List of shipwrecks in 1869

The list of shipwrecks in 1869 includes some of the ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1869.

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1869
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1869
Ship Country Description
Lord Coke  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Sizewell Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her four crew were rescued by the Southwold Lifeboat.[1]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1869
Ship Country Description
Demetrius flag unknown The ship was driven ashore at Bridport, Dorset.[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869
Ship Country Description
Glide  United States Destroyed by a boiler explosion.

February

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1869
Ship Country Description
Schooner Friends  United Kingdom Driven ashore at Margate, Kent in a storm.[3]

March

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1869
Ship Country Description
Pilot cutter Mystery  Australia Wrecked in Keppel Bay, Rockhampton, Queensland.

May

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869
Ship Country Description
Banryū  Imperial Japanese Navy Sank during the Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay.
Chōyō  Imperial Japanese Navy Sank during the Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay with the loss of 73 lives.

September

12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1869
Ship Country Description
Carnatic  United Kingdom Ran aground on the Sha`b Abu Nuhas reef, Red Sea with the loss of 31 lives.

23 September

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1869
Ship Country Description
Ocean Wave  United States Sank in Lake Michigan during a storm.

October

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1869
Ship Country Description
Frank Shaw  United Kingdom The collier ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent and was wrecked with the loss of eight of her 28 crew. Survivors were rescued by the Broadstairs and Ramsgate lifebats.[4]

December

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1869
Ship Country Description
Loretta  Spain The schooner was abandoned in the Bristol Channel off Porthcawl, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. All on board were rescued by Good Deliverance ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[5]

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1869
Ship Country Description
Corliana  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Llanmadoc, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Clonakilty, County Cork to Newport, Monmouthshire[5]

31 December

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1869
Ship Country Description
Nuavo Plato  Austria-Hungary The brig foundered on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew survived.[5]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869
Ship Country Description
Elsinore  Denmark The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Walberswick, Suffolk, United Kingdom before 30 December.[1]
Triumph  Haiti Disappeared off Cape Hatteras, United States after 19 December; en route from Chester, Pennsylvania to Port au Prince; apparently sinking with the loss of all hands.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869
Ship Country Description
Avonmore  United Kingdom Anchored off Sharp's Nose in the parish of Morwenstow, Cornwall where the captain ordered the three masts to be cut down. She drifted on to the rocks below Hawker's Hut, close to Higher Sharpnose Point. Seven out of twenty-two crew died. She was en route from Cardiff to Montevideo with coal.[6]
Diana  United Kingdom Driven ashore at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire and broke up, a total loss.

References

  1. 1 2 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  2. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
  4. Bignell, Alan (2001). Kent Shipwrecks (Second ed.). Newbury: Countryside Books. pp. 29–32. ISBN 1 85306 719 9.
  5. 1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  6. Historic England. "Avonmore (1062382)". PastScape. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
Ship events in 1869
Ship launches: 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874
Ship commissionings: 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874
Ship decommissionings: 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874
Shipwrecks: 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874
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