Port Adelaide has five “abandonment sites”, aka “ships’ graveyards”.
They contain the remains of at least 40 vessels, all dumped in the first half of the 20th century, in various arms of the Port’s mangrove-rimmed tidal creeks.
25 of those abandoned wrecks are in just one “gravesite” – the Garden Island Ships’ Graveyard, in the Port River’s North Arm.
It is a “treasure trove” of maritime history, albeit a progressively-vanishing one.
Each post within the “ships’ graveyard” section of this series features a different vessel.
All were photographed in the Garden Island Ships’ Graveyard on the afternoon on 07 March 2024.
In almost every case, I was unable to identify the particular ship’s “carcasse”/“skeleton”.
To learn something about the individual vessels, start here.
Various persons with drones have made “virtual tour” videos: