Shipwrecks at Port Phillip Heads 1840-1963

Cruising along the coast on a large, full powered liner, fitted with the latest deep sea sounding apparatus, wireless and radar, passengers nowadays bound for Melbourne from overseas pay little heed to the dangers which abound between cape Otway and the heads on the one hand and between Wilson's Promontory and the Heads on the other. Yet there is hardly a reed of the many which lie 100 miles of Point Lonsdale from either approach, which has not claimed toll of shipping since Melbourne became a port...