These are the vessels that we just had nowhere to put anywhere else. The listing includes vessels that have some connection to Australia, and, in general, were not lost - otherwise they would be listed in the region of their loss - unless of course the region of their loss was not known, in case they would be included here - got that! Also included here are addition details on vessels that do not fit into their place in the regional listing.

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[34 records]

Arequipa. Paddle steamer, 1065/662 tons. Built 1869. [WL].

Carnarvon Castle. Barque. One of the Cape traders, formerly owned by the Castle Line. Mentioned in relation to William McLeaod’s Story in MacKenzie’s Shipwrecks. [MM]

Chili. Paddle steamer, 700 tons. Built 1839, London. Length 170 ft, beam 50 ft across the paddle- boxes. Pacific Steam Navigation Company. One of the earliest steamers, commenced an historic journey from the Thames to Valparaiso, the first (with the Peru) to round the Horn under steam and the first ‘ocean liner’ to enter the Pacific. Operated for twelve years between London and South America. [WL]

Edendale. Steamship. Standed in the Adriatic, April 1909. Mentioned in relation to William McLeaod’s Story in MacKenzie’s Shipwrecks. [MM]

Ghazee.  Iron steamer, 2712 tons. Built at Glasgow, 1883. [LPA]

Glendale. Steamship. Wrecked off Heligoland, 1908. Mentioned in relation to William McLeaod’s Story in MacKenzie’s Shipwrecks. [MM]

Glenelvon. Steel barque, 1919 tons. Built 1898. Visited Australia, (Geelong in 1904). [LC]

Hindustan. Steamship, 2017 tons. P. & O. Liner. England to India run. [WL]

Loch Sunnart. The last of the three-masted ships to be built for the Loch Line, launched 1878. Tom Pearce, one of only two survivors of the tragic Locch Ard, lost Victoria, 1877, was on the vessel when she was wrecked on the Skulmartin Rock off the coast of Ireland, 11 January 1879. He survived once again. [CWR]

Madras. Steamer. Withdrawn from service 1853. [WL]

Maranoa. Steamship, 1505 tons. Built 1883. A.U.S.N. Co. Broken up at Bombay, India, 1911.  [DG]

Marathon. Steamship, 6795 tons. Built 1904. Aberdeen Line. Lengthened 50 ft in 1912. Sold to R.M.S.P.Co.  and renamed Oruba. Broken up 11924.  [DG]

Marella. Steamship. Flagship of Burns,Philp and Company, established in 1873 by James Burns. She was an ex-German ship, having been built for the East africa trade, and bought by Burns, Philp after the war. According to Will Lawson’s ‘Pacific Steamers’, she was “sumptuously furnished”, and was formerly the Wahehe and before that, the Hilda.  [WL]

Northernhay. Barque. Mentioned in relation to William McLeaod’s Story in MacKenzie’s Shipwrecks. [MM]

Orinoco. Ship, 4572. Captain Tom Pearce, survivor of the Loch Ard (qv, Victoria). Collided with the 14,000 ton German steamship Wilhelm der Grosse off Cherbourg, France, 1906. The clipper bows of the Orinoco pierced the side of the steamer killing four passengers. The Orinoco launched a lifeboat, but three men manning the boat lost their lives. [CWR]

Oruba. See steamship Marathon.

Padua. Built in 1926. The last pure big sailing ship built, pure in the sense she had no auxilairy engine. Ownewd by the Laieisz Line of Hamburg. [VPM]

Palmyra. Brig. [LPA]

Peru. Paddle steamer, 700 tons. Built 1839, London. Length 170 ft, beam 50 ft across the paddle- boxes. Pacific Steam Navigation Company. One of the earliest steamers, commenced an historic journey from the Thames to Valparaiso, the first (with the Chili to round the Horn under steam and the first ‘ocean liner’ to enter the Pacific. Operated for twelve years between London and South America.[WL]

Rattler. HMS. Screw driven vessel. Staged a tug-of-war with the paddle steamer HMS Alectro to prove a point about the superiority of screw propultion over paddles, 1845. The Rattler towed the Alectro stern first at three knots. [NH]

Rob Roy. Steamship, 393 tons. Built 1867. A.S.S.Co. Converted into a hulk and finallt sunk, 1901. [DG]

Silverdale. Naval Transport Steamer, # 1458. Torpedoes in the Mediterranean. No lives lost. Mentioned in relation to William McLeaod’s Story in MacKenzie’s Shipwrecks. [MM]

Sovereign of the Seas. American clipper. Launched 1852. Chartered by the Black Ball Line for the Australian emigrant trade from England. The ship so impressd ship-owner James Baines that he commissioned builder Donald McKay to construct four more vessels, the Lightning, Champion of the Seas, and the James Baines; it appears the fourth was not completed. The famous Schomberg was also commissioned by Baines, but from Hall of Aberdeen - to be built ‘on McKay lines’. [MM]

Telica. Small Spanish vessel, the first steamer to operate on the west coast of America. It is said that her  owner’s deliberately blew her up as she did not pay her way - or did she expereince a boiler explosion? Her appearance however was sufficient to engender interest in steam, which developed rapidly from this time. [WL]

Tom Thumb. Two small boats had this name, under command of Matthew Flinders in exploring the south-east coastline of Australia in the late 1790s. [HH2]

Torch. Paddle-steamer. Tender to surveying sloop Herald. Commanded by Lieutenant Chimmo. [HH2]

Victoria. Steamer, 270 tons. Built in Australia. Sold to China interests 1843. [WL]

Waimarama. Motor vessel, 12843 tons. Shaw Saville Line. Was in a convoy of fourteen ships bound for the releif of Malta when hit by bombs, caught fire and exploded, 13 August 1942. One hundred and seventeen crew killed - only eleven survived. One of those killed was the Captain, Robert Strasenbergh Pearce, son of Tom Pearce, one of two survivors from the Loch Ard, Victoria coast, 1877. [CWR]

Wairuna. Steamship, 3947 tons. Built 1904. Lbd 360 x 47.5 x 26.7 ft. [LSS]

Wilhelm der Grosse. German steamship, 14,000 tons. In 1906, on the approaches to Cherbourg, struck by the ship Orinoco, Captain Tom Pearce, (survivor of the loss of the Loch Ard, qv, Victoria), killing four on board the German vessel; three men in the lifeboat launched by the Orinoco also died. [CWR]

Zealandia. British built.  Owned by Pacific Mail Company, operating in the Australia trade. [WL]

Zeehaan. Dutch vessel. See Heemskerck. [HH2]

Zeemeeu. Dutch vessel. See Limmen.