Coogee

Site layout:
-Within the Ship's Graveyard (around 32 ships in total)
-4km offshore between Pt Lonsdale & Barwon heads
-Bow faces toward shore (N) in 33m
-Stern 35m

Points of interest:
-Built in Sunderland, U.K, 1887
-3 masted iron screw steamer
-Iron hull, 4 cemented bulkheads
-68.5m x 9.1m & 7.1m depth
-762 tons gross
-Sold in 1888 to a Melbourne owner
-For 41 years ran various routes between Melbourne & Geelong & also the passenger ferry run between Melbourne & Launceston
-Involved in a number of collisions over this time, but able to be repaired
-Also used as a NAVY mine sweeper & to repair the Bass Strait Telegraph Cable
-By 1928 had become uneconomical to maintain
-Stripped, then blasted outside The Heads where it settled on the seafloor
-Lists to Port
-Bow & Stern = most complete structures, much of midships is flattened or missing
-Swimthroughs at bow and stern
-Bow: railings
-Stern: rudder & rudder quadrant (used to steer rudder) are still in position, remains of the 2 decks
-Midships: engine bed (engine removed before scuttling), intact twin boilers, hatches

Bottom composition: Flat limestone/sand seabed
Water movement/currents: Poor visibility when Barwon River is in flood
Hazards: Rough seas & swell, depth