YORKE PENINSULA Fisherman Bay Redhill Yorke Peninsula Shipwrecks Fisherman Shag Island Bay Munderoo Bay Port Broughton Mundoora Webling Colinsfield "The vessel [Hougomont] was overtaken in the Great Australian Bight by a vast Point Lake View 8 black cloud bank that unleashed cyclonic winds of up to 100 miles an hour. After 2 8 2 Wokurna 3 For further information she had spent nearly 12 hours fighting the storm, all that was left of her top- Bews 1 Tickera Bay Yorke Peninsula Regional Visitor Information Centre Snowtown hamper were the stumps of her foremast, mizzenmast and lower jigger mast." Tickera 50 Moonta Road Barunga Gap Myponie Brucefield Alford Point Black Rock Corner 25 Kadina SA 5554 9 Bute Point 2 During 1802 and 1803, the European explorers, Matthew Flinders and Nicholas Baudin charted the coastline of Riley 37 Ph 1800 654 991 North Beach Wallaroo 9 1 Willamulka Yorke Peninsula and their skill and accuracy in defining the coastline meant their charts were used well into the Wallaroo 9 2 Bay 3 Wallaroo Bird Islands Mines Kadina Ninnes 20th century. From the 1840s through to the 1940s ships of various types and sizes were the major means of Conservation Park Plains 20 Harvest Corner Visitor Information Centre 6 7 1 1 transport of cargo and people to and from Yorke Peninsula. It is not surprising then to find a total of 85 Moonta Bay 29 Main Street 13 Paskeville Moonta Bay Kulpara 0 shipwrecks scattered around its coastline. Explore the coastline of Yorke Peninsula and discover for yourself the Moonta 1 15 Port Hughes Cunliffe 2 Minlaton SA 5575 0 Moonta Mines Melton Tiparra Cocoanut Bay 3 remains of the many wrecks in this region. 5 Kainton Ph (08) 8853 2600 Sunnyvale Corner Port Arthur k Cape Elizabeth r n a o P Agery 21 t Kainton n n 3 i l o Port 5 6 i C t Tiparra 2 t a r v Wakefield o r e P s n o C T www.yorkepeninsula.com.au The Gap Spencer o 1 A 0 Port Clinton 0 Weetulta Clinton delaide Centre Tiparra West Arthurton Gulf Tiparra Winulta Mangrove Point Rocks Price 15 www.heritage.sa.gov.au 14 Kilkerran 4 Balgowan 2 Dowlingville Petersville Maitland Reef Point 24 Point Tiddy Widdy Beach www.dive.southaustralia.com Pearce Cunningham Yorke Ardrossan Goose Island a Valley i 4 Conservation Park r 2 o South t c Red i Kilkerran Parara V Point Cliff s t 6 James Well r 1 12 Pearce o Rogues Point WARDANG P ISLAND Port Victoria Urania Sandilands Point Gawler Muloowurtie Main road Cliff Rifle Butts Beach Point Point Second Beach Renowdens Rocks Pine Point Minor road Wauraltee Beach Wauraltee Gulf Historic jetty 25 Kemps Beach Black Point • Mount Rat The Bamboos Shipwreck Trail Koolywurtie St The Bushes Port Julia Port Rickaby 8 2 3 3 Curramulka Barkers Rocks 13 Sheoak Flat Vincent Brown Point Bluff 2 Beach Kiln Corner 0 Parsons Beach Watsons Beach Minlaton A rich maritime history 0510 15 20 25km Pt Vincent 2 2 Cockle Beach 7 7 Adelaide was settled in 1836 but it wasn’t until 1 1 Port Minlacowie Sherriffs Beach Levens Beach Brentwood Point Souttar 1846 that pastoralists ventured across to Yorke Corny Point Conservation Park Hardwicke Levens Beach Hardwicke Berry Bay Collins Beach Bay Bay Roger Point Turton Corner Stansbury Corny The Pines Peninsula. Finally, in 1859-60, settlement of the Point Weaver 3 Point Annie Brutus 2 13 Kleins Point Swincers Rocks region took off, chiefly because of the discovery 32 21 Warooka Wool Bay Gleesons Landing 21 Daly Head Port Giles of copper at Wallaroo and Moonta. The area soon Yorketown Coobowie White Hut developed into one of the richest grain producing Formby Bay 16 50 Edithburgh Little Lizard Bay Troubridge Island Point Margaret Port Moorowie areas for Australia and continues to do so, with Warrenben Honiton Conservation Park Conservation Sturt Bay Sultana Point Park Point Davenport Waterloo Gym Beach Conservation Park modern ships loading grain from both sides of the Point Davenport Bay Browns Beach Troubridge Point Royston Head Troubridge Hill Foul Bay Foul Bay Lighthouse Peninsula. The last of the great sailing ships ‘the xt by Ozarch; Layout by Nature Art & Design; Cover photo by B. Stoecker Innes Pondalowie National Te CIL OFYO Point Yorke N RK Bay Marion Bay U E Park O P Marion Bay C E N windjammers’ loaded their grain cargo from ports T Inneston I C N Stenhouse Bay I Reef Head R S U T The Gap S L I A such as Port Victoria during the 1940s and Cape Spencer Cable Bay Photos courtesy Heritage SA D competed in races back to Europe. Diver on the wrecksite of the Australian Department of Environment and Heritage The Hougomont being scuttled at Stenhouse Bay 1933 Agriculturally rich – naturally beautiful Troubridge Island Shipwrecks Ardrossan National Trust Museum. A permit is rolling over. Forty of the crew lost their lives. Many of the shipwrecks around Yorke Peninsula needed to visit the site, because of the potential to The majority of the crew were of Indian origin, and are found clustered around the ports and damage the wooden hull with anchors. In 1984, a those that did not drown were treated according naturally occurring navigation hazards. The barge was sunk, 1 nautical mile south of the Zanoni to the White Australia Policy and extradited to shoals and reefs surrounding Troubridge Island to act as an alternative place to fish. Colombo as soon as possible. (off Edithburgh) are ‘home’ to six of the region’s earliest sailing vessels, namely the Dart Investigator Strait shipwrecks One of the region’s earliest steam shipwrecks can and Parsee (both 1838), Sultana (1849), the Some of the best shipwrecks to dive in South be found further west along the southern part of immigrant ship Marion (1851), Charles Carter Australia are located in this stretch of Yorke Peninsula. The SS Marion was wrecked in (1854) and the Iron King (1873). It was this clearer water, beginning with the SS 1862 while on a voyage between Port Adelaide Marion that provided the name for Marion Clan Ranald located near Troubridge and Wallaroo with 35 passengers. It was wrecked Bay (at the bottom of Yorke Peninsula) as some Hill. The Clan Ranald was a turret deck steam near Chinaman’s Hat during poor visibility. survivors from the shipwreck found their way ship, which was a design specifically used to there in one of the ship’s boats. Some other reduce the amount of charges paid for going The Ethel and Ferret survivors in another lifeboat landed on the through the Suez Canal. The Ethel shipwreck has been a landmark of the Port Victoria c 1930 other side of Gulf St Vincent, near Rapid Bay. southern Yorke Peninsula since it was wrecked in The vessel was on a voyage to South Africa 1904. The 711 ton sailing vessel was bound for For many years the Ethel was a tourist attraction, The Wardang Island shipwrecks Adelaide to Wallaroo when it hit the reef and Zanoni in 1909 with 40 000 bags of wheat and Port Adelaide from South Africa to take on a cargo but today the hull has totally collapsed and sand There are nine shipwrecks located around this was totally wrecked in 1865. In 1995, the Sea Further north, in Gulf St. 29 000 bags of flour. Having left Port Adelaide only of grain, when it was driven ashore. On the night covers it for most of time. Within 200 metres of low-lying island located off Port Victoria. Crane, and in 1997 the 30 000 tonne Korean Vincent, one of the hours before the Clan Ranald rolled over and sank the ship was wrecked, a nineteen-year-old crew the Ethel lies the SS Ferret, its boiler can International sailing vessels such as the Songvaar grain carrier Western Winner, both stranded best-preserved in 20 metres of water, one kilometre off Troubridge man, Leonard Sterneson attempted to swim to sometimes be seen protruding from the sand. This and the Notre Dame D’Arvor came to Port Victoria on the reef. Both vessels were refloated. sailing shipwrecks in Hill. The emptying of the water ballast tanks and shore with a life line, but drowned. The next vessel had a colourful career. Built in Glasgow in to load grain and were wrecked here in 1912 and Australia is located. the top-heavy cargo contributed to the vessel morning, the stricken vessel was found to be 1873, it was stolen in 1880 and renamed SS India, 1920 respectively. The Songvaar had loaded its The 338 ton, three above low water and on the beach. but was recognised in Port Phillip as being the 40 000 bags of wheat and its master was ashore masted sailing vessel Ferret and seized by the authorities. It passed the gaining clearance when it was noticed the vessel Zanoni Zanoni was on a voyage Ethel when that vessel was wrecked in 1904, and was low in the water and listing to port. Being fully from Port Wakefield to London by coincidence it was wrecked in the same laden and heavy, the vessel sat on its own anchor, with a cargo of wheat and bark. While it sank in location in 1920 during a bad fog. which pierced the hull holding it to the seabed. Plate from the 1865 in a ‘freak storm’, it was not discovered This was the same day that the Titanic sank, on until 1983, when a fisher took two divers to 14 April 1912.