Shipwreck Databases

Shipwrecks

Title When Lost Where Lost Builder Owner Master Sinking Found Beam Bearing to Bow Cargo Chart Number Comments Confidential Country Built Crew Date Inspected Deaths Draft Engine File Number Found Inspected Latitude Max Latitude Min Length Length of site Longitude Max Longitude Min Minimum Depth of site Official Number Port Built Port From Port Registered Port To Position Information Protected Sources Sunk Code TONA TONB When Built
Roselle 1964/11/28 Off Beagle Island J. Rose Sunk by breaker N NO N 7/78 N N Protected Federal
't Wapen van Hoorn 1622/06 Unlikely off Australian Coast VOC N General fluyt-ship 32°03 – 115°44 VOC Chamber of Hoorn, left Netherlands 1621/12/26, arrived in Batavia 1622/07/22 NO Netherlands 200 N N N Hoorn Texel Java Protected Federal ARA VOC 988 (1623) Dutch-Asiatic Shipping II, Outward Voyages 1595-1794, R.G.P. 166 Refloated 400600.00 1619
(Black Eyed) Susan 1908/12/28 North Mole, Fremantle Fremantle Harbour Trust Arthur J. Green Collided with RMS Mongolia N 1058,112, 114 Removed from the navigational channel to North of the North Mole where her engines and boilers were salvaged. NO 1 Steam engine N N piloting Protected Federal Harbour & Lights File: Acc 1066/16/5/1055/1908 Sinking of SS "Black Eyed Susan" re sinking by R.M.S. Mongolia I.J. Field, Steam Vessels Wrecked in Western Australian Waters Foundered
1844 Cannon 1844 N NO Unknown N N N Protected Federal Unknown
19 mile unidentified Y NO 11/2003 Y Y -19.17935 121.153083 GPS Protected Federal Gainsford, M & Kimpton, G. 2003 19 Mile Broome Unidentified Interim Wreck Inspection Report Report-Department of Maritime Archaeology Western Australian Maritime Museum No. 177.
A 106 1976/02/17 Near Albany N NO N Protected Federal
Aagtekerke 1726/01 Between Cape Good Hope and Jacarta VOC VOC Jan Witboom N Coin 32°04 - 115°22 NO Netherlands 212 212 N 386/71 N N 47.50 Vlissingen Vlissingen/Rammekens Batavia Protected Federal B/L Museum Files Countryman, 1969/05/02 Halls, 'The Loss of the Dutch East Indiaman Aagtekerke', p. 5 Unknown 850.00 1724
Abandoned Fishing Vessel 2006 N NO N N -18.016667 109.1 RAN Hydrographic Department Protected Federal RAN Hydrographic Department database unreliable
Abemama 1927/06/17 Jervoise Bay, Cockburn Sound S.B. and Transportation Co. Abemama Shipping Co. H. Downie Snapped anchor chains in storm Y 9.70 No cargo 117, 1058 Mr and Mrs Arnold McGhie were caretakers on board the ship when it wrecked. The vessel is fully buried now during new harbour works in April 2000. NO Canada 7 3.60 N 4/81, 10/78 Y Y -32.14156 40.70 115.765729 138200 Nova Scotia Fremantle subsidy Fremantle Points Cloates Archival aerial 1950 Protected Federal Ships Register (Fremantle) 12: 11/1926 - 3/1929 Harbour Masters Log Books (Albany) 14: 1/1 - 31/12/1923 Harbour Masters Letter Books (Fremantle) 5: 21/8/1922 - 1/7/1923 6: 1/7/1923 - 13/3/1924 Monthly Summary of Vessels arriving Various Ports 12: 1908 - 1921 13: 1922 - 1942 Master Coastal Vessels Records 3: 15/10/1902 - 9/12/1926 3: 29/9/1910 - 3/12/1926 Sea-going Certificates 3: 10/8/8/1914 - 13/1/1950 Port of Albany Shipping Records 1923 Lloyds Register of Ships Mercantile Navy List and Maritime Directory Shipping Arrival and Departures (Albany) 1922 - 1932 W.F. Neyle - Memories of Sailing Ships on the Clarence River Agreements and Account of Crew. (Abemama) Ships Logbooks. (Abemama) Harbour and Lights Department (WA) Shipping Casualties 1894 -1962 Newspapers The Sound Advertiser 25/6/1980 Western Mail 1927 West Australian 29/3/79 Photos Battye Collection Duffty Collection Faily Sawday Collection Maritime Museum Photo List Wrecked and sunk 395.00 317.00 1918
Aboyne 1877/02/17 Lacepede Islands W. Moodie and Co. Captain Swan Cyclone N 9.90 Guano 1207, 323, 1048 RAN Hydrographic Department position 17°57.7 122°09.6 NO UK 3 6 4.60 N 7/78 N N 56.10 48681 Sunderland London Protected Federal Inquirer, 28/3/1877 Western Australian Times, 13/4/1877 Wynne to Col. Sec., 23/2/1877, C.S.R. 864, fol. 26-33 Wynne to Col. Sec., 3/3/1877, C.S.R. 864, fol. 42 Wynne to Col. Sec., 5/4/1877, C.S.R. 864, fol. 65 Lloyds Shipping Wrecked and sunk 445.00 1864/1875
Achieved 1963/11/25 Two Rocks Sank N NO N N N Protected Federal
Activity 1892/07/19 Condon Pearling and Trading Company Mooring parted as tide went out N 5.80 General 1048 NO NSW 2.20 N 3/79, 116/80 N N 23.10 75026 Cockle Creek, Brisbane Water Sydney Sydney Condon Protected Federal West Australian, 30 July 1892, p. 4e Loane, Bill, The Koolama Incident,1992 COLLATION 165 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 30 cm. Register of British Ships, Sydney West Australian, 30 July 1892, p 4e Register of British Ships RAN Hydrographic Department give 17°57.7S122°14,1833E which is Broome 62.00 1879
Ada 1888/02 Albany, Oyster Harbour John Peters of Albany John Cowden and John Bruce, of Albany Sunk while crew was ashore cutting poles and sank when they were ashore. Y 1.60 1034/2619, AUS 110 NO WA 1991/07 MMcC 4.40 N 8/92, 195/72 Y Y -34.987968 16.50 117.970443 75321 Albany Fremantle GPS 2005 Protected State West Australian, 15 August 1888, p. 3a Gordon de L. Marshall, Memories of Maritime Albany, Report, Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum, No 53 McCarthy, M., Wolfe, A. and de L. Marshall, G., 1992 Ada 1886-1888, Wreck Inspection Report - Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum, No.101 McKenna Collection 680, WA Maritime Museum Wrecked and sunk 26.40 1886
Ada 1914/09/ Off Abrolhos Islands E. Howson, Fremantle Winter Brandt & Co, Perth B. Kleem N 1.20 1056 Also possible official number 95361 built in 1888 in Fremantle NO WA 3 4.80 N N N 15.40 102254 (?) Fremantle Fremantle (?) Protected Federal Foundered 16.33 12.83 1901 (?)
Ada 1921/02/18 North Island During storm while searching for anchorage N A 751 50m depth contour NO None N N N Protected Federal West Australian 1921/02/25, p. 7-f Foundered
Adalia 1880 Near Mangrove Passage N NO N -21.53 115.436945 RAN Hydrographic Department Protected Federal RAN Hydrographic Department database Source unreliable
Adela 1881/01/07 Yammadery Creek, Mangrove Islands off Yardie Capsized N Shell 35°01.8 – 118°08 NO N 3.79 N N Protected Federal Wrecked and sunk 10.00
Adelma 1930/09/03 N NO 2 N Fremantle Moore River Protected Federal http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/easw.html
Adroit HMAS 1994/08/08 Off Rottnest Island Evans, Deakin Brisbane Obsolete and sunk in naval exercise off Rottnest Island N 6.20 Attack class patrol boat. Sea dumping report quotes 1994/07/04 in 2500m NO QLD 2 diesel engines N N -32.066667 32.60 114.75 Brisbane RAN Hydrographic Department Protected Federal RAN Hydrographic Department database Scuttled 146.00 1968
Advance 1887/07 Swan River Bar Lawrence Randell, Knight and Co. Grounded N 5.10 15°30 – 124°35 NO WA 1.40 1 ENGINE, 22HP 376/77 N N 22.20 61112 Perth Fremantle Protected State Inquirer, 27 July 1887, p. 4f and 7 March 1888, p. 3e West Australian, 6 August 1888, p. 3c Foundered 38.00 1874
Adventure 1945/02 North of Rottnest Island, Graveyard W&S Lawrence, Perth Swan River Shipping Co. Ltd. Fremantle N 5.80 334, 1033 Position of scuttling: 32°05 – 115°22 NO Australia 2.10 N 445/71 N N -32.066667 21.20 115.333333 120023 Perth Fremantle RAN Hydrographic Department Protected Federal HMC 106/4 Sea Dumping in Australia 2003 p. 124 British Mercantile Navy List 1917 Scuttled 46.00 unknown
Afric 1915/02/16 Between Swan Point and Sunday Island in King Sound W./ & S. Lawrence Robert Child Charles Morrissy Sprung a leak, vessel went down in 55m water while master tried to beach her N 3.60 1048, 733, 1206 Beche-de-mer fishery According to H&L File C. Morrisey was master/owner NO WA 5 1 1.50 N 119/80 N N 10.60 119002 Fremantle Fremantle RAN Hydrographic Department Protected Federal SRO CONS 1066 ITEM1916/081 Harbour & Light File AN 25/2/1915/ HMC 9/4 Map of location. McKenna Collection 683, WA Maritime Museum British Register of Shipping, Fremantle Foundered 12.44 14.94 1903
African (Sunset Beach wreck) 1863/01/04 Geraldton, Champion Bay, Sunset Beach Gibson Captain Gibson Stranded and wrecked between two reefs, near Chapman River mouth Y 10.00 Wool, ore 332, AUS 81, 1052 Check lats/longs NO UK 1979/10 MMcC 6.50 N 20/79, 117/80 Y Y -28.725579 48.00 114.619229 23091 Sunderland Geraldton Champion Bay Fremantle Aerial GIS Protected Federal McCarthy, M., 1978, Sunset Beach Wreck, (African) Unpublished Wreck Inspection Report, Department of Maritime Archaeology, WA Maritime Museum, No.35. Totty, D., (MAAWA), 1986, Wrecks of Western Australia's Central Mainland Coast, Jurien Bay-Port Gregory, Private Publication & Department Report Scuttled 780.00 1853
Agincourt 1882/04/19 Hamelin Bay J.T. Russell, J. McGeorge and W.L. Dickson Captain Henry Patching While at anchor Y 8.70 Timber AUS 116 reward: $100 State 1977 NO UK 1997/12 MMcC; 1991/05, MAAWA 2002/02 1 5.50 N 356/77, 196/75 Y Y -34.214568 40.20 115.03366 45596 Sunderland At anchor, Hamelin Bay Adelaide At anchor, Hamelin Bay GPS DoLA Aerial 2004/3/31 Protected Federal SRO 129 ITEM-32/596 Police Department Vasse 10/5/1882 Inquiry evidence, 6 May 1882, CSO 1455, fol. 64 Sledge, S., 1977, Unpublished Wreck Inspection Report, Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum, No.28. Clarke, M., 1986, Hamelin Bay Expedition. MAAWA Special Report. Wrecked and sunk 443.00 1863
Agnes 1893 Exmouth Gulf C.J. Carlson N A 744 32°01 – 115°19 NO NSW N 152/72 N N 73349 Sydney, North Shore Sydney Protected Federal Report of Captain Biddles (transcript of telephone message), 2 March 1893; also Telegram, Inspector of Pearlshell Fisheries to Acting Premier, 4 March 1893, CSO 398/1893 1876

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