56-639: Villanova College may refer to: Villanova College (Australia) , a private Roman Catholic school for boys in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Villanova College (Canada) , also known as "St Thomas of Villanova College", a middle school and high school in King City, Ontario, Canada Villanova University , a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Topics referred to by
112-559: A sister ship for India , in May 1882. Then in April 1884 Denny completed Manora , which at 410 feet (120 m) long and 45.2 feet (13.8 m) beam was larger still. Mail and passenger ships between Britain and Australia mostly served a route via Australia's south coast, calling at either Fremantle or Albany , Adelaide , Melbourne , and Sydney . Not all ships continued up the east coast to Brisbane . The Colony of Queensland thus had
168-506: A black hull with a slender white line tracing the main deck level. Her black funnel with two thick white bands were distinctive markers of her owner, British India Associated Services (BIAS). In 1876 BISN created BIAS to run a scheduled service between London and Calcutta via Gibraltar , the Suez Canal , Colombo , and Madras (now Chennai ). BIAS managed the ships, but one or more private shareholders owned each ship. Quetta worked
224-424: A child. On two separate occasions in 1977 and 1978, Endicott had photographed the same student naked. On one occasion, the student was taken out of class and into the bushland, where the student was photographed naked. On the other occasion, the student was taken to the school's bell tower and was photographed naked. Endicott was given a one-year jail sentence which was wholly suspended . On 17 April 2019 Endicott
280-473: A party to Somerset on the Cape York Peninsula . A Somerset resident, Frank Jardine , organised a rescue with his own boats, and sent messengers to the nearest telegraph station, 15 miles (24 km) away, to summon steamers from Thursday Island . Jardine also provided one of Quetta ' s boats with food and water for the survivors. The boat then made for Mount Adolphus Island. Later
336-691: A passenger and mail link with Britain that was less direct and less frequent than the other Australian colonies enjoyed. In 1881 Thomas McIlwraith , Premier of Queensland obtained parliamentary authority for to offer a mail contract for a shipping company to run a service between London and Brisbane via the Suez Canal and the Torres Strait. BIAS won the contract, and formed the Queensland Steam Ship Company to run feeder routes to connect with it. In 1883 BIAS doubled
392-496: A poignant fictional account of the child Cecil Quetta Brown's rescue from the shipwreck and contested adoption. The wreck is now a popular if challenging diver site. Over time the hull has become coral encrusted and a flourishing ecosystem. The hull was still largely intact in 2013 when Ben Cropp, marine conservationist and shipwreck diver, found it lying on the port side pointing east (orientation 270/090 degrees). More recently dive master Matt Testoni reported: ‘Due to its location,
448-402: A steam launch, which landed them at Rockhampton. She steamed from Keppel Bay to Cape Moreton in 24 hours, setting what was then a record, and arrived off Brisbane on 5 June. By 1886 ownership of Quetta had been transferred from Gray, Dawes & Co to BIAS. By 1890 she had made 11 round trips between London and Brisbane. On 18 February 1890 Quetta left Brisbane for London. Along
504-693: A stockman, had drowned in a separate accident. The toddler was photographed, and a print of the photograph was sent to a family in Scotland believed to be her relatives, but the family replied that they did not recognise her. One of the Torres Straits pilots, Captain Edmund Brown, adopted her, naming her Cecil Quetta Brown, nicknamed "Cissy". A year or two later Captain Brown died, so his brother Villiers Brown raised "Cissy" in Brisbane. In 1927 it
560-524: A striking stained-glass window that depicts Quetta and the Thursday Island church. To mark the shipwreck centenary in 1990, Year 12 students at Thursday Island School retold the story in an imaginative yet factually based booklet entitled The Sinking of the Quetta with each student adopting the perspective of a particular survivor. The picture book Quetta by Gary Crew and Bruce Whatley offers
616-547: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Villanova College (Australia) Villanova College is a private, Roman Catholic school for boys located in Coorparoo , a southern suburb of Brisbane , Queensland , Australia. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy for all years. It caters to approximately 1,500 boys and 1 professional crasher in three schools, Junior, Middle, and Senior from year five to twelve. It
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#1732801191277672-538: Is displayed at Miegunya House Museum , Brisbane (Queensland Women’s Historical Association); and a wooden chest is held at Wolston Farmhouse (National Trust Queensland); several photos of the Quetta at John Oxley Library , State Library of Queensland; and works by renowned colonial artist Isaac Jenner at Queensland Gallery of Modern Art . Memorial plaques hang in churches in Brisbane and Toowoomba (Australia) and Tooting (England). St Thomas Church, Aslockton (England), built in memory of passenger Rev. Thomas Hall, features
728-469: Is for all years from five to open. It comprises 8 schools, Marist College Ashgrove , St Edmunds College, Ipswich , St Patrick's College , Iona College , Padua College , St Laurence's College and St. Peters Lutheran College . The sports played by the association are rugby union , soccer, Australian Football League, cricket , basketball , volleyball , tennis , swimming, chess , Water Polo , athletics and cross country . Villanova College has won
784-495: Is protected by the Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018 . Quetta Memorial Precinct on Thursday Island is a monument to the 134 lives lost in the disaster. Building started in 1892 and the church was consecrated in 1893. It comprises an Anglican church, rectory, and church hall. The church is now a cathedral, and the rectory is the bishop's house. Artefacts recovered during salvage attempts after
840-612: The Associated Independent Colleges (AIC). Whinstaines House (after which the suburb was named) was built by prominent society figure Alexander Brand Webster. After his death, the house and the remaining 9 acres of land were sold 1925 to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart who established College Whinstanes, which opened as a junior boys boarding school. The school’s motto “Vincit Veritas” is the Webster motto
896-725: The Langlands house and its grounds. (Nicklin and his wife died in the wreck of the RMS Quetta in 1890). Thomas Connah and William Brookes bought a large block of land that included Nicklin's house. Connah resided in Nicklin's former residence. Connah became Queensland auditor-general and he sold Langlands to archbishop James Duhig in 1916. Langlands became the Good Samaritan Convent of Saint Scholastica until 1953, when Villanova College moved from Whinstanes to
952-625: The University of Queensland , William Forgan Smith , who raised the college flag in front of the main entrance and was blessed by Duhig. In 1953 a decision was made to move the college due to lack of prospects for expansion in Whinstanes. Early in the 1880s, merchant Reuben Nicklin built a large house Langlands in Coorparoo. In 1886, Nicklin built another house Hatherton (now Queen Alexandra Home ) at another site in Coorparoo and sold
1008-608: The 141st anniversary of the Quetta shipwreck. Beyond Thursday Island, other Quetta artefacts can be viewed, including: the ship’s bell, which for many years hung outside St Bartholomew’s Church, is now in the Cooktown Museum; the brass binnacle is exhibited at the Commissariat Store Museum , Brisbane (Royal Queensland Historical Society); a sketch of Quetta Brown (child survivor) in a frame she carved
1064-474: The 1970s/80s the college saw the foundation of the student council as well as the leadership role of all the boys in the senior class which led to the abolition of the prefect system. The election of captains and vice-captains of the school and houses by the senior class was started. The Goold gymnasium and assembly hall were built as well as more classrooms, new science laboratories, a technical drawing room, and some art rooms. The late eighties and nineties saw
1120-453: The Coorparoo property. The school was officially opened on 22 November 1953 by Duhig. The building had been built for £50,000 and could accommodate 500 students. In the 1960s/70s, a library, science laboratories, senior classrooms and a new primary block joined the existing buildings on the campus. During this period, the college saw additional co-curricular facilities including a swimming pool on campus and sporting fields at Tingalpa . During
1176-590: The London – Calcutta route for the first two years of her career. Quetta was one of a series of three-masted brigantines that Denny built for BIAS. Denny completed India in November 1881. She was similar to Quetta , but about 10 feet (3 m) longer, 2 feet (0.6 m) greater beam, and built of steel instead of iron. India was the first ship in the BISN group to have electric light. Denny completed Goorkha ,
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#17328011912771232-532: The Queensland coast she called at Townsville, Cairns , Kimberley , and Cooktown. She was due to call at Batavia, Singapore , and Colombo. On departing Cooktown on Thursday 27 February Quetta carried a total of 293 persons (passengers and crew) and live sheep in deck pens. In addition to mail bags, the cargo comprised 2278 bales of wool, 4260 cases of meat and tallow, and 60 tons of metals with an insurance value of more than £50,000. Quetta ' s Master
1288-607: The Sydney Opera House. On 27 December 2016, an eight-metre-high section of brick wall collapsed in the senior school's Veritas building. No students were injured, as the collapse occurred over the Christmas school holiday. Principal Mark Stower stated the timing of the collapse was "the grace of God." The collapse occurred during a rectification project on the Veritas building to replace non-galvanized steel, of which
1344-560: The Torres Strait. She turned into the Adolphus Channel to round the Cape York Peninsula . The pilot was experienced, the weather fine and visibility good, but at 21:14 hrs she struck an uncharted rock in the middle of the channel near Albany Island . Captain Keating estimated the rock's position to be 10°40′10″S 142°38′10″E / 10.66944°S 142.63611°E / -10.66944; 142.63611 . It split open
1400-407: The boat stopped the steamship Victoria , to which Captains Keating and Sanders and some lascars transferred. One of Jardine's boats was already at sea, having been catching turtles , and was on its way back to Somerset. It encountered wreckage, from which its crew rescued ten survivors. The telegram reached Thursday Island about 14:00 hrs on 1 March. The government resident , John Douglas , sent
1456-657: The college, Fr John Hanrahan. Music at Villanova College is a true community enterprise, thanks to enthusiastic support from staff, students, parents, and the local and greater Brisbane communities. Considered an inclusive art, there is a place for all students in our music program, so long as they have the necessary desire and commitment to create music at the highest possible standard. Villanova runs musical productions in conjunction with Loreto College every two years. Recent productions have been Crazy for You (2014), Guys and Dolls (2016), and most recently High School Musical (2022). Students of Chinese language studies have
1512-520: The college. Arts Politics Sport Media and entertainment Law Villanova's brother school is St. Augustine's College, Brookvale in Sydney. Loreto College is the sister school of Villanova College. |} RMS Quetta RMS Quetta was an iron -hulled steamship that was built in Scotland in 1881 and wrecked with great loss of life in the Torres Strait in 1890. She
1568-482: The disaster, and since, are now in the church. These include one of Quetta’s portholes, a lifebelt, a photo of the ship and a copy of Queensland Marine Board’s report. A saloon table from the Quetta serves as an altar. Plaques and stained-glass windows commemorate the victims and draw attention to the human impacts of a shipwreck. In 2021 the St Bartholomew’s Church community held a commemorative service on
1624-543: The following AIC premierships. The college currently has over 30 main music ensembles including: The college hosts Queensland's largest music festival for Catholic schools and colleges, Queensland Catholic Schools & College's Music Festival (QCMF). Villanova is home to a music center, known as the Augustine Centre. Within this center is the Hanrahan Theatre, named after the second rector of
1680-659: The frequency of its London – Brisbane service. For this it chartered six ships, and also transferred Quetta to the route. On 8 April that year Quetta left London on her first voyage to Brisbane. She called at Plymouth , Port Said , Aden , and Batavia (now Jakarta ). On 29 May she reached Cooktown in North Queensland . She continued down Queensland's east coast, calling at Cleveland Bay (for Townsville ), Bowen , and Keppel Bay (for Rockhampton ). At Cleveland Bay she disembarked 67 migrants for Townsville, and at Keppel Bay she disembarked 115 migrants to
1736-538: The governance of the college now entrusted to a college council composed of staff, parents, Augustinians, past students, and friends of the college. It also saw new courses start in computing, and catering start at the college and the introduction of a campus-wide computer network as well as computers in classrooms. The 1990s saw the college split from the TAS competition and the foundation of the AIC Competition. In
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1792-469: The increasing number of migrants bound for Australia in steerage .The steam engine and two 500-ton coal bunkers were amidship. According to shipwreck historian Max Jeffrys, Quetta was ‘fitted out with all the comforts of her class at the time’. After her refit, first class cabins were on the upper deck, next to an elegantly appointed dining, music and smoking rooms. The captain’s cabin and open navigation bridge were perched above. The steerage accommodation
1848-541: The navigation of the ship’ in steering the Admiralty’s recommended course. The crew members were apparently well disciplined and had responded quickly to orders during the emergency. The Board commended Frank Jardine for his rescue effort. It als recommendation that steamships should be equipped with speaking tubes between the bridge and the engine room to lessen the need for sending messengers back and forth. The wreck lies on its port side in 18 metres (59 ft) of water and
1904-664: The opportunity to visit China every second year. The music department holds a music tour for all students in the college's senior ensembles every two years, the most recent tours being to the United States in 2013, Tasmania in 2015, New Zealand in 2017 as part of the Rhapsody Rotorua Music Festival, Sydney in 2019 with the Senior Percussion Ensemble and Villanova Conkestra, where students performed at world-class venues including
1960-472: The plank to an islet (now known as Nicklin Island, just north of Mount Adolphus Island). When she neared the islet, a lascar cabin boy called Alick, who had already reached the island, helped her ashore. Later one of the vessels searching for survivors found the pair and took them to Somerset. May Lacy did not survive. However, Albatross found her elder sister Emily, still swimming in the sea 36 hours after
2016-527: The process of the college's new master plan, the newest addition to Villanova is the Saint Thomas of Villanova Learning Centre. In 2006 the college inaugurated its three present schools: The most recent building in the college is the Saint Thomas of Villanova Learning Centre (released in late 2020). The St Thomas of Villanova Learning Centre, with views of the Brisbane skyline, has been designed for twenty-first-century learning. It adds six classrooms to
2072-474: The rector was to lead the college but this changed after the retirement of Michael Morahan in 2009. Now Villanova College has a lay principal with the priests living in the priory at Villanova College looking after school Masses. The current chaplain of the college is Peter Wieneke. The college is a foundation member of the Associated Independent Colleges (AIC). The college has sporting fields at Tingalpa, in Brisbane's east suburbs. The AIC Sporting Association
2128-449: The rock, two teenagers, May Lacy and Alice Elizabeth Nicklin, had been on deck. They were separated in the sinking, but Nicklin was a strong swimmer and clung to flotsam: first a hatch cover, then a dead sheep, and finally a plank. The survivors in the boats could hear her calling, but it was too dark to see her as the moon had set. Nicklin kept hold of the plank, alternately swimming and falling asleep, until dawn, when she swam still aided by
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2240-732: The senior precinct of the college along with an auditorium, facilities for the head of senior school and pastoral leaders, a common area, and spacious breakout areas for individual and group learning. Levels one and two of the St Thomas of Villanova Learning Centre constitute the new junior school of the college. Twelve open-area classrooms with wide and varied breakout areas allow for cooperative teaching and learning. Villanova College has 8 houses that compete in inter-house athletics, cross-country, and swimming, as well as many other school-based activities s. There have been 8 Augustinian rectors at Villanova College in its history. The traditional job of
2296-451: The sinking. One other survivor was a toddler who did not know her own name. The only words she said were "Mama", "Jimmsy" and "Willie". About 30 children had been aboard Quetta , and her manifest listed more than one family with boys called James and William. One was that of a widow, Mary Copeland from Maryborough , who had a young daughter also called Mary. Mrs Copeland and her three children were returning to Britain after her husband,
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2352-595: The starboard side had been ripped ‘from right forward as far aft to the engine room’, and the ship had foundered so rapidly that nothing could have been done to save her. According to the Board, Quetta had been well equipped with 8 life buoys and over 600 life belts. Captain Sanders and pilot Captain Keatinge were exonerated: the former had ‘exerted himself to the utmost’ and the latter had been ‘very careful and attentive to
2408-402: The steamer Albatross from Port Kennedy. Another captain volunteered to take his steamer, Merrie England , as well. After about three hours Albatross met Victoria , from which it took off Captains Keating and Sanders and the lascars. Albatross continued to Mount Adolphus Island, whence she picked up nearly 100 survivors, including the second and fourth officers. Just before Quetta hit
2464-433: The steel plates of her hull from her bow to her engine room. She settled by her bow, listed to port , raised her stern out of the water, and then sank, all within three minutes. Quetta ' s cutter floated clear but capsized, surrounded by a large group of Javanese and lascars. Quartermaster James Oates organised the baling of the cutter and steered it ashore. Her Number 1 ( starboard ) lifeboat floated free, but
2520-532: Was Captain Alfred Sanders. Her ship's company comprised 28 European officers and ratings and 93 lascars . After leaving Cooktown she carried 171 passengers: 33 first or second class, 65 steerage, and 62 Javanese labourers, who were returning to Batavia as deck passengers from working on sugar cane plantations. Quetta embarked an experienced pilot , Captain Eldred P. Keatinge, to command her through
2576-482: Was borrowed from a stained glass window in Whinstaines House with the Webster crest . In 1948, archbishop James Duhig welcomed Ben O'Donnell with five other Irish Augustinians to Australia, and invited them to start a school in Brisbane. They subsequently established Villanova in the suburb of Whinstanes (now part of Hamilton ). On 25 January 1948, the college was officially opened by the chancellor of
2632-511: Was confirmed that "Cissy" was in fact Mary Copeland. After rescuing survivors, Albatross took soundings and found the rock thought to have caused the disaster, about 1 ⁄ 2 nautical mile (1 km) from Quetta ' s wreck. In April 1890 the Queensland Marine Board inquiry found that the Quetta shipwreck was purely accidental, noting that the damaging rock was not shown on Admiralty charts. It reported that
2688-440: Was convicted of three counts of indecent treatment with a child after it was alleged by another former student that between 1975 and 1981, he was photographed naked on three separate occasions. The former student had been first photographed on a school hiking trip, in which the then nine-year-old student had naked pictures taken of him by a creek. The former student then alleged he was abused similarly on two other occasions. Endicott
2744-600: Was damaged and capsized. Captain Keating and the Third Officer Thomas Babb, righted it, but were unable to bale it out. It picked up more survivors, including Captain Sanders. The two boats met, and landed their survivors on Mount Adolphus Island . The Quetta wrecking is considered to be ‘worst single-incident disaster in Queensland history’. A full list of passengers and crew indicating who died or were saved can be viewed at John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland in Brisbane. Captain Keating led
2800-585: Was established in 1948 by six Irish priests, led by Ben O'Donnell, who was from the Order of Saint Augustine in the suburb of Hamilton . In 1954, due to a lack of prospects for growth in Hamilton, the college moved to its present site at Coorparoo . The college is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), The Independent Primary School Heads of Australia (IPSHA) and
2856-417: Was launched on 1 March 1881 and completed on 18 May. Her registered length was 380.0 ft (115.8 m), her beam was 40.3 ft (12.3 m) and her depth was 29.0 ft (8.8 m). Her tonnages were 3,484 GRT and 2,254 NRT . She originally had berths for 76 passengers in first class and 32 in second class travelling between England and India, but was later modified to accommodate
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#17328011912772912-460: Was on the main deck, under the ‘tween deck luggage and cargo storage. There was no third class on Quetta, apart from temporary shelters erected when needed at the stern of the upper deck for Javanese labourers returning to Batavia from the Queensland canefields. Quetta had a single screw , driven by a two-cylinder compound engine built by Denny. It was rated at 500 HP and gave her a speed of 12 knots (22 km/h). The ship had three masts, and
2968-565: Was operated by British India Associated Steamers (BIAS), which was controlled by the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISN). She was wrecked on a previously unknown rock, which has been called Quetta Rock ever since. The Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018 protects the wreck. William Denny and Brothers built Quetta for £70,119 at Dumbarton on the River Leven as yard number 243. She
3024-503: Was rigged as a barquentine . She also had a hydraulic system to drive the cargo winches, steering gear and anchors, as well as electric lighting and refrigerated storage for meat and dairy exports from Queensland. Denny built Quetta for Gray, Dawes and Company, who since 1865 had been BISN's London agents. They registered her in Glasgow . Her United Kingdom official number was 84309 and her code letters were VMNG. She had
3080-475: Was sentenced to 18 months in jail, with his sentence to be suspended after 6 months served in prison. The conviction was later overturned in Endicott's favor, as at the time, Queensland law did not consider taking nude photographs of a child to be indecent dealing. Villanova College has since posted an official apology. Villanova Old Boys Association Incorporated (VOBAI) is the association for all old boys of
3136-714: Was used in the original construction, with galvanized steel. On 27 September 2017 the Cor Unum Centre, located in Villanova Park, was destroyed after a fire engulfed the center, causing irreversible damage to the facility and the grandstand connected to it. The center was demolished and replaced with a new grandstand in 2019. On 24 June 2010 Michael Ambrose Endicott, a former priest at the school, appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court and pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent treatment of
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