Wendouree (1882)
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History | |
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Australia | |
Name | Wendouree |
Owner | Huddart Parker & Co. Pty. Ltd, Geelong |
Route | Newcastle to Adelaide |
Builder | S & H Morton & Co., Leith, Scotland |
Launched | 18 April 1882 |
Identification | 84943 |
Fate | Wrecked on 20 July 1898 Newcastle, New South Wales, Oyster Bank |
General characteristics | |
Type | Steel Steamer Screw |
Tonnage | |
Length | 83.45 m |
Beam | 11.06 m |
Draught | 5.882 m |
Propulsion | Compound engine |
Complement | 24 |
Wendouree was a steel steamship built as a collier by S & H Morton & Co., Leith, Scotland for Huddart Parker & Co. Pty. Ltd. She was later refitted to carry passengers for the Melbourne to Sydney run.
Fate[]
She was wrecked on the Oyster Bank at the mouth of the Hunter River while leaving Newcastle for Adelaide on 20 July 1898. She was carrying 1850 tons of coal and grounded on a bar.
References[]
Further reading[]
Online Databases
Australian National Shipwreck Database[1]
Australian Shipping - Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968 including shipwrecks [2]
Encyclopaedia of Australian Shipwrecks - New South Wales Shipwrecks [3]
Books
- Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast. By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995 Oceans Enterprises. 1993 ISBN 978-0-646-11081-3.
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 3 1871–1900 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Geelong Vic: List Publishing, 1982 910.4530994 LON
Coordinates: 32°54′50″S 151°47′49″E / 32.914°S 151.797°E
Categories:
- Shipwrecks of the Hunter Region
- Ships built in Leith
- 1882 ships
- Maritime incidents in 1898
- 1898 in Australia
- 1871–1900 ships of Australia
- Colliers of Australia
- Iron and steel steamships of Australia
- Merchant ship stubs