List of shipwrecks in 1860
The list of shipwrecks in 1860 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1860.
1860 | |||
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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Unknown date |
January
6 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Northerner |
26 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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John & Isabella | The brig foundered in the North Sea off Walberswick, Suffolk, England. Her crew were rescued.[5] |
February
8 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hungarian | The steamship was wrecked at Cape Ledge, Nova Scotia, Canada, with the loss of all 205 people on board. |
10 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ralph Barnell | The fishing smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Easton Bavents, Suffolk, England.[5] |
27 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nimrod | The paddle steamer was driven ashore and wrecked at St David's Head, Wales.[6] |
April
1 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Caroline | The barque was wrecked when it grounded on a sandbar at the mouth of the New River in southern New Zealand. She was lying low in the water due to a heavy cargo of coal.[7] |
5 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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John Purdie | The schooner, in ballast, struck a sunken rock near the Runnel Stone off Gwennap Head, Cornwall, England, and sank. The crew escaped in the ship′s boat. She was on a voyage from St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, to Llanelly, Glamorgan, Wales.[8] |
18 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Helena | The brig struck the Runnel Stone off Gwennap Head, Cornwall, England. Despite taking on water she was towed to Penzance, Cornwall, by a passing steamer. She was on a voyage from Bergen, Norway, to Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, with a cargo of ice.[8] |
30 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Roger Stewart | The ship, built about 1810 as Arab, foundered in a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean at 36°N 072°W / 36°N 72°W during a voyage from Mobile, Alabama, to Liverpool, England, with a cargo of cotton. Only seven of her crew of 24 were rescued.[9] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sebastopol | The barque stranded on Horomaunga Beach in New Zealand's Chatham Islands and later broke up. She was en route from New Zealand to Valparaiso.[7][10] |
May
22 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Malabar | The steamship was wrecked at Point de Galle, Ceylon. All on board were rescued. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ellen | The schooner left Dunedin for Auckland on 25 May, and was not seen again. An upturned hull, sighted between Wellington and Dunedin some time later, was probably the wreckage of the Ellen. She was carrying three passengers.[7] |
June
8 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Louisa | The schooner was wrecked on Waiheke Island while en route from Tauranga to Auckland. She hit and stuck on rocks during a storm, with all crew and passengers escaping safely.[7] |
9 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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George and Mary | The ship was wrecked in the ice during a gale in the western Sea of Okhotsk. The crew was saved by the ship Gideon Howland and barks Delaware, Dromo, and Philip 1st (all |
18 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Southern Cross | The Melanesian Mission schooner was wrecked at the mouth of the Ngunguru River in New Zealand while en route from Auckland to Melanesia. The grounding occurred in thick fog after several days of strong offshore gales. All crew and passengers survived.[13] |
21 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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USCS Robert J. Walker |
July
5 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Margaret | The brigantine was found to be on fire and after several hours fighting the flames was scuttled in Wellington Harbour.[13] |
13 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Agnes | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. She was on a voyage from Newcastle to Sydney, New South Wales. |
14 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Osvetitel | The ship was wrecked in fog on the Maiden Bower Rock in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued and most of her cargo of barley was recovered. She was on a voyage from Brăila, United Principalities, to Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[15] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pride of the Isles | The schooner was wrecked a few miles south of Raglan, New Zealand. The ship's owner and three of the crew survived.[13] | |
Union | The stern frame of the schooner Union was found four miles south of the Manukau bar, New Zealand, on July 25. She had sailed from Sydney on June 29.[13] |
August
16 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Arcadian | The schooner was wrecked after running aground at Napier, New Zealand. She was leaving port during a heavy swell.[13] | |
Colonsay | The full-rigged ship was wrecked on a reef two miles off Speedwell Island in the Falkland Islands during a voyage from the Chincha Islands and Callao, Peru, to England with a cargo of guano. The crew of about 22 were marooned ashore for 11 days before being rescued by a sealer and taken to Stanley on East Falkland.[16] | |
George Henderson | The brig ran aground at the mouth of the Te Henui Stream, New Plymouth, New Zealand during a heavy westerly gale. All crew were saved.[17] |
19 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Aurora | The brig went ashore, in fog, on the Brow-of-Ponds in the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly, while carrying wheat from Brăila, United Principalities, to Falmouth, Cornwall, England. Her crew survived but the cargo was lost and the wreck was sold on 23 August.[15] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Emma | The brig was wrecked when she ran aground on the Manukau bar.[18] | |
Napi | The cutter was wrecked at the mouth of the Taieri River, New Zealand. All hands were saved.[18] |
September
2 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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SMS Frauenlob | The schooner foundered off Yokohama, Japan, in a typhoon with the loss of all hands. |
8 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lady Elgin |
14 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Punjab | The barque struck the Seven Stones reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall, England. All but one of the crew and passengers was rescued by Joshua and Mary ( |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Camilla | The sloop-of-war disappeared without trace after departing Hakodate, Japan, on 1 September bound for Edo, Japan. She presumably foundered with the loss of all hands in a typhoon on or about 9 September.[21] |
October
2 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sarah | The schooner was wrecked at Taieri Mouth in New Zealand. The vessel was waiting for high water in order to cross the bar, but a gale blew up and the Sarah began to take on water. In reduce the risk of losing lives, the captain tried to enter the river, but struck the bar. The crew took to a lifeboat and were saved. Before they could return to free the ship, the wind changed direction, blowing her off the bar. She sank in the rivermouth's channel.[18] |
6 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Connaught | The paddle steamer sprang a leak, caught fire, and sank in the Atlantic Ocean 87 nautical miles (161 km) off the coast of Massachusetts, United States. All on board, nearly 600 people, were rescued by the brig Minnie Schiffer ( |
14 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Jeune Honore | The schooner was in collision with an Austrian vessel and foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lavernock Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[23] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kingston | The schooner was wrecked at Penarth Head, Glamorgan, Wales. Her six crew were rescued.[23] |
November
5 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kyle Spangler |
14 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Elizabeth Ann | The smack was wrecked on the coast of Dorset, England. Her three crew were rescued.[24] |
26 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Empire | The ship sank during a severe gale in the North Channel in the Isles of Scilly after hitting the Peaked Rock.[15][25] |
December
12 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alice Frazier | The barque was driven out to sea by ice in Luzhin Bay in the northern Sea of Okhotsk. The crew were forced to spend the winter at a native settlement.[26][12][27] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Belle Peoria | The sidewheel paddle steamer burned. After repairs, she returned to service in 1862.[28] | |
Cezimpra | The schooner ran aground on the sands at the back of the Bude breakwater, Cornwall, England. Her crew escaped via a line thrown to the shore.[29] | |
General McNeil | Unknown | The sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at Howards Bend near St. Louis, Missouri, sometime during the 1860s.[30] |
References
Notes
- ↑ CERES, State Historical Landmarks. "CERES State Historical Landmarks". CERES. Archived from the original on 2012-03-23.
- ↑ Vincent, Francis (1860). Semi-Annual United States Register. Philadelphia: Francis Vincent. p. 672.
- ↑ GenDisasters. "Cape Medocino, CA Steamship Northerner Wreck, Jan 1860". CERES.
- ↑ "The Loss of the Steamship Northerner.; STATEMENT OF CAPT. DALL--NAMES OF THE LOST AND SAVED". The New York Times. January 20, 1860.
- 1 2 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
- ↑ "Loss of the "Nimrod", Steamship". Monmouthshire Merlin. 10 March 1860. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 Ingram and Wheatley, p. 67.
- 1 2 Noall, Cyril (1968). Cornish Lights and Ship-Wrecks. Truro: D Bradford Barton.
- ↑ "Vessels Foundered". The Morning Chronicle (29134). London. 26 May 1860. p. 6.
- ↑ "Wrecks at the Chathams", Tuapeka Times, 21 February 1894. Archived at Papers Past. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
- ↑ The Friend (Vol. 9, No. 11, Nov. 1, 1860, p. 84, Honolulu).
- 1 2 Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876. Castle. ISBN 1-55521-537-8.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Ingram and Wheatley, p. 68.
- ↑ NOAA "NOAA confirms wreck is lost 19th century U.S. Coast Survey steamer
- 1 2 3 Larn, Richard (1992). Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar.
- ↑ "Loss of a Glasgow vessel and sufferings of the crew". Daily News (4556). London. 18 December 1860.
- ↑ Ingram and Wheatley, pp. 68-69.
- 1 2 3 Ingram and Wheatley, p. 69.
- ↑ Boyer, Dwight (1971). True Tales of the Great Lakes. Cleveland, OH: Freshwater Press Inc. pp. 177–208. ISBN 0-912514-48-5.
- ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
- ↑ Neil, Samuel, ed., The Great Events of Great Britain: A Chronologicaal Record of Its History From the Roman Ivasion to MDCCCLXVI, London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1866, unpaginated page for "1860 A.D.–1860 A.D."
- ↑ "Inside the hunt for a million-dollar haul of ocean gold". BBC Future. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ Allsop, Tim; Cawthray, Anna (2009). Underwater Scilly. Scilly: Marshfield Underwater Publications. ISBN 9780956187406.
- ↑ Williams, H. (1964). One whaling family. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.
- ↑ The Friend, Honolulu, November 18, 1861, Vol. 18, No 11, p. 84.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 105.
- ↑ "Cezimpra". Pastscape. English Heritage. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 106.
Bibliography
- Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8071-3274-6.
- Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.
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Ship launches: | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 |
Ship commissionings: | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 |
Shipwrecks: | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 |
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