This listing includes those vessels lost off the Queensland coast, in the Brisbane River, Port Curtis and other relatively protected waters, and on the central and southern Great Barrier Reef, and Swain Reefs. Torres Strait, and the Coral Sea and Northern Great Barrier Reef are on separate listings. Whereas the marine life of the Great Barrier Reef outclasses the interest in shipwrecks and attracts divers from all over the world, there is one vessel that must rate as one of the most interesting, and relatively easyily accessed in the world - the  3663 ton passenger steamship Yongala, lost of Cape Bowling Green in 1911, in 30 to 40 metres. A tragic wreck, she has in her demise added to the financial coffers of many dive operators who take hundreds to visit the protected wreck each week. Most other wrecks along the coast are of primary interest insofar as they are diveable. Those wrecked on coral reefs are battered to scattered wreckage. You will see nothing of the wooden sailing ships, only ballast, and scattered coral encrusted fittings. Even the steel ships of the 20th cehntury fair little better; the 3839 ton passenger Cooma, lost in 1926 near Heron Island is such an example, flattened and resembling a two-dimentional junk yard. Those close to the mainland, and off Fraser Island and the Stradbroke Islands, for example, are generally battered and covered in shifting sands. Of course, none of this is of relevance when it comes to the tragedy of the loss of vessels and human lives, and some of the losses have indeed been tragic, and fascinating. The loss of the brig Stirling Castle on the Swain Reefs in 1836 has been the subject of several books and a film, centered on the theme of a white woman, Mrs Fraser, captured by the aborigines and eventually rescued.

References:
Loney [LQ] is the base, with Holthouse [HH1,HH2], and other lesser contributions. Byron has wrecksite information, but not included here as yet.
[909 records]

Associated links:  CORAL SEA     TORRES STRAIT

Ada. Cutter. Left Cooktown on 8 February 1877 but was not seen again.  [LQ]

Ada. Ketch. Wrecked in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 1886. [LQ]

Ada. Ketch, 50 tons. Foundered in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 26 April 1888. Crew saved. [LQ]

Ada Dent. Steamer, 33 tons. Sank in deep water off Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, 21 June 1907.  [LQ]

Admiral Gifford. Involved in rescue - see Mermaid, schooner, 1829. [LQ]

Adonis. Ketch, 50 tons. Wrecked on Arlington Reef, east of Green Island, Queensland, April 1877. All saved. [LQ]

Advance. Iron lighter, 104 tons. Sank in the Brisbane River, Queensland, 1931. [LQ]

Adventurer. Schooner, 14 tons. Left Keppel Bay, Queensland, on 26 January 1884 and disappeared in a cyclone. [LQ]

Aeolus. Ketch. Involved in rescue - see Tyrian, barque, 1851. [LQ]

African Maid. Wooden brig, 143 tons. Built 1860. Wrecked near the jetty at St. Lawrence, Queensland, 13 January 1879. and eventually became a total loss. [LQ]

Agnes. Schooner, 66 tons. Built 1871.  Disappeared in a heavy squall after leaving  Mackay for Brisbane, 19 June 1873. [LQ]

Agnes. Schooner, 96 tons. Built Singapore 1875. Wrecked in Capricorn Group, September 1878.  [LQ]

Agnes. Steamer, 58 tons. Built 1875. Touched the bar as she was leaving the Maroochie River, Queensland, drifted on to rocks and was lost. [LQ]

Akaroa. Ketch, 16 tons. Lost off Cairns during heavy weather, March 1918. [LQ]

Aladdin. Pearling schooner. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland. [LQ]

Alarm. Ketch. Lost in Cleveland Bay, Queensland, January 1896. [LQ]

Albatross. Paddle steamer rigged as a brig; renamed. See Wortanna, 1957. [LQ]

Albert Edward. Cutter, 9 tons. Ashore in Challenger Bay, Queensland,1874. Crew saved. [LQ]
Also listed:
Albert Edward. Cutter, 9 tons. Lost in Challenger Bay, Qld, 1875.  [LQ]

Aldinga. Steamer, 446 tons gross. (Sister - Balclutha). Built Greenock, 1860. Lbd 202 x 24 x 13 ft. Ran betwen Melbourne and NZ between 1863 and 1865, then returned to the Australian coast. Bought by A.S.N.Co. In 1877. Lost off Belambi Reef, (Queensland ?), January 1896.  [WL]

Alexandra. Steamaship, 681 tons. Built 1863. A.S.N.Co. Converted into hulk and later scuttled, near Townsville, September 1905.  [DG]

Alfred Vittery. Schooner, 122 tons. Lost on Kenn Reef, Queensland, 9 March 1884. [LQ]

Alice May. Paddle steamer, 74 tons. Sunk at Mackay, during one of the worst cyclones in Queensland’s history, January 1918. [LQ]

Alliance. Schooner, 57 tons. Not seen after leaving Fitzroy River 25 May 1861. [LQ]

Alo-mahiva. Unknown type. Sank off Wallace Island, Queensland, 9 November 1988. [LQ]
Cannot find reference to a Wallace Island anywhere off Australia. Perhaps the Willis Group in the Coral Sea.

Alternative. Yacht. Wrecked on a reef near Cairns, Queensland, 14 August 1991. [LQ]

Althea 11. Unknown type. Sank in Hervey Bay, Queensland, after her nets snagged an underwater obstacle, 24 September 1991. [LQ]

Amagi Maru. Japanese stern trawling factory ship, steel motor vessel, 2249 tons. Built 1960. Abandoned on Pocklington Reef in the Bismarck Sea, PNG waters, 31 May 1972. Crew taken off by the Hoyaru Maru. [LQ],[LAH]

Amelia Breillart. Brig, 162 tons. Struck the north edge or Cockburn Reef, Queensland, 15 August 1861 but broke free, continued her voyage but next day leaked so badly she was abandoned. [LQ]

America. Cutter. Wrecked on Entrance Island, Queensland, 1839. She was attempting to salvage whale oil from a vessel wrecked on Brampton Reef, probably the Madeira Packet, lost in 1831. [LQ],[LI indicates date 1839]
There are two Entrance islands in Queensland, one in Torres Strait, the other north of Rockhampton.

America. Ship, 391 tons. Built Quebec, Canada, 1827. Captain Robert Donal. She had taken convicts to Sydney in 1829 and Hobart in 1831. From Sydney to Batavia, struck a reef near Bunker Island, Qld, wrecked, 20 June 1831. The crew launched two boats and eventually reached Morton Bay. The whaling barque Nelson and the Caledonia involved in salvage.  [LQ],[ASW1],[LAH]
Also listed:
America. Captain Blackwood of HMS Fly visited the Bunker Group of islands in Great Barrier Reef in 1843 and found a tree with the name “The America, June 1841" cut into it. [LI]

Amigos. Barque. Involved in rescue - see Stata, brig, 1853. [LQ]

Amity. Brig. Involved in rescue - see Royal Charlotte, ship, 1825. [LQ]
In 1829, involved in rescue - see Governor Ready, ship. [LQ]

Amsterdam. Yacht. Wrecked near Point Cartwright, Queensland, 10 October 1990. [LQ]

Amy. Steamer, 34 tons. Sank at her moorings at Normanton, Queensland, 1926.  [LQ]

Ann. Steamer. Involved in rescue - see Island Queen, schooner, 1854. [LQ]

Ann. Schooner. Burnt at Brisbane, 1876.  [LQ]

Annie. Unknown type. Believed lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 1880.  [LQ]

Anro Asia. RO-RO ship. Ruptured fuel and ballast tanks as she ploughed into sand and rocks for about 70 metres off the northern tip of Bribie Island, when inward bound to Brisbane,  29 October 1981. R.A.A.F. helicopters removed 84 containers on her foredeck allowing tugs to tow her free.  [LQ]

Ant. Steamer, 12 tons. Lost at Rockhampton, Queensland, 14 April 1905. [LQ]

Ap. Vessel type unknown. Damaged at Mackay, during one of the worst cyclones in Queensland’s history, January 1918. [LQ]

Apollo. Yacht. Wrecked on Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, while leading the Brisbane-Gladstone yacht race, 1980. [LQ]

Arab. As a troopship, sailed from Sydney for India in June 1842. As part of a convoy consisting of the troopships John Brewer, Kelso, and the barque Hopkinson, ran on to reefs north-east of Palm Island, Queensland, 30 June 1842. After six days, the vessels were refloated, and taken to Palm Beach for repairs before continuing their voyage. The convoy consisted of twnety-six officers and 700 men of the 28th Regiment of Foot, known as The Slashers. All ships gave their name to a reef in the area (now popular scuba diving locations). [HH2],[HH1]

Aramac. Steamer, 2114 tons. Sister ship to Arawatta. Owned by A.U.S.N. Co. Operated on the Queensland run. [HH2],[HH1]

Arawatta. Steamer, 2114 tons. (Sister Aramac). Built Dumbarton, Scotland, 1889, for the A.U.S.N.Co. Lbd 300 x 37 x 15-8 ft. Reached Sydney Januaary 1890. Operated on the Queensland run.Retired, scrapped, in 1924, having made 436 voyages between Melbourne and Normanton in the Gulf of Carpentaria.  [WL],[HH2],[HH1]

Archer. Collier. Built 1882. Queensland Steamship Compnay, then A.U.S.N.Co, the Howard Smith Company.  [WL]

Archimedes. Wooden schooner, 164 tons. Wrecked near Townsville, 3 February 1893. [LQ]

Argonaut II. Auxiliary ketch, 178 tons. Built 1947. Destroyed by fire while anchored in Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island, Queensland, 7 August 1978.  [LQ]

Ariel. Schooner, 86 tons. Built 1840. Lost at Cleveland Bay, Qld, 28 April 1865. [LQ]
Also listed:
Ariel. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see Elizabeth’s longboat, lost Queensland, 1845.

Ariel. Schooner. Whilst sailing from Cooktown to Hinchinbrook Island, disappeared at sea, January 1881. [LQ]

Arthur. Lugger. From Cooktown to Bloomfield River, capsized by a squall when near Point Thomas, 12 February 1886. Conflicting reports - all fifteen saved, or only three saved. [LQ]

Asia. Ship. Involved in rescue - see Bona Vista, ship, 1828. [LQ]

Athol. Launch.tons.Destroyed in a cyclone at Rocky Islet, Queensland, 26 January 1894. No lives lost. [LQ]

Atlantic. Launch, 75 tons. Wrecked on Flinders Reef in Moreton Bay, Queensland, 11 June 1939. Loss of one life.  [LQ]

Au Revoir. Brigantine, 138 tons. Built 1859. Lost off Mackay, Queensland, June 1884. [LQ]

Aurora. Ketch, 16 tons. Built Brisbane Water 1845. Lost off the Queensland coast, 1853.  [LQ]

Aurora. German immigrant ship. Ashore ocean side end of Moreton Island while attempting to enter the harbour at Brisbane by the South Channel, 14 March 1855. The 300 passengers and crew disembarked safely at low tide. [LQ]

Australia. Schooner, 50 tons. Lbd 84.6 x 11.7 x 6.2 ft. Ashore, damaged, repaired, ashore again and wrecked during a gale, near Waverley, Queensland, February 1863. [LQ]

Australien. Steam ship. Involved in rescue - see Fotini Carras, 1939. [LQ]

Avago. Fishing boat. Sank near Bundaberg, Queensland, 22 July 1985. [LQ]

Bamba. Ketch, 20 tons. Believed wrecked off Queensland coast, 1916.  [LQ]

Bannockburn. Type not recored. Lost Bunker Group, Great Barrier Reef, 1884. [LI]

Bannockburn. Brigantine, wooden, 119 tons. Reported lost in the Fitzroy River, Queensland, 1905.  [LQ]

Banshee. Wooden steamer, 86 tons. Built Stockton, Newcastle, NSW, 1875. Wrecked on  rocks in a storm at Cape Sandwich between Townsville and Cardwell, 21 March, 1876.  Thirty-three of her complement of forty reached safety but the remainder were either drowned or crushed between the steamer and the rocks. [LQ],[LAH]

Barb. Lugger, wooden. Believed sunk by Murray Islanders, 1912.  [LQ]

Barbara. Pilot launch. Lost during a cyclone near Gladstone, Queensland, March 1948. [LQ]

Barcoo. Steamship, 1595 tons. Owned by A.S.N. Co. Captain J. Grahl. Operated on the north Queensland run. [HH2],[HH1]

Bard's Legacy. Schooner, 22 tons. Lost in Moreton Bay, Queensland, 1872. [LQ]

Barjon. Fishing boat. Destroyed by fire at Bundaberg, Queensland, 23 April 1986. [LQ]

Barrier Princess. Lugger. Disappeared in Whitsunday Passage, Queensland, mid-March 1955. Some wreckage came ashore but her crew were never found. [LQ]

Bato. Dutch vessel. Involved in rescue - see Thomasine, barque, 1854; also Fatima, ship, 1854; also Elizabeth, barque, 1854. Note that the Bato rescued survivors from three separate shipwrecks from the same area in the same year. [LQ]

Bayonet. HMAS. Involved in rescuee - see Florida, 1976. [LQ]

Beagle. HMS. Involved in rescue - see Mary, brig, 1946. [LQ]

Beagle. Trawler. Foundered off Fraser Island, Queensland, 2 April 1967. Five fishermen lost their lives; only one survivor.  [LQ]

Beautrice. Quarantine hulk; originally 432 tons. Built Sunderland, England 1858. Sank at her moorings in the Brisbane River, October 1896.  [LQ]

Belle. Brigantine, 198 tons. Built 1865; reg. Melbourne. Ashore, wrecked, in a gale while loading cedar at Ramsay Bay, Queensland, 26 January 1880. [LQ]

Bellinger. Ketch, 100 tons. Built 1866; reg. Sydney. Ashore in a gale, wrecked,  at Tipplers, about 12 nautical miles from Southport, near Stradbroke Island, 2 April 1892. [LQ][LI reports as schooner rig]

Ben Bolt. Ketch, 20 tons. Captain Thomas Forsyth McEwan. Ran the first mail contract from Rockhampton to Bowen, Queensland. [HH1]

Bengal. Barque, 307 tons. Ran on to the Great Barrier Reef off Hook Island, 6 August 1886. No loss of life.  [LQ]

Beryl. Launch, 19 tons. Ashore, wrecked, at the mouth of the Noosa River, 27 May 1932.   [LQ]

Beva. Launch.  Lost near Low Isles off Port Douglas, Queensland, December 1984 She was owned by maritime explorer and film-maker Ben Cropp. [LQ]

Bingera . Steamer, steel, 2092 tons gross. Built at Belfast, 1905. Lbd 300.3 x 40.8 x 17.9 ft. Australasian United Steam Navigation Co.Ltd. Famous coastal steamer, ran between Brisbane and Townsville with mail between 1906 and 1922. Dismantled in 1927 and dumped at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland. [LH],[DG]

Black Dog. Topsail schooner, 142 tons. Built 1848. Lost on a reef off Hope Island, Queensland coast, 1871. Crew picked up by H.M.S.Rosario and landed at Port Denison. [LQ]

Black Prince. Wooden paddle steamer, 80 tons. Built Melbourne 1866. Captaion Thomas Forsyth McEwan. Deliberately ashore, wrecked, in a gale to save life, Cleveland Bay, Queensland, 20 February 1870. All saved. McEwan was one of the most experienced of the north Queensland skippers.  [LQ],[HH2],[#HH1]

Blue Bell. Schooner, 66 tons. Built 1851. Wrecked in Albany Pass, 1 May 1874. [LQ]

Blue Bell. Wooden steamer, 101 tons. Struck the south end of Keppel’s Rock, Queensland, 11 February 1877. All saved. [LQ]

Blue Goose. Catamaran. Rammed and sunk off Sandy Cape, Queensland, 2 April 1992. [LQ]

Boko. Paddle steamer, iron, 203 tons. Built at Hebburn, England in 1877. Lbd 125 x 21.1 x 10.4 ft. Arrived in Australia in 1879. Partly dismantled, her hulk beache near Gibson Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland; reg. Closed 1949. [LH]

Bolton Abbey. Ship, 539 tons. Built Quebec 1841. Wrecked while loading guano off Lady Elliot Island during a gale, September 1851. [LQ],[HH2]

Bombala. Steamship, 3539 tons. Built at Sunderland, 1904. Lbd 348 x 44.2 x 25.6 ft. 'One of the fastest vessels trading on the Australian coast'. On 7 December 1919, left Townsville for Sydney and that evening struck Salamander Reef. Although in a precarious position and threatening to break in two, she was refloated and repaired in Mort's Dock, Sydney.  [DG]

Bona Vista. Ship. Captain Towne. From Sydney to Mauritius, wrecked Kenn Reef, Great Barrier Reef, 18 March 1828. Crew spent several weeks on the reef before being taken off by the ship Asia. All crew saved, reaching Batavia. One of those rescued was Robert Towns who gave his name to one of Queenslands major coastal towns. [LQ],[HH2],[ASW1]

Bongaree. Trawler. Split in two by the Russian container ship Konstantin Pausprovskiy off Mooloolaba, Queensland, 27 October 1982. [LQ]

Bonita. Unknown type. Wrecked on the north spit whilst crossing the Noosa River bar, Queensland, at low water,  late July 1877.  [LQ]

Boomerang. Schooner, 96 tons. Built 1852. Lost on Britomart Reef between Cardwell and Townsville, Queensland, 13 July 1869. Crew apparently saved in two boats. [LQ]

Boomerang. Steamer. Involved in rescue - see Neptune, ship, 1868. [LQ]

Borealis. Brigantine, 131 tons. Built 1880; reg. Auckland. Ashore, wrecked, on Salamander Reef, near Cape Cleveland, Queensland, 1 November 1888. [LQ]

Botamochi. Lugger. Wrecked on Brampton Island, Queensland, February 1905.  [LQ]

Bounty Hunter. Trawler. Lost in cyclonic conditions near Swain Reef, Queensland, December 1990. [LQ]

Boutique. Yacht. Rammed and sunk by a tug on the Brisbane River, 19 July 1991. A small boy asleep on board the yacht was drowned. [LQ]

Boyne. Work boat. Rammed and sunk by the dredge Sir Thomas Hiley at the mouth of the Brisbane River, 2 March 1973. One life lost. [LQ]

Bramble. HMS cutter, 161 tons, 10 guns, tender to HMS Fly. Arrived in Sydney 15 October 1842. Commanded by Lieutenant Charles Yule. See H.M. corvette Fly. [#HH2],[HH1]
Also listed:
Bramble. Colonial schooner. Surveyed much of the Great Barrier Reef. Named McKenzie Shoal after the captain of the ill-fated Heroine, lost there in 1846. [ASW1]
And:
Bramble. Schooner.  Involved in rescue - see Tyrian, barque, 1851. [LQ]

Breaksea Spit lightship. Queensland. Sunk by the motor vessel Gladstone Star, qv, 1962.   [LQ]

Brinawarr. Steamer, 119 tons. Driven under the Sydney Street bridge by water racing down the Pioneer River. Mackay, during one of the worst cyclones in Queensland’s history, January 1918. The steamer Tay struck the bridge as she swept down out of control; the span collapsed, sinking the Brinawarr. The Tay was later refloated. [LQ]
One of the first of a mosquito flet of shallow draft lighters to work the Queensland sugar ports. [HH2]

Briron. Fishing boat. Sank near Low Islets, off Port Douglas, Queensland, 12 May 1986. [LQ]

Briton’s Lass. Schooner. Wrecked, 1866. See Unidentified, Polmaise Reef, 1859. [LQ]

Briton's Queen. Two-masted schooner, 119 tons. Built 1837.  Wrecked on a reef near Masthead Island, GBR, 2l March 1866. The fourteen passengers and crew landed safely on the island, then proceeded to Rockhampton. [LQ]
Mentioned in respect of crew from wrecked whaler Marion, 1862. [LQ]

Bronzewing. Wooden steamer. Foundered off Cape Upstart, Queensland, 16 April 1888. She was under tow. [LQ]

Bulimba. Steamer. Involved in rescue - see schooner Upolu, lost near Green island, Queensland, April 1886. [HH2]

Buninyong. Steamship, 2070 tons. Owned by Howard Smith Steamship Co. Operated on northern Queensland coast. [HH1]

Bunyip. Vessel used by Captain Phillips to salvage the gold carried by the steamship Gothenberg when lost on a reef south of Townsville, Queensland, February 1875. [HH2]

Buono Vista. Beche-de-mer fishing boat. Lost at Percy Island, Queensland, 1849. [LQ]

Burwah. Steam ship. Sank paddle steamer Kate, 1890. [LQ]
In July 1926, involved in rescue of all passengers and crew from the Cooma, stranded on North reef near Heron island, GBR, 7 July 1926. [HH2]
Alwso listed:
Burwah. Steamer, 900 tons. Howard Smith Company. Popular on the Queensland-Sydney route. Sold to Asian interests.  [WL]

Caledonia. Schooner. Captain Browning. Taken over by seven convicts whilst at anchor at Moreton Bay, Queensland, December 1831. Having no knowledge of navigation and only two being seamen they retained the captain to sail the vessel. The vessel was scuttled at ‘Davi’, near Tofua, Tonga Group, 29 February 1832. The captain and two or three remaining convicts rowed to Tofua, where eight days later Captain Browning escaped to the barque Oldham. One convict was captured. Browning eventually reached Sydney on the American ship Milo on 14 May 1832. [ASW1]
Also listed:
Caledonia. Type not recorded. Whaling barque. Involved in salvage - see ship America, wrecked Queensland, 1831.

Calypso Christie. Supply boat.Wrecked on rocks returning to Gladstone from Lady Elliot Island, 5 February 1990. [LQ]

Cambus Wallace. Barque, steel, 1651 tons. Built Glasgow 1894. Lbd 245 x 33.6 x 22.6 ft. Ashore, wrecked,  about 15 miles north of Jumpin Pin, Queensland, 2 September 1894. She was on her maiden voyage from Glasgow to Brisbane. By the time the sea and wind subsided the vessel had almost disappeared and five of the crew had drowned. Most of the cargo including explosives was washed ashore, where it was plundered by local residents.  [LQ],[LI],[ASW6],[LAH]
@ The wreck has collapsed and is heavily sanded.

Capricorn. Cutter. Wrecked near Gatecombe Head, Queensland, 7 October 1870. [LQ]

Captain Cook. Schooner, 55 tons. Built 1848. Wrecked when grounded in Pioneer River, Queensland, 1873. [LQ]

Captain Cook. Pilot steamer, wood, 185 tons gross. Built at Balmain, NSW, 1876. Lbd 123.6 x 21 x 12 ft. Hulked then dumped about 1940 at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland. [LH]

Carisbrooke Castle. Barque, 1446 tons. Renamed Errol, 1909. [LQ]

Caroline. Schooner. Left Sweers Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria for southern ports late in November 1866, but was not seen again. [LQ]

Carrie. Schooner, 6 tons. Left Normanton for Papuan ports in August 1919 and not seen again.  [LQ]

Castaway Fiji. Yacht. Foundered about 600 nautical miles east of Townsville, Queensland, 3 April 1987. Loss of one crew member. [LQ]

Catherine Jane, barque 378 tons. Ashore, wrecked, in a cyclone near Cape Upstart, Queensland, 1 February 1884. The same cyclone claimed the barque Duke of Richmond. [LQ]

Caton. Ketch. Lost off Queensland coast, July 1923.   [LQ]

Centaur. Steel motor vessel, 3222 tons. Built Greenock 1924; reg. Liverpool. Owned by Oceans Steamship Company Ltd. Converted to a hospital ship in 1943.  Torpedoed by a Japanese submarine about 65 kilometres east of Brisbane and sunk without warning, 14 May 1943. Was she complying with International Law  when she was torpedoed ? Was she carrying military equipment?. Only sixty-four persons were saved as she disappeared before her lifeboats  could be launched; 268 died. Of those saved, only one was a nursing sister.
[LQ],[LAH],[#MJ]

Ceratodus. Dredge, steel, 406 tons.  Built at Paisley, Scotland, 1898. Lbd 145 x 30.1 x 12.1 ft. She saw her final days as a sand barge. Register closed 1932. Now in Fern Creek, Fraser Island. [LI],[LH]

Cerberus.  Originally a steel gunboat, 960 tons displacement. Built 1884 as Protector. Lbd 188 x 30 x 12.5 ft. Name changed 1 April 1921, took up duty as a tender at Western Port in Victoria. Renamed back to the original Protector in 1924 and in June of that year paid-off from Naval service. Bought by the Victorian Lighterage Company in 1931 and after another name change, to Sidney, was put to service as a coal and wool lighter. Ended her days scuttled as a breakwater off Heron Island, Queensland. See Protector for further details. [LH]

Ceres. Barque, 454 tons. Abandoned after striking Brampton Reef, Queensland, 15 September 1883. Crew saved. [LQ]

Challenge. Unknown type. Lost in Albany Pass, Queensland, 12 August 1880. Loss of two crew. [LQ]

Chang Chow. Steel steamer, 1734 tons. Built Greenock 1882. China Navigation Co. Ltd. Struck Sandy Cape Shoal, off Fraser Island, 24 October 1884. She was refloated, then beached 9km south of the Sandy Cape Lighthouse, on Six Mile Rocks on the north-eastern shoreline of Fraser Island, where she remained as a wreck. Six Chinese passengers were drowned when a boat launched from her capsized, but the remaining passengers and crew landed safely.The survivors of the wreck walked about 60km to a timber cutters’ camp where they boarded the tug Hercules. [LQ],[LI]
@ Wrecksite lies in seventeen metres, with much to see. [LAH]

Charlotte Andrews. Barque, 356 tons. Built Aberdeen, Scotland, 1862. Wrecked ashore in Ramsay Bay, Queensland, 6 October 1879. [LQ]

Chelsea. Launch. Lost near Yeppoon, Queensland, April 1933.  [LQ]

Cherry Venture. Ship, 1609 tons. Built as the Scania in 1945; renamed Slott, then Timur Venture. Ashore in a cyclone at Teewah, south of Double Island Point, Queensland, 8 July 1973. No loss of life.After several unsuccessful salvage attempts she was finally left to rust away on the beach. [LQ]
~ Tourists travel north from Noosa along the firm beach in 4-wheel drive vehicles to see the ship and the nearby Coloured Sands rock strata. [LAH]

Christie V. Trawler. Sank 12 nautical miles east of Great Keppel Island, Queensland, 6 November 1988. Sharks took two of the crew. [LQ]

City of Adelaide. Steamer, iron, 1212 tons. Built at Renfrew Scotland, 1864. Lbd 246 x 28.3 x 16.6 ft. Beached off Magnetic island, Queensland 1915.  [LH]

City of Melbourne. Barque. Built 1851. Ashore deliberately in a storm north of the Barrum River, Queensland, 24 December 1873. She was built as an auxiliary steamer in 1851 and she led an eventful life, being stranded on King Island in 1852, ashore on the Oyster Bank at Newcastle in 1855, then badly damaged by fire at Sydney in the same year while being repaired. She was then refitted as a three-masted barque and as a sailing vessel carried the first shipment of kanakas to Rockhampton in December, 1867. [LQ]

Civility. Steamer, wood, 249 tons gross. Built at Brisbane Water, NSW, 1872. Lbd 132 x 25.5 x 10.7 ft. Dismantled in 1918, then dumped at the bishop Island graveyard, Moreton bay, Queensland. [LH]

Clam. Tanker. Involved in rescue - see Darwin, trawler, 1948. [LQ]

Clara. Pilot schooner. Struck rocks at the entrance to the Brisbane River, Queensland, sank, 10 November, 1880. No loss of life.  [LQ]

Clara Crawford. Schooner, 42 tons. Built 1871; reg.Sydney. Foundered near Normanton, Queensland, November 1890. [LQ]

Clara Ethel. Unknown type. Beached and lost on Claremont Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 1894. [LQ]

Cleveland. Wooden cutter, 18 tons.  Built Sydney 1853. Wreckd, ashore, south of Double Island Point, Queensland, 17 March 1883. [LQ]

Clifford. Barque, 528 tons. Captain Sharp. From Nelson, NZ, to Bombay, lost on a reef near the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, Queensland, 16 August 1842. Passengers and crew rescued.  [LQ],[ASW1]

Clio. Steamer. Foundered in the Norman River, Queensland, March 1900.  [LQ]

Comet. Brig. Supposed lost east of Bowen, Queensland, 1832. [LQ]

Comet. Ketch, 30 ton. Wrecked on a reef off Holborn Island, Queensland, 13 September 1893.  [LQ]

Condor. German Government vessel. Involved in the search for SS Seestern, 1909.
  [LQ]

Confidence. Schooner. Wreckage from the schooner was found on Fraser Island, Queensland, 25 June 1900. [LQ]

Coolalie. Unknown type. Sank near Bundaberg, Queensland, December 1988. [LQ]

Coolangatta. Brigantine, 88 tons. Built Shoalhaven, NSW 1843.  Captain Steele. Ashore north of the Tweed River, Qld  8 August 1846.  Two prisoners held in irons on board were released when the vessel struck and all reached safety. The master, crew and the prisoners walked seventy miles overland to Amity Point, where they were picked up and taken on to Sydney by steamer. Attempts to salvage the brigantine failed and the remains were sold by auction.  [LQ]

Cooloola Queen. Cruise launch. Foundered in the Noosa River, Queensland, 24 July 1991. The 53 passengers reached safety. [LQ]

Cooma. Passenger steamer, steel, 3839 tons. Built 1907 for Howard Smith Line. Lbd 330 x 46 x 21.4 ft. From Brisbane to Cairns with passengers, ran gently on to North Reef near Heron Island, Queensland, 7 July 1926.  In response to SOS calls, 200 passengers and 84 of the crew were transferred to SS Burwah. After unsuccessful salvage attempts she was abandoned to the underwriters. Gutted by fire on 26 January, 1927. Her boiler remains visible on the beach near the North reef lighthouse, with the wreck well flattened. [LQ],[LI],[LH],[HH2],[LAH],[DG],[WL - lost North reef, July 1926]
@ Her remains lie well scattered on the island reef, in shallow water, with prolific marine life.

Coomba. Ketch, 45 tons. Left Brisbane for Maryborough on 30 November 1894 but not seen again. Crew of four lost.   [LQ]

Coquette. Schooner, 214 tons. Built 1883. Destroyed by fire, Townsville, 25 December 1903.
No lives lost.  [LQ],[LPA]
A schooner of this name owned by a Mr Sawyer, under Captain Arnold, was requested by the New South Wales government to seach for survivors of the lost brig Sea Belle, off Franser Island, 1857. [LI]

Coral Anne. Trawler. Lost off the North Queensland coast, 8 February 1992.  [LQ]
Also listed:
Coral Ann. Fishing trawler. Lost east of Mackay, Queensland, 8 March 1992. [LQ]

Coral Queen. Schooner. Ashore, wrecked when leaving Nerang Creek, Queensland,  early April 1870. [LQ]

Cornwallis. Barque. Involved in rescue - see Undaunted, ship, 1863. [LQ]

Cosmopolite. Brig, 145 tons. Built 1846. Wrecked on Masthead Reef, GBR, 15 October 1866. [LQ], [LPA]

See Unidentified, Polmaise Reef, 1859. [LQ]

Countess of Belmore. Schooner. Sunk and abandoned in the Brisbane River, June 1888. [LQ]

Countess of Derby. Wooden barque, 329 tons. Built 1831. Lost on the South Passage bar near Stradbroke Island while trying to enter Moreton Bay, 31 October 1853. Crew landed safely on Stradbroke Island. [LQ]

Countess of Minton. (Countess of Minto). Guano collector. Lost Bunker Group, Great Barrier Reef, 1849. Lady Elliot island was being mined for guano at the time. [LI],[HH2 - lost 1850]

Cowra. Yacht. Ashore on Fraser Island, Queensland, August 1934.  [LQ]

Cremer. Steam ship, 4608 tons. Stranded on St. Bees Island near Mackay, Queensland, 5 September 1943. Eventually abandoned. [LQ]

Crest of the Wave. Pearling schooner. Dismasted in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March 1899, in Bathurst Bay, Queensland, but one of the few vessels of the pearling fleet that survived.. [LQ]

Croydon. Steamer, 357 tons. Built at Glasgow, 1878 as the Gunga. Renamed Croydon in 1893, Lady Laminton in 1898 and Moreton in 1900. Scuttled at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland. [LH]

Cruiser. Launch. Wrecked off Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, 24 April 1931. [LQ]

Cruiser. Steamer, 19 tons. Wrecked in the Fitzroy River, Queensland, February 1918..  [LQ]

Crystal Voyager. Fishing boat. Swamped by a huge wave off Fraser Island, Queensland,  4 March 1991. [LQ]

Culgoa. Paddle steamer, 63 tons. Built 1865. Ran ashore on the Noosa beach, Queensland, and could not be refloated, 13 May 1891. [LQ]

Cumberland. Shooner, 26 ton.  Involved in rescue - see Porpoise,  and Cato, 1803. It was on this vessel that Matthew Flinders attempted to return to England, having been wrecked in the Porpoise on the Great Barrier Reef. However the Cumberland was in poor condition with rotten timbers, and after continuous pumping, it was necessary to seek refuge at Mauritius, where he was imprisoned by the French for six and a half years. [LQ],[#NH]

Cumberland. Involved in rescue - see Echo, whaler, 1820. [LQ]

Curlew. Schooner. Wreckage was sighted off Cape Upstart, Queensland, 21 January 1893, but was not seen again. [LQ]

Cyclops. Brig. Captain Cripps. From Sydney to Bengal, one of the first vessels to use the “inner route” between the Great Barrier Reef and the shore, 1812. [HH1]

Cygnet. Launch. Destroyed by fire, Queensland, 9 January 1934. [LQ]

Dabayari. Yacht. Lost near Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 2 June 1988. [LQ]

Dai Maru No.7. Japanese fishing trawler, steel, 229 tons. Wrecked on Eastern Fields Reef, northern Great barrier Reef, 3 July 1965. [LQ]

Dana Marea. Auxiliary ketch. Lost off Bribie Island, Queensland, 25 November 1965. [LQ]

Dancing Wave. Schooner, 67 ton. Built 1864; reg.Townsville. Destroyed in a cyclone near Fitzroy Island, Queensland, 29 January 1913. [LQ]

Daphne. Schooner, 95 tons. Lost off Inskip Point, Queensland, 1893. [LQ]

Darcy Pratt. Brigantine, 149 tons. Built 1876. Wrecked on Polmaise Reef, near Cape Capricorn, Queensland, 21 January 1893. [LQ]

Darra. Ship,  2497 tonnes. Broke loose in the Brisbane River during floods, January 1974. Apparently repaired.  [LQ]

Dart. Ketch, wooden. Ashore, wrecked, at Mackay, Queensland, 2 March 1911.  [LQ]

Darwin. Trawler, 45 tons. Lost on Switzer Reef north of Cairns, 6 April 1948. Crew of four were taken off by a boat from the Shell tanker Clam and eventually landed at Melbourne. [LQ]

Dawn. Schooner. Run ashore to save life during a gale when off Double Island Point, Queensland, 1870.  [LQ]

Daydawn. Ketch, wooden. Lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 3 August 1907.  [LQ]

Day Dawn. Cutter. Lost off Bowen, Queensland, 30 January 1884. [LQ]

De Kyverheid. Dutch barque. Involved in rescue - see Island Queen, schooner, 1854. [LQ]

Delhi. Ship, 544 tons. Built 1835. Wrecked on Indispensable Reef, Queensland, 14 September 1871. The captain, his wife and seventeen members of the crew reached safety. [LQ]
There appears to be no Indispensable Reef listed for Queensland. There is an Indispensable Rise in the north Coral Sea.

Deodarus. Barque, 303 tons. Built 1868; reg.Brisbane. Lost on the Great Barrier Reef about 12 miles south-east of Fitzroy Island, 25 June.  [LQ]

Derwent. Steamer, 478 tons. Built Glasgow, 1864 for the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Co. Operated for fifteen years between Melbourne and Launceston. Bought by Howard Smith Co, for the Queensland run, 1879. At the end of her passenger-carrying days, converted to a collier, then to a hulk, then scuttled Townsville, Queensland, 1925.  [DG]

Deutschland. German  three masted barque, wood, 833 tons. Built Hamburg, Germany, 1858. Lbd 150 x 32 x 17.5 ft. From London to Rockhampton, Queensland, with 1000 tons of cargo, including cast iron screw piles for the Point Alma wharf, wrecked on Masthead Reef , GBR, 22 July 1883. Plans were underway to have her refloated but a gale on 29 September 883 broke her up. [ASW6],[LQ],[LAH]

Diamantina. Steamer, 239 tons. Owned by Australian Steam Navigation Company. Known for its shallow draft which suited the north Queensland river trade. Involved in early pioneering settlements. [HH1]

Diamond. Schooner, 44 tons. Built at Melbourne as a paddle tug in 1847; converted to a schooner in 1869. Wrecked on the spit at Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, 19 March 1877. [LQ]

Diana. Schooner, 14 ton. Destroyed by fire off Cairns, 10 June 1923. [LQ]

Dickey. Steam ship, iron, 226 tons. Built  at Kiel, Germany, 1883. Lbd 96.6 x 21 x 15 ft. Ashore in heavy north-easterly weather on Caloundra Head, Queensland, 12 February 1893. All passengers and crew saved. Her hulk was visible for many years, lasting nearly a hundred years on the beach.  [LQ - listed as Dicky],[LH],[LAH]

Dinton. Ketch, 19 tons. Lost on the Great Barrier Reef, July 1925. [LQ]

Director II. Schooner. Lost near Gladstone, Queensland, 1940.  [LQ]

Dockenhuden. Ship, 335 tons. Built 1848. Wrecked on Cato Reef off Queensland, 7 August 1853. Crew and ten passengers saved after sailing to Moreton Bay. [LQ]

Doelwych. Dutch ship, wood, 740 tons. Captain Zeeman. Lost on Kent’s Reef about 250 miles north of Port Curtis, Queensland, 21 April 1854. She was accommpanied by the Dutch ship Hester. The crews of both vessels got away in the boats but while those from the Hester arrived safely at Gladstone ten days later, the crew from the Doelwych were not seen again.  [LQ],[HH1],[LAH]

Dolphin. Hopper barge. Scuttled in Moreton Bay off Tangalooma - with other vessels, helps to form an artificial haven for small boats. [LH]

Dolphin. Steamer, wooden, 151-ton. Shortly after being requisitioned by United States military forces, sprang a leak and foundered off Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, 26 July 1942.  [LQ]

Donella. Type unknown. Sank near Mackay, Queensland, 30 September 1985 [LQ]

Donga. Type unknown. Lost off Mackay, Queensland, during a cyclone, 7 March 1955. [LQ]

Dorisana. Launch. Disappeared  between Mackay, Queensland, and the Percy Islands, 1938. Five aboard. [LQ]

Doris Brodersen. Barque, 684 tons. Left Brisbane for London late in 1885 and was posted missing in May, 1886. [LQ]

Dorrigo. Steel steamship, 715/683 tons. Foundered in heavy seas north of Double Island Point, Queensland, 1 April 1926. Only the master and his son survived from a crew of 24.  [LQ],[LAH- lost 25 km south-east of Double Island Point, 2 April]

Douglas Mawson. Government owned, twin screw wooden steamer, 400 tons. Operated on the norther Queensland coast in the early 1900s. [HH2]

Dove. Steamer, 78 tons. Built Jervis Bay. Wrecked on a reef off Cape Tribulation, 30 June 1897. Crew saved. [LQ]

Drag-n-fly. Unknown type. Sank in Deception Bay, Queensland, 23 August 1988. [LQ]

Drehna. German ship, 1504 tons. Built 1886. Wrecked south of Flinders Channel on the outer Great Barrier Reef, 30 October 1900. [LQ]

Dudley. Supply vessel. Pearling schooner. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March 1899, off Cape Melville, Queensland. Crew of four lost. [LQ]

Dugong. Barge, 177 tons. Lost on the Wide Bay bar, Queensland, 24 September 1914. [LQ]

Duke of Wellington. Involved in rescue - see Frederick, 1818. [LQ]

Duke of Cornwall. Wooden ketch, 115 tons. Foundered off Mackay, Queensland, during a cyclone, 16 February 1887. No loss of life. [LQ]

Duke of Richmond. Schooner.  Wreckage reported in the vicinity of Hinchinbrook Island was believed to be that of the schooner, 1876. [LQ]

Duke of Richmond. Barque, 301ton. Wrecked in a cyclone on the GBR off Cape Upstart, 1 February 1884. The same cyclone claimed the barque Catherine Jane. [LQ]

Duke of York. Barque, 190 tons. Master Charles R. Morgan. Owned by the South Australia Co. Wrecked on a bank off Port Curtis, Queensland, 14 July 1837. The crew took to the boats and with the exception of two men who were speared by aborigines reached Moreton Bay. The steamer James Watt took nineteen survivors on to Sydney, leaving the remainder to follow in another vessel. [LQ],[ASW1]

Dundas. Ketch. Anchored off the northern Queensland coast early in 1862, the ship was boarded by aborigines who killed all but the captain who managed to drive them off with gunfire, and make it back to Bowen. {HH1]

Earl of Hardwick. Brig, 280 tons. Captain Smith. Wrecked on Polkington Reef, off Queensland coast, 10 June 1862.After landing safely on a reef, all hands set out for the mainland in two boats; the first boat, towing a raft, reached New Ireland and met up with the schooner Rebecca. The second boat was never found. [LQ]

Eastminster. Iron ship, emigrant vessel, 1208 tons.  Built Glasgow 1876. Left Maryborough for Sydney 17 February 1888 after ignoring a warning from the pilot, and heading out to sea in a rising gale. She was not seen again. [LQ],[LAH]

Ebenezer. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see Packet, whaler, 1857. [LQ]

Eclipse. Schooner, 98 tons. Built 1895; reg. Sydney. Wrecked on Salmon Rock, near Pine Islet,  in the Northumberland Group, GBR, 26 December 1899. One crew lost. [LQ]

Edith. Cutter, 35 tons. Wrecked in the Sir Joseph Banks Group, 3 August 1897. [LQ]

Edward Thomas. Fishing boat. Foundered off Moreton Bay, Queensland,  11 April 1990. Two lives lost. [LQ]

Effie. Pilot cutter. Run down and sunk by S.S.Balmain in Hervey Bay, Queensland, 29 January 1887. Her crew of four reached safety. [LQ]

Ehime. Ketch. Wrecked near Cape Melville, Queensland, June 1899.  [LQ]

Elamang. Iron screw steamer, 495 tons. #74903. Built Scotland, 1876; reg. Sydney, 63/1877. Length 232 ft.  After useful service, was dismantled, filled with sank, and sunk at the Newcastle breakwater, February 1905. [DG],[SAN - lost on the northern arm of the breakwall],[LQ - wrecked in a flooded Brisbane River, 1893]
In 1893, broke away from her moorings and stranded in the Botanical Gardens, Brisbane, during raging floods. It appeared as she would remain there amongst the plam trees, however a second flood two weeks later floated her back into the river. [DG]

Elam Yarrabah. Mission launch, 40 tons. Sank during a storm off Cape Grafton, Queensland, January 1934. Crew saved. [LQ]

Eliza. Ketch. Left Mackay, Queensland, during April 1890 for other ports in Queensland but was not seen again. [LQ]

Eliza. Schooner. Disappeared between Gladstone and Mackay, Queensland, in August, 1868. On 10 October, 1870, traders on a remote section of the Queensland north coast found a decked-in ship’s boat with mast standing and sails bent. It was taken back to Somerset, where it was identified as the boat belonging to the Eliza. [LQ]

Elizabeth. Barque. Wrecked on Great Barrier Reef, 28 June 1854. Survivors rescued by the Dutch ship Bato.  [LQ]

Elizabeth. Brig, 140 tons. Captain H. Browne. Lost on a Queensland reef, 1832. Her remains were found by the cutter Fairy on 31st March, high and dry, her bottom out, her foremast and topmast with yards across  still standing. As there was no water, provisions, nautical instruments or boats on board it was thought that the crew had set out for the mainland. However, they were not seen again. [LQ]

Elizabeth. Two-masted schooner, 58 tons. Built Sydney 1839. Lbd  49.2 x 15.2 x 8.5 ft.  Captain William Riley. Driven out to sea from Brampton Shoal Reefs, Qld, and not seen again, while most of her crew were working on the wreck of the whaler Clarence, 1845. It is presumed she foundered with what few hands were left on board. Captain Riley and six men arrived safely at Moreton Bay in the Elizabeth’s longboat (qv). [ASW1],[LQ]

Elizabeth Mary. Barque, 260 tons. Built 1866; reg. Sydney. Ashore on a reef near Hook Island in the Whitsunday Passage, abandoned, 27 October 1887. [LQ]

Elizabeth’s longboat. Having brought Captain Riley and six men safely to Moreton Bay after their schooner Elizabeth was lost, the longboat was sold to a Captain William thompson, who took the vessel to Hervey Bay, where one man was killed by aborigines. Like the Elizabeth, she too parted her cables and was driven out to see where, presumably, she foundered with the loss of Captain Thompson, his wife and two crew. The one remaining crewmember, on shore at the time, fell in witn friendly aborigines and was taken on to Hong Kong by the schooner Ariel. [ASW1]

Ella. Cutter, 16 tons. Built 1873. Lost on D. Reef, Queensland, 13 September 1876. [LQ]

Ellen. Barque. Involved in rescue - see Island Queen, schooner, 1854. [LQ]

Ellen. Cutter. Lost on No. 6 Reef, Great Barrier Reef, 29 June 1888.  [LQ]

Ellida. Ketch, 14 tons. With a crew of four, anchored in a little bay on Shaw Island, Queensland; three men went ashore and were attacked by aborigines, 28 August 1861. Two crew were kill; the third made it back to the ketch and the two remaining crew made their escape. [HH1]

Ellison Shaw. Motor vessel, 62 tons. Destroyed by fire near Hecate Point, Queensland, 10 February 1985. [LQ]

Emily. Schooner, 60 tons. While sheltering under Entrance Island, the dragged her anchors during a gale and abandoned, 8 January1874. Crew picked up by S.S.Tinonee.  [LQ]
There are two Entrance islands in Queensland, one in Torres Strait, the other north of Rockhampton.

Enchantress. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see Heroine, schooner, 1846. [LQ]

Endeavour. Steamship.. Destroyed by fire in the Endeavour River, Queensland, 24 December 1885. [LQ]
Also listed:
Endeavour. Steamer, 12 tons. Burnt in the Endeavour River, Queensland, 1904.. [LQ]

Endevour. HMS. ‘Cat-built’ barque, 369 tons. Built as a collier in Whitby, UK,  1768 as the Earl of Pembroke. Lbd 105 x 29.2 x 11 ft. Lt. James Cook. As a subsidiary naval vessel she was known as HMS Bark Endevour, as distinct from another vessel of the same name already in service. With ninety-four on board the crowded ship, sailed from Plymouth on 26 August 1768,  with an objective of sighting the transit of Venus, which he did in Tahiti on 13 July 1769. Then sailed west and charted the coastlines of New Zealand and eastern Australia. The Endevour went on to a coral reef off Cape Tribulation near where Cooktown now stands, on 11 June 1770; refloated after 24 hours after jettisoning cannon and ballast. On 22 June, Cook found a spot on shore to make repairs, at the mouth of the now named Endeavour River, and set said again on 5 August 1770, heading north  past Lizard Island  and through the reefs at Cooks Passage into  the open sea. .  On 21 August he rounded Cape York.. [#JH],[#HH2],[#HH1],[LQ - night of 10 June],[ASW1 - lbd 97-7 x 29-3 x 11-4 ft]
@ On Christmas Eve, 1971, Cairns diver Fred Aprilovic found one of  Cook's anchors on a successful expedition led  by Vince Vlasoff.  In January 1979 six canon were recovered by an American expedition. After restoration they were presented to various institutions in Australia and overseas.

Ensign. Barque, 315 tons. Reported lost in Queensland waters, 13 April 1888. Possibly lost on Great Barrier Reef, or at Surprise River.  [LQ]

Escape. Unknown type. Lost off the Queensland coast, 26 November 1979. [LQ]

Escort. Schooner, 130 tons. Built 1849; reg. Sydney. Stranded on a reef just off Double Cone Island, Queensland, abandoned, 13 November 1894. . [LQ]

Esme. Ketch, wooden, 17 ton. Lost near Cairncross Island, Queensland, February 1901.  [LQ]

Esme. Launch. Destroyed by fire, Queensland, 3 February 1930. [LQ]

Esperanza. Lugger. Lost on Tern Island, Queensland, 23 January 1903.  [LQ]

Essex. Steamer, 79 tons. Built at Brisbane, 1880; operated between Ipswich and Brisbane. Now in the mouth of the Urang Creek, Fraser island. [LI],[LH]

Essington. Schooner. Captain Watson. In March 1839, searched for survivors of the barque Charles Eaton, lost near the Sir Charles Hardy Islands in 1834. Located the sole survivor of the Stidcombe pirate massacre. [NH]

Eva. Schooner, 35 tons.  Built Brisbane Water 1857. Captain Macbeath. During a ferocious cyclone that nearly destroyed Townsville and Bowen, disappeared on a voyage from Cleveland Bay to Port Hinchinbrook, Queensland, early in 4 March 1867. Macbeath was one of the most experienced of the north coast skipper; his early vessel was Three Friends (qv). On board were six other peeople.   [LQ],[HH1]

Eva. Yacht. Wrecked at Cape Manifold, Queensland, 17 April 1929.  [LQ]

Evelyn. Schooner, 61 tons. Built 1874; reg. Maryborough. Dismasted in a gale off Fraser Island, abandoned, February 1890. Crew picked up by S.S.Quetta. The steamer Otter was sent to search for the wreck and found it ashore on Fraser Island, where it was later blown up by explosives. [LQ],[LI]

Everdina Elizabeth. Ship. Involved in rescue - see Bourneuf, 1853. [ASR6]

Excelsior. Cutter, 13 tons. Lost near Cooktown, Queensland, July 1899.  [LQ]

Excelsior. Steamer, steel, 340 tons. Built at Southampton in 1882 for the Port Phillip Bay trade. Lbd 186.6 x 21.1 x 10.7 ft. In 1920 converted into a hulk and towed between Melbourne and Geelong until 1943 when the US armed forces decided to tow her to New Guinea, but on arrival at Brisbane she was dumped at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay. [LH]

Exchange. Ketch, 37 tons. Destroyed by a gale which battered Cooktown, 21 February 1884. [LQ]

Experiment. Steamer, 37 tons. Built 1832; launched Williams river, NSW, 1832; reg. Sydney 9/1833, 88/1841, 43/1846, 80/1848. Lbd 79.8 x 12.6 x 5.5 ft. When launched, the unusual vessel was propelled ‘by the rotary movement of four horses over paddlewheels’. This was not a success for a number of reasons which do not defy imagination, and in 1834 she was fitted with an engine. Sank in the Brisbane River alongside the Queen’s Wharf early in the morning, 20 January 1848.    [LQ],[ASW1]
Loney notes that one version of her loss says she was never raised although her engine and boiler were salvaged and installed in the steamer Hawk. Another claims she was refloated, then sold in October to be broken up. Bateson confirms the second option, and suggests she was refloated and resumed her ferry service, but was sold on 16 October 1848 and broken up.

Fairy. Cutter. Sighted wreck - see Elizabeth, brig 1832. [LQ]

Falcon 11. Unknown type. Wrecked on John Brewer Reef, GBR, 30 December 1988. [LQ]

Fan. Punt, 50 tons. Foundered at Townsville, Queensland, December 1917. [LQ]

Fanefjord. Auxiliary ketch. Built 1919; renamed. See Natone, 1959. [LQ]

Fanny Morris. Schooner, 40 tons. Wrecked on North Spit of Tweed River, Queensland, 21 May 1848. [LQ]

Fayaway. Brig, 197 tons. Built 1850. Wrecked on rocks three miles north of Sandy Cape, near Lady Elliot Island, off Queensland coast, 9 February 1864. One boat reached safety but a second upset in the surf, drowning three. [LQ]

Fedalma. Barque, 478 tons. Built 1870. Left Rockhampton for Hamburg, Germany, on 30 May 1883, with a cargo of manure. She was not seen again and was posted missing on 26 January 1884. [LQ],[LAH - lost 1884]

Federal. Schooner, 92 tons. Burnt in the Turtle Group, Queensland, 23 January 1914. No lives lost.  [LQ]

Ferguson. Ship. Believed lost at Quoin Island on the Great Barrier Reef, early 1840. The Nautical Magazine of 1844 mentions that the hull had recently been thrown high up on the reef by heavy seas. [LQ],[HH2],[HH1]

Firefly. Brig, 188 tons. Built 1843. Damaged on a reef north of the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, then towed to Albert River, where she was eventually abandoned, August 1861. She had left Brisbane for the Gulf of Carpentaria on 24 August 1861 to act as tender to the sloop Victoria in the search for Burke, Wills and King. [LQ]

Firefly. Cutter. Lost off the North Queensland coast, 1879. [LQ]

Fleetwing. Schooner, 33 tons. Built 1879; reg.Rockhampton. Disappeared between Rockhampton and Bundaberg, December 1889. [LQ]

Fleetwood. Barge, 112 ft. Foundered off Cape Moreton, Queensland, 17 December 1948. [LQ]

Flirt. Schooner, 10 tons. Sank in the Brisbane River, March 1889. [LQ]

Flora. Brigantine, 360 tons. Wrecked on Astrolabe Reef, while passing through the Great Barrier Reef via the outer passage during a voyage from Sydney to Java, 1886. The master and some crew set out for help; after resting on the Sir Charles Hardy Group and Booby Island, they eventually reached Timor. Those left at the wreck were picked up by a passing vessel. [LQ],[HH2],[HH1]

Flora. Pilot schooner. Ashore in a gale near Double Island Point, Queensland, March 1867.  [LQ]

Flora. Schooner, 130 tons. Sank in the Brisbane River during a flood, April 1888. She had been condemned. [LQ]

Florence. Cutter. Wrecked near the Northumberland Group, GBR, 1874. [LQ]

Florence Elliot. Ketch,  53 tons. Built 1878; reg. Hobart. Lost near Townsville, November 1898.  [LQ],[LPA]

Florence Peat. Schooner, 60 tons. Built 1884; reg.Sydney. Abandoned in a gale off Double Island Point, Queensland, July 1889. She disappeared and was found broken up near Inskip Point. [LQ]

Florinda. Schooner, 105 tons. Built Melbourne 1873. Forced on to a reef at the north-eastern end of Cockburn Island, Queensland, by adverse winds, sank, 9 June 1887.  [LQ],[LI indicates vessel name as Flounda.]

Flounda. See Schooner Florinda.

Flowence Agnes. Cutter. Three men from the vessel murdered by aborigines when on Green island, Queensland, 10 July 1873. [HH2]

Fly. HMS, corvet, 485 tons. 18 guns. Captain Francis Price Blackwood. In company with tender Bramble, visited Bunker Group of islands in Great Barrier Reef in 1843 and on an island he named Wreck Island after wreckage on a reef, found a tree with the names The American, June 1841 cut into it. On another he found Mary Ann Broughton, and on a third - Captain E. David, Nelson, November 1831. [LI],[#HH2],[HH1]

Fly. HMS. Involved in rescue - see barque Coringa Packet, lost Queensland, 1845.

Flying Cloud. Ketch. Reported lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 1874. [LQ]

Foam. Schooner. Wrecked on Myrmidon Reef, 5 February 1893. She was returning Kanakas to the Solomon Islands. The ninety-eight persons on board just had time to make a raft by lowering the top-masts and spars over the side and cutting away all the bulwarks and deckhouses. [LQ]

Francesco Crispi. See steamship Marloo.

Francis Cadell. Paddle steamer, iron, 140 tons. After service around several Australian ports, was abandoned as a derelict in the river near Burktown, Queensland. [LQ]

Francisco. Lugger. Sank following a collision in Torres Strait, August 1908. [LQ]

Freak. Barque. Involved in rescue - see Psyche, cutter, 1849. [LQ]

Freak. Brig. Involved in rescue - see Ann, 1853 and Druid, 1853. [LQ]

Freak. Brig. Forced ashore on the west side of Providential Channel, Queensland, 1870. Twelve natives lost but white crew saved. [LQ]

Freddy. Schooner, 80 tons. Ashore, wrecked, in a gale near Mackay, Qld, 21 February 1875. No lives lost.  [LQ]

Freddy. Schooner, 80 tons. Built 1873. Stranded in a gale, wrecked, near Cape Upstart, Queensland, 23 February 1887. [LQ]

Frederick. Wooden vessel, 210 tons. Captain John Williams. Wrecked at Cape Flinders, northernmost point of Stanley Island, in the Flinders Group near the western head of Bathurst Bay, Queensland, May 1818. Apparently she broke in two shortly after two boats were launched. In one boat were the master, two men and two boys while the long boat carried the remaining twenty-two of the crew. Williams and his companions eventually arrived at Copang in the ship Duke of Wellington which had been in company with the Frederick but the long boat was not seen again. Williams had sailed with a sixteen year old girl whom he had bought from her father, much to th scandal of the colonial community. The girl may have been lost when the long-boat was swamped, or may have been captured by aborgines as there were rumours later of a white woman having been seen with aborigines in the area. The wreck of the Frederick was found by Captain Phillip Parker King of the Mermaid, on 13 July 1819.   [LQ],[HH2],[HH1],[ASW1],[LAH]

Friday. Schooner. Supposed lost off Mackay, Qld, 1875.  [LQ]

Friends. Schooner. Wrecked on the beach at the southern end of Moreton Island, Queensland, 1862. [LQ]

Gabo. Steamship, 2060 tons. Owned by Howard Smith Steamship Co. Operated on the northern Queensland coast. [HH1]

Gay Lyn. Fishing boat. Sank off Magnetic Island, Queensland, 20 January 1986. [LQ]

Gayundah. Steel gunboat, 360 tons. Built at Newcastle-on-Tyne for the Queensland Navy in 1884.  Lbd 120 x 26 x 9.5 ft. Hulk filled with concrete and scuttled to form a breakwater at Woody point, Moreton Bay, Queensland, 1958. [LH]

Geelong. Iron steamer, 431/172 tons. Built 1856; reg. Melbourne. Ex Thomas Powelll. Howard Smith Co. From Brisbane to northern Queensland ports, was at anchor off Carlisle island when run ashore, in a gale, to save life, wrecked,17 February 1888.  [LQ],[LAH]

Geelong. Steamship. Rammed and sank Lone Star, cutter, 1882. [LQ]

Genetta. Survey ketch. Wrecked, ashore at Mooloolah, Queensland, July 1889. [LQ]

George. Barque. Involved in rescue - see Rio Packet. Barque. 1852. [LQ]

George. Cutter. Brought shipwrights from Sydney to Port Curtis, Queensland, to repair the grounded barque Lord Auckland. [ASW1]

George R. Crowe. Barque, 543 tons. Built 1884. Destroyed by fire as she lay in ballast at Brisbane preparing to sail, 19 January 1887. After burning to the waterline she was beached just below Short St. on the city side of the river. Floods then carried the hull further downstream, where it was used for target practice before being towed to Fisherman’s Island and blown up. [LQ]

George Thornton. Brigantine, 182 tons. Abandoned in a leaking condition off Round Hill, Queensland, 1887.  [LQ]

Gerd Heye. German barque, wooden, 850 tons. Built Germany, 1811. Ashore, wrecked, in heavy weather, on the outer beach of Moreton Island, Queensland, 16 July 1889. Crew saved.  [LQ],[LAH]

Gibson. Ship. Reported lost while passing through Endeavour Strait, 1853. [LQ]

Gil Blas. Brig, 172 tons. Built Bremen, Germany, 1848.  Ashore, wrecked, on the Baffle Creek bar, Qld, 20 July 1865.  [LQ]

Gilli Gilli. Pearling lugger, 28 tons. Wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, 28 June 1955.  [LQ]

Gladstone Star. Motor vessel. Struck the Breaksea Spit lightship, Queensland, located  forty kilometres north of Sandy Cape lighthouse, 6 June 1962. No lives lost. [LAH],[LQ]

Glanworth. Steamship, 877 tons. Built in 1882. Australian Steam Navigation Co. Employed on the Brisbane-Rockingham trade. Ashore  in calm, clear weather at Settlement Point, near Gatcombe Head, Queensland, and within ten minutes had settled on the sea bed, 26 January 1896. All passengers and crew landed safely. [LQ],[LAH],[DG]

Gneering. Paddle steamer, 62 tons. Built 1863; reg. Brisbane. Originally a schooner named John. Lost near the mouth of the Maroochie River, Queensland, September 1893. [LQ]

Golden Age. Barque. Involved in rescue - see Gordon, brif, 1867. [LQ]

Golden City. Ship, 779 tons. Ashore in a gale at Lady Elliot Island, Queensland coast, 13 July 1866. [LQ]

Golden Isle. Schooner 78 tons. Driven ashore, wrecked, at Stanage Bay, Queensland, February 1888.  [LQ]

Goodwill. Cutter, beche-de-mer vessel. Captured by aborigines in Trinity Bay, Queensland, 1872. Three white men, Dan Kelly, Bill Rose and Bill White, with three aborigine men and two aborigine women. Due to suspected abuse of the women by the white men, the aborigines murdered Rose and White; Kelly escaped and rowed to Oyster Cay, 16 km north of Green Island where he obtained help. He returned on the ketch Telegraph, but found neither his cutter, nor the aborigines. He buried the two murdered men. There was a rumour that the aborigines who had killed, and takeen the cutter, were in turn attacked by another group of aborigines and killed. [#HH2],[#HH1]

Gothenburg. Iron screw steamer, rigged as a three-masted schooner, 501 tons. Built 1854. Lbd 196.6 x 28.2 x 20.5 ft. Captain R.G.A. Pearce .Lost on a reef south of Townsville, Qld, February 1875. She was returning from Darwin to Adelaide with 126 passengers and a general cargo which included gold valued at about £40,000 when she heeled sharply in the rising seas of a storm, hurling passengers and crew to their deaths. The first two boats were swept away, then a third crammed with women and children capsized when others tried to board it. As the steamer broke up scores of passengers and crew fought for their lives but by morning, only her battered masts protruding above water showed where she lay. Gradually, a few survivors were rescued but the death toll reached 102. Gold worth A£9,300 from the Northern Territory gold fields was later recovered. The captain, who lost his life, was the father of Tom Pearce, the hero of Victoria’s Loch Ard disaster. Steamer Leichhardt involved in rescue. Vessel Bunyip involved in the succesful salvage of the gold. Steamer Porpoise also involved in salvage.  [LQ],[#HH2@],[LAH],[#DG]

Governor. Brig, 147 tons. Built 1843. Ashore and wrecked at Sweers Island, Queensland, 1868. [LQ]

Governor Blackwell. Steamer. Lieutenant Gowlland, RN. In 1872, involved in rescue - see brig Maria, wrecked on Bramble Reef, Queensland. [HH1]

Grace Darling. Schooner, 69 tons. Wrecked near the Maroochie River, Queensland, September 1893.  [LQ]

Grace Darling. Schooner 69 tons. From Brisbane to Normanton, ashore, wrecked, on Moreton Island, Queensland, 14 March 1894. [LQ]

Grantala. Steamer. (Sister Yongala). Sold, renamed Figuig.  [WL]

Grazier. Steamer, wooden, 207 tons. Built at Sydney, 1924. Lbd 1 14.6 x 23.8 x 9.6 ft. Capsized by heavy seas off Mud Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland, 15 January 1948. One of her crew of eight drowned. [LQ],[LH]

Greenock, ship. Involved in rescue - see Venus, brig, 1826. [LQ]

Groper. Iron steamer, dredge, 360 tons. Built at Glasgow, 1876. Lbd 160 x 28.2 x 10.5 ft. Rigged as a brig when brought out from the Clyde in 1876. At the time was the second-largest dredge in the world. Converted to a lighter in 1916, and scuttled in 1949 in the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton island, Queensland. [LH]

Gunga. Steamer, 357 tons. Built at Glasgow, 1878. Renamed Croydon in 1893, Lady Laminton in 1898 and Moreton in 1900. Scuttled at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland.[LH]
In May 1882, involve in rescue - see SS Ranelagh. [HH2]

Haiping. Steamer, 1932 tons. Abandoned in a leaking condition off Sandy Cape, Queensland, 13 March 1937. Last seen low in the water, about 50 kilometres east of Sandy Cape. All saved.  [LQ]

Halkin. Fishing boat. Lost off Bribie Island, Queensland, 23 July. Crew of seven never found. [LQ]

Hamilton Island 11. Fishing boat.  Sank in the Whitsunday Passage, Queensland, 22 November 1986. [LQ]

Hamilton Island 12. Type unknown. Lost on Hardy Reef, 20 May 1987. [LQ]

Hamlet. Barque. Involved in rescue - see Cornelius, brig, 1854. [LQ]

Hannah. Schooner. Reported lost on the Barrier Reef, 1855. [LQ]

Hannah Bloomfield. Schooner. Supposed lost on North Reef, near Cairns, 1890. [LQ]

Hannah Bloomfield. Schooner. Lost on the northern edge of Capricorn Reef, 30 April 1872. [LQ]

Hawk. Wooden paddle steamer. Sank in the Mary River, Queensland, 1877. [LQ]
Also listed:
Hawk. Wooden paddle steamer. Loss in the Mary River, Queensland, 1882.  [LQ]

Heka. Wooden steamer, 32 tons. Builtat Jervis Bay, 1879; reg.Rockhampton Foundered near Breaksea Spit, Fraser island, Queensland, 1886. No loss of life. [LQ],[LI]
Helena. Schooner, 126 tons. Built 1874; reg.Maryborough. Lost at Inskip Point, Queensland, July 1899.  [LQ]

Herald. HMS. Frigate, 500 ton, 26-guns, converted to 8-gun survey vessel. Captain Henry Mangles Denham. With her tender, the paddle steamer Torch, surveyed the south-west Paciic region until 1861. [HH1]

Hercules. Steam ship. Involved in rescue - see Juliet, schooner, 1871. [LQ]
Also listed:
Hercules. Tug. Involved in rescue - see Chang Chow, steamer, 1884. [LQ]

Hercules. Steel dredge of 895 tons. Built at Walker-on-Tyne, 1900. Lbd 230.5 x 39.3 x II ft. Dredged the Bar Cutting at the entrance to the Brisbane river and used the silt to form Bishop Island in Moreton bay where many vessel were scuttled. She herself lies scuttled between Dunwicch and Myora, Moreton Bay. [LH]

Heroine. Wooden schooner, 130 tons. Captain M. McKenzie.  Struck a reef east of Bowen, Qld, and sank rapidly, 8 April 1846. Four passengers and four members of the crew were drowned. Most of the survivors reached a sandbank and remained there overnight until rescued by the Enchantress. The captain swam with his small daughter clinging to his back for six hours before being picked up by the Sapphire. He survived his ordeal but unfortunately his daughter died a few hours later. The shoal was later surveyed by Lieut. C.W.Yule of the colonial schooner Bramble, and named McKenzie Shoal. [LQ],[HH2],[HH1],[ASW1]
In 1845, involved in rescue - see barque Coringa Packet, lost Queensland, 1845.

Hester. Dutch ship, 840 tons. Captain Victor. Lost on Kent’s Reef about 250 miles north of Port Curtis, 21 April 1854. She was accommpanied by the Dutch ship Doelwych. The crews of both vessels got away in the boats but while those from the Hester arrived safely at Gladstone ten days later, the crew from the Doelwych were not seen again.
[LQ],[HH1],[LAH]

Hibernia. Brig. Captain S. Ashmore. Plied the Indian - Australian trade, using the “outer route” of the Great Barrier Reef. His charts of the GBR and eastern india were highly regarded. [HH2]

Hibernia. Ketch, 25 tons. Built 1869. Lost near Cooktown, Queensland, 13 June 1877.  [LQ]

Hide Maru. Ship. Involved in rescue - see Kinsen Maru, 1933. [LQ]

Hit or Miss. Ketch, 9 tons. Wrecked of Queensland coast, 1878. The crew were never traced. [LQ]

Hoegh Silverlight. Lugger. Destroyed by fire near Cairns, Queensland, 24 October 1950. [LQ]

Holthill. Norwegian freighter. Involved in rescue - see Kiaho Maru, 1962. [LQ]

Hoolet. Ketch, 31 tons. Lost at Mooloolah River, Queensland, May 1889. [LQ]

Hope. American whaler, 300 tons. Reg. New Bedford. Lost on Brampton Shoal, Queensland waters, 17 October 1863. All crew rescued. [LQ]

Hopeful. Barquentine, 216 tons. Ashore, wrecked when she dragged her anchors near the mouth of Liverpool Creek at Cardwell, Queensland, 12 January 1880. [LQ]

Hopkinson. Barque. As a troopship, and part of a convoy consisting of the troopships John Brewer, Kelso, and Arab, ran on to reefs north-east of Palm Island, Queensland, 30 June 1842. After six days, the vessels were refloated, and taken to Palm Beach for repairs before continuing their voyage. The convoy consisted of twnety-six officers and 700 men of the 28th Regiment of Foot, known as The Slashers. All ships gave their name to a reef in the area (now popular scuba diving locations). [HH2],[HH1]

Hopper Barge No.27. Foundered in the Pioneer River, Queensland; register closed 25 March 1914. [LQ]

Hopper Barge No.24. Vessel of 110 tons. Foundered in the Fitzroy River, Queensland, 1931. [LQ]

Hormuzeer. See Shah Hormuzear.

Hossack. Wooden fishing vessel, 33 tons. Sank 10 km off Hayman Island, Great Barrier Reef,  7 April 1963.  [LQ]

Hoyaru Maru. Involved in rescue - se Amagi Maru.

Hugh Ewing. Three-masted schooner, 192 tons. Built 1871; reg. Melbourne. Wrecked on Herald Reef No.1, GBR, 1 August 1886. The barque Rachael rescued all hands and landed them at Cape Moreton. [LQ]

Hui-Ju-Hup. Taiwanese clam boat. On 21 April 1979 the boat was detected fishing in Australian territorial waters, and while being escorted to Cairns began to take water and was abandoned off Ruby Reef.  [LQ]

Hydrabad. Wooden ship, 695/602 tons. Built Shields, UK, 1843; reg. London, owned by Duncan Dunbar. Captain Robertson. Sydney to Calcutta with horses, wrecked  at Cumberland Passage on the Barrier Reef when she struck a sunken rock, 25 May 1845. The boats, containing 29 persons, reached Booby Island, Qld. They were soon joined by survivors from the wrecked Coringa Packet, and later rescued by the schooner Shamrock. All the horses were lost.  [LQ],[LI],[HH2],[ASW1],[LAH]

I-26. Japanese submarine. Torpedoed and sank the steamship Kowarra when 60 km north-east of Sandy Cape, Queensland, 24 April 1943. Twenety-one crew lost.  [LQ],[LAH - name J-26]

Ida. Ketch. Lost on the Wide Bay bar, Queensland, mid- February, 1885. [LQ]

Idalia. Cutter. Left Cairns on 12 June 1886 and was not seen again. [LQ]

Idle Wise. Fishing boat.  Lost south of Townsville,  16 June 1989. [LQ]

Illawarra Range. Trawler. Sank off the Central Queensland coast, 4 March 1979. No loss of life.  [LQ]

Inconstant. Brig, 337 tons. Vessel used by Napoleon to escape from his detention on Elba Island. The vessel is presumed to have been taken later as a prize by the British, and renamed Swiftsure. [ASW1]

Independence. Schooner. Ashore while sheltering from a gale under Noosa Heads, 1866. [LQ]

Index. Ketch, 43 tons. Built 1874; reg. Sydney. Capsized off Bailey’s Creek about twenty miles north of Port Douglas, Queensland, 26 October 1891. [LQ]

Io. Schooner, 71 tons. Wrecked on a reef near the Marion Reefs, Queensland, 6 August 1882. Crew saved.  [LQ]

Iona. Steamer, 40 tons. Destroyed by fire in the Brisbane River, August 1889. [LQ]

Iona. Steamer. Destroyed by fire at Bowen, Queensland, 1886. [LQ]
Also listed:
Iona. Wooden steamer. Burnt at Bowen, Queensland, 2 September 1888. [LQ]

Irene. Schooner, 11 tons. Wrecked on Warrior Reef off the Queensland coast, May 1913.  [LQ]

Iris. Paddle steamer, 45 tons. Built 1878. From Cooktown to Bundaberg, sprang a leak and sank near Saddle Island, 1 December 1888. [LQ]

Iron Flinders. Ship. Involved in rescue - see Verago, 1961. [LQ]

Isabel. Ketch, 19 tons. Built 1891; reg. Townsville. Foundered off Hook Island in Whitsunday Passage, 10 August 1899. [LQ]

Isabella. Schooner. Captain Charles Morgan Lewis. Involved in rescue - see Charles Eaton, ship, 1834. [LQ],[#HH1]

Isabella Gollan. Schooner, 69 tons. Wrecked in Moreton Bay, Queensland, 13 September 1894. [LQ]

Ishar. Type unknown. Struck rocks and broke up near Mackay, Queensland, 27 May 1990. [LQ]

Istria. Yacht. Destroyed by a cyclone between Brisbane and Gladstone, Queensland, March 1972. [LQ]

Italy. Barque, 286 tons. Wrecked on a reef to the north of No. 3 Island in the Bunker Group, GBR, 16 November 1885. [LQ]

James Watt. Steamer. Involbved in rscue - see Duje of York, barque, 190 tons. [LQ]

James Merriman. Barque. Whilst employed in the pearl shell industry, was lost off the Queensland coast, 1872.  [LQ]

James Shears. Unknown type. Believed lost on Brampton Reef, Queensland, 1871. [LQ]

Jan Anne. Unknown type. Foundered off Woody Point, Queensland, 24 August 1988. [LQ]

Jane. Two-masted wooden schooner, 42 tons. Built 1836. Lost on the Tweed bar, Queensland, 1 July 1848. Noloss of life. [LQ]

Jane. Brigantine, 180 tons.  Captain Gould. Lost on Stradbroke Island, 17 February 1857. [LQ]

Jane. Schooner. Lost between Baffle Creek and Round Hill, Queensland, 7 March 1870. [LQ]

Jane & Henry. Schooner. Captain Corbern. From Sydney for Batavia, wrecked on an outcrop of the Barrier Reef somewhere east of Temple Bay, 11 September 1835. Crew reached Timor several weeks later. [LQ],[ASW1]

Jane Lockhart. Schooner, 81 tons. Built 1861. Lost on a reef off Heron Island, Bunker Group, GBR, 17 December 1868.  Crew saved. [LQ]

Jane Scott. Cutter, 36 tons.  Built Port Macquarie 1842.  Lbd 48 x 14.2 x 6 ft. Supposed lost on a reef near Cook Island, Queensland, but the exact locality is not known, June 1849. She may have been wrecked some miles to the north near Burleigh Heads. [LQ]

Jason. Schooner, blackbirder, 96 tons. Built 1851. Destroyed by fire at Wide Bay, Queensland, 10 June 1875. She lay at anchor with two white men and about eighty kanakas on board; all except one kanaka escaped. [LQ]

Jay Dee IV. Fishing boat. Sank off Bailey Point, Queensland, 8 May 1986. [LQ]

Jeanie Deans. Schooner. Driven on to a reef off Green Island, Queensland, 14 May 1863. [Which Green Island ? - off Cairns or in Banks Strait?]. See also Antagonist, barque, 1863, wrecked fortnight after Jeanie Deans.  [LQ]

Jemima. Brig, 179 tons. Built 1867; reg. Brisbane. Believed lost on the Great Barrier Reef, November 1893. [LQ]

Jennie Scott. Ketch, 38 tons. Built 1869; reg. Brisbane. Ashore near Flora Reef, Queensland, 21 September 1890. [LQ]

Jenny Lind. Barque, 474 tons.  Built Quebec 1847; reg. Plymouth 15/1848. Captain J. Taylor. While returning to England from Hobsons Bay via Singapore and India with a complement of thirty-one and cargo of flour and beef, wrecked on Kenn Reef, GBR, 21 September 1850. All landed on a small island and after building a boat from the wreckage, set out for Moreton Bay where they all arrived safely after thirty-seven days. [LQ],[ASW6],[#HH2],[ASW1]

Jenny Lind. Schooner. Ashore, wrecked, in a gale at Bustard Bay, Queensland, 2 February 1857. Crew landed safely at Port Curtis. [LQ]

Jenny Lind. Schooner. Lost on a reef seven miles from Gatcombe Head, on the approach to Gladstone, Queensland, 12 September 1862. [LQ]

Jeroine. Schooner, 130 tons. Lost on a shoal in Endevour Strit, 26 April 1846. Nine lives lost. [LI]

Jessie Davis. Schooner, 29 tons. Built 1884; reg. Sydney. Destroyed by fire as she lay anchored in the Kolan River, Queensland, 9 December 1888. [LQ]

Jhansi Ki Rani.  Indian bulk carrier,  41,141-tonne.  Stranded, badly holed, on Frederick Reef, Queensland, 26 April 1986. Refloated on 4 May, and after being anchored for inspection, was towed to Singapore for repairs; put up for auction with her cargo of coal. [LQ]

Jin Shan Hai. Chinese freighter, 35000 tonne.  Rammed and sank the prawn trawler Kekenni, 1991. [LQ]

Jo-ean. Fishing boat. Lost near Cape Upstart, Queensland, 26 February 1973. [LQ]

John. Schooner. Renamed Gneering, and converted to paddle-steamer. Lost near the mouth of the Maroochie River, Queensland, September 1893. [LQ]

John Brewer. As a troopship, sailed from Sydney for India in June 1842. As part of a convoy consisting of the troopships Kelso, Arab, and the barque Hopkinson, ran on to reefs north-east of Palm Island, Queensland, 30 June 1842. After six days, the vessels were refloated, and taken to Palm Beach for repairs before continuing their voyage. The convoy consisted of twnety-six officers and 700 men of the 28th Regiment of Foot, known as The Slashers. All ships gave their name to a reef in the area (now popular scuba diving locations). [HH2],[HH1]
Involved in rescue - see Martha Ridgeway, 1842. [HH2],[HH1]

John Munro. Involved in rescue - see Sun, brig, 1826. [LQ]

Joni. Cutter.  Found abandoned off Cape Tribulation, Queensland, early March 1895. The fate of the crew was never discovered.  [LQ]

Juliet. Wooden schooner, 49 tons. Built 1848. Struck Breaksea Spit, Queensland, abandoned, 1871. The crew landed on Fraser Island, but hostile aborigines forced them to head back out to sea, where S.S.Hercules picked them up and took them on to Maryborough. [LQ],[LI]

Juno. Barque, 212 tons. Built 1827. Wrecked ashore on Moreton Island, Queensland, 17 May 1857.  [LQ]

Kallatina. Steel steamer,628 tons. Built at Glasgow, 1890. Lbd 179.1 x 28.2 x 11.4 ft. Bought from the Government by John Burke Ltd and operated on the northern Queensland run from 1921. Captain Anders Paulsen. Replaced by the Wandana in 1932. Scuttled in 1935 to form a breakwater at Bulwer, Moreton Bay, Queensland. [LH],[HH2],[HH1]

Kaptajn Nielsen. Dredge. Capsized and sank in Brisbane harbour region, 18 September 1964. Thirty-three men were trapped and drowned; fifteen managed to escape. [Z01]

Karalou. Fishing boat. Sank in Moreton Bay, Queensland, 31 March 1988. [LQ]

Karaweera. Steamer, 1613/1477 tons. Built Blythe, 1882. Adelaide Steamship Co.  Broke her back when stranded on Central Island in the Fitzroy River, at Rockhampton, Queensland, , 2 July 1902. [LQ],[LAH],[DG]

Kate Conley. Barque, 154 tons. Built 1869. Disappeared off the Queensland coast during a gale, 8 March 1878. Remains were not found until two years later, when part of the vessel and her cargo were discovered in Temple Bay, about 300 miles from where she was last seen. [LQ],[HH2 - brig]

Kate. Paddle steamer, rigged as a three-masted schooner, 148 tons. Collided with S.S.Burwah, sank in about three fathoms north-east from the Pile Light, Brisbane, 11 November 1890. [LQ]

Kate. Schooner, 85 tons. Built 1876. Disappeared during cyclone, February 1888. [LQ]

Kate Kearney. Brigantine, 69 tons. Built 1854. Destroyed by a gale which battered Cooktown, 21 February 1884. [LQ],[LPA]
Also listed:
Kate Kearney. Schooner. Part owned by Cape York settler Frank Jardine; involved in the pearl industry off Warrior Island, Torres Strait. [HH2],[HH1]

Kekenni. Prawn trawler. Rammed and sunk by the, 35,000 tonne Chinese freighter Jin Shan Hai,  about 50 nautical miles north of Cairns, 17 June 1991. Crew of three rescued.  [LQ]

Kelso. As a troopship, sailed from Sydney for India in June 1842, as part of a convoy consisting of the troopships John Brewer, Arab, and the barque Hopkinson; ran on to reefs north-east of Palm Island, Queensland, 30 June 1842. After six days, the vessels were refloated, and taken to Palm Beach for repairs before continuing their voyage. The convoy consisted of twenty-six officers and 700 men of the 28th Regiment of Foot, known as The Slashers. All ships gave their name to a reef in the area (now popular scuba diving locations). [HH2],[HH1]

Kenilworth. Schooner, 113 tons. Dismasted east of Cape Moreton early May 1894; towed into Moreton Bay, where she was condemned, then dismantled. [LQ]

Kestrel. Schooner. Wrecked in a major cyclone, Cooktown, Queensland, over 18-20 January 1907.  [LQ]

Kestrel. Trawler. Lost off the Queensland coast, 7 May 1992. [LQ]

Kim Long Yuk. Taiwanese fishing vessel. Wrecked on a reef 160 km east of Mackay, Queensland, 29 April 1976. Crew of 16 reached safety.  [LQ]

Kirkdale. Brig. Wrecked ashore  30 miles north of Cape Moreton, Queensland, 19 July 1862. Crew landed safely. [LQ]

Koala. Barge, ex-R.A.N. vessel. Jammed under Centenary Bridge  during flooding of the Brisbane River; scuttled when it threatened the bridge’s safety,   January 1974. [LQ]

Koala. Steamer, 24 tons. Queensland Government vessel. Foundered out from Cairns, 5 February 1930.   [LQ]

Konoowarra. Steamship, 1284 tons. Built 1880. Howard Smith & Co. Converted into a hulk and towed to Townsville, 1915. [DG]

Konstantin Pausprovskiy. Russian container ship. Sank the trawler Bongaree off Mooloolaba, Queensland, 27 October 1982. [LQ]

Kos 1. Fishing boat. Sank off Cape Moreton, Queensland, 19 July 1986. [LQ]

Kotoktu. Unknown type. Struck a reef off Lady Musgrave Island, Queensland, during cyclone Emily, 1 April 1972.  [LQ]

Kowarra. Steel steamship, 2125 tons. Built Sunderland 1916. Owned by Australian Steamships Pty. Ltd. Sunk by the Japanese submarine I-26 about 60 km north-east of Sandy Cape, Queensland, 24 April 1943. The eleven survivors from her crew of thirty-two were picked up by an American submarine chaser almost 24 hours after she sank. [LQ],[LAH]

Koyo Maru. Japanese trawler. Wrecked on a reef north- east of Mackay, Queensland, 29 October 1971. The previous day she had stranded on Crab Reef, but floated free. [LQ]

Krimpen-an-Delik. Type not recorded. Wrecked on Brampton Reef, Great Barrier Reef, 1902. [LI]

Kuranda. Steamship, 953 tons. Owned by A.U.S.N. Co. Operated on the Queensland run from 1905. [HH2]

La Fleur de Sud. French Ship. Collided with and sank Elizabeth, barque, 1854. [LQ]

Laches. Type unknown. Lost her keel and capsized off Orpheus Island, Queensland, 11 June 1990. [LQ]

Lachlan.  H.M.A.S. Discovered the wrecksite of the Yongala, lost 1911. [LQ]

Lady Blackbird. Whaler. Involved in rescue - see barque Thomas King. [HH2]

Lady Bowen. Unknown type. Involved in rscue -see Dawn, schooner, 1870. [LQ]

Lady Lamington. Steamer, 357 tons. Built at Glasgow, 1878 as the Gunga. Renamed Croydon in 1893, Lady Laminton in 1898 and Moreton in 1900. Scuttled at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland.[LH]

Lady Margaret. Brig. Involved in rescue - see Enchantress, brig, 1850. [LQ]

Lady Nelson. British vessel. Tender to Investigator, under command to Matthew Flinders. Sailed from Sydney 22 July 1802. Aground on Queensland coast, August 1802. With a new sliding keel prepared by carpenters from the Investigator, returned to Sydney. [HH2],

Lady Young. Steamship, 442 tons. Built Scotland. Owned by Queensland Steam Navigation Co.  [WL]

Lady Belmore. Brig, 254 tons. Forced ashore in a gale at Flat Top Island, Queensland, 8 March 1882. After the crew refused to unload her cargo, the Customs Department took charge, then landed her stores and gear. [LQ]

Lady Bowen. Schooner. Torn from her moorings during a storm and wrecked near Waverley, Queensland, 20 March 1863. She was salvging the brigantine Princeza at the time. [LQ]

Lady Bowen. Four-masted schooner, 702 tons. Ashore, wrecked, on Kennedy Shoal in the Great Barrier Reef, 19 August 1894. Built originally as a paddle steamer, she was converted to sail in 1890.

Lady Darling. Cutter, 10 tons. Wrecked on the Jenny Lind Creek bar, Qld, 26 March 1866.  [LQ]

Lady Elliot. Ship, 353 tons.  Built Bengal; registered at Calcutta. Captain Thomas Stewart. Left Sydney for Batavia late in September 1816 but did not arrive. Several years later settlers at Cardwell found her remains near the mouth of a small creek. Apparently the crew of fifty-four, mostly lascars, lost their lives. One of the forst vessels to use the “inner route” between the great barrier Reef and the mainland when travelling between Sydney and batavia. The captain named Lady Elliot Island on the southern Great Barrier Reef.  [LQ],[HH2],[ASW1]

Lady Grey. Barque, 300 tons. Lost on Alert Reef, Queensland waters, 1844.  All crew reached safety. [LQ]

Lady Jean. Fishing boat. Caught fire and sank near the Family Islands, Queensland, 30 August 1987. [LQ]

Lady Kinnaird. Barque, 321 tons. Built Dundee 1839 Lost near the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, January 1861. [LQ]

Ladybird. Schooner. Caught fire and abandoned, vicinity Caldwell, Queensland, 1869. The vessel was loading guano off the Queensland coast when three aboriginals in the crew attacked the six white crew members, but were killed after a fight. The vessel was returning to Caldwell when it caught fire. [LQ]

Lallah Rookh. Ketch, 59 tons. Built 1875; reg.Townsville. Left Townsville for Maryborough with a crew of four and was last seen on 22 December 1899 off L. Island shortly before a cyclone swept through. [LQ]

Lally. Launch. Lost near Franklin Island, Queensland, 27 June 1927. [LQ]

Lark. Cutter. Lost at Townsville, January 1896. [LQ]

Lark. Two masted wooden schooner, 19 tons. Built at Brisbane Water, NSW 1832; reg. Sydney 45/1842. Lbd 36.6 x 12.6 x 5.5 ft.  Reported lost in Moreton Bay, February 1846. [LQ]

Lass O’Gowrie. Steamer, 300 tons. Owned by Howard Smith Steamship Compnay. Operated on the Queensland run, 1890s. [HH2]

Laura. Steamer. Involved in rescue - see Gerd Heye, barque, 1889. [LQ]

Laura Belle. Schooner, 16 tons. Lost on Blacksmith Island, Queensland, 21 August 1891. [LQ]

Laurel. Fishing boat. Wrecked at Bustard Heads, Queensland, 21 May 1930. Two lives lost.    [LQ]

Lavinia. Schooner, 94 tons. On a trading cruise, the vessel was attacked by natives and some of the crew murdered, 1873. [LI]

Lazy River. Fishing boat. Sank after striking a barge moored off St. Helens Island, Queensland, 8 May 1990. [LQ]

Leichardt. Paddlewheeler, steamer, iron, 690/459 tons. Built Sydney as a paddle steamer, later rebuilt without the paddles. A.S.N.Co. Sank in the Brisbane River while laid up waiting demolition, 1901; broken up the following year.  [LQ],[DG]
In October 1873, under Captain Saunders, brought police, engineers and miners to the Endevour River to establish the settlement of Cooktown. [HH2]
Involved in rescue - see Norseman, steamer, 1875. [LQ]
Involved in rescue - see Gothenburg, steamer, 1875. [LQ],[HH2]
Involved in a collission with SS Vlissingen, 1898. [LQ]
Loney indicates built in 1885, but this may be the date of her re-construction as a screw steamer.

Leisha. Wooden motor vessel, 84 tons. Sprang a leak and was run ashore near Double Island Point, Queensland, 8 December 1954.  [LQ]

Leisure Hour. Ketch,18 tons. Built 1860. Wrecked on the west side of the Brisbane River bar, 25 January 1869. [LQ]

Leslie J. Thompson. Oil tanker. Involved in the recovery of oil from the stricken Oceanic grandeur, 1970. [LQ]

Lily. Schooner, 19 tons. Built 1864. Lost at Norman River, Queensland, September 1876. [LQ]

Limmen. Dutch vessel. One of three ships (the others Zeemeeu and Braq) under the command of Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1643 examined the coastline of the Gulf of Carpentaria and Arnhem Land to determine if there was a seaway through to the Pacific. [HH2]

Lincoln. Cutter, 55 tons. Built 1865. After leaving Townsville, abandoned in a leaking condition when off Moreton Island, 2 July 1872. [LQ]
Also listed:
Lincoln. Ketch, 55 tons. Foundered off Magnetic Island, August 1873.  [LQ]

Lismore. Brigantine, 88 tons. Built Newcastle 1865. Wrecked ashore on Magnetic Island, February 1874.  [LQ]

Live Yankee. Cutter. Wrecked whilst crossing the bar at Jenny Lind Creek, Queensland, 18 January 1868. One man lost. [LQ]

Lizzie. Cutter, beche-de-mer vessel, 30 tons. Owned by Harry Evoldt. Operated on the northern Queensland coast. The captain, known as German Harry, but was actually a Dane, was one of the pioneering ‘characters’ of Queensland. [HH1]

Lizzie Jardine. Cutter, 20 ton. After the master of the was lost overboard between Bowen and Whitsunday Island, the native crew were unable to sail her and she drifted ashore, where she was lost, 1902. [LQ]

Lizzie Muir. Schooner, 83 tons. Built 1864. Left Cooktown for Brisbane in ballast on 21 February 1875 but was not seen again. [LQ]

Llewellyn. Government steamer, 160 tons. Left Rockhampton for Mackay, Queensland, on 16 July 1919 and not seen again. Some time later wreckage from her was found on St. Bees Island, off Mackay, indicating that she may have been lost nearby.      [LQ]

Loa Loa. Wooden cutter. Destroyed by fire off Moreton Island, Queensland, 16 June 1975. [LQ]

Loda. American barque, 637 tons. Captain Wade. Destroyed by fire near Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, 20 January 1866. She had been dismasted by a cyclone a few days earlier. The burnt-out remains eventually drifted ashore about four miles south of Cape Capricorn. The crew who left in the boats landed safely at Maryborough.   [LQ]

Lola Montez. Schooner, 43 tons. Built 1861. Abandoned as a wreck in the Northumberland Group, GBR, 1873. [LQ]

Lombard. Barque, 256 tons..  Operated in Victorian waters in the 1860s under Captain Hardings. Loaded with cattle she left Gladstone for New Zealand on 7 April 1867 and disappeared. A week later bodies of dead cattle were sighted near Indian Head, then pieces of timber bearing some of the letters in her name were found near Port Macquarie, NSW, and finally, part of her stern came ashore.  [LQ],[LPA - schooner]

Lone Star. Cutter, 7 tons. Rammed and sunk by S.S.Geelong in the Brisbane River, Queensland, 9 April 1882. [LQ]

Lookout. Schooner. 108 tons.  Built 1886; reg. Sydney. Ashore, abandoned, on Coconut Island in the Great North Eastern Channel, GBR, 31 August 1895. [LQ],[LI indicates brigantine.]

Lorna Doone. Cutter. Wrecked on the southern end of Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 6 May 1888. [LQ]

Louisa. Steamer, 57 tons. Owned by John Burke, a deserted seaman. Operated on the southern Queensland coast. [HH1]

Louisa Maria. Schooner, 39 tons. Built 1853. While the crew were ashore looking for water, was set on fire by aborigines while at anchor off Passage Island, Whitsunday Group, 2 August 1878. The captain, who has stayed on board, escaped by diving overboard, and swam ashore to join the crew. They set off for Bowen in the ship’s boat and were picked up by the schooner Riser. A punitive expedition was mounted by Native police and many of the Islanders were shot. [LQ],[HH1]

Lucinda. Steel paddle steamer, 301 tons gross. Built at Dumbarton, 1884. Lbd 172.2 x 25.1 x 9.2 ft. In 1893 and 1899 she was used for meetings which planned the Australian Constitution. Dumped at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland. [LH]
Also listed:
Lucinda. Government yacht. Was at anchor when the ferry Pearl struck her anchor chain in the Brisbane River, with the loss of at least twenty-three lives, 13 February 1896. [LQ},[LAH]

Lucy. Schooner, 66 tons. Struck Indispensable Reef, 11 November 1874. Crew reached safety. [LQ] There appears to be no Indispensable Reef listed for Queensland. There is an Indispensable Rise in the north Coral Sea.

Lucy Ann. Captain Barr. Sighted the wrecked barque Peruvian (qv) , lost Queensland, 1946. [ASW1]

Lucy Ravels. Schooner, 90 tons. Built 1874. Struck Black Swan Reef, Queensland waters, 23 October 1875, floated free at high water, was beached, but eventually became a total wreck. [LQ]

Madeline May. Yacht. Destroyed by fire near Southport, Queensland, 1931. [LQ]

Magda. Dutch ship. Struck a reef off Cape Van Diemen, Mornington Island, 1 June 1858. Eventually abandoned. Two boats left the wreck but became separated. One was sighted and rescued by the brig Shamrock but the other boat was not seen again [LQ]

Maggie. Brig, 191 tons.  Built 1862; reg. Sydney. Wrcekd ashore in a cyclone near the Daintree River, Queensland, 21 April 1878.  [LQ]

Maggie L. Weston. Steamer, wooden, 95 tons. Foundered in Cleveland Bay, Queensland, 16 March 1901.   [LQ]

Maggie Logan. Ketch, 27 tons. Foundered in Trinity Inlet, Queensland, 12 November 1892. [LQ]

Magic Dragon. Yacht. Lost on Flinders Reef, Queensland, 1985. [LQ]

Maheno. Triple screw turbine steamer, steel, 5323 tons. Built  at Dumbarton, 1905, for Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. The second turbine steamer to arrive in Australia. Arrived Melbourne, then Port Jackson on 14 November 1905. Served as a hospital ship in World War 1. Lbd 400 x 50.2 x 30.8 ft. Operated to Canada, and New Zealand. Was being towed to Japan for scrapping by SS Oonah when struck by an out-of-season cyclone amd drifted on to Fraser Island, Queensland, 8 July 1935. Eventually abandoned and became a practice target for RAAF aircraft during World War 2.   [LQ],[LI],[LH],[LAH],[DG],WL]
~ The wreck is still a well-known tourist attraction on Fraser Island.

Maid of Riverton. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see Reliance, brig, 1868. [LQ]

Maid of Athens. Schooner, 200 tons. Captain John Hews. Struck an uncharted rock and sank while entering the Great Barrier Reef near the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, off Cape Grenville, 30 May 1846. No loss of life. The captain thought he had sighted the wreck of the Martha Ridgeway, but it was in fact the Ferguson. All survived, and taken aboard the brig Spy. [LQ],[#HH2],[ASW1]

Maida. Wooden barque, 520 tons. Built at Moulamein, 1857. Australian owned in 1857. Lbd 147.4 x 25.2 x 19.2 ft. Hulked, then in 1949 burnt for her copper fittings and dumped at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland. [LH]

Marchioness of Lorne. Schooner, 78 tons. Sank in the Mary River, Queensland, February 1893.  [LQ]

Marcia Nina. Fishing boat. Lost in North Queensland waters, January 1952. [LQ]

Margaret & Jane. Schooner, 51 tons. Built 1868. Left Daintree River, Queensland,  mid-June 1876, but was not seen again. [LQ]

Maria. Ketch. Disappeared after leaving Townsville, October 1893.  [LQ]

Maria Ann. Schooner, 80 tons. Lbd  47.6 x 16 x 7.6 ft. Ashore whilst crossing the Mooloolah River bar, Queensland, 1866. [LQ]

Maria Sophia. Dutch schooner. Collided with the French ship La Fleur de Sud and was cut in two, off the Queensland coast, July 1854. Six lives were lost. [LQ]

Marietta Dal.  (Marietta Dahl). Ex-Liberty ship, steel motor-vessel, 7176 tons. Reg. Liverpool. While entering Moreton Bay, Queensland, struck Smith Rock at low water, 1950. Crew of forty saved. After several unsuccessful salvage attempts she broke in two and became a total wreck.  [LQ],[LI],[LAH]

Marina. Wooden ship, 529 tons. Arrived in Australia from Liverpool in 1859. Captain Jamieson. Initially wrecked and abandoned in the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, GBR, on 5 October 1859. She was subsequently found by the crew of the wrecked ship Sapphire, repaired, and made Gladstone on 17 February 1860. The men who brought the Marina home received £600 total. She was further repaired and sold to Sydney merchant Robert Towns. However, off Cape Moreton she began to leak so badly that her crew were taken off by the schooner Tom Tough, and she foundered.  [#HH2],[LQ],[LI],[HH1],[LAH]

Marion. Schooner, 65 tons. Wrecked on a reef in a major cyclone, north of Cooktown, Queensland, over 18-20 January 1907.  [LQ]

Marion. Whaler, 900 tons.  Supposed wrecked on the reef now bearing her name, off the Queensland coast, mid 1862. Mystery still surrounds her fate, as the crew of an open boat which reached Brisbane gave a description of her loss, but were later arrested as mutineers from the Briton's Queen. [LQ]

Mark Twain. Ketch. Sprang a leak and foundered near Speers Island, Queensland, 27 July 1908.  [LQ]

Marloo. Steel steamer, 2628 tons. Ex Francesco Crispi. Built Newcastle on Tyne, UK, 1891. Adelaide Steamship Co. Hit on Sandy Cape Shoal and as she was making water fast, was beached on Fraser Island, Queensland, north of Waddy Point, 27 September 1914. Crew and all 38 passengers rescued. Most of the steamer’s cargo was salvaged before a north-easterly gale frustrated attempts to refloat her and she soon went to pieces. [LQ],[LI],[DG]
@ Remains have been blasted to recover brass. [LAH]

Marquerite. Launch. Went missing after leaving Cooktown for Port Moresby on 30 November 1960. Crew of three never found. [LQ]

Marquis of Lorne. Type unknown, 54 tons. Wrecked on a reef north of Dunk Island, Queensland, August 1883.  [LQ]

Marsale. Fishing boat. Sank off Flat Island, Queensland, 13 February 1989. [LQ]

Marshall S. Brigantine, 179 tons. Built 1876; reg. Sydney. Foundered near Mackay, Queensland, 22 July 1897. [LQ]

Mary. Brig Captain Beel. Left Sydney for Manila on 19 November 1946, but was lost on an unidentified reef, 2 December 1946. Crew rescued from lifeboat by HMS Beagle. [LQ]

Mary. Cutter. Wrecked ashore off Cape Moreton, 30 March 1873. Crew saved. [LQ]

Mary. Paddle steamer, 89 tons. Sank at Cairns, Queensland, 2 August 1909. [LQ]

Mary. Schooner. Ashore in a gale, wrecked, Fraser island, 1873. [LI]

Mary Ann Broughton. When Captain Blackwood of HMS Fly visited the Bunker Group of islands in Great Barrier Reef in 1843, he found a tree with the name Mary Ann Broughton cut into it. [LI]

Mary Evans. Barque. Wrecked in a flooded Brisbane River, 1893. [LQ]

Maryborough. Iron bucket dredge, about 1000 tons gross. Built 1880.  Not registered and no other details located. Scuttled in Moreton Bay off Tangalooma - with oyher vessels, helps to form an artificial haven for small boats.. [LH]

Mary Davis. Ketch, wooden, 28 tons. Ashore or sunk at Mackay, during one of the worst cyclones in Queensland’s history, January 1918. Possibly reloated. [LQ]

Mary Ellen. Schooner, wooden, 29 tons. Foundered between Cape Capricorn and Sandy Cape, Queensland, 1910. [LQ]

Mary Laurie. Ketch, 48 ton. Wrecked on Petrel Island, Queensland, 1904. [LQ]

Mary Ogilvie. Unknown type. Involved in rescue - see Naiad, brig 1885. [LQ]

Mary Peverley. Schooner, 95-ton. Refloated after stranding near Cape Upstart, Queensland,  on 15 May 1915, but found not to be not worth repairing. [LQ]
Maunalor. Cabin cruiser. Foundered off the Queensland coast, February 1987. [LQ]

Mavis. Launch. Lost north of Innisfail, Queensland, April 1950. One survivor from her crew of four. [LQ]

Mavis. Queensland Government schooner, 75 tons. Lost on Dungeness Reef, Queensland, 30 July 1885. [LQ]

May. Cutter, 7 tons. Destroyed in a cyclone at Rocky Islet, Queensland, 26 January 1894. No lives lost. [LQ]

Maymo. Ketch. Lost on Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, 22 August 1950.  [LQ]

May Queen. Schooner. Lost of Queensland coast, May 1877. [LQ]

Mediterranean Packet. Vessel on which Mrs Fraser, survivor of the wrecking of the Stirling Castle, returned to England. She married the captain on arriving there. [NH]

Meg Merrilees. Pearling schooner. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland. [LQ]

Melanie. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see Cathay, barque, 1866. [LQ]

Merchant. (Merchantman). Wooden ship, 1059 tons. Built  USA, 1862.  During a voyage from Mossman River to Melbourne with timber, disappeared off the Queensland coast during a cyclone, early in March, 1878. [LQ],[HH2],[LAH - Merchantman, barque]

Mermaid. Cutter, 20 tons. Lost on Moreton Island, Queensland, September 1864.  [LQ]

Mercury. Cutter. Ashore on a sandspit on the north side of Cape Bedford near Cooktown, Queensland, 13 July 1894.  [LQ]

Mildred. Ketch, 24 tons. Lost near Port Douglas, Queensland, 1934.  [LQ]

Milo. American ship. Involved in rescue - see schooner Caledonia, lost Tonga Group, 1832.

Minerva. Lugger, 12 tons. Lost near Tern Island, Queensland, January 1929.  [LQ]

Minnie. Brigantine, 102 tons. Built 1873. Reported lost in a gale off Weary Bay, west of Hope Island, Queensland, 1 April 1887.  The crew of seven reached safety. [LQ]

Minnie Young. Type unknown. 89-ton. Left Newcastle for Townsville late 1892 with a crew of eight and not seen again. She may have foundered off the Queensland coast.  [LQ]

Missie. Brig, 182 tons. Built 1850. Abandoned in a leaking cconddition, after leaving Brisbane for Port Denison, 9 June 1866. Crew taken off by SS Salamander and taken to Gladstone. [LQ],[LPA]

Miss Shoalhaven. Type unknown. Sank off Great Keppel Island, Queensland, 18 February 1988. [LQ]

Misty 1. Fishing boat. Sank on the Jumpinpin bar, off Southport, Queensland, 22 July 1986. [LQ]

Moltke. German three-masted iron barque, 827 tons. Regarded as being a ‘beautiful ship’, with expensive furnishings and spotlessly kept. From Townsville to Rockhampton, wrecked when she drifted on to the Great Barrier Reef east of Cape Bowling Green, 23 April 1890. Her wreck was bought by a small syndicate much to the amusement of ex[ereinced mariners who saw the end to this magnificent ship, but after eight months of work, which involved buiding a coffer dam around the vessel, she was refloated, and towed to Cleveland bay by the SS Christina Gollan. The wreck still contianed her cargo of navigational instruments, provisions, cigars, whisky amd general cargo, so a handsome profit was made. She ended her days as a breakwater off Magnetic Island. [LQ],[#HH1 - wrecked on GBR May 1891]

Mona. Schooner. Wrecked on No. 6 Island in the Bunker Group off the Queensland coast, April 1875. [LQ]

Montreal. Merchantman. Lost on the Barrier Reef, 1841. Fifteen survivors landed at Port Essington after spending 48 days in two open boats.  [LQ]

Moonta. Schooner, 93 tons. Struck rocks, wrecked, at Gatcombe Head, Queensland, 8 March 1899. [LQ]

Moorah. Scallop trawler, 294 tons. Destroyed by fire at Gladstone, Queensland, 12 September 1970.  [LQ]

Moreton. Steamer, 357 tons. Built at Glasgow, 1878 as Gunga, then Croydon in 1893, Lady laminton in 1898 and Moreton in 1900. Operated as a passenger and cargo vessel; converted to a lighter in 1929, disamantled in 1934 and scuttled at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland. Lbd 180.6 x 22.1 x 10. 8 ft. [LH]

Morinda. Type unknown. Involved in rescue - see Mindini, 1923. [LQ]

Mount Elliot. Barge, 356 tons. Foundered near Townsville, 1919. [LQ]

Murwillumbah. Steamer, wooden, 44 tons. Llost at Tweed Heads, Queensland, January 1909. [LQ]

Myall. Steamer, 75-ton. Ran on to a reef  in Challenger Bay near Townsville, Queensland, 28 January 1908. Eventually sank about a kilometre off shore. [LQ]

Myrtle. Brigantine, 167 tons. Stranded, abandoned, near Lizard Island, 3 April 1897. [LQ]

Mystery. Pilot cutter. Lost in Keppel Bay, Qld, during a squall, 26 March 1869. [LQ]

Mystery. Steamer, wooden, 43 tons. Built 1893. Foundered while crossing the bar at Southport, Queensland, 20 December 1898. One man drowned. [LQ],[LI]

Mystery. Schooner. Wrecked at Albany Heads, Queensland,  October 1902. Crew rescued by SS Water Lily.  [LQ]

Nami. Motor launch, wooden, 33 tons. Wrecked at Double Island, Queensland, October 1910.  [LQ]

Nana. Lugger. Lost near the Pascoe River in Northern Queensland, 1908. [LQ]

Nancy. Ketch, 25 tons. Lost about 80 km north of Hinchinbrook Passage, Queensland, 24 April 1909. [LQ]

Nansyth. Fishing boat. Lost near Bundaberg, Queensland, 17 April 1931. [LQ]

Narelle. Fishing boat. Sank in the Barnett River, Queensland, 18 April 1985. [LQ]

Natone. Wooden auxiliary ketch, 402 tons, built in 1919 as the Fanefjord, later renamed Wyatt Earp, then Wongala, then Wyatt Earp again, then Natone. Obtained by the Australian Commonweath Government for Antarctic work in 1939. Grounded, wrecked, near Mudlow Rocks, Rainbow Bay, Queensland, 24 January 1959. Crew of eighteen, mostly Papuans,  drifted ashore on hatchboards, where a search party from Noosaville found them.
[LQ],[LAH - steamship, ashore at Double Island Point]

Nauru Chief. Steamer. Involved in rescue - see Mindini, 1923. [LQ]

Nautilus. Steamer, iron, 288 tons. Sank off Bustard Head, Queensland, 6 May 1928. [LQ]

Naval Brigade. Barque, 544 tons. Built 1858. Struck a reef and broke up near Frankland Island, Queensland, 23 July 1875. All the crew reached safety. [LQ]

Nellie. Launch. Sunk by a whale near Yeppoon, Queensland, 31 August 1928. [LQ]

Nelly. Cutter. Capsized near Rocky River, Queensland, 15 April 1894. Two crew lost. [LQ]

Nelson. Whaling barque. Involved in salvage - see ship America, wrecked Queensland, 1831.

Nelson. When Captain Blackwood of HMS Fly visited the Bunker Group of islands in Great Barrier Reef in 1843 he found a tree with the The Nelson, 1831 carved into it. [LI]

Nelson. Steamer, wooden, 146 tons. Lost off Burnett Heads, Queensland, during a voyage from Maryborough to Mackay, 1 January 1919. [LQ]

Neptune. Ship. Wrecked on Indispensable Reef, Queensland, 3 August 1868. After fifteen days the crew in the ship’s boats were sighted by S.S.Boomerang and taken aboard. [LQ]

Neptune. Dredge, 781 tons. Jammed under the wharf at Newstead, during flooding of the Brisbane River, between 25 and 29 January 1974. Apparently repaired. [LQ]

Newcastle. Blackwaller, 1137 tons. Built 1859. Wrecked, ashore, near Lizard Island, late May 1883.  [LQ]

Nightingale. Schooner, 29 tons. Built 1851. Captain Quinn. Ashore, wrecked on Long Island, while sheltering from a gale off the Sir James Smith Islands, 8 February 1864. The crew  landed at Cape Bowling Green where they were attacked by aborigines and taken as slaves. Some of the crew were later rescued by the schooner Three Friends but the master died from the beatings he had received. [LQ],[HH2]

Norma. Schooner, 89-ton. Wrecked on Masthead Island, Queensland, June 1913. [LQ]

Norman. Lighter, 67 tons. Sank in the Norman River, Queensland, March 1925. [LQ]

Norseman. Steamer. Struck No. 1 Bunker Reef off the Queensland coast, 1875. Crew were rescued eight days later by the steamer Leichardt.  [LQ]

Noumea. Schooner, 142 tons. Built 1873. Wrecked on Sumarez Reef, GBR, 13 May 1880. She was recruiting kanaka labour for the Queensland sugar plantations when lost. Seven recruits lost. [LQ]

Nulkada. Trawler. Foundered off the Queensland coast, 17 December 1988. [LQ]

Ocean Diver. Unlisted type [dive boat]. Wrecked on Flinders Reef, Queensland, 27 August 1988. [LQ]

Ocean Emu. Trimaran. Lost near Weipa, Queensland, 14 November 1990. [LQ]

Oceanic Two. Fishing boat. Destroyed by fire near Cairns, Queensland, 23 June 1991. [LQ]

Ocean Queen. Schooner. Lost on Tweed River bar, August 1851. [LQ]

Oldham. Barque. Involved in rescue - see schooner Caledonia, lost Tonga Group, 1832.

Olive. Pearling schooner. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay,Queensland. [LQ]

Oliver van Noord. Lost on Kenn Reef, 7 January 1858. Crew rescued. Lost within a few hours of the barque Rodney being wrecked on the same reef. [LQ]

Onward. Wooden barque, 286 tons. Built 1819. Wreckd on Brampton Reef, 15 September 1878. Her crew of 13 whites and 47 natives remained on board until daylight, then set out in three boats for the mainland; all but a few survived. [LQ]

Oonah. Steam ship. Was towing Maheno, 1935, when lost.  [LQ]

Opossum. Government launch. Foundered in Keppel Bay, Queensland, 3 August 1882. [LQ]

Orete. Schooner, 92 tons. Whilst sheltering in the Percy Group, Queensland, was driven on to a reef between Bamborough and Hunter Islands, 1918.  Only one of her crew of five survived. [LQ]

Orete. Schooner. Lost in the Percy Islands, Queensland, 1918. [LQ]

Ottawa. Schooner, 51 tons. Built 1867. Ashore on Fraser Island, just south of Indian Head, and broke up rapidly, 18 March 1878. [LQ],[LI]

Otter. Steamer. Involved in search for wreck - see Evelyn, schooner, 1890. [LQ]

Pacific. Steamship, 252 tons. Lost on Fitzroy Reef, Queensland, 3 July 1903. [LQ]

Palmer. Steamer, 298 tons. Built at Paisley, 1884.  Lbd 140.2 x 26 x 8.5 ft. Owned by A.U.S.N. Co. Captain John Clarke. Operated a weely run between Townsville and Cairns. Hulked in 1926. Converted to a lighter before being abandoned in Deep Creek on Fraser island. [LI - 99 tons.],[LH],[#HH2],[HH1]

Paluma. Gunboat. Wrecked in a flooded Brisbane River, 1893. [LQ]

Panama. American barque, wooden, 414 tons. Struck the north-west corner of Fraser Island, Qld, wrecked, 18 March 1864. One youth drowned.  [LQ],[LI],[LAH]
Loney also lists the following, apparently incorrect entry: Panama. Wooden barque, 414 tons. Was believed lost near Sandy Cape, 19 March 1860. [LQ]

Papuan. Auxiliary schooner. Destroyed when an explosion ignited the 400 cases of benzine whilst unloading copra, Cooktown, Queensland, 19 February 1907. [LQ]

Patagonia. Brig, 323 tons. Bound from Sydney to Manila, struck Bonds Reef, Queensland waters, November 1850. The boats got away safely. [LQ]

Patris. Ship, 16,259 tonnes. Broke loose in the Brisbane River during floods, January 1974. Apparently repaired.  [LQ]

Pearl. Ketch, 49 tons. Built 1869; reg. Sydney. Lost near Saddle Back Island, Queensland, 2 December 1887.  [LQ]

Pearl. Wooden steamship, ferry, 41 tons. Built 1883.  Foundered after collided with SS Lucinda in the Brisbane River, 13 February 1896. Twenty-three lives lost, being one of the worst disasters in Queensland maritime history, and the worst to date.  The Pearl was operating as a ferry as the Victoria Bridge was under repair after floods. The ferry struck the anchor chain of the Lucinda, and sank within a minute. [LQ],[LAH - 28 bodies recovered, and 'at least another 28 or more never recovered']

Pegasus. Warship. Grounded on Great Barrier Reef. [WL]

Pelican. Cutter, 10 ton. Lost off St. Lawrence, Queensland, 14 April 1912. [LQ]

Pelican. Steamer, 42 tons. Government vessel.  Ashore or sunk at Mackay, during one of the worst cyclones in Queensland’s history, January 1918. Possibly reloated. [LQ]

Pelican. Sloop. Run ashore near Dunwich, Queensland, to save life after being crippled by heavy weather, 4 April 1937. [LQ]

Pelter. Lugger. Disappeared after leaving Normanton, Queensland, 19 January 1886. [LQ]

Peregrine. Steamship, 2000 tons. Owned by Howard Smith Steamship Company. Operated on the Queensland coast in 1890s. [HH2],[HH1]

Peri. Schooner, 69 tons. Foundered off Breaksea Spit, Queensland, 13 June 1877. [LQ]
In 1872, involved in rescue - see brig Maria, wrecked on Bramble Reef, Queensland. [HH1]

Perseverance. Schooner. Lost in the old channel, Moreton Bay, Queensland, 1843.  [LQ]

Perseverance. Wooden paddle steamer,35 tons. Built 1867. Lost on North Rocks, near the mouth of the Tweed River, northern NSW, 14 April 1870. All saved. [LQ]

Perseverance. Schooner, 163 ton. Abandoned at sea after being badly damaged by a gale, 7 January 1891. [LQ]

Petrel.  Type unknown. Reported lost in Queensland waters during 1884. [LQ]

Petrel. Cutter. Disappeared between Cooktown and Port Douglas, April 1888. Almost a month later her remains were found near the mouth of the Daintree River but there was no sign of her crew. [LQ]

Peveril. Cutter, 59 tons. Destroyed by a gale which battered Cooktown, 21 February 1884. [LQ]

Pilot. Pilot schooner, 35 tons. Caught between Capes Bedford and Flattery (where some wreckage was recovered0 in a major cyclone over 18-20 January 1907.  [LQ]

Pilot Chief. Cutter. Wrecked on Scarborough Point, Queensland, 14 April 1888. [LQ]

Pioneer. Brig, 148 tons. Built 1850. Wrecked on the north-west point of Cockburn Reef, Qld, 30 May 1851. Crew rescued by barque Waverly  and taken on to Batavia.
She had been chartered to search Port Essington and Torres Strait for the long missing Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt. [LQ]

Pioneer. Schooner,  87 tons. Built San Francisco 1854.  Wrecked on an outcrop of Masthead Reef, GBR, 12 March 1866. Crew launched a boat and sailed to Keppel Bay. [LQ]

Pioneer. Paddle steamer, 65 tons. Built 1867.  Wrecked on Sweers Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 2l January 1870. [LQ]

Pizarro. Iron ship, 1439 tons. Built at Belfast, 1875 by Harland and Wolff. Lbd 233 x 36.3 x 22.8 ft. From Barrow, England to Cooktown, Queensland with railway material, passed Gabo Island, Victoria on 2 March 1884, ninety-two days out,  but was not seen again. About two months later two broken iron beams and a part of a poop were found at Walkers Bay near Cooktown, Queensland, and were thought to have come from her. [ASW6],[LQ]

Platypus. Unknown type. The remains of a vessel thought to be her was found near Cardwell late May 1878. They were never positively identified. [LQ]

Platypus. Iron dredge,181 tons. Built in Scotland, 1883. Lbd 189 x 38.7 x 14.2 ft. Scuttled on the south-eastern point of Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland, 1932. [LH]

Pocahontas. Whaler. Wrecked on Brampton Reef, Queensland waters, 1846. [LQ]

Polar Bear. Fishing boat. Wrecked on Swains Reef, Queensland, 2 May 1983. [LQ]

Policeman. Schooner. Captain Till. Involved in rescue - see barque Adelaide, lost on GBR 1866. [HH2]

Polly. Steamer, 194 tons. Lost near Johnston River, Queensland, 17 November 1889.  [LQ]

Polmaise. Wooden barque, 753 tons. Built Dundee 1853. Lbd 171 x 28.9 x 21 ft.  Out of Keppel Bay, Queensland, for London, struck a reef off Masthead Island, GBR, 2 January 1873. Abandoned when a vessel was sighted bearing down to their assistance.[LQ],[ASW6]

Porpoise. Steamer, 91 tons. Owned by Australian Steam Navigation Company. In 1873, ran aground at Townsville when bringing in juch needed stores, which were jettisoned to get her off. Involved in salvaging what they could from the lost steamer Gothenberg, lost on a reef south of Townsville, Qld, February 1875. [HH2],[#HH1]

Port Curtis Galleon. A cannon inscribed “Santa Barbara 1596" was said to have been found on Facing Island in Port Curtis, Queensland, led to speculation that an old vessel had used the port. Timbers found were proved to have been from other, more recent, vessels. [HH2],[HH1]

Port Molle Galleon. While surveying the Whitsunday Islands in 1848, a seine net snagged on the remains of an old ship lying off the head of Port Molle. The net was manned by sailors from HMS Rattlesnake, under Captain Own Stanley. Cannon balls were picked up on the nearby beach and coins and cutlery found on Long Island. Aborigines said the ship went back several generations. In June 1983 the wreck was identified as being that of the Valetta, Captain Dacre, Sydney to Manilla, June 1835. [HH2],[HH1]

Port Wallace. Barque. Involved in rescue - see A.L. Johnson, barque, 1854. [LQ]

Port Stephens. Ketch, 51 ton. Caught fire and drifted ashore on Casuarine Island, about two kilometres from Rocky Point, Queensland, September 1913. She was loaded with 1200 cases of motor spirit. No loss of life.  [LQ]

Port Stewart. Ketch. Reported missing in a gale near Pipon Island, Queensland, 2 April 1908. [LQ]

Presto. Cutter. Wrecked near Port Denison, Queensland, late 1864. [LQ]
Also listed:
Captain John Mackay, pioneer grazier. Attacked by aborigines, one crew badly injured, 1862. [HH1] .
Prince George. Cutter. Involved in rescue - see barque Coringa Packet, lost Queensland, 1845.

Prince Regent. Ship, 527 tons. Built Shields, England, 1810. Bought convicts to Sydney and sailed from their for Calcutta on 4 or 5 December 1827. Captain W. Richards. Struck a reef east of the Barnard Islands on the Great Barrier Reef, December 1827. Fate of crew unknown.  [LQ],[ASW1]

Prince Regent. Barque, 257 tons. Built 1814. While loading cattle at Gladstone, Queensland, she drifted ashore and could not be refloated, 1869. [LQ]

Princess. Unknown type. Wrecked ashore at Cardwell, Queensland, during a gale, 8 March 1878.  [LQ]

Princess Louise. Schooner, 90 tons. Struck a rock off Lizard Island, Queensland, sank, 14 March 1888. [LQ]

Princeza. Brigantine, 141 tons. Built Aberdeen 1849 Ashore, abandoned near Amity Point, 15 March 1863. (See also Lady Bowen, schooner, wrecked whilst salvaging Princeza. [LQ], [LI indiactes date of loss as 28 Februaary]

Priscilla. Ketch, 37 tons. Wrecked near Cooktown, Queensland, 1945. [LQ]

Progress. Ketch, 20 tons. Lost on Polmaise Reef, GBR, late May 1900. [LQ]

Prompt. Type unknown. Wrecked near Cooktown, Queensland, 21 February 1884. [LQ]

Prospect. Ketch. Lost near Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, 1 May 1903.  [LQ]

Prospector. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see Agnes Napier, schooner, 1855. [LQ]

Prosperity. Schooner, 125 tons. Out of Richmond River loaded with sugar machinery for Mourilyon, wrecked near Dunwich, Stradbroke Island, 19 February 1902. Loss of two lives. [LQ],[LI indicates brigantine rigged.]

Protector. Steel gunboat, 960 tons displacement. Built 1884. Lbd 188 x 30 x 12.5 ft. Armament five 6-inch guns and one 8-inch gun. Crew of ninety.The Protector was the only seagoing warship to be commissioned by the South Australian Government. She was built by W.M. Armstrong and Co. on Newcastle-on-Tyne and launched in 1884, leaving England soon after rigged as a schooner to lessen coal consumption. The aim of the Government was to use the vessel for the protection of ports and shipping in the confined gulf waters of the state but she saw no action. In 1900 she was loaned to the Admiralty for service during the Boxer Rebellion and on the 6 August of that year left for Hong Kong and Shanghai to act as a survey and dispatch vessel. After the formation of the Royal Navy in 1911 she continued to be used as a sea-going training ship, and then as a tender to the two submarines AE1 and AE2. In company with these two subs she did duty in New Guinea in 1914 and at one time was a guard ship in Rabaul harbour. In 1915 she was transferred to duty in the Indian Ocean and played a minor role in the demise of the German raider Emden. On 1 April 1921 she was renamed Cerberus and took up duty as a tender at Western Port in Victoria. She was renamed back to the original Protector in 1924 and in June of that year paid-off from Naval service. The Victorian Lighterage Company bought the old ship in 1931 and after another name change, to Sidney, was put to service as a coal and wool lighter. The US. Army requisitioned her in 1943 for service in New Guinea. Whilst under tow to her new destination she was holed by a tug and severely damaged and abandoned on a beach near Gladstone. Captain Poulson who had the lease on Heron Island at the time refloated her and towed her to the island where she now lies, serving a useful purpose as a very historic breakwater. It is of only minor interest that she was further damaged in the 1981 cyclone. There is no hope of ever raising the old lady or trying to restore her such is her condition. Care should be taken if walking over the vessel as the metal is rusted, weak and jagged. There is some interesting snorkelling around and inside her.  [LH],[DA],[HH2]
~The ship’s wheel was the only significant item recovered for posterity and may be seen in the Polly Woodside Museum in Melbourne. If only our forefathers could have appreciated our maritime heritage we may have retained one of the most historic vessels in our naval history.

Psyche. Cutter, 12 tons.  Built Gravelly Beach, Launceston. Wrecked off the Queensland coast, possibly off Percy Island, March 1849. She had been stolen from Hobart by four convicts on 20-21 February 1848. Two survivors from her were picked up at Percy Island by the barque Freak, but the fate of their two companions was never discovered although some suspected cannibalism. [LQ],[#ASW1]

Pure Pleasure. Unlisted type [dive boat]. Sank near the wreck of the Yongala, after striking a reef, 16 April 1991. [LQ]

Quasha. Iron barge, 293 tons. Ashore or sunk at Mackay, during one of the worst cyclones in Queensland’s history, January 1918. Possibly reloated. [LQ]

Queen. Ship. Involved in rescue - see Tasmania, baarque, 1853.  [LQ]

Queensland. Iron paddle steamer,373 tons. Built at Glasgow, 1861. Lbd 186.7 x 23 x 11.4. Modified 1878 ft. Operated in Queensland waters till hulked in 1887, then dumped at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland. [LH]
In 1864, a steamer of this name was involved in a rescue - see Panama, barque, 1864. [LQ]

Queensland. Light vessel, steel. Owned by Commonwealth of Australia. Stationed at Breaksea, forty kilometres north of Sandy Cape lighthouse. Strick by MV Gladstone Star, 6 June 1962. No lives lost. [LAH]

Quetta. Steam ship. Involved in rescue - see Evelyn, 1890. [LQ] Quetta (qv - Torres Strait).

Rachael. Barque. Involved in rescue - see Hugh Ewing, schooner, 1886. [LQ]

Raindeer. Ketch, 24 tons. Wrecked at Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, June 1883. [LQ]

Rambler. Schooner. Lost of Queensland coast, January 1877. [LQ]

Ranelagh. Steam ship, 836 tons.  Built 1881. Owned by A.S.N. Co. Ashore, wrecked, during a gale at Bundaberg, Queensland, 10 January 1898.  [LQ],[DG]
On 10 May 1882, ran on to King’s Reef just south of Mourilyan Harbour, Queensland. Passengers and crew rescued by the SS Gunga and landed at Cairns. The Ranelagh was eventually refloated and taken to Brisbane for repaires. [HH2]

Ranganui. Yacht. Lost off Cooktown, Queensland, 6 December 1959.            [LQ]

Rattlesnake. HMS. Known as a ‘donkey frigate’ something between a frigate and a corvette. Twenty-eight guns (these were removed when the ship undertook scientific surveys). Arrived at Cape York on 6 October 1848 having completed a survey of some 1000 km of coastline with Owen Stanley in command. In 1849, surveyed the southern coast of New Guinea. On 16 October 1849, rescued the young Scots girl Barbara Thompson who had been living with the aborigines isnce the loss of the cutter America five years earlier off Prince of Wales Island. On the voyage back to Sydney, Owen Stanley, one of Australias finest maritime explorers, suffered a stroke and died I Sydney, in his cabin on 13 March 1850.   [LQ],[#HH2],[HH1]

Rebecca. Schooner, 68 tons. Built 1846. Known to have operated in eastern Victorian waters in the 1840s. Ashore, wrecked while crossing the bar at Baffle Creek, Queensland, 19 July 1863. The crew made Maryborough, after being attacked and robbed by aborigines but no one was injured.  [LQ],[LPA - 75 tons]

Rebecca. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see Earl of Hardwick, brig, 1862. [LQ]

Rebecca Jane. Brig, 219 tons. Ran on to rocks in Halifax Bay, Queensland, abandoned, July 1880. [LQ]

Reeflink 11. Catamaran. Destroyed by fire near Townsville, Queensland, 5 July 1987. [LQ]

Reef Princess. Tourist charter boat. Struck Wheeler’s Reef  75 km north-east of Townsville, 5 October 1981.  All 38 on board landed safely on a small sand cay and were eventually rescued. [LQ]

Reliance. Brig. Struck Indispensable Reef, Queensland, 2 April 1868. The seventy kanakas rushed the boats but the crew checked them with firearms before leaving the vessel and heading west. After being afloat for 35 days and sailing 1100 miles, they met up with the beche-de-mer schooner Maid of Riverton.  [LQ]

Reliance. Sloop. Lost off the Queensland coast, May 1920. [LQ]

Relief. Steamer, 72 tons. Government vessel.  Ashore or sunk at Mackay, during one of the worst cyclones in Queensland’s history, January 1918. Possibly reloated. [LQ]

Rembrandt. Fishing boat. Caught fire and sank south west of Bramble Cay, Queensland, 12 March 1989. [LQ]

Remora. Steel steamer,1045 tons. Built 1912. Lbd 213.5 x 37.3 x 15.9 ft. Scuttled in Moreton Bay off Tangalooma - with oyher vessels, helps to form an artificial haven for small boats. [LH]

Resolution. HMS. [NH]

Resource. Involved in rescue - see Swiftsure, 1829. [LQ]

Rhoderic Dhu. Wooden brigantine, 163 tons. Built at Auckland, 1875. Lbd 102.6 x 24.6 x 11.4 ft. Employed in the kanaka trade to the Pacific islands before being partly dismantled at brisbane in 1914, and then possibly the first vessel to be scuttled at what would be the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton bay, Queensland. [LH]

Rhodopis. Ketch, 14 tons. Lost off the North Queensland coast during a cyclone, 1934.  [LQ]

Rialto. Schooner. Left Townsville on 8 March 1920 with a crew of three and disappeared.  [LQ]

Richard Bell. Brig. Ashore on Cockburn Reef, off the Queensland coast, 1833.  [LQ]

Rip. Built as the corvette Whyalla, 1025 tons, in 1941; aquaired by the Victorian Ports and Harbours diving of the Public Works Department in 1947 for maintenaance work. Lbd 186 x 31 x 8.6 ft. [LC]

Riser. Schooner. Lost on King’s Reef, August 1878. Searchers found the bodies of two of her crew in a native oven opposite the reef. Involved in rescue in same month - see Louisa Maria, schooner, 1878. [LQ]

River Embley. Ship, 51,000 tonne. Grounded in the Prince of Wales Channel, Queensland,  9 May 1986. No major damage. [LQ]

River. Cutter, 5 tons. Lost near Cardwell, Queensland, October 1878.  [LQ]

Robert & Betsy. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see Lightning, schooner, 1856. [LQ]

Robert Miller. Ship, 66000 tonnes. Built Kangaroo Point, Brisbane River, 1973. Whilst being fitted out, broke loose at Kangaroo Point during flooding of the Brisbane River, 27 January 1974. Swept a short distance down river where she was later holed by two runaway barges. Repaired. [LQ],[LC - 37675 tons]

Rockton. Lugger. Lost on Swain Reefs, Queensland, August 1920. [LQ]

Rolla. Ship. Involved in rescue - see Porpoise, 1803, and Cato, 1803. [LQ]

Rosabel. Schooner, 42 tons. Lost in the Banks Group, Queensland, November 1918. [LQ]

Rosario. H.M.S. Involved in rescue - see Black Dog, schooner, 1871. [LQ]

Rose. Cutter. Wrecked on the Tweed River bar, January 1846. [LQ]

Rose. Lightship. Was supposed lost off Moreton Island, Queensland, May 1857. [LQ]

Rosebud. Ketch. Lost on Bountiful Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 2 July 1880.   [LQ]

Royal Duke. Brigantine, 105 tons. Foundered after springing a leak during a gale when off Pera Head in the Gulf of Carpentaria, October 1891.   [LQ]

Roylene 11. Motorised tourist vessel. Destroyed by fire at Mackay, Queensland, October 1957. [LQ]

Rufus King. Liberty ship, steel, 7181 tons. Built At Joshua Hendy Ironworks, Sunnyvale, California, USA, 1942. Grounded off Amity Bar near Moreton Island, Queensland,  broke in two, 7 July 1942. She was inward bound to Brisbane from Los Angeles with military equipment. The forward section was refloated, converted into a lighter, then used as a workshop at Finschaven, New Guinea, by the military, where she was renamed Rufus Half. The stern  lies on the western side of the South Passage Bar between Moreton and North Stradbroke Islands. An aircraft, and enough surgical equipment to set up ten army hospitals were part of the $6 million cargo salvaged.  [LQ],[LI],[LAH]

Sable Chief. Schooner, 190 tons. Wrecked ashore near Port Curtis, Qld, 31 December 1856. No lives lost.  [LQ]

Sagitta. Pearling schooner. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March 1899, in Bathurst Bay, Queensland. [LQ]

Sagitta. Pearling vessel.  Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March 1899, off Cape Melville, Queensland. [LQ]

Salamander  (Sallamander). Schooner, 87 tons. Lost in Moreton Bay, Queensland, 21 January 1868. [LQ][#LI]

Salamander. HMS. Paddlewheeler, barque rigged, 818 tons. Commander J. Carnegie. Assisted the pioneering settlements on the northen Queensland coast. [HH1]

Salamander. Steamer. Involved in recue - see Missie, brig, 1866. [LQ]

Sally Ann. Unknown type. Caught fire and sank near Bowen, Queensland, 1988. [LQ]

San Antonio. Brig. Captain Hemmans. From Sydney to Singapore, aground on a a coral reef on the Great Barrier Reef; refloated without damage. The captain had refused an offer from Philip Parker King in the Bathurst to follow him through the reefs. Captain Hemmans refused, but after grounding, wiated for King to arrive in the slower vessel, and followed him into clear waters. [HH1]

Santa Anna. Spanish ship, 220 tons. Was captured by the privateer Port-au-Prince, and brought to Sydney in 1806. Used in the sealing and whaling industry before being lost in the Straits of Timor, 1812. There was some speculation that the legendary Mahogany Ship, lost in the sand near Warrnambool, Victoria, was the Santa Anna. [ASW1]

Santa Barbara. Vessel type unknown. Wrecked near Bowen, Qld, October 1866. [LQ]
Also listed:
Santa Barbara. Schooner, 9 tons. Owner-master Henry Daniel Sinclair. Involved in explorations along the northern Queensland coast; found and named Port Denison, 1860. [HH1]

Sapphire. Barque. Involved in rescue - see Heroine, schooner, 1846. [LQ]

Sarah Cooper. Schooner, 30 tons. Wrecked ashore in Bustard Bay, Queensland, 1881. [LQ]

Sarah Pile. Schooner, 115 tons. Built 1864. Stranded at Breaksea Spit, near Sandy Cape, Queensland, abandoned, 17 October 1895. Freed some time later, she was towed to Maryborough but was found not worth repairing. [LQ]

Satellite. Pilot schooner. Lost in Keppel Bay, Queensland, late February 1863. [LQ]

Saucy Jack. Cutter, 19 tons. Wrecked on a reef off Cape Melville, Queensland, 28 November 1878. Crew rescued after three days without food or water.  [LQ]

Saxonia. Steamer. Sighted the burning barque Loda, 1866. [LQ]

Scarab. Type unknown. Destroyed by fire in the May River, Queensland, 29 April 1987. [LQ]

Schnapper. Cutter. Wrecked at the mouth of the Brisbane River, late March 1863. [LQ]

Schnapper. Government owned, iron steam barge, 260 tons. Built at Maryborough, Queensland, 1877. Lbd 135.3 x 23.1 x 10.3 ft. Scuttled at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queensland. [LH]

Scotia. Brig, 136 tons. Lost in the Fitzroy River, Queensland, August 1882. [LQ]

Scottish Prince. Iron barque, 950 tons. Built 1878. From Glasgow to Brisbane with immigrants, wrecked at Southport, 2 February 1887.  The master thought she could be refloated but while three steamers were attempting to free her, the wind swung around to the south-east and sealed her fate. She now lies off the Spit, off the main surfing beach at Southport, some 500m out. Bottles have been recovered from the bow section at about 7m. She was carrying a wide range of cargo including sewing machines, and cases of beer and whisky. [LQ],[LI]
@ The site, a popular recreational dive, was discovered in 1954. Sand movement is a problem but the site attacts a variety of marine life.  [LAH].

Scout. Schooner, 70 tons. Lost off Burnett Heads, Queensland, 21 November 1918. [LQ]

Sea Belle. Brig, 513 tons. After leaving Gladstone for Sydney on 2 April 1857, was not seen again. Two years later, after rumours of a European woman living with aborigines, a search party landed on Fraser Island. After an altercation with the tribe, two fair-skinned girls were found, but despite extensive questioning, it was never proved whether they were white or merely aborigine albinos, nor whether they were from a shipwreck. [LQ],[LAH]
Also listed:
Sea Belle. Brig. Reportedly wrecked on Breaksea Spit off fraser island, 1857. After a massacre of all the crew and passengers, two white girls were held captive for two years before being rescued. [#LI]

Sea Breeze. Schooner, 48 tons. Reg. Sydney. Destroyed by fire at Cooktown, Queensland,   October 1919. [LQ]

Sea Foam. Schooner, 10 tons. Lost at Hannah Island, Queensland, February 1921. [LQ]

Sea Gull. Schooner, 21 tons. Lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 30 May 1909. [LQ]

Sea Nymph. Brig. Missing between Maryborough and Melbourne, 1883. [LQ]

Sea Nymph. Lugger. Foundered near Horn Island, Queensland, 13 July 1896. [LQ]

Security, ship. Involved in rescue - see Venus, brig, 1826. [LQ]

Seestern. (Seester). Iron steamer, 589 tons. German Government’s New Guinea vessel. Left Brisbane on 3 June 1909 for New Britain and when she had not arrived by mid-July was presumed to have foundered. The Queensland government despatched SS Condor to search for her but apart from a little wreckage, nothing was found.
[LQ],[LAH - left Brisbane in April]

Selina. Schooner, 62 tons. Built 1947. Left Moreton Bay for Sydney on 31 July 1847 but not heard of again until her waterlogged hull was found on the beach at Keppel Bay, 28 October, 1848. Six lost. [LQ],[ASW1]

Shah Hormuzear. Ship. Captain Brampton. Brampton reef on the Great Barrier reef, is named after the captain. [LI],[HH2 - named Hormuzeer]

Shamrock. Ketch, 18 tons. Lost near Hinchinbrook Is, Queensland, March 1918.  [LQ]

Shamrock. Brig. Involved in rescue - ssee Magda, Ship, 1858. [LQ]

Shamrock. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see barque Coringa Packet, lost Queensland, 1845.

Sibico. Freighter, 1594 tons. Lost off Port Douglas, Queensland, during a cyclone, 16 March
1945. The crew of 85, mainly natives, left her on six rafts but only a few survived. [LQ]

Sidney.  Originally a steel gunboat, 960 tons displacement. Built 1884 as Protector. Lbd 188 x 30 x 12.5 ft. Name changed 1 April 1921 to Cerberus, took up duty as a tender at Western Port in Victoria. Renamed back to the original Protector in 1924 and in June of that year paid-off from Naval service. Bought by the Victorian Lighterage Company in 1931 and after another name change, to Sidney, was put to service as a coal and wool lighter. Ended her days scuttled as a breakwater off Heron Island, Queensland. See Protector for further details. [LH]

Sigeurner Barron. Type unknown. Ashore on a sandbar near Tangalooma, Queensland, June 1990. [LQ]

Silver Spray. Lugger. Lost off the Queensland north coast, 1906. [LQ]

Silvery Wave. Type unknown. Reported lost in Queensland waters during 1884. [LQ]

Silvery Wave. Pearling schooner. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March 1899, in Bathurst Bay, Queensland. [LQ]

Singapore. Iron steamship, 1540 tons. Built Glasgow, 1874 for the Eastern & Australian Steamship Company. Wrecked after striking a sunken reef near Keswick Island, Qld while on a voyage from Hong Kong to Sydney for the Eastern & Australian Mail Steamer Shipping Company, 29 January 1877. All passengers and crew saved. [LQ],[LAH],[DG][WL - wrecked off Mackay, Queensland, on what bcame known as Singapore Rock, 1877]

Sir Thomas Hiley. Dredge. Rammed and sank workboat Boyne, 1973. [LQ]

Siren. Ketch. Foundered off Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 27 July 1987. [LQ]

Sirius. Yacht. Wrecked near Point Cartwright, Queensland, 9 June 1951. [LQ]

Slidre Timur.  Norwegian vessel , 1395 tons. Struck Parker Reef north-east of Proserpine, Queensland, 26 February 1971. Crew of 24 rescued. [LQ]

Slott. Ship. Renamed Cherry Venture, cv, 1973. [LQ]

Sonya. Unknown type. Destroyed by fire at Fraser Island, Queensland, 20 March 1990. [LQ]

Sovereign. Two-masted schooner-rigged wooden paddle-steamer, 119 tons. Built Prymount, Sydney 1841. Was fitted with a 70hp engine salvaged from the wrecked paddle steamer King William IV, after the latter was lost in July 1839. Lbd 111.2 x 17.8 x 9.5 ft. Master Henry Cape. Owned by the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company. From Brisbane to Sydney, wrecked in a fierce south easterly on the bar of the South Channel of Moreton Bay, Queensland, while bound from Brisbane to Sydney, 11 March 1847. Forty-four lives were lost, only ten survived, including the captain. The engines broke down just as she was about to negotiate the last line of waves.  [LQ],[LI],[#ASW1],[LAH],[DG - 214 tons, lbd 122 x 16 x 5-6 ft, listed as lost 17 March, and also 4 March],[GB]

Spede. Lugger, wooden. Lost on Cairncross Reef, Queensland, May 1902. [LQ]

Sporting Lass. Brig, whaler. Captain J. Bennett. Ashore near Brampton Shoal, Queensland, October 1863. Some of the crew reached Moreton Bay by boat; others, left on the shoal, disappeared.  [LQ],[HH2]

Spray. Ketch, 17 tons. Lost on the Great Barrier Reef, 1930. [LQ]

Spray. Schooner, 7 tons. Lost at Magnetic Island, Queensland, March 1918. [LQ]

Spunkie. Schooner, 132 tons. Built in 1864. Sank off Cape Moreton  after colliding with S.S.Ranalagh, 13 July 1888. [LQ]

Spy. Brig. Involved in rescue - see barque Coringa Packet, lost Queensland, 1845.

Spy. Brig. Captain Pain. Involved in rescue - see Maid of Athens, lost 1845; and in th lascars from the Coringa Packet. [HH2]

St. Kilda. Iron, three-masted schooner, 189 tons. Built at Paisley, Scotland, 1868. Lbd 127.3 x 22 x 10.1 ft. Converted to a lighter in 1929, and later abandoned at the Bishop Island graveyard, Moreton Bay, Queenland.  [LH]

St. Magnus. Barque, 289 tons. Built 1864. Foundered near Cape Moreton, March 1875. The vessel, bottom up, eventually drifted ashore at Inskip Point. [LQ]

St. Paul. Steel steamer, 1633 tons. Built 1912. Struck on an outlying reef near Smith’s Rock off Cape Moreton, Queensland, sank rapidly, 27 March 1914. Eighteen lives lost.  [LQ]
@ As she lies in sixty metres, she is rasonably intact. One side of the hull had collapsed. [LAH]

Stanley. Schooner, 115 tons. After leaving Maryborough to recruit kanakas in the South Pacific, wrecked on Indispensable Reef, Queensland, 1 July 1883.  [LQ]
Where on earth is Indespensible Reef??

Star of Australia. Wooden steamship, 231 tons. Built 1862. She left Sydney for Rockhampton with a crew of seventeen on 10 January 1865, towing two punts. On the 15th both broke loose during a gale; one was located and towed to safety but the steamer and the second punt were not seen again. [LQ],[LAH]

Stirling Castle. Wooden brig,  351 tons. Built Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada 1829; reg. Greenock, Scotland. Captain James Fraser. Wrecked on Swain Reefs off the North Queensland coast, 21 May 1836. The boatswain and five members of the crew took to the pinnace, while Captain Fraser, his pregnant wife, nephew, mate and seven men occupied the longboat. Mrs Fraser’s baby was born in the boat but died soon after and when the party reached an island in the Bunker Group a disagreement resulted in six, including Fraser and his wife, sailing south while the others landed on the mainland near Sandy Cape and decided to walk to Moreton Bay. Three survived from the latter group, and search party sent out to look for Captain Fraser’s group.  Meanwhile, Fraser and his small party had been captured by aborigines and forced to work as their slaves in appalling conditions. Fraser and Brown, the mate, soon died but Mrs Fraser continued to exist in extreme misery, sharing a filthy hovel with a a dozen men and women who treated her cruely,  until rescued on 17 August. Only eight survived from the eighteen who had set out from Sydney three months earlier. Mrs Fraser was the centre of discussion and controversy before fading into obscurity. [LQ],[#NH],[#HH2],[#HH1],[#ASW1],[LAH]

Stormbird. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see Douglas, barque, 1869. [LQ]

Storm Bird. Brigantine, 162 tons. Built 1875. Fire destroyed the vessel at Maryborough, Queensland, January 1888. [LQ]

Stradbroke 1. Type unknown. Lost off Cape Lambert, Queensland, 1956. [LQ]

Sunseaker. Type unknown. Lost on the Wide Bay bar, Queensland, 29 September 1989. [LQ]

Sunshine. Lugger. Sank in a storm, February 1927. [LQ]

Susan Francis. Ketch. Lost near the mouth of the Brisbane River, October 1884. [LQ]

Susannah. Schooner. On a voyage from Brisbane to Port Denison, was last seen off Keppel Bay, Qld, on 17 September 1865, just prior to the onset of severe gales.  [LQ]

Swallow. River steamer. Struck the middle rock of the Seventeen Mile Rocks while returning to Brisbane from Ipswich, 31 August 1855. No loss of life nor cargo. [LQ]

Swordfish. Brigantine, 111 tons. Abandoned on the beach south of Yankee Jack’s Creek, Fraser Island, 1919. [LI]

Sylph. Trader. Disappeared between Lord Howe Island and Sydney, 1873.  Remains of a vessel answering her description were seen off Double Island Point, Queensland. [LQ]

Sylvane. Schooner. Reported lost on the Brisbane River, 4 June 1902. [LQ]

Sylvani. Ketch. Reported lost at Brisbane, 4 June 1892. [LQ]

T.B. Hulk. Wrecked at Cairns, September 1947. [LQ]

Tadorna Radjah. Paddle steamer. Wrecked in flooded Brisbane River, 19 February 1893. She was later raised and broken up. [LQ]

Tamar. Paddlewheel steamer, 130 tons. Owned by Australian Steam Navigation Compant. Held the first mail contract to north-eastern ports of Australia, in 1860. [HH2]

Tambaroora. Iron steamship, 406 tons. Built Glasgow 1875. Wrecked on Masthead Island in the Capricorn Group, 22 July 1879.  [LQ]

Tampoona. Fishing boat.  Lost near Townsville, May 1989. [LQ]

Tangeroa. Trawler. Lost in Tin Can Bay, Queensland, 3 June 1972. [LQ]

Taranna. Type unknown. Lost at Albert River, Queensland, 30 April 1921. [LQ]

Tarawa. Pearling schooner. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland. [LQ]

Tarka S. Fishing boat. Lost at Mourilyn, Queensland, during a cyclone, 1 February 1986. [LQ]

Tasman. Ketch, 79 ton. Foundered off Sandy Cape, Queenslaand, 16 January 1891. [LQ]

Tasman. Steamship. Involved in rescue - see Marloo, steamer, 1914. [LQ]

Tay. Steamer, 360 tons. Caused the sinking of the steamer Brinawarr, 1918. [LQ]

Telegraph. Ketch. Captain Phillip Garland. Attempted to find the cutter Goodwill, captured by aborigines in Trinity Bay, Queensland, 1872, after two men had been murdered. [#HH2]

Tern. Ketch, 14 ton. Believed lost off Queensland coast, 1916. [LQ]

Tern. Ketch, 11 tons. Lost on the north coast of Queensland, 1946. [LQ]

Terrigal. Ketch, 22 tons. Built 1870; reg. Sydney Lost near Gladstone, Queensland, August 1887. [LQ]

The American. See American, 1841. [LI]

The Nelson. See Nelson, 1831. [LI]

Thisbe. Unknown type. Destroyed by a cyclone near Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, February 1980. [LQ]

Thomas Lord. Schooner. Lost southern Queensland, 1844. All but the captain and a sailor werereported murdered at Murringootchie, the river beyond Caloundra. [LQ]

Thomas Powell. See steamer Geelong.

Thomas Day. Ketch, 19 tons. Destroyed by a gale which battered Cooktown, 21 February 1884. [LQ]

Three Friends. Schooner. Captain Macbeath. Operated on the north Queensland coast. The master was one of the most experienced of the north coast skippers, but he lost his life when the schooner Eva was caught in a gale in 1867.
Involved in rescue - see Nightingale, schooner, 1864. [LQ],[HH1]

Thunderfish. Fishing boat. Wrecked on Pellowe Reef east of Cairns, 15 June 1992. [LQ]

Thuruna. Ketch. Sank in the Mary River, Queensland, 17 September 1952. [LQ]

Timur Venture. Ship. Renamed Cherry Venture (qv) 1973. [LQ]

Tinonee. Steamer. Owned by Australian Steam Navigation Compnay. Captain Champion. She had a separate cabin for the ladies, with the men sleeping in the main dining room. Aparently Captain Champion was a most hospitable master, keeping the bar open till the bar-tender finally quit for the night. [LQ],[HH2],[HH1]
In 1872, involved in rescue - see brig Maria, wrecked on Bramble Reef, Queensland. [HH1]
In 1874, involved in rescue - see schooner Emily.

Tofua. Steamship, 297 ton. Involved in rescue - see Errol, barque, 1909. [LQ]

Tom Tough. Unknown type. Lost in the Gulf of Carpentaria after stranding and being condemned, 1856. She was employed as a tender for an exploring expedition.  [LQ]

Tom Tough. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see Marina, 1860. [HH2]

Tonka. Ketch. Lost near Mackay, Queensland, July 1933.  [LQ]

Topsy. Fishing vessel. Struck a mine off Palm Island near Townsville, Queensland, and blew up, 24 November 1946. Loss of three lives. [LQ]

Torch. H.M.S. Involved in rescue - see Ningpo, schooner, 1854.
Paddle steamer, tender to HMS. Frigate (qv). Commanded by Lieutenant Chimmo. Surveyed the south-west Paciic region until 1861. [HH1]
Also listed:
Torch. Paddle-steamer. Tender to surveying sloop Herald. Commanded by Lieutenant Chimmo. [HH2]

Transit. Iron ferry, 39 tons. Sunk in the Brisbane River, Queensland, in heavy floods,  December 1885. [LQ]

Trendsetter. Unknown type. Sank at Hope Island, Queensland, 9 October 1988. [LQ]

Triumph. Schooner, 130 tons. Built 1891. Struck a reef off Stradbroke Island, 9 August 1866. Three crew launched a boat but it was swept away, leaving three others clinging to the rocks. A fishing boat rescued them next day. First recored wreck on Stradbroke Island. [LQ],[LI]

Tropical Tramp. Trawler. Wrecked on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 3 January 1989. [LQ]

True Love. Cutter. Owned by one George Lawson, kniwn as Yorkie, who lived on Green island, Trinity Bay, Queensland, in the 1870s and 80s - one of the legends of the pioneering days of north-east Australia. [HH2]

Trusty. Ship. Assisted the brig William in refloating when she hit a reef off Cape Grenville, Qld, with no success, 1838. [ASW1]

Tsinan. Steamer. Stood by the stranded warship Pegasus when she grounded on the Great Barrier reef. [WL]

Tully. Steamer, 45 tons. Believed lost off the Queensland coast, 1927.  [LQ]

Tweed. Schooner. On her first voyage to Sydney with a full cargo of cedar, she was found bottom up on the beach near the Tweed River, Queensland,  June 1849. [LQ]

Tyra. Lighter. Burnt at Brisbane, 1879. [LQ]

Undaunted. Ship, 1245 tons. Wrecked after striking a reef near Cockburn Island, Queensland, 4 September 1863. Crew and cargo rescued by barque Cornwallis. [LQ]

Undine. Clipper, 796 tons. Built 1867. Left Brisbane for Foochow, China, on 15 May 1873 but was not seen again. [LQ],[LAH]

Unknown (true name). Schooner, 40 tons. Struck a reef between Port Denison to Rockhampton, abandoned,11 November 1868. and was abandoned. Survivors set out for Port Mackay and then were sighted and taken aboard the ketch Violet. [LQ]

Upolu. Iron schooner. Bound for the South Seas with stores, struck a rock in Trinity Opening in the Great Barrier Reef, north of Green Island, abandoned, 24 April 1886. The captain and three crew reached Port Douglas in the ship’s boat; the mate and four crew were picked up off Cape Grafton by the steamer Bulimba and taken to Townsville. A local story suggests that a mana and a woman, living on Green Island at the time, made for the wreck amd enjoyed the pleasures of an ample stock of spirits aboard, but got drunk, set fire to the spirits, and blew themselves and ship up.  [LQ],[HH2],[HH1]

Upton. Schooner. Wrecked on Dee Reef, February 1921.  [LQ]

Uranio. Prawn trawler. Foundered near Mooloolaba, Queensland, 31 March 1971. [LQ]

Valetta. Ship. Captain Dacre. Beached near Cape Gloucester, near Bowen, Queensland, after striking rocks, July 1825. There are conflicting reports concerning her ultimate fate. One suggests she was abandoned after attempts had been made for three weeks to repair her. Another states she was refloated only to be lost at the Pelew Islands about a year later.  While surveying the Whitsunday Islands in 1848, a seine net snagged on the remains of an old ship lying off the head of Port Molle. The net was manned by sailors from HMS Rattlesnake, under Captain Owen Stanley. Cannon balls were picked up on the nearby beach and coins and cutlery found on Long Island. Aborigines said the ship went back several generations. In June 1983 however the wreck was identified as being that of the Valetta, Sydney to Manilla, 1825. [LQ],[HH2],[ASW1]

Valiero. Unknown type. Struck Pioneer Rock in Whitsunday Passage, wrecked, 1881. [LQ]

Vanguard. Schooner. Left Wide Bay, Queensland, for Sydney with five passengers and a general cargo of wool, tallow, hides and merchandise but was not seen again, 1851

Venus. Brig. Wrecked while entering Freeman’s Channel, Brisbane, 1855. [LQ]

Verago. Fijian sugar boat, 399 tons. Foundered in heavy seas about 370 kilometres east of Brisbane, 18 February 1961. Crew of 13 rescued by the Iron Flinders. [LQ]

VFC.11. Motor vessel, wooden. Lost off Derham Island, Queensland, 1928. [LQ]

Victoria. Sloop. Involved in the search for Burke, Wills and King. See Firefly, brig, 1861. [LQ]

Victoria. Steamship, 1255 tons. Owned by Australian Steam Navigation Co. Operated on the Queensland coast mid 1870s. Brought 200 Chinese to the Endeavour River to seek their fortune in gold on the Palmer River. [HH1]

Violet. Ketch. Involved in rescue - see Unknown, schooner, 1868. [LQ]

Violet. Ketch. On the entrance spit whilst crossing the bar of the Daintree River, Queensland, 28 June 1876. All saved.  [LQ]

Violet. Ketch, 37 tons. Built 1877; reg. Sydney. Wrecked in a gale near Cape Capricorn, Queensland, 23 February 1896.  [LQ]

Vixen. Schooner. Left Brisbane for Newcastle on 16 July 1847 with a crew of five but not seen again. [LQ]

Vlissingen. Steamship, 150 tons. Built 1872 Foundered in the river at Rockhampton after colliding with S.S.Leichardt, 13 June 1898. After being refloated it was found that her back was broken. [LQ]

Vyking. Stern paddle steamer, 91 tons. Built 1875. Struck a sunken rock off Broadsound, Queensland, sank, 10 April 1882. [LQ]

W.A.  Schooner. Left Cleveland Bay for Cardwell on 2 March 1867 and was not seen again. [LQ]

Wairarapa. Steamer. Owned by Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. Aground on Great Barrier Island, en route to Auckland, 1894. Lost of 121 lives. [JH],[MGS - reports lost Great Barrier Reef]

Wai Weer. Pearling tender. Lost in the great cyclone of 4 and 5 March 1899, at the north-west end of Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland. [LQ]

Waiwera. Schooner, wooden, 42 tons. Built in New Zealand, 1875. Ashore, wrecked, on Fraser Island about two kilometres south of Sandy Cape, Queensland, 1905. [LQ],[LI]

Wanda. Fishing boat. Foundered on Bugatti Reef north east of Mackay, Queensland, 1 May 1987. [LQ]

Wandana. Steamship, 974 tons. Owned by John Burke Limited. Replaced SS Kallatina on the northern Queensland run. Known as a ‘friendly ship’ under Captain Anders Paulsen. [HH2],[#HH1]

Waratah. Barque, 203 tons. Destroyed in a cyclone at Rocky Islet, Queensland, 26 January 1894. No lives lost. [LQ]

Warren Goddard. Brigantine, 203 tons. Wrecked on Moreton Island, Queensland, 14 July 1864. [LQ]

Wartalt 2. Schooner. Reported lost near Maryborough, Queensland, 16 July 1892. [LQ]

Washington. Ship. Involved in rescue - see Lightning, schooner, 1856. [LQ]

Water Lily. Steam ship. Involved in rescue - see Mystery, schooner, 1902. [LQ]

Water Witch. Brigantine, 165 tons. Wrecked on Masthead Reef, GBR, August 1884. [LQ]

Waup. Ketch, 59 tons. Abandoned in heavy weather off Double Island Point, Queensland,  when her rudder carried away and she began to leak badly, 1910. [LQ]

Wave. Ketch, 60 tons. Wrecked at Sandy Point, Queensland, 25 May 1919.  [LQ]

Waverley. Ship, 1166 tons. Built 1885. Wrecked on Bell Cay at Percy Island on 4 July 1889; refloated and was heading to Brisbane for repairs when she sank. [LQ]

Waverly. Barqque. Involved in rescue - see Pioneer, brig, 1851. [LQ]

Wentworth. Iron steamship,  956 tons. Built Renfrew, Scotland, 1873. A.S.N.Co. Struck rocks near North Head at Bowen, Queensland, 17 June 1887. No loss of life.
[LQ],[LAH - lost 1 June],[DG - 11 June]

Weona. Fishing boat. Wrecked on Little Brigatti Reef, Queensland, 31 January 1986. [LQ]

Westmoreland. Sighted wreckage - see Richard Bell, brig, 1833. [LQ]

Whakatane. Fishing trawler. Missing near South Molle Island, Queensland, during a cyclone, January 1970.  [LQ]

Wild Wave. Unknown type. Wrecked on Lady Elliot Reef, 1846. [HH2]

Wild Duck. Pearling ketch, 43 ton. Captain Kane. When operating for beche-de-mer out of Port Douglas, Queensland, the crew were murdered by aborigines, then burnt and scuttled the vessel in shallow water, 1889. The leader of the gang was a smart young kanaka by the name of Billy Matlock, who sold the cargo having offloaded it into the longboat. He was captured, but blamed the aborigines for the murders, and sentenced to two years jail for theft of the cargo. However, the true story had spread though the aboriginal community, and came to the ears of friends of Captain Kane. On release, Billy Matlock was drinking with at a hotel with a group of friendly white men who invited him out for a pig hunt the following day. Billy did not return. His new acquaintences were friends of the murdered captain who claimed that it had indeed been a good day’s hunting. [LQ],[#HH2]

Wild Wave. Wooden ketch, 27 tons. Built 1860. Wrecked about six miles north of the Burnett Head lighthouse, Queensland, 18 January 1885. [LQ]

William. Brig, 219 tons. Reg. Capetown 22/1837, reg Sydney 21/1837, 19/1838, 29/1838. Lbd 84 x 21.5 x 17 ft. Master Henry Kreuger. From Sydney, wrecked on Cockburn Island reef, off Cape Grenville, Qld, 8 September 1838. She was in company with the ship Trusty, which assisted in attempting to get her off, with no success. The William was abandoned, the crew taken aboard Trusty. [ASW1]

Willie McLaren. Barque, 560 tons. Built 1874. Lost out of Townsville, 1885.  [LAH]

Willie Watson. Barque, 560 tons. Left Townsville for American ports 28 December, 1885. [LQ]

Willing Lass. Barquentine, 107 tons. Built in 1852. Struck by a squall and wrecked on Masthead Reef, GBR, 4 July 1868. [LQ]
Also listed:
Willing Lass. Wrecked, 1868.  See Unidentified, Polmaise Reef, 1859. [LQ]
And:
Willing Lass. Brigantine. Reported lost off Masthead Island, GBR, 1863.  [LQ]

Willunga. Dredge, 363-ton. Foundered off North Reef, Queensland, 28 November 1915. [LQ]

Windstorm. Yacht. From Hobart to Cairns with five aboard, disappeared off Moreton Bay on 8 July, 1985. [LQ]

Wisteria. Wooden barque, 387 tons. Built 1865. On a voyage from Adelaide to Townsville, ashore, wrecked, on One Tree Island, Queensland, 14 September 1887.  [LQ]
@ Wrecksite found in 1957 in twenty-eight metres. Only the anchor chain, windlass and cement barrels were found.  [LAH - lost on Heron Island]

Wodonga. Steamship, 2341 tons. Owned by Australasian United Steam Navigation Co. Operated on the northern Queensland coast from 1892. [HH1]

Wommen. Tug. Sank off Bundaberg, Queensland, 26 May 1975.  Crew of two reached safety after a long swim. [LQ]

Wongala. Auxiliary ketch. Built 1919; renamed. See Natone, 1959 [LQ]

Woodbine. Barque. Illegally operated as a pearling vessel; apprehended by HMS Basilisk in January 1873. [HH2]

Woodlark. Barque. Captain Bruce. In 1863, rescued crew of an un-named beche-de-mer vessel off Green Island, Trinity Bay, Queensland.[HH2]

Woodlark. Whaler. Involved in rescue - see haling brig Clarence, lost Queensland, 1844.

Woonona. Steamship, iron, 643 tons. Built 1875.  Ran on to a sandbank in the Fitzroy River, Queensland, wrecked, 11 October 1893. [LQ],[DG - 17 October]

Wortanna. Sugar lighter, 191 tons.  Built 1875, as a paddle steamer rigged as a brig, named Albatross; later owned by the Adelaide Steam Ship Company and served with the United States Army 1942-45. Struck rocks out from Mourilyan, Queensland, was holed, and eventually abandoned, 18 November 1957.  [LQ]

Wyatt Earp. Auxiliary ketch. Built 1919; renamed. See Natone, 1959 [LQ]

Yak. Yacht. Wrecked on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 21 June 1990. One life lost. [LQ]

Yalata. Ketch, 13 tons. Sank near Pipon Island, north of Cairns, February 1955.  Crew of three reached the island and were picked up five days later.  [LQ]

Yamoto. Japanese survey ship. Located three undiscovered reefs less than 110 km from Townsville, 1969. One reef ws over one and a half kilometres in length and was expossed at low tide, indicating the incompleteness of the charts to that time. [HH1]

Yepolium. Schooner. Wrecked in a major cyclone, Cooktown, Queensland, over 18-20 January 1907.  [LQ]

Yongala. Steamship, 3663 tons. (Sister Grantala). Built Newcastle on Tyne 1902 for Adelaide Steamship Company;  arrived in Australia in November 1903. Ld 106.6 x 13.8 m.. Captain William Knight. Capsized in a cyclone off Cape Bowling Green near Townsville, Queensland, March 1911. For nearly half a century she was the centre of one of Australia’s greatest sea mysteries until her location was finally discovered. On the afternoon of 23 March 1911 she left Mackay for Townsville on her normal run for the Adelaide Steamship Company, with 65 passengers and a crew of 72.  Soon after a cyclone swept in from the Coral Sea and after being sighted in the Whitsunday Passage in rising seas, the Yongala disappeared. Searching for her proved fruitless and in the years that followed the Yongala entered legend as a ghost ship when some fishermen reported seeing a rusty old steamer with similar lines off Bowen. In 1943 a RAN minesweeper working off Cape Bowling Green fouled on an obstruction in 13 fathoms, but it was thought to be a reef. In June 1947 the RAN Hydrographic Vessel H.M.A.S.Lachlan detected a wreck at the same spot, 91m in length and in all probability a fair sized steamer lying on her side in six fathoms, surrounded by depths of 12 to 14 fathoms. The Navy did not send a diver down but it was generally thought to be the Yongala, despite no definite proof. Another eleven years passed before the wreck site was in the news again. A dispute arose over salvage claims from two divers Bill Kirkpatrick and George Konrat who claimed to have re-located the wreck.  Konrat  claims to have identified a wreck as the Yongala by the "13 inch letters clearly seen on the bow", which do indeed exist to this day.  [#LQ],[MJ],[HH2],[#HH1],[DG],LAH],[WL]
@ The wrecksite is now protected and has become Australia’s premier wreck dive, attracting thousands of divers. She  lies at about a 45 degree angle on her starboard side in 34 metres of water but most dives can be restricted to within 22 metres. The hull rises to within 15 metres of the surface and can usually be seen from the charter boat. A strong current ensures that the wrecksite is for experienced divers only.

Yosemite. Barque, 1153 tons. Built Portsmouth, USA, 1868. Hulked and then abandoned at Bishop Island raveyard, Moreton bay, Queensland. [LH]

Young Australia. Clipper, wood, 1020 tons. Built Portsmouth, UK, 1853. Lbd 172.6 x 36 x 20 ft. Owned by the Black Ball Line. Out of Brisbane for England, wrecked ashore near the East Cape of Moreton Island, 31 May 1872. All crew and passengers saved. [LQ],[LI],[ASW6],[LAH]

Zeus. Pleasure steamer, 16 tons.  Built 1878; reg. Sydney. Struck a reef near Green Island, Queensland, 21 February 1892. She was freed but found not worth repairing. [LQ]

UNIDENTIFIED

Unidentified. 1843. On 18 January 1843 Captain Balckwood of the Fly landed on an atoll they named Wreck Island due to an old wreck of some 600 tons that lay on the reef, possibly a whaler. [HH1]

Unidentified. 1845. Remains found on Moreton Island were from a vessel believed lost prior to 1845. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1856. Natives reported a wreck of unknown origin on the northern end of Fraser Island, Queensland, 1856. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1859. An unidentified wreck on Masthead Island, Polmaise Reef, GBR, has been declared as an historic shipwreck under the Historic Shipwreck Act 1976. It appears that she was between 100 and 200 tons and was wrecked around 1860. It could be one of three possible vessels: the schooner Briton’s Queen wrecked in 1866, the Cosmopolite also wrecked in 1866, or the Willing Lass, 1868. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1863. The wreck of a ship was found on Turtle Island, north of Cooktown, Queensland, 1863.  [LQ]

Unidentified. 1863. On reef at Green Island, Trinity Bay, Queensland, 1863. (This is a separate vessel to the beche-de-mer boat, following). [HH2]

Unidentified. 1863. Beche-de-mer vessel. On reef at Green island, Trinity Bay, Queensland, 1863. Crew rescued by the Woodlark. [HH2]

Unidentified. 1869. Workmen engaged in the erection of a lighthouse at Sandy Cape, Qld, discovered the remains of a vessel of about 100 tons buried under sand about six kilometres south of Breaksea Spit after aborigines pointed out its position. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1879. The remains of what appeared to be an American-built schooner were found near Hinchinbrook Island late in February, 1879.   [LQ]

Unidentified. 1887. A ketch was supposed seen to founder near Rodds Bay, Queensland,  late September 1887 but was not identified. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1903. Lugger was lost on a reef off No. 1 Island in the Howick Group, GBR, 1903. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1910. The remains of an old hulk discovered in a swamp on South Stradbroke Island in 1910 have been associated with legends of a 'Spanish galleon', but no trace remains of the legendary wreck. [LAH],[LI]

Unidentified. 1928. Launch, destroyed by fire near Yeppoon, Queensland, 31 July 1928. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1929. Auxiliary yacht lost near Cairns, 21 September 1929. Two drowned. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1930. Launch. Lost off Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 1 June 1930. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1930. Launch. Lost off Double Island Point, Queensland, 31 May 1930. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1931. Launch. Destroyed by fire off Brampton Island, Queensland, 4 August 1931. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1935. Fishing vessel. Left Heron Island for Gladstone, Queensland, with four aboard on 18 August 1935 but was not seen again.  [LQ]

Unidentified. 1936. Fishing boat. Went missing out of Heron Island, Queensland, 1936. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1958. In August 1958, a Captain D. Milne found what was then believed to be the wreck of a midget Japanese submarine off the coast.  [LQ]

Unidentified. 1985. An un-named yacht was lost off the North Queensland coast in April, 1985 [LQ]

Unidentified. 1986. One life was lost when an un-named fishing trawler sank off Southport, Queensland, 1 May 1986. [LQ]

Unidentified. 1992. Fishing trawler. Sank off North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, 21 March 1992. [LQ]

Unidentified. A legend exists of a ship having been wrecked on a reef at the north-eastern end of Stephens Island, Queensland. Twelve people made shore in a boat but were murdered by aborigines. In the possession of a woman, said to be Spanish, was a black box, with a ‘blood- red stone that glittered like fire’. No trace of the legendary ‘Fire Eye’ has been found. [HH1]