List of shipwrecks in 1859

The list of shipwrecks in 1859 includes some of the ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1859.

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1859
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January

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Czar  United Kingdom The 740-ton government transport ship was wrecked on the Vrogue Rocks, off Bass Point, The Lizard, Cornwall. The coastguard from Cadgwith and Church Cove saved some of the crew but the captain and his family drowned. Following the tragedy Mrs Agar of Lanhydrock donated money to buy the first Lizard Lifeboat (Anna Maria) ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution), which was stationed there later in the year. Czar was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Malta with a cargo of ammunition and uniforms.[1]

February

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1859
ShipCountryDescription
North Star  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked at New River, New Zealand when she became stranded on a bar during a gale.[2]

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Ignez de Castro United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The steamship was wrecked at Peniche, Portugal. Crew and passengers saved.[3]

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1859
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Jaseur  Royal Navy . The Algerine-class gunboat was wrecked on the Bajo Nuevo Bank in the Caribbean Sea. Her crew survived.

27 February

List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Lochlibo  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Hartland Point, Devon, England, while carrying coal from Newport, Wales, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was declared a total loss.[4]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Jubilee  United Kingdom The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Minsmere Sluice, Suffolk, England, sometime before 14 February.[5]

March

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Pizarro  Chilean Navy The brigantine disappeared in the Southern Ocean off Cape Horn sometime between 7 and 9 March.

April

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Franklin  United States The whaler was wrecked to the north of Pitt Island in New Zealand's Chatham Islands when her anchor chain parted during a heavy swell and she was driven onto rocks. The same heavy sea also wrecked the Terror (qv).[6]
Terror United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Tasmania The whaling barque was wrecked on the east coast of Chatham Island, New Zealand when she struck a reef in a heavy swell. Crew and passengers saved. The same heavy sea also wrecked the Franklin (qv).[6]

27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Fame  United Kingdom The fishing vessel capsized near the Seven Stones Lightship ( United Kingdom) in a severe east-south-east gale while running for shelter in the Isles of Scilly. There were no survivors.[7]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Revival United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Ireland The barque was wrecked at Hayward's Point near the mouth of Otago Harbour, New Zealand while en route from The Bluff to Port Chalmers.[8]

May

5 May

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Mary  United Kingdom The ship Tivy (flag unknown) collided with and sank Mary in the Irish Sea, and then rescued her crew.[9]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Amelia  United Kingdom The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel. Her four crew were rescued.[10]

June

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1859
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Plover  Royal Navy Second Opium War, Second Battle of Taku Forts: While attacking the Taku Forts, the gunboat was sunk in the Peiho River in China by Chinese artillery,

28 June

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Argo  United Kingdom The passenger ship was wrecked in thick fog on a reef in Trepassey Bay off the coast of Newfoundland. All on board survived.
HMS Cormorant  Royal Navy Second Opium War, Second Battle of Taku Forts: While attacking the Taku Forts, the gunboat was sunk in the Peiho River in China by Chinese artillery .[11][12]

30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Paramatta  United Kingdom The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ship was wrecked on Horseshoe Reef in the Virgin Islands during her maiden voyage .[13]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Two unidentified schooners One was driven ashore, above the spring high tide mark, in Par harbour, Cornwall during ″very considerable oscillations of the sea″. A second schooner's hawsers parted and she was driven out of the harbour by the current and went ashore nearby. This was on 25 or 26 June.[14]

July

7 July

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Elk  United Kingdom The Belfast and Glasgow mail steamer ran aground at Ballymacormick Point near Groomsport, County Down, Ireland.[15]

10 July

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Valentine Hellicar United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Victoria (Australia) The schooner was wrecked on Otaki Beach in New Zealand during a thunderstorm and gale while en route from Melbourne to Port Cooper. All hands were saved.[6]

14 July

List of shipwrecks: 14 July 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Arrow United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New South Wales The brigantine ran aground off the Tweed River Bar, New South Wales, Australia.[16]
Dohallard  France The schooner was wrecked in the Bay of Biscay while en route to Nantes, France.[17]

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Duque do Porto  Portugal After hitting a rock in fog, the ship was beached at Peniche, Portugal.[18]

August

September

4 September

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Suffolk  United Kingdom The brig ran aground off Tuggerah Beach, New South Wales, Australia, while in ballast from Launceston, Tasmania, to England.[19]

17 September

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Lucinde  Prussia The brig was wrecked off Minsmere, Suffolk, United Kingdom with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by the Southwold Lifeboat ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Lucinde was on a voyage from Memel to Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom.[5]

20 September

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Express  United Kingdom The South Western Steam Company mail ship sank near Corbiere, Jersey, in the Channel Islands. [20]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Friends  United Kingdom The ketch foundered on the Helwick Shoal in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all six crew.[10]

Unknown Date - September or October

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Jessica  United Kingdom The ship of 858 tons, belonging to J. & R. Wilson of Liverpool, left London on 14th August 1859. Cargo of four locomotive and rolling stock etc. for the Baroda Railway at Bombay. Encountered heavy weather off Brazil - 10 deg S, 25 deg 39 min W. The ship sprung a leak, and was abandoned 18 hours later.

The Captain and 13 crew took to a longboat, while the Mate and seven crew took to a pinnace, after which the ship sank. The longboat arrived at Pernambuco, Brazil after five days. Capatain and two crew returned to England on the steamer Avon. The fate of the hands on the pinnace was not known at the time of the Avon's sailing. Reported in the European Times November 18, 1859.

October

November

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1859
ShipCountryDescription
Good Hope  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Irish Sea. She was on a voyage from Cardigan to Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.[9]
William & Mary  United Kingdom The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at The Mumbles, Glamorgan. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Youghal, County Cork.[10]
Yemassee  United States The ship was lost in Loch Bharcasaig.[21]
Young Greek United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The schooner was lost en route between Porangahau and Wellington in February or March.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "The Lizard in Landewednack". Lizard History Society. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ↑ "Loss of the Screw Steamer 'Ignez de Castro'". Glasgow Herald (6050). 8 February 1859. p. 2.
  3. 1 2 Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. p. 65.
  4. ↑ Larn, Richard; Larn, Bridget (1997). Shipwreck Index of the British Isles. Volume 1, Section 1 – North Devon. London: Lloyds Register of Shipping. ISBN 0 900528 88 5.
  5. 1 2 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  6. 1 2 3 Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. p. 66.
  7. ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  8. ↑ Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. pp. 65-66.
  9. 1 2 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  10. 1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  11. ↑ wrecksite.eu HMS Cormorant (+1859)
  12. ↑ pdavis.nl William Loney RN - Background
  13. ↑ Illustrated London News, Vol. 47, no. 1323, p. 17-18.
  14. ↑ Edmunds, Richard (1862). The Land's End District: Its Antiquities, Natural History, Natural Phenomena and Scenery. London: J Russell Smith.
  15. ↑ Lettens, Jan. "PSS Elk (+1895)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  16. ↑ Lettens, Jan. "Arrow (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  17. ↑ De Maisonneuve, Bernard. "Dohallard (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  18. ↑ Avec43. "Duque do Porto (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  19. ↑ Lettens, Jan. "Suffolk (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  20. ↑ YvesDufiel (2008), Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche
  21. ↑ McKenzie, Steven. "Lost ships and aircraft recorded in sea off Scotland". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
Ship events in 1859
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