Bishop Island (Queensland)

[5] Captain Bishop thought to reuse leftover dredging mud to create an island from an existing small sandbank.

[20][21] The SS Bingera was scraped of all parts that were sellable and dumped on the beach of Bishop Island, near the Luggage Point outfall.

These included: The Rhoderic Dhu, Groper, Excelsior, Yosemite, Maida, Schnapper, SS Bingera, Moreton (previously the Lady Lamington), The Queensland, The Lucinda and Old Punt.

[7][30][31] During the early 1900s, the island was sprawling with vegetation, equipped with a jetty, basketball and tennis court, shelter sheds, cricket pitch and a dance hall.

This legalisation made it illegal to remove or destroy any native plants that grew on Bishop Island.

James Crouch, who leased Bishop Island,[19][35] was made an honorary ranger under the Queensland Native Plants Protection Act 1930 to ensure that the public was abiding by the legislation.

[36] Crouch was also made honorary ranger under the Animals and Birds Act 1933 of Bishop Island in 1933.

After spending the night on the island, water police towed their boat back in the morning.

[39] The lighter Mount Elliot sunk near the Bishop Island pilot light after being towed by tugboat The Fearless on 1 February 1939.

[58] The Brisbane City Council proposed building a power station on Bishop Island in 1949, which never came to fruition.

[61] The wall was made using stone from Kangaroo Point quarry and was erected on the canal side of the island.

[64][65] The wall was apart for a £16,000 expense from the Department of Harbours and Marines to fix areas of the Brisbane River that were in disrepair.

[74] An unidentified male body washed upon Bishop's Island during September 1955; cause of death was rule as a possible heart attack by police.

During the early 1990s, port development was underway when munition, including grenades, shells and gas containers, were found by workers during additional land dredging.

[79][80] Captain Allan Fitzroy Bishop was born on 29 November 1857 in Doverport, Essex[81][82][83] He became an apprentice at the age 14 in 1871.