Transport Operations (Marine Safety) Act 1994, section 175A
Date of notice: 7th of June 2025
I, Christopher Conwell, am appointed as a Shipping Inspector under part 13 of the Transport Operations (Marine Safety) Act 1994 (the Act).
Description of abandoned property:
Port Douglas
1. Ship name FERROCITY, Queensland registration YQ539Q. 13 metre white / blue Hartley Tahitian ferro cement sailing vessel with 99hp inboard motor.
Cairns
2. Ship name BUBU PETRI, unknown registration. 10m white f ibreglass sailing vessel with blue sail cover in poor and unseaworthy condition with water ingress.
Where and when abandoned property was found:
Port Douglas
1. Vessel is partially submerged and located upstream of the 6 knot zone in Packers Creek, Dickson Inlet Port Douglas. Approximate latitude -16.500957’S, longitude 145.455330’E. Vessel sank on the 19th March 2025.
Cairns
2. The vessel was attached to an illegal mooring in East Admiralty, Trinity Inlet and was inspected on the 16th April 2025. Vessel was relocated to the Maritime Safety Queensland (MSQ) Cairns compliance mooring in the duckpond, Smiths Creek on the 2nd May 2025.
I reasonably believe the properties above to be abandoned.
When abandoned property may be seized and removed:
If the property described above is not claimed by Friday 11th of July 2025 it may be seized and removed by Maritime Safety Queensland.
Statement for the purposes of section 175A (5) of the Act:
If no one claims the property within the time stated above and I seize and remove it, I may, having regard to the value and condition of the property and without further notice
(a) sell the property by public auction; or
(b) destroy it.
If you wish to assert ownership in the property described above, you must attend in person to Maritime Safety Queensland, Field Operations Base, 100–106 Tingira Street, Portsmith, Cairns, 4870 in the State of Queensland before 3pm on Friday the 11th of July 2025.
Christopher Conwell, Shipping Inspector, T419 Maritime Safety Queensland
Cairns 4872
