wreck of an international cargo and passenger vessel, and for its role as a link between Britain and her colonies. It is…
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Ships Graveyard, Bass Strait
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S830The Kingswear was involved in the landscaping of Melbourne by its role in reclamation works of the West Melbourne Swamp. It is a part of the Ships Graveyard wecks resource, and is one of the…
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Rhyll, Western Port
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S468Vessel broke adrift from its anchorage during a gale in 1950 and stranded on a mud bank within sight of Rhyll. Vessel was later abandoned. Signal Letters: VSTF
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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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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, 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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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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Swan Island, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S154The Countess of Hopetoun is historically significant as the last vessel to be built for the Victorian naval force. It is also significant for the vessel's role in patrolling Port Phillip Bay…
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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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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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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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Sandringham Breakwater, Port Phillip Bay
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR S273Registry cancelled 11 Sept. 1951. Initially a dredge, it was later used as a cable layer. Lies at end of the rocky breakwater near Sandringham Pier. In 1890 the dredge's master was W. Rodick