List of shipwrecks on the coast of Australia

Alice Springs

Batavia

Cawarra

Centaur

Lady Lyttleton

Orizaba

Pericles

Tryall

Quetta

Forgive Draeck

Zuytdorp

Rottnest ship graveyard

Shipwrecks on the coasts of Australia

Today visible wrecks

Today no longer visible wrecks

Cities

This is a list of the shipwrecks on the coast of Australia . Numerous ships have been stranded around Australia since the beginning of shipping . Several ships are described with articles in Wikipedia. These and other wrecks that do not have an article can be found in this list.

Some wrecks can still be seen today, some are protected cultural assets and some are a destination for divers.

Note on map display: the " OSM " selection at the top right shows an enlarged map section with positions and articles that can be selected.
Around 50 historically significant ships and numerous other wrecks are known in the ship cemetery "Rottnest ship graveyard" or Rottnest ship cemetery. To relieve this list and the map, there is a reference to the list and positions of the ships at the "Rottnest ship graveyard" in the English Wikipedia.

List of wrecks

Ship name	Sunk	comment	Coordinates	photo
Batavia (ship)	1629	The Batavia was a sailing ship of the Dutch East India Company . It ran into a reef and sank on its first voyage off Australia in 1629 . Mutiny and massacres broke out among the survivors of the shipwreck . A replica of the ship was built from 1985 to 1995 at the Batavia shipyard in Lelystad .		Wreck of the Batavia in the museum in Fremantle
Concordia (ship, 1890)		Stranded in March 1917, scrapped on April 20, 1948	32 ° 1 ′ 30 ″ S , 115 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E-32.025 115.31666666667
Cormorant (ship, 1938)		The Kormoran was a German armed and converted merchant ship for the trade war against the Allies in World War II. The cormorant sank in 1941 after a battle with HMAS Sydney during World War II. The wrecks of both ships were only discovered in March 2008.		Auxiliary cruiser Kormoran
Orizaba (ship, 1886)	February 17, 1905	The RMS Orizaba was a passenger ship put into service in 1886 for the British shipping company Pacific Steam Navigation Company. On February 17, 1905, the Orizaba ran aground with 375 people on board at Garden Island near Fremantle (Western Australia).		RMS Orizaba
HMAS Sydney (D48)		The HMAS Sydney (D48) was a light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy named after the Australian city of Sydney. The Sydney sank in 1941 in World War II after a battle with the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran. The wrecks of both ships were only discovered in March 2008.		HMAS Sydney
Zuytdorp (ship 1701)	1712	The VOC Zuytdorp also Zuiddorp (Süddorf) was a sailing ship of the Dutch East India Company . Her fate was unknown until the 20th century when the wreck was discovered on a remote part of the Western Australian coast between Kalbarri and Shark Bay, about 25 miles north of the Murchison River.		Coins from the cargo of Zuydorp
Rottnest Ship Cemetery		The Rottnest Ship Graveyard is a ship graveyard and historic disposal site off Rottnest Island , Western Australia. The cemetery is located southwest of Rottnest Island: older records refer to it as an 11 km (11 mi) radius around 32 ° 04'S 115 ° 20'E, while in a 1996 report the location was between coordinates 32 ° 00'S 115 ° 10 'E and 32 ° 05'S 115 ° 23'E is mentioned. The sea floor in this area is between 50 and 200 meters below sea level. It has been used to sink old ships since 1910. Since the Second World War, old planes and decommissioned rental cars or leasing vehicles have also been sunk there. According to evaluations from 2006, there are wrecks of at least 47 historically significant ships.