The 1363-gross ton, iron-hulled screw steamer Glaucus was built at Sunderland, England in 1878. Its measurements were 238.5 feet in length, breadth 34.2 feet and depth 18 feet.
It transferred from international routes to the Australian coastal run in the early 1880s. By 1927, the Glaucus was laid up at Williamstown, Victoria as a barley store. The owners decided to break the vessel up by 1934. It was being dismantled in the Portland Canal in Port Adelaide (Ethelton) in 1934 when it was accidentally holed. It was then towed to the Garden Island Ships’ Graveyard in the North Arm of the Port River.
The Glaucus’ bow section is completely missing, but
the intact stern post and rudder make the vessel easily identifiable. Nathan Richards took this photo of the wreck in 1997: -
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