Adonis (1874)

History

Name:	Adonis
Owner:	Patrick Hogan
Port of registry:	Sydney
Ship registration number:	79/1874
Ship official number:	71807
Builder:	Dent Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Completed:	1874
Fate:	Wrecked 22 December 1889
General characteristics
Type:	Wood Brigantine
Tonnage:	108 GT
Displacement:	104 NT
Length:	28.16 m
Beam:	6.309 m
Draught:	2.529 m

The Adonis was a wooden brigantine that was built at Jervis Bay, New South Wales, in 1874. She was wrecked on 22 December 1889, approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of Crowdy Head, when she sprang a leak whilst carrying coal between Wollongong and the Richmond River.

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1889

Shipwrecks	16 Mar: SMS Adler, SMS Eber, USS Nipsic, USS Trenton, USS Vandalia 6 Apr: Danmark 12 May: Alaskan 17 Aug: A. E. Vickery 5 Sep: Earnmoor 16 Sep: HMS Lily 16 Oct: Thesis 30 Oct: Cheseborough 22 Dec: Adonis 25 Dec: Wide West

1888 1890

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°06′S 152°48′E / 32.1°S 152.8°E / -32.1; 152.8

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