Vessels, Waves and the Sea

Cargo Ship rounding the point at Shelly Beach Caloundra

•  Dicky Beach and the Wreck of the S.S.Dicky -- In July of 2015 the shipwreck of the S.S. Dicky was removed from Dicky Beach after a 122 year residence and Sunshine Coast people gathered to say farewell to the shipwreck for which the beach was named.The trading boat ran a ground in 1893 and had remained on the beach all those years

•  AHS Centaur -- The Scottish built AHS  Centaur  was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off of Caloundra Queensland on 14 May 1943. There were 332 medical personnel and civilians aboard, 268 died. The vessel was launched in 1924 as a combination passenger liner and refrigerated cargo ship and carried passengers, cargo, and livestock  between Western Australia and Singapore before being handed over to the Australian military for conversion into a hospital ship in January 1943. This cargo ship is in the vicinity of the wreck under the sunrise.

Cargo Ship under the Sunrise Shelly Beach

• R.M.S Titanic  -- On April 10 1912 one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built, departed Southampton, England, on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912,it struck an iceberg and the British ocean liner sank into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada.There were 2,200 passengers and crew on board.

• H.M.S Sirius -- The flagship of the First Fleet was the HMS Sirius and on 19th March 1790  was wrecked on a coral reef, at Slaughter Bay Norfolk Island. She had led the fleet of 11 ships that set out from England to Australia in 1787 and was a vitally important ship for the survival of the new settlement at Sydney Cove. Her loss was devastating for the new settlers .

• S.S.Yongala -- The Yongala was an early 20th century coastal steamer and sunk during a cyclone in March 1911 off the coast of Townsville on the Great Barrier Reef. The wreck was  the final resting place of the 122 passengers and crew and is now one of Australia's most popular wrecks for diving enthusiasts. It supports a great diversity of fish life with 122 recorded fish species around the wreck.

• H.M.A.S Sydney -- The death of 645 personnal on 19th November 1941 on the Royal Australian Navy's  HMAS Sydney during a battle with the German vessel HSK Kormoran in the Indian Ocean off the Western Australian coast.  It remains Australia’s greatest wartime mysteries even the location of the wrecks was not established until 2008. For 12 days the government remained silent about the loss of the Sydney and  Prime Minister John Curtin made the first of two public announcements on 1 December 1941, he did little but confirm that the Sydney had been sunk. Little information was released until 1957 and still no definitive story of what really happened has surfaced.

Cargo Ship at Dawn 

Full Moon off of Moffat Beach