AN historic shipwreck off the South Australian coast has been damaged by boat anchors, a cement mooring and other fishing debris as boaties flout a 550 metre exclusion zone.
An inspection of the 148-year-old Zanoni last week revealed broken timbers and a site strewn with fishing debris, maritime heritage officer Amer Khan said.
"All the frames along the elevated edge of the starboard side have been snapped off, probably by an anchor chain being dragged along it," he said.
Copper sheathing has been torn off and timbers pulled away by snagged rope and one boatie has even dropped a makeshift cement mooring onto the wreck, crushing part of the portside bow and decking.
The Zanoni is also zigzagged with old and new fishing line, which still has hooks, lures and sinkers attached.
Mr Khan said the state of the wreck, which sits in 18 metres of water off Ardrossan on Yorke Peninsula, suggested people were regularly anchoring and fishing on the Zanoni and had been for some time.
"The sad truth is that they're slowly destroying this beautiful old ship," he said.
"The middle section has already collapsed and its age and the fact that it is immersed in seawater and subject to wave action all make it extremely fragile."
All shipwrecks more than 75 years old are automatically protected in SA while the Zanoni has the extra protection of an exclusion zone because of its historic significance.
The 338 ton, three masted sailing ship was on a voyage from Port Wakefield to Port Adelaide and then to London with a cargo of wheat and bark when it sank in 1867 in a storm.
The protection zone around the wreck bans all water activities without a permit, even simply steering a boat through the area.
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