Zanoni was a ship built in Liverpool, England in 1865 by W. H. Potter & Co as a 338-ton composite barque.
There she unloaded the cargo from England and loaded 400 tons of guano bound for Port Louis, Mauritius.
She unloaded the sugar, then loaded 15 tons of bark and some wheat, and proceeded up the coast on 2 February to Port Wakefield to load more wheat, intending to return to Port Adelaide then return to England.
A new attempt to find it in the early 1980s gained information from a retired fisherman and the wreck was found and identified, about 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northeast of the position the survivors had reported, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southeast of Ardrossan, in 18 metres (59 ft) of water.
[2] The site of the wreck of Zanoni is now protected by a 550 metres (1,800 ft) exclusion zone declared under the South Australian Historic Shipwrecks Act 1981 on 26 May 1983.