Gateway to the Bay

Shipwrecks

The vessels lost, stranded and deliberately scuttled in and around Moreton Bay — pieced back together from newspaper archives, shipping registers, parliamentary records and shipbuilders’ ledgers.

Platypus

1926

Platypus

Forty-two years cutting channels from Brisbane to the Gulf, then deliberately sunk off Peel Island in 1926 to shelter the lazaret jetty.

DredgeSteamerPeel IslandMoreton Bay
Princeza

1863

Princeza

Driven onto the bar off Amity Point in a March gale — cargo hove overboard, masts cut away, and the hull sold for £160 three days later.

BrigantineAmity PointSouth PassageStradbroke Island