Category:Cormorant (ship, 1900)

Q.G.S. Cormorant, launched 1900 in Glasgow, built by Messrs. Fleming and Ferguson, of Paisley Scotland for the Queensland Government (for service with the Lindon Bates dredges), left the Clyde on 10 September and arrived in Brisbane on 26 December 1900. The Cormorant was a vessel of 161 tons, drawing 6 feet of water, with a steaming rate of 10 knots, length 106 feet, breadth 21 feet and depth 8 ½ feet. She acted as a relief pilot boat certainly in the 1920s. Circa 1955 - the hulk was towed to Bribie Island (on the Bongaree foreshore) and beached at the South Esplanade. In October 1990 the remains were removed from the beach.