The smallest, least populated and arguably the most beautiful state of Australia, Tasmania lies off the south-east coast of the mainland and includes most of the islands (and waters) of Bass Strait. Discovered in 1642 by the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman, who named it Van Diemen's Land in honour of the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, he took possession for Holland. Later explorers included Furneaux (1773), Cook (1777), Bligh (1788), D'Entrecasteaux (1792) and Baudin (1802). The first settlement, convict based of course, was in 1803. Van Diemen's land separated from New South Wales in 1825 and became a separate colony. Convicts, and a huge increase in free immigaration, swelled the populatuion in the 1820s, with settlements developing on the north and east coast, and the south-east near the infamous Port Arthur penal colony. In 1855, the name of the island and its political inclusions was changed to Tasmania. Mining and timber led a boost in the economy in the later half of the 19th century, and gold was discovered in 1877. Immigration comenced a decline in the late 1890s, with many seeking their fiortune on the mainland. Coastal shipping plied the east and north coast, rather than the more open and treacherous seas off the west coast, with its rugged coastline and lack of shelter. Appropriately named Hell's Gates, the narrow entrance into Macquarie Harbour on the west coast, claimed many victims. Several of the vessels lost in Tasmanian waters were bringing convicts from England. Most of the vessels listed here are small coastal and fishing vessels, although several sailing vessels are noted for their size. The listing does not include the Bass Strait islands of the Furneaux and Kent Groups at the eastern entrance, and King Island to the west; these islands are politically part of Tasmania.

References:
The main reference is that of Broxam and Nash with their superbly detailed two volume set, Tasmanian Shipwrecks, covering the periods 1797-1899 [TS1] and 1900 - 1999 [TS2]. Surprisingly, Loney did not publish on Tasmanian shipwrecks, other than those at Hell's Gates [LHG], and the Bass Strait islands (separate listings). Broxam and Nash referenced Harry O'May's Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters, so this excellent book, published in the 1950s, has not been separately referenced, but is worthy of note. Two other books, not yet referenced but worthy of note, are those by L.Norman: Pioneer Shipping of Tasmania (1938), and Sea Wolves and Bandits (1946). Also W.Lawson's Blue Gum Clippers and Whale Ships of Tasmania, 1949. These have also been referenced by Broxam and Nash. The reason for so many listings for Tasmania, disproportionate to its size and population, is in great part due to the thoroughness of Broxam and  Nash.

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Associated links:  FURNEAUX GROUP      KENT GROUP       KING ISLAND

A.N.M. 4.  Steel barge, 300 tons. Built for military use in 1944 and subsequently employed in freighting newsprint from the Australian Newsprint Mills at Boyer near New Norfolk to Hobart. Scuttled off Betsey Island, Tasmania, 1 October 1984.   [TS2]

A.N.M. 5.  Steel barge, 300-ton. Built for military use in 1944; subsequently employed in freighting newsprint from the Australian Newsprint Mills at Boyer near New Norfolk to Hobart. Scuttled off Betsey Island, 31 October 1986. [TS2]

A.N.M. 6. Steel barge, 300 ton. Built for military use in 1944. Subsequently employed in freighting newsprint from New Norfolk to Hobart. Scuttled off Betsey Island, Tasmania, 30 October 1984. [TS2]

Abeona. Brigantine, whaler, 97 tons. Built at Brus D’Or Lake, Cape Breton, Canada, 1832; reg. Hobart 8/1845. Lbd 62.0 x 18.9 x 11.3 ft. Captain Thomas McGrath. Dragged ashore when two lines parted, and broke up rapidly,  at New Harbour, south coast Tasmania, 22 June 1848. All hands saved. Her oil and some gear was later recovered by the schooner Adelaide. [TS1],[ASW1]
In 1843, involved in rescue - see schooner Naiad, lost off Cape Naturaliste, Tasmania. [TS1]
In 1846, involved in rescue - see barque Maria Orr, lost Tasmanian waters.  [TS1]

Abeona. See ketch Alice, lost Battery Point, Tasmania, 1877.

Aberdona (sometimes Adeona or Aberdonia). Coastal vessel, unregistered. Stranded inside South Arm, but although severely damaged, was later recovered, August 1862. [TS1]

Aberdona. See ketch Alice, lost Battery Point, Tasmania, 1877.

Acacia. Barque,  Acacia, 225/200 tons. # 57515. Built Hobart, 1871; reg. Hobart Reg. Hobart 4/1871, 3/1898. Lbd 118.0 x 24.0 x 12.0 ft.  Captain A. V. Saunier. Sailed from Port Esperance, Tasmania, for Port Adelaide on 20 June 1904 with a cargo of timber;  last seen passing Maatsuyker Island the following morning in very poor weather. Coastal steamer Breone sent from Hobart but nothing found. Found 31 January 1905 on the beach south of the Mainwaring Inlet, by one of the crew of the fishing boat Ripple, engaged in unofficial beachcombing of salvage from the wreck of the Brier Holme (q.v.). The barque may have hit what were later named the Acacia Rocks, which lie about a mile south-west of Mainwaring Inlet. Nine lost. [TS2]

Acacia. Barque, 200 tons. Built Hobart 1871. Sailed from Port Esperance, tasmania with a cargo for Port Adelaide on 20 June 1904, but not seen again. Her wreckage was found nine months later by the crew of the fishing boat Ripple which was seeking flotsam from the wreck of the Brier Holme.  [NH],[LAH]

Actaeon. Ship, 305 tons. Built at Fort Gloster, India, 1815; owned by J. Scott & Co. of Calcutta.  Captain John Mackay. Wrecked on  the outer ledge of the reef that now bears her name, between Recherche Bay and Southport Lagoon, D’Entrecasteaux Channel, 26 October 1822. She had sailed from Mauritius for Hobart with a general cargo including salt pork, spirits, wine and soap, much of which was salvaged by the  brigs Prince Leopold and Deveron.  All hands landed safely, however, two of the Prince Leopold’s crew were drowned when their boat capsized. [TS1],[ASW1]

Active. Auxiliary ketch, 22/14 tons. # 61038.  Built at Penguin Creek, Tasmania, 1869; reg. Launceston 2/1869, 10/1885, 1/1917. Lbd 52.2 x 13.9 x 5.2 ft. Originally a cutter of 15 tons, 37.8 x 13.4 x 5.6 ft; lengthened and rerigged as a ketch in 1897. Master E. Lockwood. Founded after bumbing the dredge Ponrabbel and starting a plank, mouth of Tamar river, Tasmania, 8 May 1937.
Efforts to refloat the Active failed; eventually blown up with explosives to prevent her from being a hazard to shipping.  [TS2]

Ada Burgess. Fishing ketch. Involved in rescue - see auxiliary fishing ketch Rachel Thompson, lost Tasmania, 1922. [TS2]

Adelaide. Fishing ketch, 12 tons. Length 30 ft. Master-owner W. G. Jarman. Destroyed by fire whilst anchored off Cape Portland, Tasmania, 10 November 1921.
On 9 September 1921, stranded on the beach at East Wynyard, Tasmania. [TS2]

Adelaide. Schooner. Involved in salvage - see whaler Abeona, Tasmania, 1848. [TS1]

Adeline. Auxiliary fishing launch, 28ft. Stolen at Currie, King Island, on 18 March1950. Wreckage found spread along the beaches around Loch Ard Gorge, west coast Victoria.  [TS2]

Adeona. See ketch Alice, lost Battery Point, Tasmania, 1877.

Advance. Auxiliary motor fishing vessel, LFB No. 178 (TBG), 7 tons. Built 1949-50. Lbd 32.0 x 10.0 x 4.2 ft. Capsized and sank a mile off Currie Lighthouse, King Island, 2 February 1977. [TS2]

Advance. Steam tug. See auxiliary ketch Flying Scud, lost Tasmania, 1961.  [TS2]

Aeolus. Cutter, 21 tons. Built on the Huon River , Tasmania, 1843; reg. Hobart 26/1843, 23/1845. Lbd 31.3 x 11.2 x 5.7 ft. Deleted from register in December 1868. [TS1]
On 15 August 1844, while on a voyage from the Huon for Hobart with timber, lost her rudder in heavy swells as she entered the D’Entrecasteaux Channel and lost her and drifted ashore onto Huon Island.  All hands landed safely and the vessel was later refloated.
On 7 July 1861, sank off The Snug, North West Bay, Tasmania, during heavy weather  She was recovered.

Aglet. Cutter, approx. 7 tons. Uunregistered. Reported lost between the Forth and Leven Rivers, north-west coast Tasmania, 21 July 1858.

Agnes. Fishing boat. Engaged in salvage - see ketch Julia, lost Swan island, Tasmania, 1883.

Agnes. Schooner, 50 tons. Lbd 52.4 x 15.5 x 8.6 ft. Built at Twofold Bay, 1837; reg. Hobart, 16/1837. Captain Thomas Gray. Sailed from Launceston for Port Phillip Bay on 23 September 1839 but failed to arrive. Captain Marr of the barque Britomart reported sighting wreckage drifting in Bass Strait that may have been from the missing vessel.  Finally, around June 1840 a quantity of wreckage was found on the beach near Cape Schanck, on the Victorian coast, including some gold-lettered drawers, part of fittings for a chemist’s shop in Melbourne which had been consigned on board the Agnes. [TS1]

 Agnes. Steamer. Built at Launceston, 1894; reg. 1/1894. Was fitted with the engine salvaged from the steamship Indignant, lost through fire at George Town, Tasmania, 1893. [TS1]

Agnes & Elizabeth. Schooner, 74 tons. Built at Hobart, 1840; reg. Hobart, 2/1840, 69/1852. Lbd 58.6 x 16.0 x 9.9 ft . Master James Pie. From Swanport to Hobart, wrecked on a reef off Waterloo Point on the east coast Tasmania, 21 August 1854. All hands saved. [TS1]

Agnes Wilson. Barquentine, 387/349 tons. # 73937. Built at Prince Edward Island, 1875; reg. Melbourne 7/1882. Originally rigged as a barque. Lbd 122.6 x 28.5 x 14.9 ft. Captain W. Dowling. Stranded, wrecked, at the Heads whilst being towed out of the Mersey River, Tasmania, by the steamer Thistle, 27 July 1883. [TS1]

Agnew. Iron steam dredge/ self-propelled hopper-barge, 203/161 tons. # 57613. Built Hobart, 1887; reg. Hobart  4/1887. Lbd 112.2 x 26.2 x 9.5 ft. She was the first and only iron vessel built in Tasmania; with a tradition of timber shipbuilding and plenty of raw materials, it was not until the late 1940s that the first welded steel vessel was built in Tasmania. Aground in fog just east of the Mersey Heads, Tasmania, 13 February 1939. Dismantled where she lay.
[TS2],[LHG],[ASR],[LH]
In 1889, involved in rescue - see ketch Pauline, lost Tasmania.

Ailsa. Racing yacht, 21ft. Built at Hobart 1896. Lost or damaged beyong repair due to devastating floods in the Launceston, Tamar River basin, April 1929. [TS2]

Ailsa. Cutter, 5 tons, 26.3 ft. # 101735. Ex Violet III. Built Geelong, 1900; reg. Melbourne 5/1901. Register closed 1934 with coment ' wrecked at Bellerive (Tasmania) some years ago'.  [TS2]

Alabama. Ketch, 44 tons. # 32129. Built on the Huon River, Tasmania, 1864; reg. Hobart 17/1864. Lbd 66.0 x 18.9 x 5.8 ft. Sank after being hit by the river steamer Nubeena, between Long Bay and The Flower Pots on the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania, 27 February 1896. The crew of four were picked up by the steamer, which had suffered little damage, and returned to Hobart.  The ketch had been in ballast on a voyage from Hobart to Port Esperance, where she was to load timber. Although the Alabama was raised, she was beyond repair. The Nubeena was found to be at fault. [TS1]
On 19 April 1871, capsized on the Derwent, Tasmania. Refloated.
On 17 February 1874 sank on the Huon after hitting a snag. Refloated.
On 20 July 1876, stranded at Primrose Point, Forestier Peninsular, Tasmania.

Aladdin. Wooden gunpowder hulk, formerly a full-rigged ship, and in later years a barque, 264 tons. # 32028. Built as a 12-gun brig at the Plymouth Dockyard, England, 1825, as the 12-gun brig Mutine; reg. Hobart  9/1875 in the name of John Henry, on the behalf of the Government of Tasmania. Sister-ship to the Britomart lost Furneaux Group, 1840. Lbd 98.0 x 23.4 x 18.6 ft. Destroyed with explosives by the Army’s Engineer Corps, 2 December 1899. [TS1]
Broxam and Nash add, confusingly:
Aladdin. 1899. The wreck blown up in 1899 was not the Aladdin [TS2]

Albatros. Ketch. See Mary Virginia.  [TS2]

Albatross. Cutter, 25 tons. # 32117. Built at Barnes Bay, Bruny Island as the United Family, 1861; renamed when first registered at Hobart 1/1864. Lbd 40.8 x 15.5 x 5.1 ft. Ashore at Bull Bay, Bruny Island, during a gale, 30 August 1884. Later sank in deep water. All hands landed safely. [TS1]

Albatross. Steamer. Involved in rescue - see stranded schooner Enterprises, Deal Island, Kent Group, 1892.

Albatros II. Fishing boat. Involved in rescue - see Moya Ann, lost Tasmania, 1986.  [TS2]

Albert. Two masted wooden schooner, 44 tons. Built on the Albert River, Gippsland, 1849; reg. Melbourne, 15/1849, 9/1850.  Lbd 50 x 15 x 7.7 ft. Master George Brush. Sailed from Circular Head, Tasmania, for Melbourne on 9 September 1850 but failed to arrive.  She had hit the Fourth River bar while outward bound but the master elected to wait till he reached Melbourne to have effect repairs.  The damage may have been more serious than he suspected.  [TS1],[LPA],[ASW1]

Albert Packet. Schooner, 103 tons. Built on the Huon River, Tasmania, 1850; reg. Hobart, 36/1850. Lbd 81.1 x 19.3 x 9.4 ft. Master Arthur Wright. Wrecked on a reef off Little Swan Island, Tasmania, end June 1851. All hands being picked up by the barque Victoria Packet. [TS1]

Albion. Cutter, 17 tons. # 32229. Lbd 38.4 x 13.3 x 6.0 ft. Built Tasmania, 1856; reg. Launceston 8/1861. Captain Reid. Sailed from the Mersey, north coast Tasmania, for Melbourne with a cargo of potatoes when  she encountered heavy gales that blew her around Bass Strait;  stranded at East Hunter (Three Hummock) Island, 17 September 1862. Not worth salvaging. Crew of four reached Circular Head in the boat. [TS1]

Albion. Ketch, 11 tons. # 61069. Built at Launceston, 1874; reg. Launceston 13/1876. Lbd 38.0 x 12.5 x 4.15 ft. Engaged in the Tamar River trade for many years Master-owner Oscar W. Mackenzie.  Whilst attending to the repair of the damaged steamer Cambria, sailed from Table Cape, Tasmania, probably for Circular Head, but never seen again, presumed foundered with the two crew. [TS1]

Alcandre. Schooner. Sailed in company with a vessel believed to be the ship Harlech Castle, later missing in Bass Strait, 1870. [TS1]

Aldebaran. Iron hulk, ex 3-masted barque Concordia, 466/429 tons. # 106250.  Built Sunderland, UK, 1869;  reg. Hobart 60/1899. Lbd 150.9 x 27.3 x 15.9 ft. Hulked at Hobart by the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, Ltd. on 13 April 1948 and subsequently beached in Norfolk Bay near Dunalley, Tasmania, as a breakwater.
~ Remains visible (2001). [TS2],[LH - converted to a coal hulk in 1912]

Alert. Racing yacht, 5 tons. Built Hobart, 1880. Lbd 28.0 x 9.0 x 4.0 ft. Sank off Slopen Island, Tasmania, October 1910.
Broxham and Nash do not claim positive identification of the lost vessel. [TS2]

Alert. Schooner, 17 tons.Built at Hobart, 1832; reg. Hobart # 5/1832.  Lbd 35 x 11-8 x 5-8 ft. No longer trading after 1850. [TS1]

Alert. Schooner, 92 tons. Built at the Bellinger River, NSW, 1846; reg. Sydney, 92/1846, Launceston, 1/1853. Lbd 67.7 x 19.2 x 8.2 ft. Master Ambrose Drewitt. In a gale, beached about three miles south of the Arthur River, west coast Tasmania, to save the lives, 25 March 1854. All hands landed safely, and after some difficulty,  walked overland to Mount Cameron and Woolnorth, where they were taken to Circular Head in two boats. On 22 March 1854, she had stranded in a gale at Belfast (Port Fairy), Victoria, refloated after two months, and sailed for Launceston when lost. [TS1]

Alexander Alison. Steel twin-screw (double-ended) motor vessel, 385/173 tons. Ex Frances Peat, renamed 1951. # 178413. Built Sydney, 1930 for a ferry service across the Hawkesbury River; reg. Hobart 8/1959. Lbd 152 x 36 x 8 ft. Purchased in New Zealand by the Government of Tasmania in 1959 for the Bruny Island ferry service. Left Auckland on 23 April 1960 in tow of the Union Steamship Company's motor vessel Kaitoa; sprang a plate, foundered in deep water some 240 miles from Hobart.  [TS2]

Alfhild. Iron barque, 1443/1145 tons. # 73738. Built at Dumbarton, UK, as the Rockhurst, 1876; reg. Gottenburg. Lbd 229.2 x 38.3 x 22.5ft. Captain Bangtssen. From Rio de Janeiro for Hobart, to load timber for the UK, ashore in a gale on the headland that now bears her name between Green Island and Port Davey, Tasmania, 10 October 1907. Hard aground close to cliffs, the vessel was swept by huge seas and within half an hour had broken into three pieces.  The crew had to cut away the rigging to launch the boats. Four subsequently drowned. Those who survived were in a desperate situation.A small boat was found and after the greatest of difficulties, six men landed at Maatsuyker Island, and later taken to Hobart on Koonookarra. The Koonookarra was immediately provisioned to seek the remaining castaways, on 18 October, but none of the remaining seven men were found alive. About the only thing recovered from the wreck was the bell, inscribed with her original name Rockhurst, which was later fitted to the river steamer Marana then under construction in Hobart, and is now housed in the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.  Skeleton, believed to be that of one of the crew, found west coast Tasmania, 1908. [TS2][#NH],[LAH - Captain Bangstom]

Alfred & Jacob. Schooner, 35 tons. # 31770. Built at Port Esperance, 1850; reg.Geelong, reg. Hobart 61/1851. Lbd 50.5 x 14.5 x 7.4 ft. Engaged in the Port Phillip Bay trade between 1852 and 1855, then to Hobart. Ashore on rocks at Yellow Bluff , Tasmania, July 1856. Crew landed safely.
On 10 December 1855, sprung a leak in Bass Strait while on her delivery voyage from Geelong, beached at East Beach, Tamar Heads; pronounced a total wreck, she was however refloated. [TS1]

Alfred & Lizzie. Ketch, 30 tons. # 57528. Built at Port Esperance, Tasmania, 1872; reg. Hobart 6/1872. Lbd 60.0 x 16.4 x 5.2 ft. Captain C. Walker. From Sorell for Hobart with a cargo of fire-wood, struck by a heavy squall of Betsey Island and lost her mainsail; strong southerly winds blew her towards Hope Beach, Tasmania, and when her anchors dragged was wrecked ashore, 27 August 1894. Three crew saved after twelve hours in the rigging. [TS1]

Alice. Ketch. Rebuilt at Mackay’s yards, Battery Point, Tasmania, in mid-1876 after lying derelict for some time. Unregistered. Blown from her moorings in the Derwent and drifted down the river into Storm Bay, 12 August 1877. SS Truganini came across the vessel in a sinking condition, but abandoned her after taking off the crew of two. [TS1]
Broxam and Nash report:
She may have been the Alice, ex Adeona, which had been passed in at auction in November 1865. Occasionally reported as Abeona or Aberdona, this vessel was trading in 1858.
Broxam and Nash also list:
Alice. Ketch. Unregistered. Dragged her anchors in a gale and went ashore at Tinderbox Bay on the River Derwent, Tasmania, 21 May 1887. Probably lost. [TS1]
Reinelt lists:
Allice. Ketch. Lost off the St. Helens bar, Tasmania. [RW]

Alice. Auxiliary ketch, 49/45 tons. # 105700. Built at Port Cygnet, Tasmania, 1904; reg. Melbourne 1/1923. Lbd 65.7 x 20.0 x 6.0 ft. Master James Henry Fletcher. From Launceston for St. Helens with a cargo including case petrol, furniture for the Eddystone lighthouse and a motor launch on deck, touched the bar at Georges Bay, filled, abandoned, 4 May 1927.  [TS2]
Alice Maud. Fishing smack. Master-owner Anthony Matthews. On the night of 22 September 1895 dreadful gales lashed the southern coast of Tasmania, with waves so high they broke the glass in the Derwent Lighthouse on the Iron Pot, ninety feet above sea level.  Three vessels were lost, two unidentified vessels, and the Alice Maud, ashore at Lady’s Bay, wrecked. Crew of two saved. [TS1]

Alice Maud. Fishing vessel, 5 tons, 40 ft. Apparently abandoned Kangaroo Bay, Tasmania. [TS2]

Alice Maud. Cutter, 16 tons. # 61054. Built at Battery Point, West Tamar, Tasmania, 1872; reg. Hobart 6/1876. Lbd 40.0 x 14.4 x 5.8 ft. Modified in 1876: ketch, 26 gross, lbd 56.1 x 14.4 x 5.8 ft. Master-owner Benjamin Boxall. From Hobart to Eaglehawk Neck, ashore at  White Rock, South Arm, 17 March 1918. The river steamer Mongana towed her off, but as she was filling rapidly, was beached near Gellibrand’s Grave Beach, South Arm, where she became a total wreck.
On 21 May 1887, sank at her moorings below Three Hut Point, Tasmania, during a gale; refloated. [TS2],[TS1]

Alissa. Motor cray fishing vessel, 21/14 tons. Ex Molly R., ex Sheila Maree. Reg. as Sheila Maree, # 196995. Built Launceston, 1959; reg. Hobart 7/1960. Lbd 38.4 x 12.6 x 7.3 ft. Holed and sank rapidly, Walker Island, Maatsuyker Group, Tasmania, 6 July 1981. Two crew saved. [TS2]

Alla Francis. Auxiliary fishing boat. Unregistered. Master-owner C. Southorn. Ashore, wrecked, on Roaring Beach, South Arm, Tasmania, February 1948.   [TS2]

Allison. Cutter, 21 tons. Built at North West Bay, Tasmania, 1844; reg. Hobart 10/1844, 76/1853. Lbd 41.4 x 12.5 x 5.3 ft. Laden with timber, ashore, wrecked, at Lady’s Bay, Tasmania, December 1861. [TS1]
In February 1859, had been instrumental in saving several lives when the Lady Bay settlement was totally destroyed by a bush fire.
In February 1861, driven ashore from her moorings at Lady’s Bay in a north-easterly gale and suffered considerable damage.

Allison. Cutter, 9.5 tons. # 32158. Built at Hobart, 1866; reg. Hobart 2/1867. Lbd  34.7 x 10.4 x 4.9 ft. Engaged for most of her career in the firewood trade between North-West Bay and Hobart, the Alison last appears inward bound on 7 July 1871 and presumably came to grief on a voyage between the two ports shortly afterwards. [TS1],[ASR indicates ‘lost prior to 1874']

Allison. Cutter. On 7 July 1861, ashore at Sandy Bay, Tasmania, during a gale which wrought havoc in south-east Tasmania. [TS1]
Possibly one of the two cutters listed above.

Alma Doepel. Three-masted schooner, wood, 150 tons gross. Built at Bellinger River, NSW, 1903. Lbd 105 x 26.6 x 7.6 ft. Worked the limestone run between southport and the carbide works at Electrona, south of Hobart. Became redundant but fortunateely was rescued by a group of enthusiasts and beautifully restored. Now operating out of Victorian waters. [LH]

Alma. Fishing vessel, 10 tons, 33 ft. Unregistered. Sank a mile off Vansittart Island, Furneaux Group, 5 December 1958. Two men saved.  [TS2]

Almark. Fishing vessel, 11 tons. Built around 1910; unregistered. Lbd 41-8 x 12 x 4-6 ft. Wrecked between Whale Head and Three Hillock Point, Tasmania, Friday 13 May 1966. Two crew saved. [TS2]

Alonnah. River steamer, 47 tons. Built 1911. Broken up at Mount Direction, Tasmania.. [TS2]

Alpha. Schooner, 117/97 tons. # 117614. Built Nambucca, NSW, 1903; reg. Hobart 3/1916. Lbd 92.4 x 25.1 x 7.0 ft. Captain H. Rowlands. From Leprena, Tasmania,  for Melbourne with timber,
aground on a reef off Waterhouse Point, Waterhouse Island, Tasmania, 10 September 1921. Much of the schooner's gear and fittings, including a deck engine, were recovered, but she soon broke in two. Crew  saved. [TS2],[LC - lost at Tomahawk Island, Tasmania]

Amelia. Schooner, 17 tons. Lbd 33-6 x 12 x 4-3 ft. Built at Hobart, 1827; reg. Hobart, 14/1831, 8/1836. Captain Samuel Rhodes. From Port Arthur to Hobart and Swanport, dismasted and waterlogged off Cape Pillar, the northern headland of Storm Bay, and taken in tow by the Juliet, however the Amelia was sinking fast and the line cast, 2 December 1837. The Juliet took the five Amelia crew to Sydney. [TS1],[ASW1 - Master William Moore]
On 11 June 1831, sailed from Hobart for Oyster Bay but sprang a leak in a gale and capsized off Wedge Bay, Storm Bay, Tasmania.  Two of the crew were drowned but her master, Captain Leard, was rescued by a whaleboat. The schooner was later towed into Wedge Bay and righted. [TS1][ASW1 - Captain Linard]

Amelia. Schooner, 12 tons. Built at Hobart, 1842; reg. Hobart 27/1842, 42/1854. Lbd 32.1 x 12.5 x 5.2 ft. Master-owner Robert Connor.  A regular trader from the Huon and Channel in 1850, there is no trace of the vessel in coasters’ lists resumed in 1858. [TS1]

Amelia J. Three-masted schooner,  404/353 tons. # 133493. Built Hobart, 1919; reg. Hobart 2/1919.  Lbd 153.0 x 30.6 x 14.3 ft. Captain George Atwell. Sailed from Newcastle for Hobart on 21 August 1920 with coal, total crew of twelve, but failed to arrive. She was last seen off Jervis Bay, NSW by the crew of SS Melbourne on 5 September 1920. Her owners arranged for SS Musgrave to conduct a search of the Furneaux Group, beginning what was probably the largest search for a missing vessel yet conducted in Australia, and the first to make use of aircraft. The Government initially refused to send a warship in search of the Amelia J., but the public outcry was so great that HMAS Platypus was sent to investigate the Furneaux Group, considered to be the most likely spot the vessel may have come to grief. On 23 September 1920, two De Havilland 9A biplanes took off to fly over the Furneaux Group.  One of these, flown by Major Stutt, was last seen flying into heavy cloud on the north-western coast of Cape Barren Island before it too disappeared, and the search for the missing schooner had to be extended to cover it as well. The Platypus was later withdrawn to search for survivors of the ill-fated Southern Cross (q.v.) and replaced by the destroyer Swordsman.  Other searches centred on the Furneaux Group were also carried out by the SS Dolphin, the motor launch Toroa, and the SS Melbourne. No trace of either schooner or aircraft was ever found.  [TS2]

Amy. Brig, 168 tons.Built at Poole, England, 1817; reg. Melbourne, 100/1853.  Lbd 77.8 x 23.2 x 14.6 ft. Master and part-owner George Roberts. Wrecked on the bar off Mersey Heads, Devonport, Tasmania, 8 January 1854. All saved.  [TS1]

Amy. Cutter. Presumed lost on Dotterel Reef near Tamar Heads, Tasmania, 16 December 1859. [TS1]
Broxam and Nash state:
The Amy was not a British Registered Ship, but was probably the decked cutter of that name, 15 tons register, auctioned at Launceston on 11 September 1855.

Amy. Steamer, 74/38 tons. # 73335. Built at Pyrmont, Sydney, 1875; reg. Melbourne 9/1904. Lbd 96.6 x 15.1 x 6.5ft. Originally a vessel of 53/36 tons, lbd 81.2 x 15.0 x 6.9ft., she was extensively altered at West Devonport in 1898.  Owned by W. Holyman & Sons. Sailed from Launceston for Hobart via St. Helens; her steering gear failed while passing over the St. Helen’s bar, ashore,  9 February 1911. Finally wrecked when a gale came in four days later. All saved. [TS2],[LPA]
In 1879 involved in rescue - see ketch Sarah Ann, lost Tasmania, 1879.

Amy Louise. Steamer 55/32 tons. # 57571. Built at Franklin, Huon River, Tasmania, 1876; reg. Hobart 3/1887. Lbd 77.6 x 17.7 x 6.3 ft. Originally built as a trading ketch of 36 tons, 64.4 x 17.7 x 5.2 ft.; fitted with a steam engine in 1887. Wrecked and scuttled off Franklin Island, Tasmania, 20 February 1915.
On  20 October 1909, caught fure at her moorings at Hobart, the watchman being unable to find a bucket to extinguish it. Repaired.
In May 1901, ashore .
In February 1904, ashore at Roberts Point, Tasmania.  [TS2]

Amy Moir. Ketch, 71 tons. # 93596. Built East Gosford, Brisbane Water, NSW, 1888; reg. Melbourne 2/1902. Lbd 80.3 x 23.2 x 6.2 ft. Captain H. Johnson. From Port Esperance to Melbourne with timber,
in bad weather, wrecked at Mersey Bluff in the Mersey, Tasmania, 25 June 1906.
On 4 April 1904, ran into the cutter Spray at Lagoon Bay, near Tamar Heads, due to the fact that the cutter was not showing any lights. [TS2]

Amy Robsart. Brigantine, 75 tons. # 52370. Built at Brisbane Water, NSW, 1865; reg. Melbourne 21/1881. Lbd 76.0 x 20.5 x 7.6 ft. Master-owner Robert Henry. From the Don River to Macquarie Harbour, tasmania, encountered a gale off Trial Harbour, became unmanageable and drifted ashore near Conical Rocks, wrecked, 28 Fewnruary 1883. Crew saved. [TS1]
On 23 May 1881, under master-owner Edward Taylor, stranded at the Don, Tasmania.

Andy. Crafisshing vessel, 5 tons. Lbd 25.5 x 9.0 x 3.75 ft. On rocks, wrecked, after a line became entangled in her propeller, Tasmanian waters, 9 April 1976. [TS2]

Anglo Saxon. Barque. Involved in rescue - see schooner Boscarne, Erith Ilsand, 1866. [TS1]

Ann. Schooner, 14 tons.Built at Compton Ferry, Tasmania, 1831; reg. Hobart, # 10/1831, # 6/1835.   Lbd 32-6 x 11-3 x 5 ft. No official trace after Peter Smith appointed master on 9 April 1835.  There was a vessel of that name in the river trade in 1850, but there is no evidence to prove it is the same one. [TS1]

Ann. Schooner, 29 tons. # 32053. Built on the Tamar River, Tasmania, 1852; reg. Launceston 20/1852, Hobart 46/1853. Lbd 51.0 x 14.4 x 6.1 ft.  Master James Carver. From Launceston for Hobart with a cargo of potatoes, ran onto the reef north-west of Swan Island, foundered in deep water ten minutes later, 6 October 1871. Crew landed at Swan Island; picked up by SS Southern Cross and landed at Hobart. [TS1],[ASR - ‘lost prior to 1874']

Ann. Brigantine, 135 tons. # 42981. Built at Summerside, Prince Edward Island, 1863; reg. Sydney 11/1865, Melbourne 3/1870. Lbd 90.1 x 25.2 x 10.8 ft. Captain Scott. Engaged to salvage Loch Leven, then headed for the Inglis River in search of cargo;  drifted ashore at King’s Bluff. arrived when the cable fouled and the vessel’s bow swung around, 9 November 1871.All hands landed safely. [TS1]
In July 1869, stranded on Frankland Reef, Flinders Island, and beached to prevent her from sinking.  Although written off as a total wreck she was later refloated and repaired.

Ann & Jane. Cutter, 20 tons. Unregistered. Sailed from Hobart for Port Davey with stores for the piners on 14 October 1860; forced back to New Harbour to shelter where strong winds blew her ashore, wrecked, 30 October 1860. All hands saved. [TS1]

Ann Allen. Ketch, 16 gross. # 57500. Built Port Cygnet, 1869; reg. Hobart 1/1869. Lbd 44.9 x 13.6 x 4.5 ft. Owner-master W. W. Ford. On a voyage from Barnes Bay to Hobart with firewood when capsized off Crayfish Point, Tasmania, in a squall, 6 March 1923. Crew saved by fishing ketch Belle Brandon; fishing cutter Frolic was sent in search of the capsized ketch, but was unable to find her in the darkness.

Annie. Paddle steamer. Involved in rescue - see SS Percy, Tasmania, 1870.

Annie. Schooner, 35 tons. # 31938. Lbd 55.4 x 14.4 x 5.9 ft. Built Hobart, 1853; reg. Hobart 36/1853. Dereleict at Geilston Bay, Tasmania. Register was closed on 24 May 1921 with the comment ‘condemned and broken up by the Marine Board of Hobart’. However, it is also possible that the vessel aground at Geilston Bay was the schooner officially known as the Annie, # 32074, 38 tons gross, built at Satellite Island, D’Entrecasteaux Channel, 1849, lbd  49.2 x 18.0 x 4.5 ft. Her register was closed on 30 June 1918 when Customs were informed that she had been ‘lost in the River Derwent many years ago’. [TS2]
Annie. Ketch, 42 tons. Built Hobart, 1878. Wrecked Swansea, Tasmania, August, 1887. [ASR]

Annie. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see Katharine Sharer, Tasmania, 1855. [TS1]

Annie. Whaleboat. South Arm to Hobart with timber,  lost her rudder off Cartwright’s Point, Tasmania, and stranded on Shipwright’s Point, wrecked, 1 January 1866. Crew saved. [TS1]

Annie Bow. Brig, 257/250 tons. # 62420. Built Garmouth, Scotland, 1869; reg. Sydney 1/1890. As a coal hulk, sprang a leak and sank alongside King's Pier, Hobart, 23 March 1924.  After several unsuccessful attempts were made to refloat her, she was blown up with explosives.

Annie Jane. Fishing boat. Involved in rescue - see fishing smack Britannia, lost Tasmania, 1909. [TS2]

Annie Jane. Fishing vessel, 15 tons, 39 ft. Blown from moorings at Kingston Beach, Tasmania, during a gale, 11 October 1952.  [TS2]

Annie Jane. Fishing vessel, 37-2 ft. Sank at her Battery Point moorings during the height of a gale, September 1957.  [TS2]

Annie McDougall. Three-masted wooden fore-and-aft schooner, 220/189 tons. # 57640. Built at Recherche Bay, 1898; reg. Hobart 2/1898. Lbd 120.9 x 28.7 x 10.3 ft.  Quite a magnificent vessel; built of bluegum, stringybark and kauri pine, with Huon pine topsides and her spread of canvas totalled 9600 square feet. Captain P. J. Peterson. Left Recherche Bay with a cargo of timber for Strahan; while attempting to enter Hell’s Gates into Macquarie Harbour, struck on the North Spit, lost her rudder and lay in the.breakers, leaking badly near the wreck of the Grafton, lost two months earlier, 5 August 1898. SS Yolla went to her assistance but was unable to help.  A lifeboat reached the wreck and rescued the seven crew. Although not badly damaged, all efforts to refloat the vessel failed, having sunk too deeply into the sand. The wreck is still visible from time to time.  [LHG],[TS1]

Annie Mellish. Vessel, unlisted type. Found wreckage reportedly from the brig Grecian Queen, lost in Bass strait, 1863. [TS1]

Annie Taylor. Wooden ketch, 103/96 tons. # 132473. Built Port Albert, Victoria, 1920; reg. Melbourne 2/1920. Lbd 88.0 x 22.5 x 8.0 ft.  She was the last vessel of any size to be bult at Port Albert. Out of Hobart, traded to Victorian ports.Master-owner Edward John Taylor. While loading timber at Rheban on the Tasmanian east coast, ashore in a gale, wrecked, 6 November 1923. [LPA],[ASR],[LC],[TS2]

Annie Ward. Ketch, a ‘wooden hooker’,16 tons. Unregistered. Built at Battery Point, Hobart, 1879. Lbd 43 x 11 x 4.5 ft. Master Harry Haines. Sank about half a mile off Half Moon Bay, South Arm, Tasmania, on or about 15 November 1898. All drowned: the master, a young crewman and a passenger. The wreck was located by the ketch Triabunna.  The ketch King Billy was sent to refloat the vessel, but she broke up before this could be done. No bodies were recovered. [TS1]

Annott Lyle. Brigantine, 191 tons. # 35574. Built at Newcastle, New Brunswick, 1858; reg. Melbourne 12/1859. Lbd 91.6 x 25.4 x 11.7 ft. Captain Murray. From southern Tasmania to Williamstown drifted onto the rocks, wrecked, near Swan Island, north-east Tasmania, 20 May 1860. Crew saved, assisted in part by vessel Clarendon. She was, at the time of her loss, in company with the brig Eliza Goddard which apparently survived. [TS1]

Ansell Gibbs. Whaler. American owned. Sighted what may have ben the upturned hull of the whaling schooner Maria, off Cape Pillar, Tasmania, 1836. [TS1]

Apollo. Brig, 96 tons. Built at Apollo Bay, Bruny Island, Tasmania, 1826; reg. Hobart 1/1827. Captain John Laughton.  Ashore, wrecked, in a leaking condition on Maria Island, Tasmania, 29 March 1827.  All saved, as well as some cargo, but efforts to refloat the vessel were thrawted when a gale erupted on 1 April.  [TS1],[ASW1 - 105 tons]

Apollo. Cutter, 44 tons. Built at North West Bay, Tasmania, 1848; reg. Hobart, 42/1848. Lbd 52.0 x 16.0 x 7.4 ft. Captain Alfred Bee. From Hobart for Geelong with a cargo of produce, dragged her anchors in a gale whilst sheltering under Schouten Island, Tasmania, wrecked, 28 May 1855. Crew saved. [TS1]

Apprentice. Schooner, colier, 143 tons. # 40928. Built at Limehouse, UK, 1828; reg. Melbourne, 19/1856. Lbd  79-10 x 21-2 x 12-7 ft.  Master/owner Arthur Thomas Kenney. From Newcastle to Melbourne with coal, forced to seek shelter under the Hunter Group in heavy weather, drifted onto the rocks on the north-eastern end of East Hunter (Three Hummock) Island, 13 September 1856. All hands landed safely. [TS1]

Aqua Enterprise. Steel motor fishing vessel, trawler,172/105 tons. #  385857. Built at the Sosnovka Shipyard, Sosnovka, USSR, 1980; reg. Melbourne 36/1980. Lbd 22.51 x 6.81 x 2.32 metres. Whilst working the Orange roughy shoals, about 100 miles south of Hobart, it was noticed that she was taking water; headed back to Hobart but abandoned and sank, 12 March 1990.

Aqualillius. Cutter, 13 tons. # 32088. Built at Three Hut Point, D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania, 1858; reg. Launceston 1/1876. Lbd 32.7 x 11.3 x 6.3 ft. Stranded near Rosevears on the River Tamar on 17 March 1877 but later refloated and towed up river to Launceston, where she was abandoned until being broken up for firewood in mid-1880. [TS1]
Also listed:
Aqualillias. Coastal vessel. Ashore in a major storm, south of Hobart, August 1861. Recovered. [TS1]

Arawa. Motor launch, 30ft. Unregistered. Burst into flames running across the Derwent River from Opossum Bay, South Arm, to Hobart, 19 February 1961. Scuttled at Mary Ann Bay, South Arm.  [TS2]

Arcadia. Shark boat. Unregistered. Lb 30 x 9.5 ft. Dragged her anchors and wrecked ashore at Eastman's Beach, Barmouth Point, 24 May 1958.  [TS2]

Argo. Vessel of 150 tons, armed with four guns. Built at Chittagong; reg. Calcutta. Captain John Poore Dixon. It appears that with the collusion of the captain, thirteen or fourteen convicts took the vessel out of Hobart in 1814, but were never heard of again. She may have foundered at sea. [ASW1]

Ariel. Schooner, 49 tons. Built at Rotherhithe on the River Tamar, 1850; reg. Launceston, 8/1850. Lbd 63.4 x 15.7 x 6.4ft. Captain Thomas Lewis. Lost steerage and drifted onto Blackman’s Reef, Emu Bay, Tasmania, 6 September 1853. Crew saved, and some cargo salvaged before she broke up. [TS1]

Ariel.. Barge, 25 tons. # 32109. Built at Hobart, 1863; reg. Hobart 4/1863. Lbd 46.8 x 13.0 x 5.3ft. Ashore in a gale at Recherche, Tasmania, June 1866. [TS1]
Broxam and Nash note:
It is probable that the Ariel was rebuilt from another vessel of the same name, 25 tons, 47.0 x 12.6 x 5.4 ft., built at Hobart in 1845, the register of which was closed with ‘wrecked’ in 1868, twenty years after its last effective entry, which in turn, the authors speculate, may have been built up from the dandy Sea Devil, 26 tons, 45.8 x 12.6 x 5.8ft., built at Hobart in 1840.

Arthur & Ethel. Wooden boat. Master Benjamin McNulty. Sank off Crayfish Point, Tasmania, on 27 June 1878 but was apparently recovered. [TS1]

Aristides. Auxiliary ketch, 117/86 tons. # 105694. Built Hobart, 1902; reg. Hobart 1/1936. Lbd 100.4 x 22.4 x 6.8 ft. Originally a vessel of 86 gross, lbd 80.0 x 21.9 x 6.8 ft.; lengthened in 1936 and fitted with a six-cylinder diesel engine. Master James O'Neill. Ashore, wrecked, at Three Hummock Island, western Bass Strait, 17 January 1940. All hands saved.  [TS2]

Armagh. Steamship, 12269 tons. Built 1917. U.S.S.Co. Broke up after stranding at entrance to Mersey River, Tasmania, 1923.  [DG]

Arogus. Lug-rigged fishing vessel, 14/13 tons, 37.6 ft. # 177205. Built Melbourne 1946; reg. Melbourne 5/1949. Reg. closed 24 February 1964 with the comment 'Vessel reported sunk'.
Broxam and Nash suggest possibly lost in Tasmanian waters.  [TS2]

Astalina. Motor cray fishing vessel, LFB No.193 (TK9), 12 tons, 36 ft. Built Triabunna, about 1952. Hit by a freak wave and capsized, Shoemaker Point, near South Cape, Tasmania, 18 November 1980. Two crew swam to shore. Vessel was wrecked during the night.

Asterope. Barque, 602/525 tons. # 27223. Built at Aberdeen, UK, 1859; reg. London. Lbd 172.0 x 28.3 x 17.5 ft. Captain Stapleton.  Left Gravesend for Launceston on 13 December 1882, but when off The Lizard, collided with an unknown vessel and lost her rudder. Towed to Plymouth for repairs then set out again on 31 January 1883. However, rough weather forced her to return again leaking badly. Sailed yet again 28 February and after an uneventful voyage  ran onto Hebe Reef and stuck fast vessel when approaching Tamar Heads, 8 June 1883. All saved. After efforts to tow her off using the steamers Tamar, Avon and Empress of India failed, she was abandoned. [TS1],[ASW6],[LAH]

Atalanta. Schooner, formerly revenue cutter, 52 tons. # 32060. Built at West Quay, Southampton, UK, 1807; reg. Hobart 11/1858. Lbd 62.1 x 21.7 x 8.7 ft. Outward bound from Macquarie Harbour with a cargo of pine, stranded on Entrance Island at the Heads, Hobart, Tasmania, 1 October 1858.  Apparently a total loss. All hands landed safely; picked up, along with the salvaged cargo, by the schooner Eva.
In August 1856, sank near Green Island in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel; refloated ten weeks later by parties using the schooners Beacon and Robert Burns, and found to have suffered little damage. [TS1]
Loney adds:
Became the first recorded major casualty at Hell’s Gates, the entrance to Macquarie Harbour. [LHG]

Athella. Motor launch, 32 ft. Built Launceston, around 1941, as the Yvonne. Destroyed by fire at Blackwall on the River Tamar at an unknown date. [TS2]

Athen. See schooner Lautita, lost Tasmania, 1859.

Athena. Auxiliary fishing boat, 10 tons. Built at Battery Point, Hobart, 1903; unregistered. Lbd  42 x 11 x 4-9 ft.  Mster-owner John LetteDrifted ashore on rocks, wrecked, when her engine stalled whilst working craypots, near South-West Cape, Tasmania. Two crew managed to row five miles to New Harbour; from there, taken to Maatsuyker Island by a fishing boat, and later reached Hobart.
On 2 July 1958, owner, 75 year-old Thomas Martyn, apparently fell overboard and drowned shortly after leaving Bellerive. With no one else on board, the Athena crossed the Derwent on her own, ran into the motor launch Vendetta moored off Battery Point, deflected and hi the jetty.  No significant damage resulted. [TS2]

Athletic. Iron screw steamer,  43/29 tons. # 64381. Built at Sydney, 1872; reg. Melbourne 16/1875. Lbd 80.2 x 13.2 x 5.3 ft. Originally a Port Phillip Bay steamer before being refitted as a cargo vessel between Hobart and Launceston. Captain Edward T. Miles. Stranded on a reef between Cape Portland and the Foster Islands, north-east Tasmania, 11 November 1881; after the crew threw most of the cargo overboard, beached on the south-western side of Foster Island. By the time the paddle steamer Avon reached the Athletic, she had slipped off the reef and sank. [TS1]

Audrey Pearl. Motor fishing vessel, LFB No. 381 (TC1), 16 tons. Built 1964-65. Lbd 39.7 x 12.5 x 6.3 ft. Slipped her moorings and aground on a reef, Couta Rocks, Tasmania, 10 April 1978 [TS2]

Aussie Diver. Fibreglass fishing vessel 2 tons, 6.4 metres. Dragged her anchor, wrecked on rocks, Surveyors Cove, Tasmania, 9 September 1994. [TS2]

Australia. Iron twin-screw steamship, 459/260 tons. # 89928. Built at Dumbarton, Scotland by Burrell & Sons, 1884; reg.Dunedin, NZ, 1/1887, in the name of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. Lbd 150.4 x 26.1 x 8.9 ft. Captain Rogers. From Launceston for Strahan with about twenty-one passengers and 195 tons of cargo, ran over an uncharted rock off West Point, north of the Arthur River, north-west coast Tasmania, 19 April 1899. Fortunately conditions were relatively calm, and the boats were lowered without too much difficulty. The vessel beached herself at the spot that bears her name about a mile north of the Arthur River. [TS1],[DG]
On 9 March 1885, stranded on rocks off the Burnie breakwater, Tasmania.
On 10 September 1896, stranded at Macquarie Harbour Heads.
On 5 August 1897, came across the coastal cutter Elsie May adrift and waterlogged about nine miles of Table Cape, with no one on board and a cargo of about two tons of flour in the hold.  The steamer took the cutter in tow, but as she was clearly straining badly, she was set adrift. She presumably sunk soon after the Australia had left her. [TS1]
On 11 May 1898, hit Entrance Island, Macquarie Harbour.
On 27 May 1898, hit the Macquarie Harbour bar, apparently without damage.

Australian. Cutter/schooner, 23 tons. # 32079. Originally a topsail schooner, engaged in bay whaling operations.  Built at Hobart, 1825; reg. Hobart, 3/1825, 15/1834, 3/1844. Lbd 35 x 12-7 x 5-7 ft. Owned by Captain James Kelly. After lying derelict at Kangaroo Point for some years, she had been refitted as a cutter in 1859 and had spent the rest of her career in the river trade. Wrecked at Taylor’s Bay, Bruny Island, Tasmania, 22 November 1874. Crew landed safely.
[TS1 - cutter],[ASW1 - two-mast schooner]
In October 1828, under master-owner James Kelly, stranded at Oyster Bay. Refloated with the assistance of a government boat after fifteen days.
In 1834, stranded in Trumpeter Bay. Considerably damaged but refloated in February 1835, and repaired.
On 16 July 1871, stranded in Ralph’s Bay

Avon. Paddle steamer. Involved in an attempted salvage - see steamer Athletic, Tasmania, 1881.
Also listed:
Avon. Steamer. Involved in attempted salvage of vessel - see barque Astrolabe, lost Tasmania, 1883.

Ayrshire Lass. Cutter, 15 gross. # 32151 Built Port Esperance, 1866; reg. Hobart 10/1866. Lbd.43.0 x 13.5 x 4.0 ft. Lain derelict for many year, Tasmania; probably demolished.  [TS2]

B.C.  Motor fishing vessel, LFB No. 419 (TJT), 10 tons. Ex Broadway. Lbd 35.0 x 12.0 x 7.6 ft. Washed up on rocks south of Cape Sorell, Tasmania, 20 December 1986. [TS2]

Balmoral. Schooner. A boat from the schooner was hit by the steam ferry Kangaroo, Tasmanian waters, drowning one of its crew, 1 February 1857. [TS2]

Barrapete. Auxiliary cutter-rigged motor fishing vessel, LFB No. 383 (TU9), 23/18 tons. # 191518. Built Woodbridge, Tasmania, 1946; reg. Hobart 12/1949, 6/1960. Lbd 44.1 x 13.1 x 6.05 ft.  Skipper-owner T. G. French. Wrecked ashore,  Sandy Cape, Tasmania, 21 November 1972. [TS2]

Beacon. Schooner, 93 tons. Built at Desolation Bay, Huon River, 1850, as the Triad; reg. Hobart 22/1850.  Lbd 68.0 x 20.4 x 9.0 ft. When lost, was an unregistered government vessel. Captain Nicholson. Wrecked in a sudden change of wind when at anchor off Swan Island, 26 July 1857. Eleven crew landed safely and  picked up by the SS City of Hobart. The Government chartered the schooner Circassian for salvage, and after auction, the schooner Urania also was used for salvage. [TS1]
In 1856, involved in salvage - see schooner Atalanta, Tasmania. [TS1]

Beatrice. Schooner, 81/72 tons. #  23860. Built at Newhaven, Sussex, UK,  1860; reg. Hobart 1/1920. Lbd  94.1 x 19.1 x 11.5 ft. Soon after arriving in Australian waters in 1862, the schooner was purchased jointly by the British Admiralty and the Government of South Australia to survey the coast of the Northern Territory.  Sold to private owners in 1890. Master-owner Robert Blackwood. From Hobart for Melbourne with timber, wrecked off the south-eastern side of Waterhouse Island, north-east Tasmania, (Bass Strait), 9 April 1921. Crew saved, later rescued by auxiliary ketch Opah; schooner Joseph Sims assisted with salvage of gear.
On 4 February 1897, stranded near Port Lincoln, SA; after refloating was almost rebuilt.
On 14 July 1917, on her delivery voyage to new owners in Hobart, encountered heavy weather and stranded at Kelso Bay, Tamar Heads, Tasmania.  [TS2]

Beautiful Star. Iron steamship, 177/146 tons. #  43602. Built Northumberland, UK, 1862; reg. Hobart 1/1900.  Lbd 119.2 x 17.2 x 10.6 ft Had a long and useful career as a coastal steamer both in New South Wales and New Zealand, and had been one of the initial vessels of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand’s fleet in 1873. Was laid up at the Domain Slip, Tasmania, alongside the hulk of the former whaling barque Derwent Hunter, when a fire was discovered on board, Christmas Day 1907. Both vessel destroyed. The hulk was later towed to New Town Bay, beached and abandoned.  Its remains were visible for many years until being covered by road works in the 1960s.
On 4 December 1902, under master-owner Thomas Nichols, collided with the steamer Huon between Snug Point and Oyster Cove, Tasmania. Both masters were severely reprimanded. [TS2]
On 4 December 1902, collided with steamer Huon, Tasmania. [TS2]

Bella Beaton. Cutter, 10 gross. # 79264. Built at Cape Barren Island, Furneaux Group, 1884; reg.  Launceston  4/1884. Lbd 37.7 x 10.8 x 5.0 ft. Built from the cutter Sisters (qv). In 1911 the register of the cutter Bella Beaton, which had been lain up in the North East River, Cape Barren Island, for some years, was closed with the comment that she had been destroyed by a bushfire in about 1908. [TS2]

Belle Brandon. Fishing ketch. Involved in rescue - see ketch Ann Allen, capsized Tasmania, 1923.  [TS2]

Bellinger. Steamship, 225 tons. Stranded on the bar at Hell’s gates, entrance to Macquarie Harbour, for nine hours; lost her rudder, but eventually struggled out into deep water and safety,  2 November 1894.  [LHG]

Ben Hur II. Motor fishing vessel, 27 tons. Built 1968-69. Lbd 52.0 x 15.3 x 6.6 ft. Wrecked on rocks at Low Rocky Point, Tasmania, 6 July 1972.  [TS2]

Beryl. Cutter. Unregistered. Owner-crew, Richard Maxwell and John Harris. From Port Sorell to Beaconsfield, Tasmania, with produce, capsized in a squall off Tamar Heads, 18 May 1883. Found broken up at Three Mile Bluff. Two crew drowned. [TS1]

Binda. Fishing vessel, 3 tons, 6.17 metres. Sank Tasmanian waters, prior to March 1976.  [TS2]

Black Swan. Cutter, 19 tons. Buit at Westernport, Vic, 1843; reg. Sydney 62/1843, 14/1845. Lbd 36.6 x 12.2 x 6.1 ft. Stranded near Swansea, Tasmania. February 1845. Refloated and returned to her home port of Sydney. [ASW1]

Black Swan. Auxiliary fishing vessel, 22 ft. Unregistered. Ashore, wrecked, on Nine Mile Beach, Swansea, east coast Tasmania, 17 May 1950.
In June 1943, parted from her moorings in a  gale and drifted ashore near Saltwater Creek, Coles Bay. [TS2]

Black Warrior. Schooner, 19 tons. # 32107. Built at Hobart,  1862; reg. Hobart 17/1862. Lbd 45.5 x 13.0 x 4.7 ft. Master Thomas Bennett.  Wrecked at Rocky Heads, presumably Low Rocky Point, Tasmania, 23 August 1863. The captain and two crew took a month to reach Port Davey overland. [TS1]

Black Wattle. Cutter of 17 tons.. Built and reg. Hobart, 1833; reg. Hobart, 13/1834, 7/1843.  Lbd 31-10 x 11-8 x 4-10 ft Master Samuel Rhodes. Ashore, wrecked,  at Half Moon Bay on South Arm, Tasmania, during a squall, December 1847. Crew saved. [TS1]

Blanch. Cutter. Unregistered. Sailed from Hobart for Spring Bay, east coast Tasmania, early in June 1858 but failed to arrive.  She was last seen by the crew of the schooner Boindee a few hours after leaving Hobart, and no trace was ever found.

Blanche. Schooner, 34 tons. # 32103. Built at Long Bay, Tasmania, 1857; reg. Hobart 10/1862. Lbd  48.0 x 15.0 x 7.5 ft. Master Samuel Morrison.  Drifted onto the rocks after her cables parted at the ‘Stack of Bricks’, Sisters Bay, near Southport, Tasmania, 26 November 1865. The insurance company was not  not convinced and had Morrison charged with deliberately casting the vessel away on the owner’s instigation for the £500 insurance. Morrison was initially tried at the Hobart Police Court and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment; the owner Charles Gladhill was remanded in custody for having encouraged Morrison to cast the vessel away, but no report of his trial, if any, has been located. The stranded Blanche had in the meantime passed into the ownership of the police department, and finally broke up in May 1866.  [TS1],[ASR]

Blanche. Fishing vessel, 10 tons, 43 ft. Built Battery Point, Tasmania, 1900. Blown from her moorings in a gale, drifted across the Derwent and went ashore on Droughty Point, wrecked, 25 September 1965. [TS2]

Blue Eyed Maid. Government whaleboat. Captured off White Rock, Greater Swanport, Tasmania by the notorious bushranger Mathew Brady, in which he made his escape to shore after the sloop Glutton was scuttled, 1825. [TS1]

Blue Fin. Fishing vessel, LFB No. 258 (THE), 7 tons, 31.17 ft. Sank off Bicheno, 13 August 1972.   [TS2]

Blythe Star. Twin-screw motor vessel, 305/138 tons. # 177206. Built at Prince of Wales Bay, Hobart, 1945; reg. Melbourne 6/1949. Captain Francis McCudden. Sailed from Ulverstone for Melbourne with a cargo of timber and canned peas; engine room exploded, and setting fire to the vessel, 17 May 1959. The epxlosion killed the second enginner. The ten remaining crew made Burnie in the ship's boat. Meanwhile, the smoke had been seen by the crew of the Union Steamship Company's Kumalla, which pulled alongside and attempted to take the burning vessel in tow.  By now the weather had deteriorated, with heavy rain and strong winds that fanned the flames, the swell preventing hoses from being deployed successfully.  The pilot launch Miowera also turned up, but was equally powerless. The hull drifted about until it burned to the waterline and sank. The reason for the explosion was never explained.
On 5 June 1951, stranded at Leven Heads while outward bound, but floated off undamaged at high tide the following day.
On 8 May 1953, fire broke out while tied up at South Wharf, Melbourne; much of her superstructure, including the crew accommodation, was destroyed. Did not re-enter service until March 1957.
Note: As a replacement, the owners purchased the steel motor vessel Tandik, which was in turn renamed Blythe Star and was, in 1973, to be responsible for further loss of life off the Tasman Peninsula. [TS2]

Blythe Star. Steel motor vessel, 321/144 tons. # 315392. Ex Tandik. Built at Le Havre, France, 1955; reg. Melbourne 4/1960, reg. Hobart, Bass Strait Shipping Co. Pty. Ltd., at the time of her loss. Lbd 134.6 x 25.3 x 8.7 ft. Captain George Cruickshank. On 12 October 1973, sailed from Prince of Wales Bay, Hobart for King Island with a cargo of superphosphate fertiliser, a ton of beer in kegs, and a crew of ten. Failed to arrive at Currie. Despite the most extensive air-sea search yet conducted in Australia, no trace of the vessel could be found. Official investigations ceased on 23 October 1973. Seven survivors  were finally located at Deep Glen Bay on Tasman Peninsula eleven days after their vessel had capsized and sunk without warning about six miles due west of South-West Cape in eighty fathoms of water. The life raft was launched successfully; one crew died on the raft, and two others soon after the life raft drifted into Deep Glen Bay. An extensive inquiry was held at Melbourne between 3 December 1973 and 14 February 1974; virtually none of those involved in the vessel's operations or the search that commenced after she was reported missing escaped criticism.
In December 1967, stranded on the Ela Reef, North Queensland.
Also, later, ashore near Fremantle W.A. [TS2],[LAH]

Boindee. Schooner. Last to see the cutter Blanch, east coast tasmania, 1858. [TS1]
Also listed (could be a separate vessel, but not likely):
Bonidie. Schooner, 51 tonw. Built 1858; reg Hobart Town. Lost prior to 1871. [ASR]

Bonanza II. Steel motor fishing vessel, 110 gross.  Built Ulladulla, NSW, 1981. Length 23.73 metres. Wrecked on rocks  after her helmsman fell asleep, near South East Cape, Tasmania, 2 January 1989. Crew saved. [TS2]

Bonita. Auxiliary fishing ketch. Unregistered. Built Launceston, 1912. Master H. Chitten. From Devonport for Hobart, wrecked on  an outlying section of Hebe Reef, Tamar heads, Tasmania, 28 May 1915. Three crew escaped.
Previously, stranded at East Telegraph Bay, Three Hummock Island, western Bass Strait. [TS2]

Boomerang. Schooner, 96 tons. Built 1852; reg Hobart Town. Lost prior to 1874. [ASR]

Booth. Schooner, 9 tons. Lbd 31.6 x 8.7 x 4.5 ft. Built at Port Arthur by the Colonial Government Dockyard, 1838; reg. from 5 August 1841 in the name of her master Thomas Chuter, but there is no further trace. Reg. Hobart # 21/1839, # 24/1841. [TS1]

Bouyer. Fishing vessel. Skipper-owner M. Gardiner. On fire, apparently destroyed, Tasmanian waters, May 1968. [TS2]

Bowra. Steamer. Involved in rescue - see brigantine Circe, Macquarie Harbour, 1892.

Brenda. Brig, 256 tons. Built Nova Scotia, 1827.  Captain Rowcastle. Ran aground on the north-western end of  Swan Island, north-east Tasmania, 12 March  1832. She had sailed from Liverpool for Launceston,  arriving 10 December 1831, with her crew in a near-mutinous state.  Matters appeared to have been settled before the brig cleared out for Hobart in March 1832. It was rumoured that the captain was drunk and his crew again insubordinate at the time of her loss. The Government cutter Charlotte had offered assistance but it was refused, and the stricken vessel became a total wreck.  Over a period of several months the sloops William and Constant Trader (lost in the salvage operation), and schooners Mars and Thistle managed to save much of the cargo, gear and fittings. [TS1],[ASW1 - indicates built in ‘North Scotland’, 1829]

Brenda. Auxiliary sloop, 25 ft. Built Launceston 1935. Master-owner Geoffrey Swain, sole crew on board. Sailed from Stanley for King Island and Melbourne on 16 May 1982, but failed to arrive at either place, presumed foundered. An extensive search of the entirety of Bass Strait by nine RAAF and six civil aircraft failed to find any trace.  [TS2]
Breone. Steamer. Involved in rescue - see steamship Nord, lost Tasmania, 1915. [TS2]

Brier Holme. Barque, 921 tons. # 76136. Built at Sunderland, 1876. Lbd 206.1 x 33.6 x 19 ft. Wrecked on the south western coastline of Tasmania, 5 November 1904. Captain J.H. Rich. Carrying a crew of eighteen she left London for Hobart on 21 July 1904, but when she failed to arrive at her destination by the end of November was officially posted missing. On 3 January 1905, the discovery of wreckage and remains of cargo on the beach between Port Davey and South West Cape led to an organised search of the area and the eventual rescue of the sole survivor, Oscar Larsen. He described the barque struck a reef about twenty kilometres north of Port Davey in heavy weather. The crew were forced into the rigging, then the main and mizen masts went overboard and the bumping of the vessel exploded a cargo of dynamite in the after hold, killing most of the crew. Larson was thrown into the sea, then washed ashore. Larsen’s arrival in Hobart gave rise to rumours concerning his activities after the wreck. Some claimed he was in collusion with fishermen looting the wreck, and others were critical of the efforts of the search parties. However, an inquiry exonerated Larsen, the fishermen, and searchers. [ASW6],[NH],[TS2],[LAH]

Bright Planet. Fore-and-aft schooner, 69/65 tons. # 57591. Built at Port Davey, 1878; reg. Hobart 4/1878. Lbd 76.0 x 19.2 x 7.9 ft. Captain James Carver. Arrived at Port Davey, south-west Tasmania, from Adelaide, and whilst at anchor, caught fire, burned to the waterline and sank, 30 May 1879. All crew saved, reaching Hobart on board the ketch Starling. It was thought that a quantity of lime in the hold may have got wet and spontaneously ignited. [TS1]

Britannia. Fishing smack. Built at Wedge Bay, Tasmania, 1904; unregistered. Lbd approx. 40 x 12 x 6 ft. Master-owner Harry Wilson Left Louisa Bay, near Cox Bight on the far south coast Tasmania; thrown onto the rocks, wrecked, De Witt Island, Tasmania, 10 March 1909. The three crew rescued, taken on board the fishing boat Annie Jane. [TS2]

Brothers. Brigantine (schooner in the press), 60 tons. # 31958. Built at Port Fairy, Victoria, 1847; reg. Hobart, 8/1857. Lbd 58.4 x 17.4 x 9.6 ft.  Master/owner William Young. From Hobart for Geelong, struck a reef off Swan Island, off north-east Tasmania, and had to be beached on Waterhouse Island to prevent her from sinking, 8 August 1859. It is not recorded if she was refloated, or a total loss. [TS1]
In 1857, involved in salvage - see barque Varn, Tasmania.

Brothers. River craft, barge, 12 tons. # 32143.  Built at Hobart, 1863; reg. Hobart 14/1865. Lbd 36.3 x 10.5 x 5.0 ft. Register closed on 23 September 1898 with a comment ‘believed to have been wrecked on South Arm (Tasmania) about 1886'.

Brothers. Twin-screw auxiliary fishing ketch, 21/18 tons. # 57584. Built Port Cygnet, 1877; reg. Hobart 9/1877. Lbd 51.0 x 14.4 x 4.4 ft. Demolished on 15 June 1949 after sinking at her moorings, New Town Bay, Hobart, early in 1949.
On 28 September 1904, stranded at One Tree Point while inward bound to Hobart with firewood.
On 12 July 1905, sank near Green Island on the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. [TS2]

Buenos Ayres. ‘Wood barge’. Unregistered. Broke adrift from her moorings at Old Wharf, Hobart, and was smashed against the wharf, sinking up to her decks, 2 August 1863. [TS1]

Bunyip. Sloop-rigged yacht, 8-metre. Master-owner William Howard. On a voyage across Bass Strait, encountered a severe gale, struck by a huge wave and swamped, night of 17 December 1975. Owner's son drowned. Three crew took to the lifeboat and were spotted by a RAAF Orion three days later; the coaster Lady Jillian was directed to the scene. [TS2]

C. & J. Jager. Fishing vessel, 44.5 ft. Built Tsmania, 1945; unregistered. Destroyed by fire whilst at anchor in Port Davey, Tasmania, 10 February 1955. No lives lost.  [TS2]

Calcutta Lifeboat. (Thats the name of the vessel.). River trader. Originally from the barque Calcutta, a regular trader to Hobart in the 1840s.  Fitted with air flotation and able to carry a large press of sail, it first arrived at Hobart with its parent ship on 17 October 1847, and was apparently sold at Hobart some years later for use as a river trader. Lbd 25 x 6 x 4ft.  Capsized in a squall off Sandy Bay, and drifted out into Storm Bay with the crew of three clinging to her keel, 23 April 1856. Rescue the following day off South Bruny by the schooner Native Youth.

Caldare. Steamship, collier. See Vicky. [TS2]

Caledonia. Ketch, 27 tons. # 57498. Built on the Huon River, Tasmania, and rebuilt at Port Cygnet,  1875-76; reg. Hobart 20/1844. Lbd 55.4 x 13.1 x 4.5ft Whilst unloading firewood for the Iron Pot lighthouse at the entrance to the River Derwent, Tasmania, dragged her anchors in the tidal current and ran onto the rocks, wrecked, 15 November 1898. [TS1]

Cambria. Tasmaniaan coastal steamer. Hit the Inglis River bar while entering out from Wynyard, Tasmania, 6 October 1886. Seriously damaged but repaired. [TS1]

Campania. Launch. Built Launceston. Lost or damaged beyong repair due to devastating floods in the Launceston, Tamar River basin, April 1929.  [TS2]

Cape Pigeon. Ketch, 26 tons. # 57806. Built at Port Davey, 1869; reg. Hobart 10/1869. Lbd 50.2 x 14.5 x 5.0 ft. Captain H. Manton. From Pittwater to Hobart, in  light winds and a heavy swell drifted onto Watson’s Bluff , Tasmania; sank, 23 March 1895. Eventually drifted ashore on Watson’s Bluff and broke up. Crew saved, with assistance from ketch Esther. [TS1]

Carin. Brigantine, 269 tons. # 105687. Built at Skonvich, Sweden, 1876; reg. Hobart 8/1900, closed on 19 August 1918 with the comment ‘broken up’. Lbd 122.0 x 27.0 x 11.0 ft. Laid up off Sandy Bay since late 1906, was accidentally set alight by three boys staying on board, 17 April 1908. Later sold to the Shell Oil Company for use as a hulk, and in 1911 it was reported that she was to be towed to Recherche. Eventually broken up at Smelting Works (Montagu) Bay.

Carlena. Fishing vessel, 3 tons, 25.5 ft. Unregistered. Skipper-owner Alan Bradshaw. Burned to the waterline and sank, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, 18 March 1966.

Carlisle. Iron barque, 1121 tons. # 50253. Built at Hartlepool, England, 1864; registered at Liverpool, England. Lbd 202.4 x 33.8 x 21.8 ft. Captain August Arendrup. From Melbourne for Newcastle, where she was to load coal for South America, hit rocks  about seven miles ENE of Crocodile Rock, south-east of Wilson’s Promontory (but within Tasmanian waters), abandoned, and sank, 6 August 1890. Crew of twenty-five saved. One boat, with the master and twelve crew headed for Port Albert, but after missing the entrance eventually landed on Ninety Mile Beach near Woodside on the 8th.  The other boat landed at Cliffy Island, its occupants remaining at the lighthouse until being picked up by the Victorian Government steamer Lady Loch. [ASW1]

Caroline. Barque, 157 tons. Lbd 74-9 x 21-8 x 5 ft. Built at Chittagong, India, 1821; reg. Hobart 7/1830, 1/1838, 14/1842. Ashore, wrecked, in a gale at Lagoon Bay on the Forestier Peninsular, Tasmania, 2 October 1843. No lives lost.  On 10 December 1839, under Captain Edward Woodin, stranded off Swan Island, Tasmania, while on a voyage from Hobart for Melbourne; refloated after part of her cargo was discharged and continued on her voyage. [TS1]

Caroline. Cutter, 40 tons. # 32006. Built at Port Cygnet, 1855; reg. Hobart 28/1855. Lbd 55.1 x 16.9 x 7.4 ft. Rolled over and sank in a gale while loading coal at Seymour, Tasmania; ashore, wrecked, 10 May 1862. All hands saved. See also cutter Foster Fyans lost at he same time. Two of the crew were washed away and drowned, but the other two were rescued by Captain Nichols of the Foster Fyans in a small boat, at great personal risk.  For his bravery Nichols was later awarded a silver medal, paid for from a subscription raised in Hobart.  Excess funds were given to the destitute widow of the Caroline’s mate, one of those drowned. [TS1],[ASR]

Caroline May. Auxiliary ketch, fishing vessel, 9/6 tons. # 133488. Built at Battery Point, Hobart, 1883 as the Caroline; reg. Hobart 3/1915 as the Caroline May. Left Hobart on a fishing trip to the west coast Tasmania, hit a log which set her well leaking, then later became entangled in the kelp beds, hit rocks and sank, out of Recherche Bay, Tasmania, 15 Decembr 1928. Crew saved.
On 3 December 1915, sprung a leak and sunk off Sandy Bay.  Not refloated for some months, and after being extensively repaired, re-entered service in July 1916. [TS2]

Carrymore. Brig, 178 tons. # 31680. Built at Waldsboro, Maine, USA, 1844 as the William Wallace; reg. Melbourne 60/1854. Lbd 97.4 x 23.4 x 10.1 ft. Captain Jacob. In a leaking condition, sprang a severe leak off east coast Tasmania, which gained on the pumps and led to the vessel having to be beached between Eddystone Point and Black Reef, 13 March 1860. All hands made toward Hobart in the ship’s boat, but were picked up by SS City of Hobart. The brig was a total loss. [TS1]

Cartela. Steamer. Collided with the steam ferry Kangaroo, Tasmanian waters, January 1916. [TS2]

Cassina. Barque. Captain Dalziel. Narrowly avoided running unto an unidentified capsized vessel in Bass Strait off King Island. [TS1]

Catalina. Fibreglass crayboat, 15.15 metres. South Australian-owned. Skipper-owner August Brand. Parted her cable in a gale and wrecked ashore, Point Hibbs, west coast Tasmania,  7 August 1994. Three crew saved. [TS2]

Catherine. Brigantine, 188 tons. Built 1849; reg Hobart Town. Lost prior to 1874. [ASR]

Catherine. Unregistered river trader, 15 tons. Capsized and sank ‘off pilot Lucas’ residence’, Tasmania, 23 December 1849. Two crew saved. [TS1]

Catherine. Auxiliary ketch, 32/15 tons. # 32133. Built at North West Bay, Tasmania, 1864; reg. Hobart 25/1864. Lbd 60.5 x 15.7 x 5.6 ft. Master E. Russell Sailed from Pirate’s Bay, Tasmania, for Hobart with timber, on 19 August 1917, and disappeared. Fishing boat Ruby conducted a search, and found nothing but unidentified wreckage. Captain Ralph Taylor of the ketch Good Intent reported seeing some timber floating between Cape Raoul and the Hippolytes on 5 September, and considered it likely that the vessel had sunk south of Cape Raoul, and the wreckage carried north in the current.
In January 1899, suffered damage following a collision with the Russian barque Hoppet at the Hobart wharves.
On 4 October 1915, stranded at Simpson’s Bay, Bruny Island, Tasmania. [TS2]

Catherine. (Katherine, incorrect) Ketch, 29 tons. # 74668. Built at Torquay, River Mersey, Tasmania, 1877; reg. Launceston 7/1877. Lbd 53.0 x 15.1 x 6.1 ft. Captain G. Atkinson. Sailed from Ulverstone for, either Melbourne, Launceston or the Don River, in November 1880, but failed to arrive. [TS1]

Catherine of Honolulu. See schooner Lautita, lost Tasmania, 1859.

Catherine Pemberton. Barque, 319 tons. # 6098. Built at Sunderland, UK, 1853; reg. at London. Lbd 111.5 x 25.2 x 15.5ft. Captain Jenkins. Sailed from London for Launceston in December 1863 but failed to arrive. [TS1]
Broxam and Nash indicate wreckage found at Cape Grim, Tasmania, in August 1864, could be that of the  bargue Catherine Pemberton, or perhaps the barque Rebecca, London to Sydney, 1853.

Cathkit. Twin-screw motor vessel, 191/149 tons. Ex Arra Na Pogue. # 13370. Built Auckland, New Zealand, as a three-masted schooner. Reg. Hobart 8/1955. Lbd 116.0 x 33.2 x 7.3 ft. Her  register was closed on 23 June 1983 with the comment 'vessel sunk', but she is known to have sunk some time before that. By the early 1980s she lay sunk in shallow waters at the disused Electrona plant in Tasmania, and was eventually broken up where she lay during an abortive attempt to recommission the plant about 1990. Thus passed the last of the New Zealand 3-masted sea-going schooner-scows. [TS2]
Also listed:
Cathkit. Schooner, wood, 139 tons. Built at Auckland, 1912. Lbd 116 x 33.2 x 7.3 ft. Named Arrahna Pogue at some time. ‘Slowly rots’ at the Carbide Works jetty at Electrona, Tasmania. [LH]

Catriona. Teak-built cray fishing vessel, LFB 515 (TN6), 15 tons. Lbd 36.0 x 12.7 x 6.3 ft. Skipper John Fox. Propeller became entangled in the kelp and she drifted onto rocks, rolled over and sank, Ketchem Bay, Tasmania, 14 August 1974. Two crew saved.  [TS2]

Celestia. Barque, 225 tons. # 43019. Built at Dixbury, Massachusetts, USA, 1852; reg. Dunedin 2/1881. Lbd 102.6 x 25.0 x 10.3 ft. Captain Robert H. Offord. Sailed from Russell, New Zealand, for Hobart on 3 May 1887 with a cargo of kauri pine and a crew of seven, but never seen or heard from again. It is thought she foundered as a result of heavy gales in the Tasman Sea while approaching the Tasmanian coast. [TS1]

Centennial. Steamship, 89/60 tons. # 93564. Built Lavender Bay, Sydney, 1887; reg. Napier, NZ, reg.  Launceston 1/1888. Lbd 95.0 x 19.4 x 7.6 ft. Engaged in the Tamar River trade for most of her career, before been replaced by the much more palatial Niree (qv). Left Launceston on 15 October 1906, and disappeared, having, apparently foundered.  [TS2]

Challenger. Possbly sailing boat of 6 tons, built Sydney.  Caught in a squall and sank in Kangaroo Bay, Tasmania, 4 December 1831. Loss of one life. [TS1]

Chance. Fishing vessel, 29.5 ft. Unregistered. Master-owner Donald Vickers. Left Stanley for the Tasmanian west coast crayfishing grounds on 14 August 1958, with crew of two; disappeared. She was believed to have been last seen off Petrel Island on the afternoon of 14 August 1958, in deteriorating conditions, foundered shortly afterwards. [TS2]
 

Charlotte. Government cutter, 29 tons.Built at Macquarie Harbour, 1829 for the Colonial Government, who sold her in 1837.  At the time of her loss, was registered at Hobart, 7/1837, 13/1843. Lbd 46.4 x 13.8 x 7.0 ft. Master/owner Richard William Richards. Partly disabled in a gale, stranded at Four Mile Creek, about five miles south of Falmouth, Tasmania, 28 August 1843. Master and one crew drowned; the master’s wife and child, three crew and two passengers survived. [TS1],[ASW1]
In 1832, offered assistance to the grounded brig Brenda on Swan Island, Tasmania, but it was refused, and the stricken vessel became a total wreck.

Charlotte. Schooner, 33 tons. Built at the Don, Tasmania, 1847; reg. Launceston, 14/1847. Lbd  44.6 x 13.1 x 7.8 ft. Evidently rebuilt from the schooner Elizabeth Lloyd which had stranded at the Don on 4 July 1846.  Captain William Davy Gray.  While inward bound at the Don, Tasmania, stranded on a reef at the Heads, and became a total wreck, 11 August 1848. [TS1]

Charlotte. Cutter, 30/24 tons. # 32055. Built at North West Bay, Tasmania, 1851; reg. Hobart 25/1851, 24/1853. Lbd 37.4 x 13.5 x 6.1 ft. Ashore at Flinders Bay, Tasman Peninsula, March 1861. Presumed lost. Register closed without further comment in 1874. [TS1]
Chili. Brig. 200 tons. Captain Nixon. From Georgetown, Tasmania, to Port Phillip, was forced back to the Tamar but hit rocks, and unshipped her rudder. She was refloated and repaired. [ASW1]

Chris. Fishing boat. Unregistered. Sailed from Hobart for Adventure Bay on 14 July 1903, but never arrived.  Crew of three lost. [TS2]

Christine. Fishing vessel, LFB 110 (TY8), 10 tons. Lbd 34.2 x 10.0 x 5.5 ft. Wrecked on the southern spit of the St. Helens bar, north-east Tasmania, 3 August 1988. Sole crew, skipper Peter Cherry, safe after a 500 metre swim and an eight km barefoot walk. [TS2]

Circe. Wooden brigantine, 145 tons.  # 59542. Built at Brisbane Water, NSW, 1869; reg. Sydney 1/1879, Invercargill, NZ, 1/1882.. Lbd 102 x 23.4 x 9 ft. Captain Johns. From Greymouth, New Zealand,  for Strahan, Tasmania, was attempting to cross the bar at Macquarie Harbour when she went ashore between Entrance Island and the North Spit, wrecked, 21 February 1892. Crew of seven launched her boat but it capsized shortly after casting off, leaving them clinging to it for about two hours before they were rescued by workmen erecting leading lights in the channel.  [LHG],[TS1 - rescued by SS Bowra]

City of Hobart. Type not listed, apparently small vessel. Unregistered. Missing on a trip from Hobart to Blackman’s Bay, September 1873.  Her sole occupant was never found. [TS1]

City of Hobart. Steamer, iron, 645/439 tons. Built Glasgow, 1853 for Tasmanian Steam Navigation Co.  Initially barque-rigged. Lbd 184.2 x 24.7 x 18.6 ft. Ran between Victoria and Tasmania. Sank, about sixty nautical miles north east of Wilsons Promontory; July 1877.
[LG], [LV - Captain Bowrie],[LPA],[LPW],[LAH],[DG]
In 1857, involved in salvage - see schooner Beacon, lost Swan Island, Tasmania, 1857. [TS1]
In 1860, involved in rescue - see brig Carrymore, lost Tasmania, 1860. [TS1]

Clara Ethel. Ketch. Captain Holyman. Reported seeing a capsized wreck of a small vessel, about forty feet length of keel, about ten miles off Mersey Heads, Tasmania. [TS1]

Clarence. Barque. Originally a fully-rigged ship, 255 tons. Lbd 92-9 x 24-11 x 5-4 ft. Built at Clare, Nova Scotia, 1827; reg. Hobart Town, 28/1840. Caught fire, burnt to the waterline and sank, presumably in Hobart, 16 February 1843. [TS1]

Clearwater. Fishing vessel, 23-8 ft. Blown from her moorings at Palana, Flinders Island, Furneaux Group, ashore, wrecked, December 1957. [TS2]

Clyde. Schooner, 46 tons. Lbd 54.2 x 14.6 x 7.3 ft. Built at Melbourne, 1851, and was registered at Melbourne. Captain G. T. Groner. In mid-August, sailed from the Tamar River for Warrnambool or Portland Bay with a cargo of timber but failed to arrive; as there had been heavy weather soon after she had sailed, it was presumed that she had capsized and sank. Wreckage found in June 1856 lying keel up at the high tide mark on the beach between Piper’s River and Forester River on the north-east coast Tasmania could have been that of the Clyde. [TS1]

Clyde. Auxiliary fishing vessel. Built at Hobart, 1887: unregistered. Length 30 ft.  Owner-crew George and William Jones. From Cockle Creek, Recherche Bay,  Tasmania, caught broadside on by a huge sea, sank bow first, Rocky Boat Harbour, 8 January 1925. Thre out of four on board lost.  [TS2]

Clytie. Cutter. Built Hobart, 1885 as a 23-6 ft yacht;  unregistered. Later lengthened to 40 ft. overall and rerigged as a ketch, and was one of Hobart’s best known cruisers for many years. As a fishing launch, wrecked near Cape Pillar, Tasmania, December 1914. Crew saved.  [TS2]

Colliboi. Twin-screw wooden coastal steamship, 310/144 tons. # 101798.  Built Balmain, Sydney, 1916; (later) reg. Launceston 2/1922.  Lbd 130.6 x 25.8 x 9.4 ft. Purchased by the Government of Tasmania in 1922 to maintain regular services to the Bass Strait Islands; sold to William Holyman & Sons Pty. Ltd. in 1929. Captain J. Neilson. Struck a reef close to Cape Grim, north- west Tasmania, beached, dismantled where she lay, Woolnorth Point, 26 August 1932.
On 13 October 1930, stranded on the St. Helens bar, Tasmania. . [TS2],[LH],[RW]
~ Part of her engines and boiler are still visible.

Comet. Barque, 358/350 tons. # 61019. Built at Pembroke, USA, as the Hokalele; reg. Dunedin 16/1874. Lbd 141.5 x 28.7 x 12.8 ft. Captain James Cooper.  On 27 February 1875, sailed from Port Chalmers, NZ, for Hobart Town with a crew of thirteen, but failed to arrive. May have been lost on the NZ coast, but no definite trace of the Comet was ever reported.[TS1]

Comus. Iron barque. See Orleans.  [TS2]

Concordia - see Aldebaran.

Constant Trader. Unregistered sloop, 20 tons. Built at Launceston as a shallow drafted vessel intended to bring timber from along the banks of the Tamar up to Launceston, and thus was totally unsuitable for work on the open sea. Captain Shackle (or Shewell).  Wrecked on Waterhouse Point, Tasmania, on or about 19 May 1832. She had been  engaged in salvage operations on the wreck of the Brenda on Swan Island. All saved. [TS1]

Contest. Schooner, 39 tons. Built and reg. at Hobart, 1828. Parted from her anchors at Adventure Bay, Bruny Island, drifted across Storm Bay, and broke up on the rocks near Cape Raoul, Tasmania, 1 July 1831 There does not appear to have been anyone on board at the time of the mishap. [TS1],[ASW1]

Coral. Ketch. Involved in rescue and salvage - see whaling barque Flying Childers, Tasmania, 1877. [TS1]
Also listed:
Coral. Ketch. Found wreckage off St. Patrick's head, Tasmania, thought to be from the barque Jane Porter, lost 1890. [ASW6]

Corinna. Steamer. Involved in rescue - see SS Tasman, lost Tasmania, 1883.
Involved in rescue - see steamer Esk, Tasmania, 1886.

Corona. Motor launch, 40 ft. Built early 1900s; unregistered. Lost or damaged beyong repair due to devastating floods in the Launceston, Tamar River basin, April 1929.  [TS2]

Corona II. Auxiliary cutter-rigged motor fishing vessel. Built Glenorchy, Tasmania, 1950; unregistered. Lbd 51 x 14.5 x 8 ft. Skipper Michael James Dillons. Having collided with the fishing boat Mystery on Macquarie Harbour 4 April 1963, sailed from Strahan for Hobart for repairs, but founderd south-east of Bird Island, 12 April 1963. Three crew made shore and rescued five days later.
On 31 October 1962, stranded between Partridge and Bruny Islands, Tasmania. [TS2]

Coronella. Ketch, 14 gross. # 57534. Built at Long Bay on the DÆEntrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania, 1873; reg. Launceston 2/1875. Lbd 39.0 x 12.0 x 4.5 ft. From Bridport to Launceston, sprang a leak and, being unable to reach the Tamar in a waterlogged state, was run ashore at East Beach, 16 September 1914. Crew of two saved. Steam tug Wybia attended but she could not be refloated and broke up several days later. [TS2]

Corrido. Barque, 270 tons. # 7189. Built at Arbroath, Scotland, 1852; reg. Sydney 44/1870. Lbd 115.0 x 24.3 x 14.2 ft. Master-part owner Captain J. Lamont. From Newcastle for Port Adelaide with timber and coal, encountered a westerly gale in eastern Bass Strait,  beached on the western side of Swan Island, 23 June 1875. Soon broke up. Crew of ten left for the Tamar. [TS1]

Corryrechan. See barque Svenor, lost 1914. [LH]
Also:
Corryvrechan. See barque Svenor.  [TS2]

Cousins. Coastal schooner. Ashore in a gale at Horseshoe Reef off Mersey Heads, 10-11 November 1855. Refloated. [TS1]

Creole. Brig, 144 tons/131. #31968. Built at Baltimore, USA, 1846; reg. registered Hobart 62/1851. Lbd 89.8 x 22.8 x 7.4 ft. Captain Fluerty. Sailed from Launceston for New Zealand on 29 August 1863 with fifteen passengers and a crew of fourteen, and evidently foundered in bad weather, perhaps after capsizing or running into one of the many islands between the Tamar and Swan Island, within a few hours of clearing the Heads. The Swan Island lighthouse-keeper found wreckage and one of her boats was later found on Waterhouse Island which gave possitive identification that the Creole was lost with all hands. It was later reported that local settlers had recovered material from the then unknown wreck, a very serious offence, and that bodies had come ashore, been plundered of valuables, and thrown back into the sea. [TS1],[ASR]
In May 1854, stranded in Whirlpool Reach, River Tamar and returned to Launceston for repairs.

Crescent City. See schooner Gem, 120 tons, lost 1857. [TS1]

Crinoline. Cutter. Unregistered. Eaglehawk Neck to Hobart with timber, sprang a leak in a gale and was beached on Sandy Bay Beach, Tasmania, broke up, 8 March 1866.

Croydon. Steel steamship, 69/39 tons. # 101625. Built Singapore, 1896; reg. Port Adelaide 11/1913. Lbd  76.0 x 16.04 x 6.75 ft. Captain John Davis. Filled with water whilst loading logs on the Savage River, a tributary of the Pieman . Thge master and crew of three later reached Corinna, about two and a half miles away, in the dinghy.
~ The Croydon still remains in very much the same spot as she sank, and from time to time suggestions have been made to refloat her for preservation. [TS2]

Crystal Wave. Ketch. Built at Battery Point, Tasmania, 1874; unregistered. Lbd 42-6 x 106 x 4 ft. Capsized in a squall and sank when  competing in a race during the Hobart Regatta, 5 December 1877. Two crew saved.  The vessel was located four miles south of where she had capsized, sunk into the mud, and defied all efforts to refloat her.

Curena. Motor launch, 22 ft. Built Launceston. Lost or damaged beyong repair due to devastating floods in the Launceston, Tamar River basin, April 1929.  [TS2]

Cyclone. Fishing cutter. Parted from her moorings at Gordon and drifted across the D'Entrecasteaux Channel to go ashore on  Bruny Island,  wrecked, around the 1920s or early 1930s.  [TS2]

Cygnet. Cutter. Unregistered.  Master Joseph Ward. Bound to Hobart with timber, swamped and apparently sank off Blackman’s Bay, Tasmania, in a heavy gale, 30 December 1863. Crew saved but a passenger previously drowned when he fell overboard. [TS1]

Cygnet. Fishing ketch. Ashore, wrecked, at Dunalley,  Tsmaania, 2 December 1923. [TS2]

Cyprus. Brig. Captain Harrison. Sailed from Hobart on 5 August 1829 with prisoners and supplies for Macquarie Harbour (west coast Tasmania), captured in Recherche Bay and sailed to New Zealand. Sailors not part of the mutiny were put ashore at Recherche Bay. The Cyprus made New Zealand, then Friendly Isles (Fiji), and to the coast near Yokohama, where the Japanese forbid them to land. By now the vessel was in poor shape, and before several mutineers deserted to a Chinese junk off Formosa (Taiwan), they bored holes in the hull of the brig  to make sure she sank. Convict William Swallow was the ringleader ws later captured and tried, and returned to Hobart to complete his sentences. [#NH]

D.S.Williams.. See three-masted schooner Gold.

Dagmar. Ketch. Captain W. Taylor. Found human bones, and wreckage from the schooner Sateellite, lost north coast Tasmania, 1876.

Daisy. Motor launch, 21ft, formerly a cutter-yacht. Buiilt before 1892; unregistered. Lost or damaged beyong repair due to devastating floods in the Launceston, Tamar River basin, April 1929.  [TS2]

Daisy Knights. Composite-hulled auxiliary ketch, 62/47 tons. # 120758. Lbd 79.4 x 20.5 x 7.4 ft. Built at Williamstown, Victoria, 1909; reg. Melbourne 17/1909. When her cable parted, ashore at Cod Bay, near Boulder Point on east coast Tasmania, 24 April 1921. She was stripped of anything of value, and the hull abandoned. [TS2]
 

Dalila. Steel motor fishing vessel, 18/12 tons. # 343552. Built Moonah, Tasmania, 1966; reg. Hobart 7/1970. Lbd 37.1 x 13.3 x 5.8 ft.  Parted from her cables or dragged ashore, wrecked,  whilst crew visited the lighthouse station at Maatsuyker Island,  4 June 1984. [TS2]

Dalrymple. Motor vessel, 37 tons. Built Beauty Point, Tasmania, 1949. Lbd 65 x 15-5 x 6-9 ft. Spent her entire career as a ferry and excursion launch based on the lower Tamar, after which she was  stripped of all useful fittings and scuttled seaward of Low Head, River Tamar, 1974. [TS2]

Dan Maree.  Auxiliary motor fishing vessel, 2 tons, 22.5 ft. Built 1956. Skipper K. Jorgensen. Drifted onto a rocky outcrop off Bruny Island, Tasmania, 17 December 1967. Later towed off but sank rapidly in 20 fathoms. All saved. [TS2]

Daphne Ellen. Motor fishing vessel, 6 ons, 26.0 ft. Ex Maike, renamed 1973. Skipper-owner Leonard Powell. Sank after suffering a near total structural failure, the engine, probably with the shaft and propeller attached, falling through the transom,  Hunter Group, 24 February 1979.  [TS2]

Dart. Brig, 134 tons. # 31940. Built on the Huon River, Tasmania, 1850; reg. Hobart 27/1850. Lbd 83.7 x 25.3 x 11.0 ft. Owner/master Henry Sansom. From Hobart for Melbourne with timber. Sheltered in Bay of Fires in a gale but in getting underway again, missed stays and went onto a sandbank near the mouth of the Anson River, Tasmania, 18 November 1865. [TS1]
In 1852, involved in rescue - see schooner Union, lost off Swan Island, Tasmania. [TS1]

Dart. Auxiliary ketch, 21/19 tons. Built Port Cygnet, Tasmania, 1896; reg. Launceston,  5/1909. Lbd 49.7 x 14.4 x 4.8 ft. In a gale, ashore, wrecked, at Anderson's Bay, Tasmania, 15 May 1923.  [TS2]
In 1901, involved in rescue - see ketch Mary Laurie, lost western Bass Strait, 1901.  [TS2]

Dauntless. Auxiliary fishing ketch, 22/18 tons. # 105699. Built Hobart, 1903; reg. Hobart 6/1914. Lbd 47.0 x 16.6 x 5.8 ft. Register closed in 1957 with the comment 'vessel smashed up under the cliffs at the entrance to Port Arthur in 1949'. [TS2]

Dauntless. Police launch. Involved in rescue - see ablone boat Ocean Lass, lost Tasmania, 1988. [TS2]

Davara. Motor vessel. Replaced the auxiliary ketch Will Watch, lost near King Island, 1958.
On 22 October (year?), a fire at Stanley caused by a faulty stove killed the engineer. [TS2]

Davenport. Steam dredge. Built 1881; unregistered. Lbd 148.0 x 24.0 x 11.8 ft. scuttled off Wrights Island, north-east of Mersey Heads, July 1929. [TS2]

David Howie. Cutter, 11 tons. # 32205. Built at King Island by David Howie in 1849 (possibly from the wreck of the Ettrick, qv ); reg. Launceston 3/1849. Captain James (?) Kemp. Driven ashore, wrecked,  on the Black River Bar, near Circular Head, north-west coast Tasmania, 29 July 1863. No loss of life.
In 1853, involved in rescue - see barque Rebecca, lost Tasmania. In August 1863, capsized off Circular Head drowning Howie’s wife, child and a native woman. See also Cataraqui, King Island, 1845, for further reference to David Howie. [TS1]

Dawn. Ketch, 34 gross. # 101789. Built Launceston, 1906; reg. Launceston 27/1906. Lbd 58.0 x 16.6 x 6.6 ft. Captain Hutt. From the Bass Straits Islands to Launceston, ran aground on Three Mile Reef off Tamar Heads, night of 25-26 April 1909. Heavy seas swept her deck, taking the dinghy with them, and the three crew and four male passengers huddled on the deck while four female passengers, the master’s sisters, were lashed to the rigging to prevent them being swept overboard. All rescued by the  Low Head light station keepers. Wreck drifted off the reef and came ashore on East Beach near Tamar Heads, where it broke up. [TS2]

Dawn of Hope. Schooner, 34 tons. # 73506. Built at Latrobe, Tasmania, 1875. Lbd 58.3 x 15.1 x 6.4 ft. In 1891 re-registered as the ketch Ella Taylor (qv) after an extensive reconstruction. Wrecked ashore  at Griffiths’s Point, West Devonport, Tasmania, 24 August 1891. [TS1]
On 19 May 1879, sank at Latrobe on the upper Mersey after running aground.
On 15 January 1884, under Captain A.E.Taylor, but stranded in Mersey.
In 1888, stranded at Circular Head and again badly strained, and was lain up for several years before her re-construction.

Debbie II. Fishing vessel,  2 tons. Lbd 20.0 x 7.2 x 2.6 ft. Sunk Tsmanian waters, 31 July 1969. [TS2]

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 Queensland, 1925.  [DG]

Derwent. Steam launch/auxiliary cutter, 12/8 tons. # 58830. Built at Fishbourne, Isle of Wight, UK, 1868 ; reg.  Port Adelaide. Built originally as a steam launch; in service as such at Port Adelaide for many years before being sold for conversion into a fishing vessel. Lbd 48.0 x 10.1 x 4.9 ft. Overwhelmed by heavy seas, the auxiliary engine failed, crew abandoned ship whilst heading for Wineglass Bay, east coast Tasmania, 30 April  1935. Crew saved.  [TS2]

Derwent Belle. Fishing vessel, river trader, 12 tons. Unregistered. Wrecked on George’s Rocks, about five miles from Eddystone Point, Tasmania, 10 July 1915. Two saved.

Derwent Hunter. Barque,  368 gross. #  32094. Built Kensington, USA, as the North America in 1810; renamed on her sale to Alexander McGregor of Hobart in 1861; reg. Hobart 8/1861  Lbd 106.2 x 29.0 x 18.6 ft. Well known as a whaler for many years, she was laid up at McGregor’s Slip at the Domain in 1885, and later sunk close inshore for use as part of the jetty and for storage. It was here, alongside the hulk of the steamer Beautiful Star, that a fire destroyed both vessels, Christmas Day 1907. The remains of the Derwent Hunter were apparently blown up in 1928. [TS2]

Despatch. Colonial Government schooner, 20 tons. Built at Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, 1825-1826. Captain Samuel Rodman Chase. Arrived at Hobart on her maiden voyage on 17 February 1826. Sailed from Hobart for Maria Island with stores in March 1826, but was never seen or heard from again. Presumed lost in a gale off Cape Pillar. [TS1]

Despatch. Government steamer. Searched for the missing barque Helen White in Bass Strait, 1882, without success. [TS1]

Despatch.  Schooner, collier, 139 tons. # 31803. Built at Jersey, UK, 1838; reg. Sydney 54/1855. Lbd 82.6 x 18.1 x 12.3ft Captain Lees.  From Newcastle for Launceston, attempted to Tamar Heads but ran onto Black Reef, wrecked, February 1858. [TS1]

Deveron. Brig. Involved in salvage - see Actaeon, lost Tasmania 1822. [TS1]

Devon. Iron steamship, 191/130 tons. # 73519. Built at Paisley, Scotland, 1876; reg. Launceston 12/1876. Originally built for the Launceston and North-West Coast Steam Navigation Company, at the time of her loss she was registered at in the name of the United Steamship Company. Lbd 123.7 x 19.4 x 9.05 ft. Transferred to Launceston-Strahan-Hobart run in 1888. Captain Robert Reid. Sailed from Strahan for Launceston with 1400 bags of silver lead ore but  struck a sandbank while passing through Macquarie Harbour Heads (Hell’s Gates) which stripped the blades from the propeller;  ended up hard and fast on South Spit with heavy seas breaking over her, wrecked, 19 September 1894.  Passengers and mails were safely landed, but then when her rudder carried away she was totally helpless, and thus abandoned.    Her remains were visible for many years, and were eventually incorporated into the breakwater later built at Macquarie Harbour Heads. [TS1],[LHG],[ASR],[DG]
On 17 June 1891, ran down and sank the fishing boat Secret off Recherche Bay, south-west Tasmania.
Earlier in 1894, the Devon had run down and passed right over a 21ft yacht Mystery, it being considered a miracle that none of the crew of four was hit by the propeller.

Devon. Motor launch, 33 ft. Unregistered. Burnt to the  waterline and sank at her moorings off Wrest Point, Tasmania, 27 February 1955. [TS2]

Diadem. Schooner, 69 tons. # 46454. Built at Brisbane Water, NSW, reg. Sydney 58/1863, Melbourne 6/1865. Lbd 78.1 x 17.5 x 7.5 ft. Captain Smith. Whilst anchored off Brickmakers Bay, between Circular Head and Rocky Cape, Tasmania, to load a cargo of palings for Warrnambool, parted her cables and went ashore stern first, wrecked, 11 May 1865. All hands landed safely. [TS1]

Diane Dell. Steel motor fishing vessel, LFB No. 283 (TDM), 17 tons. Built 1951. Lbd 41.08 x 11.5 x 7.0 ft. Wrecked on Bruny Island, Tasmania,  around the mid-1980s.

Dido. Fishing vessel. Unregistered. At anchor at North-West Bay, Tasmania, when she sank at her moorings in a northerly gale, 30 September 1882. The two crew saved. [TS1]

Diligence. Cutter. Unregistered. Driven ashore at North-West Bay, Tasmania, 26 September 1858. (Same time and place as cutter Happy Jack). Apparently a total loss. [TS1]

Diligence. Cutter, 15 tons. Unregistered. Ashore, wrecked, Half Moon Bay, South Arm, Tasmania, 17 December 1884. No lives lost. [TS1]

Dobsons. Schooner, 97 tons. # 32185. Built at Port Albert, Victoria, 1852; reg. Launceston 3/1859. Lbd  76.6 x 21.7 x 9.5 ft.  Captain Burt. Struck rocks, wrecked, on Ninth Island, north- east Tasmania, 23 May 1860. Schooner Robert & Betsey and steamer Royal Shepherd assisted in rescue. [TS1]
In 1856, involved in salvage of cargo - see barque Helen Stewart, lost Tamar Heads, Tasmania.

Dolphin. Schooner, 16 tons. Lbd 33.5 x 12.3 x 5.9 ft. Built at Peppermint Bay, Tasmania, 1842; reg. Hobart, 20/1842, 43/1852. Master Edward Ring. Late in March 1854, was found ashore at Louisa Bay on the far south coast Tasmania, with her mast and bowsprit carried away and no trace of the crew of four, including the captain and a party of seven prospectors she was bringing back from Port Davey.  No trace of them was ever found, and the vessel evidently became a total wreck. In 1852, had been stranded at Recherche. On 18 February 1854 stranded again and badly damaged. [TS1]

Dolphin. Schooner (ketch in the press), 22 tons. # 48398. Built at Williamstown, Victoria, 1863; reg. Melbourne 55/1863. Lbd 46.2 x 12.7 x 5.5 ft. Master-owner John F. Booth. Wrecked on rocks when entering Pieman Heads, west coast Tasmania, 4 April 1867. Crew landed safely. All but one of the Dolphin crew, and Mr. Anderson, owner of the ill-fated Rose Ann lost in March, walked the two hundred miles to Circular Head, and were picked up by the SS Helen McGregor, which landed them at Launceston. [TS1]
In March 1865, one crew drowned in a boating mishap at Pieman Heads.
In March 1865, stranded on Black Reef, Tamar Heads, and had suffered considerable damage.

Dolphin. Steamer. Involved in the search for the misssing schooner Amelia J, Bass Strait, 1920. [TS2]

Dolphin. Motor cray fishing vessel, 12 tons. Built 1948; unregistered . Lbd 32.7 x 12.3 x 5.0 ft.  With seaweed wrapped around the propeller, wrecked on rocks off High Rocky Point, Tasmania, 29 March 1968.
On18 June 1961, sank in Constitution Dock, Hobart. Sklipper-owner Donald Charles Bodsworth.
On 28 May 1962, ashore when she broke away from the mother ship Naracoopa at Triabunna in rough weather. [TS2]

Don Pedro II. Barque, 149 tons. # 31754. Built at Massachusetts, 1842; reg. Hobart 2/1859. Lbd 95.6 x 22.7 x 10.4 ft. Captain Evans. Out of Otago, New Zealand to Hobart with returning miners, ashore just north of Cape Pillar, Tasmania, 16 October 1861. All saved; after landing at Fortesque Bay, they walked to Surveyor’s Bay, from where the Government schooner Harriet took them to Port Arthur. [TS1]

Doreen. Fishing boat, 38 ft. Unregistered.  License cancelled in 1947 with the comment 'wrecked at St. Helens', Tasmania.  [TS2]

Doris Bethune. Motor fishing vessel, 18/13 tons, 33.6 ft.  # 196765. Built Queenscliff, Victoria, 1958; reg. Melbourne 8/1958. Master Douglas James Hunt. Ran onto Whale Rock, west coast Tasmania, and sank, 6 June 1963. Crew of two saved by the fishing boat Patanela. [TS2]

Dorset. Coastal steamer. Towed the wrecked brig Robin Hood to Launceston, 1884.

Dotterel. Brig, 150 tons. Built at Coringa, India, 1817; reg. Calcutta.Captain Charles Bell. From Launceston to Sydney with wheat and wool, ran onto the reef that now bears her name near the eastern side of the mouth of the Tamar, north coast Tasmania, soon after departing on 18 March 1827. On drowned. After some of the gear and fittings were recovered, the wreck was burned to recover the ironwork, which was taken to Launceston by the cutter Speedwell under Captain James Corlette (or Chorlette). [TS1]

Dover. Steamer. Involved in rescue - see yacht Rona, lost Tasmania, 1913. [TS2]

Du Buc. Whaler, ship, 306 tons. Originally the Spanish L’Aimable Sofia, seized as a prize in 1797, and owned by a London syndicate which included the master. Lbd 96.8. x 27.9. x 5.1 ft. Captain Samuel Chase. In a condemned condition, beached at Kangaroo Point (Bellerive), Hobart, 1808; her remains were visible for many years. She had been whaling in the Derwent and sailed for London with a full cargo of oil in October 1808, but was forced to return in a leaking condition. [TS1]

Duke of Edinburgh. Cutter, 26 tons. # 57492. Built at Hobart, 1868; reg. Hobart 6/1868. Lengthened and re-rigged October 1872 to a ketch, 37 tons, lbd 61.3 x 13.1 x 7.1ft. Mster-owner Robert Donald.  From Launceston to Hobart , stranded, wrecked, on a reef about half a mile offshore between the Little Forester River and Pipers River, 1 August 1874. [TS1]
In August 1873, stranded at Ringarooma Bay and suffered considerable damage.

Duke of Kent. Barque, 189 tons. Built at Falmouth, Tasmania, 1805. Captain Walmsley. Inward bound from Mauritius to Launceston with a cargo of rice and sugar, hit Middle Ground off George Town, Tasmania, and suffered such severe damage that she had to be beached to prevent her from sinking, 10 September 1834. She was refloated but not repaired,  the hulk remained at Launceston until being broken up in mid-1836. [TS1],[ASW1]

Dulcie. Fishing cutter, 5 tons. Built at Battery Point, unregistered.  From Hobart for the far south coast, blown ashore near New Harbour, wrecked, 10 September 1929. [TS2]

Dunkeld. Barque, 390 tons. # 43065. Built at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, 1862; reg. Newcastle, NSW 9/1869. Lbd 131.7 x 29.6 x 12.9 ft. Captain C. Hook. Disappeared after sailed from Newcastle for Melbourne with coal on 6 June 1870. She was last seen off Twofold Bay on the 10 June 1870. She may have foundered in gales in the eastern part of Bass Strait on or about 28 June. [TS1]

Duyfken. Possibly fishing vessel. Involved in rescue - see crayboat Pandora, lost Tasmania, 1962.  [TS2]

E.M.B.  Fishing vessel, 3 tons. Lb 25 x 9 ft. Master-owner W. Barnett. Wrecked on rocks, Binnalong Bay mid-1970. Sole crew saved. [TS2]

Eagle. Motor launch, 10 tons. Built Strahan; unregistered. Lbd 52. x 11. x 3-2 ft.  The first motor launch built in Tasmania; powered by a 10 bhp  Tolch kerosene engine. Specially built for the Strahan-King River trade, carrying passengers and freight to the railhead for the famous Abt railway to Queenstown.  Lengthened about 1899 to 14 ft., shortly before being sold to the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. Sank off Tamar Heads, Bass Strait, when being towed by the steamship Wareatea, 18 October 1904.
On 24 July 1897,  involved in a collision with another trader, the launch Pioneer. [TS2]

Earl Grey. See schooner Edward.

Earl of Dalhousie. Snow, 223 tons. Lbd  87-3 x 24-1 x 16 ft. Built at Irvine, UK, 1827; reg. Melbourne, 4/1853.  This interesting vessel had several mishaps, and became generally known as the Dalhousie Baths. She was badly damaged ‘beyond economical repair’ when beached in a sinking condition in the Tamar, Tasmania, on or about 2 March 1854. However the following year she was purchased and extemsively modified by having her upper-works were cut off at or near the original waterline, turned over and rebuilt. The remaining hull was redecked and fitted out as a second vessel. This vessel ended her career as a floating bath, being towed by the Marine Board tug PS Tamar and other vessels on cruises on the Tamar. On Boxing Day the vessel sprang a leak at Swan Bay and had to be beached with 425 on board. She was offered for sale in 1879, but their final fate is unknown. [TS1]

Earl of Ulverstone. Ketch, 21 tons. # 73516. Built at Ulverstone, Tasmania, 1876; reg. Launceston 1/1876. Lbd 44.6 x 14.3 x 6.4 ft. Master Robert Mitchell. Whilst attending to salvage of the schooner Mariner at  East Telegraph Bay, Three Hummock Island, went on to the rocks in heavy winds, wrecked, 3 April 1898. [TS1],[ASR]
In August 1878, stranded on the St. Helens bar but was refloated some weeks later.

Eastern Star. Steel motor fishing vessel, #  850811. Built Launceston, 1971. Lbd 15.24 x 5.02 x 2.95 metres.  Skipper-owner Wayne Rowlings. When anchored for the night in Ahrberg Bay, just south of Pieman Heads, west cost Tasmaniaa, a freak wave, estimated at between ten and fifteen metres in height, overwhelmed the vessel and she sank immediately, 21 July 1997. Crew of three never seen again.  [TS2]
Earlier in 1997, involved in rescue - see fishing boat Helen J, lost west coast Tasmania, 1997. [TS2]

Ebenezer. Cutter, 45 tons. # 32365. Built on the River Thames, England, 1820; reg. Launceston 4/1856, later reg. Melbourne in the name of David Howie (see Cataraqui), who had apparently drowned in a boating accident at Robbins Island on 7 May. Lbd 46.0 x 16.5 x 8.9 ft.  At anchor at the south-western side of Robbins Passage, off north-west Tasmania, when she parted from her anchors, and sank during a gale, 7 July 1859.  The crew were ashore at the time, intending to load cargo. [TS1]

Echo. Two-mast schooner, 70 tons. Built at the Manning River, NSW, 1839; reg. Sydney 46/1840. Lbd 51.1 x 15.8 x 8.4 ft. Captain Wuntun. From Hobart for Sydney on 27 August 1840 with general, wrecked between Wedge Bay and Cape Raoul on the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania. Loss of all hands. [TS1],[ASW1]

Eclipse. ‘Passage boat’, maybe a small schooner. Captain Thomas Young. Reported the loss of the schooner Henrietta lost near Hobart, 23 April 1874, but apparently  made no attempt to rescue the two men who subsequently drowned and was strongly condemned for his lack of action. [TS1]
Also listed:
Eclipse. Trader. Built around 1875. Master-owner Tasman Young. Run down and sunk by the brig Maid of Erin off Crayfish Point, Tasmania, 30 April 1877.  Crew saved. [TS1]

Eden Holme. Iron barque, 827/794 tons. # 62035. Built at Sunderland, 1875; reg. Maryport, UK. Lbd 201.8 x 32.2 x 18.5 ft. Captain G.H. Dulling. Wrecked on Hebe Reef off Tamar Heads, north coast Tasmania, 6 January 1907. She was a regular trader between London and Tasmanian ports, and had discharged cargo at Hobart before sailing for Launceston on 4 January 1907. Two days later she anchored off the Tamar but while waiting for the tug Wybia, ran on to the Hebe Reef and was lost when the wind dropped without warning. She struck the reef very gently, but as the tide fell and the rocks bit into her, several plates were torn and the sea poured in. While it remained high and dry the wreck proved a bonanza for local river-steamer operators, who ran regular and well-patronised cruises to the Heads to view a genuine shipwreck right on Launceston’s doorstep.  A diver was brought to investigate the possibility of refloating the vessel, but on 20 January 1907,  a gale developed during which the vessel broke in two, slipped off the reef and sank. She was lost within 120 yards of the wreck of the SS. Esk lost in 1886. [ASW6],[TS2],[LAH]

Edina. Steam yacht, 21/14 tons. # 93517. Built at Berrys Bay, Sydney, 1885; reg. Launceston 1/1897. Lbd 53.0 x 10.5 x 5.8 ft. Master-owner William Golding On a cruise, wrecked on what are now known as Golding’s Rocks off Chinaman’s Bay, Maria Island, Tasmania, on 23 May 1905. All saved.

Edith Ellen. Ketch, 7 tons. Launched July 1871;  unregistered. Lbd  40-6 x 86 x 3-6 ft. On 7 May 1882, no less than five such craft were reported to have been driven ashore at Three Hut Point, Tasmania, but only the Edith Ellen, appears to have become a total loss. [TS1]
On 4 April 1874, ashore at Kelly’s Point, Tasmania.

Edward. Schooner, 60 tons. Lbd  59-8 x 14-10 x 7 ft. Built at the Williams River, NSW, 1833.  Launched as the Earl Grey; reg. at Launceston, 3/1833. Captain James Rowland. Sailed from Circular Head, north-west Tasmania, for Launceston on 21 May 1842 with eight passengers including a convict, but failed to arrive.  An extensive search by the Government schooner Eliza and cutter Vansittart failed to find any trace of the vessel, which was presumed to have foundered in a gale that sprang up soon after her departure. Schooner Mercury found wreckage between the Forth and Leven Rivers, which may have been from the missing Edward.  Around the end of 1843 the remains of Edward’s boat and a spar were found buried in the sand on a beach in the vicinity of Emu Bay. [TS1]

Edward & Christopher. Schooner. Involved in rescue - see schhoner Laurita, lost Tasmania, 1859. [TS1]

Edward & Joseph. Fishing vessel. Unregistered. Wrecked in the Schouten Passage, Tasmania, 14 August 1880. No loss of life.  The crew reached Spring Bay on board the fishing boat Matilda.[TS1]

Edwin. Cutter, 6 tons. # 32247. Built at Launceston, 1864; reg. Launceston 12/1864. Lbd 21.0 x 9.6 x 4.8 ft Captain F. Gay. From Launceston to Hobart, sprang a leak off Cape Portland, foundered about two miles off Bicheno, east coast Tasmania, 31 January 1874. The crew landed at Bicheno in the dinghy and walked to Swansea, from where they were picked up by the schooner Kestrel and landed at Hobart. [TS1]

Eliza. Government schooner.Involved in salvage and rescue - see ship Wallace, lost D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania, 1835. [TS1]
In 1836, sent to search for the missing schooner Maria, off Cape Pillar, 1836, with no success.
In 1842, involved in search for missing schooner Edward off the north-west Tasmanian coast.
In 1843, collided with and sank the schooner Erin Go Bragh, Tasmania, 1843.

Eliza. Cutter, (oft described as  schooner), 15 tons. # 32232. Built at West Arm, River Tamar, Tasmania, 1853; reg. Launceston 9/1853. Lbd 33.6 x 12.4 x 5.6 ft. Ashore, later wrecked, at  Inglis River, Tasmania, 21 July 1862. [TS1]
Broxam and Nash indicate that their is some doubt about these details as a cutter of the same name was engaged in the north-west coastal trade in 1863, and subsequently stranded at Yellow Rock near Tamar Heads, 21 July 1863, but refloated.

Eliza. Schooner, 19 tons. # 57496. Built at Bridgewater, Tasmania, 1868; reg. Hobart 8/1868. Lbd 48.0 x 12.9 x 6.4 ft. Ashore on the western side of Frederick Henry Bay, Tasmania, when, apparently, the man at the helm fell asleep, 29 April 1874. The two crew landed safely and the owner sent the ketch Petrel to attempt to refloat his vessel, without success. [TS1]
Elizabeth. Brigantine,  127 tons. # 31488. Built at Tidnish, Nova Scotia, 1852; reg. Melbourne 12/1863.  Lbd 91.5 x 21.5 x 10.2ft. Master/part-owner John Murray. From the Don River, Tasmania, for Wallaroo, South Australia with timber, ashore, eventually wrecked, at North Point, Circular Head, north-west coast Tasmania, 23 January 1864. All hands saved. [TS1]

Eliza Ann. River craft. Unregistered. Master-owner John Parsons Port Cygnet to Hobart, capsized and sank off One Tree Point on the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania, 12 September 1871. Crew saved. [TS1]

Elizabeth. Schooner, 9 tons. Sloop, 23 tons. Lbd 39.0 x 11.8 x 5.9ft., built at Hobart, 1839; reg 1/1840. On fire when  tied up at the docks at Hobart, 17 August 1853. To minimise the damage to other vessels and the wharf she was cut adrift out into the river, burned to the waterline, and sank, evidently a total loss. [TS1]
Broxam and Nash say positive identification is uncertain.

Elizabeth. Schooner, 37 tons. Built at Matata, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 1845; reg. Launceston, 11/1846. Lbd 47.6 x 14.6 x 8.1 ft. Master Nicholas George Clayton. Hit rocks off Swan Island, north-east Tasmania,  wrecked, 14 April 1847. With assistance from the lighthouse staff, the crew managed to recover much of the cargo before being picked up by the schooner Scotia, and were landed at Hobart. [TS1],[ASW1]

Elizabeth. Schooner, 60 tons. Built at a time and place unknown, having been seized as a slaver priot to April 1845. Lbd 71.8 x 18.6 x 8.0 ft. Reg. Melbourne, 11/1851 as a brigantine, 68 tons. Lbd 67.1 x 19.6 x 8.6 ft. Later reg. 119/1854. She was in the Melbourne-Port Adelaide trade when she went ashore at Flat Topped Point on the Victorian coast, 21 May 1852.  Salvaged and sold to Mauritius owners, reg. Port Louis. Returned to Melbourne in 1853, remeasured and registered.Captain Chilton. From Geelong to the Mersey, Tasmania, sprung a leak in Bass Strait and beached near the wharf at Circular Head. After the gear and fittings were removed the vessel was broken up for firewood. [TS1]

Elizabeth. Fishing boat. Unregistered. Total loss by fire off Whale Head, Tasmania, 1931. [TS2]

Elizabeth and Jane. Barque, 336 tons. Arrived at Circular Head, Tasmania, from Gravesend, UK on 15 August 1844; ddriven ashore in a gale on 18 August 1844, and abaadoned the following day. No loss of life. She was sold at auction, raised, repaited and sailed to Launceston, arriving 14 November 1844. On 21 April 1846, under Captain John Miller, sailed for London with twenty- five passengers. [ASW1]

Elizabeth Henrietta. Sloop, whaler, 39 tons. Built on the River Derwent, 1828; reg. Hobart, 5/1828, 32/1841. Lbd  42-6 x 15-4 x 7-6 ft. Her  register was closed in 1843 with a comment that she had been wrecked. [TS1]

Elizabeth Lloyd. Schooner, 30 tons. Built on the Huon River, Tasmania, 1839; reg. Hobart. Captain McNamara. Lbd 44.7 x 13.0 x 7.9 ft. Inward to Hobart, stranded at the Don, Tasmania, 4 July 1846. No loss of life. Refloated, towed upstream and rebult the following year as the schooner Charlotte (qv), and lost in 1848. [TS1],[ASW1 - wrecked in the estuary of the Fourth River]

Elizabeth Radcliff. Unknown type. Left Launceston in 1850 and never heard of again. It was from this vessel that the young sailor William Holyman jumped ship, and went on to build up one of the largest Australian shipping companies. [RW]

Elizabeth Susan. Fishing boat, 47ft. Unregistered. Wrecked, possibly Tsmanian waters, October 1959.  [TS2]

Ella Taylor. Ketch, 38 tons. # 79295. Formerly the Dawn of Hope (qv), underwent an extensive reconstruction at Penguin, and registered in Launceston 5/1891. Lbd 58.4 x 15.1 x 6.5 ft. Captain Seivers. Rode onto her anchor and then drifted ashore at Griffith’s Point, West Devonport, 24 August 1891. Heavy seas broke over her causing further damage, sufficient to be abandoned. [TS1]

Ellen. Sloop. Siezed by convicts in the Derwent River, Tasmania, 27 January 1827, and eluded pursuit.  She was eventually wrecked on Tucopia island in the Santa Cruz Group. [ASW1]

Ellen. Government cutter. Built at Port Arthur, Tasmania, 1836; unregistered. Mostly employed in servicing the numerous buoys marking the Tamar River navigation channels. Wrecked on a reef in Sandy Bay on the Tamar River, Tasmania, 14 July 1852. At the time she was in the hands of a third-class convict pass-holder, who later sentenced to nine months hard labour for ‘wilful mismanagement of work’. [TS1]

Ellen. Schooner, 90 tons. Lbd 61.6 x 18.3 x 10.9 ft. Built at Twofold Bay, NSW, 1838; reg. Hobart. Master John Gluyors, or Gluyas. From Hobart to the whaling station at Oyster Bay, became entangled in the kelp beds in the Mercury Passage, between Maria Island and the Tasmanian mainland, miss-stayed and drifted ashore opposite the island, September 1839.  All hands landed safely but the vessel became a total wreck. [TS1]
Ellen. Fishing vessel. Wreckage found on South Arm beach, Tasmania, 5 June 1865. The vessel had probably capsized, drowning her crew. [TS1]

Elsa. Barque. See Jessie Craig.  [TS2]

Elsie May. Cutter, 7 tons. Unregistered. Master-owner Charles Mullins. Sank off Table Cape, west north coast Tasmania, August 1897. On 5 August 1897 the SS Australia, Strahan to Launceston under the command of Captain Rogers, came across the coastal cutter Elsie May adrift and waterlogged about nine miles of Table Cape, with no one on board and a cargo of about two tons of flour in the hold.  The steamer took the cutter in tow, but as she was clearly straining badly, she was set adrift. She presumably sunk soon after the Australia had left her. The captain, who sailed his vessel alone, was known for his drinking and it is presumed he had falled overboard and drowned. [TS1]

Elsie May. Motor launch. Unregistered. On a cruise up the Derwent, Tasmania, caught fire after her engine back-fired; ashore near the Domain slip and sank, 1 November 1931. Beyond repair. [TS2]

Emboana. Motor launch 34 ft. Built Launceston1950. Totally destroyed by fire at her moorings at Gravelly Beach on the River Tamar, Tasmania. Unknown date. [TS2]

Emerald Isle. Ketch, 13 tons gross. # 57546. Built Hobart, 1874; reg. Hobart 6/1874. Lbd 42.0 x 12.3 x 4.0 ft. Castain Adams. From Hobart to Hastings, forced ashore in a gale at Kelly’s Point, Bruny Island, Tasmania,  during a gale, wrecked, 5 July 1906. Crew landed safely. [TS2]
In 1877, involved in rescue - see brig Maid of Erin.

Emily. Cutter, 26 tons. Built at Sydney, 1840; reg. Melbourne, 7/1844. Lbd 40.7 x 12.6 x 7.3 ft. Master Andrew Murray. Sailed from Melbourne for Circular Head, Tasmania, on 4 April 1846 but failed to arrive.  No trace was ever found, and it is presumed she foundered in Bass Strait [TS1],[ASW1]

Emily. Fishing boat. Master-owner John Seymour. Run down by the trans-Derwent ferry Kangaroo, whilst at anchor off Kangaroo Point, Tasmania, 9 August 1894. No loss of life. [TS1]

Emily Downing. Gunpowder hulk, previously whaling barque, 269 tons. # 32047. Built at Port Arthur, Tasmania, 1841, as the Colonial Government’s supply ship and transport Lady Franklin; reg. Hobart 21/1855. Sold and refitted as a whaler in 1855, when renamed. Lbd 90.0 x 26.3 x 17.8 ft.  Register closed 23 February 1898, when it was reported that she had been broken up. [TS1]

Emily Jane. Fishing vessel, 2.5 tons, 22 ft. Master-owner Barry R. Lowe. Wrecked ashore on rocks near the Eddystone Point Lighthouse, Tasmania, as a result of steering failure, 31 December 1974. No lives lost. [TS2]

Emma. Schooner, 77 tons. # 31622. Built at Bristol, UK, 1845; reg. Melbourne 25/1860. Lbd 65.1 x 18.8 x 9.9 ft. Captain Carmichael.  Left Otago for Port Adelaide in ballast on  24 February 1863, stranded and abandoned offshore east coast Tasmania, March 1863. The master and seven crew took to the boat and after bing blown through Banks Strait and landing on Rabbit Island in the Furneaux Group, safely made George Towm, north-east coast Tasmania. On 18 March the schooner was found beached about two miles north of Falmouth on the east coast, with all sails set and three feet of water in the hold. Spars, sails, gear and fittings were recovered after several failed attempts to refloat her. [TS1]
In 1856, involved in rescue - see schooner Retriever, lost Tasmania, 1856. [TS1]

Emma Jane. Unregistered river craft. Sank on the Derwent near Bridgewater, 9 May 1845. Crew of two saved. [TS1]

Emma Kemp. Schooner, 67 tons. Built  Sydney, 1827; reg. Sydney 28/1831, reg. Hobart3/1832, 7/1836. Lbd 58-6 x 16 x 8 ft.. Originally a cutter of 37 tons, lbd 43-6 x 14-5 x 7-6 ft., rebuilt 1835.  In 1833 she had became perhaps the first Australian-built vessel to complete a circumnavigation, by undertaking a voyage from Hobart to Rio De Janeiro and return via the Cape of Good Hope. Master probably Isaac Matches. Struck rocks, holed, and sank, at Wabb’s Boat Harbour, now The Gulch, Bicheno, Tasmania, 24 June 1840. Crew saved. [TS1],[ASW1 - cutter, 37 tons]
On 11 February 1827, under Captain Samuel Budge, blown on to Sow and Pigs Reef near the entrance to Port Jackson, when leaving for Hobart. She received extensive damage but was refloated and repoaired. [ASW1 - registered as a Dandy, 37 tons]

Emma Prescott. Brig , 167 tons. # 31593. Built at Robbinston, Maine USA, 1846; reg. Melbourne 8/1852. Lbd 88.2 x 20.8 x 10.0 ft. Missed stays and drifted ashore in Freestone Cove, Tasmania, 30 September 1867. Later condemned as unseaworthy and dismantled where she lay. Vessel Margaret Chessel involved in salvage. [TS1]

Empress of China. Barquentine, 267/255 tons. # 68526. Built at Padstow, Cornwall, UK, 1874; reg. Hobart 8/1877. Lbd 120.7 x 26.1 x 12.8 ft. Captain Thomas James Chaplin. From Geelong for Hobart in ballast, wrecked due to current and fog affecting navigation, Pyramid Rock, west of Hunters Island, north-west Tasmania, 29 December 1888. Crew saved. [TS1]
On 11 May 1882, under Captain McArthur, hit rocks off the south-eastern coast of King Island, probably the Stanley Shoals, and came close to sinking.

Empress of India. Steamer. Involved in attempted salvage of vessel - see barque Astrolabe, lost Tasmania, 1883.

Emu. Fishing ketch, 17 gross. # 79277. Built on the West Tamar, 1885; reg. Launceston 3/1886. Lbd 41.6 x 15.2 x 5.0 ft.  Originally been engaged in trade along the north-west coast and Tamar River. Master Frederick Furness.  Wrecked ashore when parted from her anchors while sheltering from a gale at Eddystone Point, Tasmania, 5 November 1902.Two crew saved. The same gale was also responsible for the loss of the fishing boat Marquis of Linlithgow on King Island and the ketch Ruby in the Furneaux Group. [TS2]
In July 1889, suffered considerable damage when a cargo of unslaked lime caught fire.
On 12 March 1890, another fire in a cargo of unslaked lime caused the vessel severe damage at Market Wharf, Launceston.
On the night of 1 July 1891, under Master  James McDonald, was struck by the coastal steamer Herbert at Native Point, Tasmania; the ketch was towed ashore to prevent her sinking.
In July 1902, under Master  John Pratt, beached at Tomahawk River, Tasmania, after springing a leak.  Refloated.
On 4 August 1902, driven ashore having parted her anchors in a gale.

Emu. Schooner, 20/19 tons. # 43313. Built at Emu Bay, Tasmania, 1862; reg. Launceston 12/1863. Lbd 50.8 x 13.3 x 5.1 ft. Master-owner G.H.King. From the Mersey River to Launceston with wheat, ashore on Black Reef off Tamar Heads, 1 June 1874. All hands saved. [TS1],[ASR]

Emu. Steamer, 43/29 tons. # 32066. Built at Battery Point, Hobart, 1858; reg.  Hobart 14/1858. Lbd 99.0 x 10.4 x 6.6 ft. Sank at her moorings on the east bank of the River Derwent, and was never refloated, 1897. [TS1]
In 1879, attempted to reach the stricken barque Lady Emma at Port Davey, Tasmania, 1879, but forced back to Hobart due to heavy weather.
Also listed:
Emu. 1897. Her remains were found in April 2000 and are now under survey as one of Australia’s most significant maritime archaeological finds. [TS2]

Emu Packet. Two-masted wherry, 12 tons. Built at Swan Bay, River Tamar, Tasmania, 1846; reg. Launceston, 13/1846. Lbd 32.9 x 12.0 x 4.8 ft. Master/owner William Garner. Driven ashore at Emu Bay, Tasmania, wrecked, night of 26-27 September 1848. No loss of life. (See also schooner Trial, lost on the same night). She had just finished loading and was attempting to put to sea in the face of rising winds when her jib-boom broke, throwing one of her crew into the water.  He was rescued with difficulty and the disabled vessel went onto the rocks. [TS1]
 

Enchantress. Barque, 376 tons. Built at Bristol, England, 1826; reg. London. Captain David Roxburgh (later  master of the ship Kelso). Near the end of an  uneventful passage from London to Hobart with a valuable general cargo and nineteen passengers, struck uncharted rocks about  half a mile off the western shore of Bruny Island, and six or eight miles south of Partridge Island, probably the Hen and Chickens Reefs, 16 July 1835. She slipped off but was holed so badly as to be unmanageable, and was abandoned before she sank. The long boat, with the second officer, fifteen of the crew, and a passenger, went down with the ship and was not seen again. The survivors landed on Partridge Island; the passengers were picked up by the cutter Friends and taken to Hobart, while the captain and the four surviving crew set off in the gig. A gale the following March saw the ship completely wrecked.
[TS1],[ASW6],[LH],[ASW1],[LAH]
Estimates of the number of souls lost vary. Broxam and Nash speak of ‘passenges and four crew’ saved. Loney indicates only three of the complement of fifty saved, which is what the Australian Encyclopedia lists, however Bateson writes that this is ‘clearly incorrect’ - why, he does not mention, nor does he provide an opinion. Stone and Loney also suggest  ‘twenty-two saved, about fifty missing’ in High and Dry. O’May lists nineteen survivors. Lawson indicates sixteen.

Endeavour. Cutter, 19 tons. Built at Launceston, 1832; reg. Launceston, 1/1832, 9/1837. Lbd 32 x 12-5 x 5 ft. Master John Williams. Register closed - vessel sailed from Launceston for Piper’s River, after which she disappears from trace, 1843.  [TS1]

Endeavour. Yacht, 40ft. Sailed from Melbourne for Devonport with three people on 19 April 1954 but failed to arrive.  [TS2]

Enduro. Motor launch. Lost or damaged beyong repair due to devastating floods in the Launceston, Tamar River basin, April 1929.  [TS2]

Ennyl II. Fishing vessel,  13 tons, 10 metres. Reported to have sunk at Hunters Island on 6 February 1984. [TS2]

Ensign. Brig, 164 tons. # 28304. Built at Montrose, Scotland, 1860; reg. Hobart 11/1863. Lbd 94.9 x 22.4 x 12.4 ft. Sailed from Newcastle for Hobart with a cargo of coal on 30 September 1864, but failed to arrive. A name board bearing the vessel’s name was later reported washed ashore at Hannah Bay, NSW, but that could have been lost anywhere and drifted for a long way before coming ashore. [TS1]

Enterprise. Schooner, 58 tons. # 74656. Built at Williamstown, Victoria, 1876; reg. Melbourne 30/1876. Lbd 76.4 x 18.5 x 6.6 ft. Captain J. Thompson. From Melbourne to the Don River, Tasmania, ashore on the western bank, 22 July 1892. Refloated and towed to Devonport, three months later, but the damage was such that it was uneconomical to repair and she lay in the river for several years.  In October 1897 she was hauled onto an improvised slip where repairs were to be carried out, after which there is no record of the vessel. [TS1],[LPA - wrecked in Tasmanian waters 1892]
On 29 June 1881, under Captain Holyman, stranded at East Cove, Deal Island. Crew saved, by barque Verulam and transferred to SS Albatross off Port Phillip Heads. Abandoned by the underwriters, but sold at auction, refloated, repaired, and re-entered service in June 1882.
On 31 May 1892,  stranded on the Duck River Bar, Tasmania, while outward bound for Melbourne with timber, and had again been considered a total loss before being refloated.
 

Enterprise. Cutter. Unregistered. Reported to have sailed from George’s Bay for Launceston on 11 March 1890, but failed to arrive, and was never seen or heard from again. [TS1]
Broxam and Nash found no contemporary references.

Enterprise. Ketch. Went to the assistance of the stricken steamer Wiena, Maria Island, Tasmania, 1916.  [TS2]

Erin Go Bragh. Schooner, river-trader, 16 tons. Lbd 32.6 x 10.9 x 5.8 ft. Built at Hobart, 1839; reg. Hobart, 4/1839, 4/1843. Master William Cooke. Run down and sunk off the Brown’s River probation station, Tasmania,  by the Government schooner Eliza, 29 October 1843. The master and a female passenger were rescued, but another man went down with the vessel.   It is possible that she may have been refloated, as an Erin Go Bragh of about 10 tons was trading on the Derwent in the early 1850s.

Erskine. Auxiliary ketch, 89/56 tons. # 151804. Built Geelong, 1922; reg. Melbourne,  6/1922. Lbd 88.8 x 23.0 x 7.2 ft. Captain W. Irvine. Left Launceston for St. Helens, Tasmania, wrecked ashore at Mussel Roe Bay during a southerly gale, 18 December 1935.
In August 1931, stranded near the Inglis River, Tasmania. [TS2]

Esk. Schooner, 43 tons. # 73514. Built at Launceston, 1876; reg. Launceston 6/1876, Hobart 6/1880. Lbd 63.6 x 17.6 x 7.0 ft. Master-owner Peter Oldham. From Launceston for the Leven River, Tasmania, aground on Horseshoe Reef off Wright’s Island, north-east of Mersey Heads, 10 July 1882. Crew saved.  [TS1]
On 9 September 1877, stranded at West Reef, Inglis River, Tasmania.
On 8 December 1879, capsized and sank in Tamar River, drowning a passenger.
On 6 July 1880, ashore at Bichen.

Esk. Iron steamship, 854/547 tons. # 76812. Built at Glasgow, 1877, as the Vampire; reg. Launceston 8/1878. Lbd 190.6 x 27.1 x 21.2 ft. After a brief period in the Mediterranean trade, she was purchased by the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company in 1878 and renamed Esk. Captain J. W. Evans. From Hobart for Sydney via Devonport, hit an outcrop of the Hebe Reef, and came to a grinding halt, hard aground