Wendouree (1882)

History

Australia
Name:	Wendouree
Owner:	Huddart Parker & Co. Pty. Ltd, Geelong
Port of registry:	15/1882
Route:	Newcastle to Adelaide
Builder:	S & H Morton & Co., Leith, Scotland
Launched:	1882
Identification:	84943
Fate:	Wrecked on 20 July 1898 Newcastle, New South Wales, Oyster Bank
General characteristics
Type:	Steel Steamer Screw
Tonnage:	1,640 GT
Displacement:	1,066 NT
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.

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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1898

Shipwrecks	19 Jan: Active 25 Jan: Koonya 5 Feb: Clara Nevada 6 Feb: Veendam 15 Feb: USS Maine March (unknown date): Eliza Anderson 1 May: Castilla, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzón, Marques del Duero, Reina Cristina, Velasco 5 May: Hereward 7 May: Merksworth May (unknown date): Adelaide 2 Jun: USS Merrimac 3 Jul: Almirante Oquendo, Cristóbal Colón, Furor, Infanta Maria Teresa, Plutón, Vizcaya 4 Jul: La Bourgogne 5 Jul: Reina Mercedes 12 Jul: Regulator 20 Jul: Wendouree 21 Jul: Jorge Juan 31 Jul: Lapérouse 22 Aug: Kate 14 Oct: Henry Chisholm, Mohegan 25 Oct: L. R. Doty 26-27 Nov: Portland 23 Dec: Joys 29 Dec: Glenavon Unknown date: Gouverneur-Generaal Loudon, Lofthus

Other incidents	February (unknown date): Coptic 14 Aug: Sarah Dixon 22 Aug: Oakland 9 Dec: Castalia 21 Dec: Oakland

1897 1899

Shipwrecks and scuttled vessels of New South Wales

Shipwrecks by region

Richmond–Tweed	Adventure Agnes Enterprize Tassie III HMAS Waree SS Wollongbar I

Mid North Coast	Abbey Ability Absalom Acielle Admiral Gifford Adonis Advance Agnes Irving Edwin Fairwind SS Fingal Fitzroy Jane Kooroongaba Titan Crane Trial SS Wollongbar II

Hunter	Ability Acme Active (1850) Active (1877) Ada Ada and Ethel Adelaide Adolphe Advance Agnes Alhambra Bee The Bluebell Collision SS Catterthun SS Cawarra Contest Dundee Eleanor Lancaster Elizabeth Henrietta (1816) Estramina Excalibur Francis Governor Hunter Governor King Grecian Hope HMAS K9 Lindus Merksworth TSS Maianbar Norfolk SS Oakland Recovery MV Sygna Wendouree USS WST-1

Central Coast	Adelaide Advance SS Allenwood SS Bonnie Dundee Hazard Nimbin HMAS Paterson

Northern Sydney	Adelaide Aenid Argument Charlotte Narara HMAS Swan Tuncurry Whale Windsor

Sydney Eastern Suburbs	Agnes Colonist Dunbar Edward Lombe HMAS Goolgwai Greycliffe disaster PS Herald Hereward SS Iron Chieftain Iserbrook Itata HMAS Karangi Kate HMAS Kuttabul Martha Three Bees William Cossar HMAS Woomera

Southern Sydney	Adelphoi Advance (1872) Advance (1874) Koonya

Illawarra	Adele Adolphus Agnes Comboyne Hawkesbury Packet Queen of Nations Shockwave

Shoalhaven	Advance Aeolus Agnes Hive Koraaga Nancy HMAS Voyager Wandra

Far South Coast	George Iron Knight Olive Cam

Scuttled vessels

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Coordinates: 32°54′50″S 151°47′49″E / 32.914°S 151.797°E / -32.914; 151.797

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Wendouree (1882)

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