The iron clipper Loch Ard is significant as one of Victoria's and Australia's most tragic and famous shipwrecks.
Trial Rocks
A British East Indiaman of approximately 500 tons, under the command of John Brooke wrecked on the Tryal Rocks off the north-west coast of Western Australia in 1622. It is Australia's oldest known shipwreck.
Cataraqui (also called Cataraque) was a British barque which sank off the south-west coast of King Island in Bass Strait on 4 August 1845. The sinking was Australia's worst ever maritime civil disaster incident, claiming the lives of 400 people.
RMS Titanic
The supposedly "unsinkable" ocean liner set sail on its maiden voyage on 10 April 1912 only to hit an iceberg just before midnight on 14 April and sank in less than three hours. Claiming 1,514 lives, it is often remembered as one of the most famous and tragic shipwrecks in history.
Port Phillip Bay Wrecks - Port Phillip Bay, Victoria
There are over 900 registered shipwrecks in Victoria. The capital city of Melbourne sits on Port Phillip Bay, home to more than 50 of those wrecks. From WWI submarines, massive missile destroyers and sunken ships, its hands down the best place to dive near Melbourne.
The wartime sinking of the German Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945 in World War II by a Soviet Navy submarine, with an estimated loss of about 9,400 people, remains the deadliest isolated maritime disaster ever, excluding such events as the destruction of entire fleets like the 1274 and 1281 storms that are said to ...
The San Jose – The Holy Grail of Sunken Treasures (1708) – $17 billion. One of the most precious shipwrecks in the world, the site of which remained unknown for over three centuries, was revealed in photographs by the Colombian army.
The Extremely Ancient Dokos Shipwreck
Among them, the Dokos wreck is thought to be the oldest shipwreck found to date. It dates before c. 2200 BCE, judging by the pottery cargo it carried. It was discovered by Peter in 1975 at a depth of fifteen to thirty meters near the Greek island of Dokos.
However, the Titanic, famously described as 'unsinkable,' unfortunately sank after colliding against an iceberg in its maiden voyage- from Southampton to New York City- on 14 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean. Around 1,517 people lost their lives in one of the biggest marine tragedies in history.
Discovery of shipwreck off the coast of Australia solves 50-year-old maritime mystery. Australian researchers have found the wreck of a coastal freighter that sank half a century ago. The ship, named the MV Blythe Star, departed Hobart, a coastal city in Tasmania, one of Australia's island states, on Oct. 12, 1973.
Australia has a very lengthy coastline which is why it has such a high rate of recorded shipwrecks. Out of the 8000 registered shipwrecks only 2000 have been found.
The First Fleet's 11 ships comprised two Royal Navy escort ships, the HMS Sirius and HMS Supply, six convict transports, the Alexander, Charlotte, Friendship, Lady Penrhyn, Prince of Wales and the Scarborough, and three store ships, the Borrowdale, Fishburn and Golden Grove.
There are more than 8000 shipwrecks off the coast of Australia, but only a quarter of those have been found.
The First Fleet arrives in Port Jackson, 27 January 1788, by William Bradley, an officer on HMS Sirius.
A Greek merchant ship discovered more than a mile under the surface of the Black Sea has been radiocarbon dated to 2,400 years ago, making it the world's oldest known intact shipwreck.
USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest ship still afloat.
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
The ship was loaded with an estimated $17 billion worth of gold, silver and jewels when it sank in 1708, and its wreck was only discovered in 2015. The navy used a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to examine the wreck; its precise location is being kept a secret to deter treasure hunters.
Two previously unknown shipwrecks have been found near a famous Spanish galleon laden with an estimated $17 billion in gold that was sunk by the British in 1708.
According to estimates by the US National Oceanic Service, the gold from the depths of the oceans is so diluted that there is only one gram of this precious yellow metal for every 100 million metric tons of water.
Violet's life experiences justify the moniker she had earned, 'Miss Unsinkable'! The three sunken ships that Violet had worked in are RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic.
The Antikythera
In 1900, sponge divers came upon something strange on the ocean floor off the Greek isle Antikythera: a ship, strewn with what they were sure were rotting corpses. A second look proved that though lives may have been lost when the ship went down, none were still around to rot.
Well, even if we do so, Titanic still isn't the worst shipwreck in history. Holding the top spot right now is the Dona Paz, a Philippine ferryboat that collided with an oil tanker on December 20, 1987.