Football Disaster 21st. May 1892
On the 21st May 1892, the owner and operator of the 28 feet fishing yawl "Process", Charles Hooper, had been engaged to take the Mornington Football team the 15 miles by sail to a match at Mordialloc. Some time after the 2 to 3 hour return journey commenced at 6pm, Hooper, his son Charles, and crew member John Coomber, together with 12 members of the local football team were drowned off Pelican Reef, in what had been described as moderate seas.
Monument on the corner
of the Esplanade and
Schnapper Point Drive
The monument on the corner of the Esplanade and Schnapper Point Drive commemorates the members of the Mornington football team and boat crew who perished in what is thought to have been one of the more tragic boating accidents in the State’s history.
Mourners at the "Process"
after it had been returned
to Schnapper Point