The list of shipwrecks in 1869 includes some of the ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1869.
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, England.[2] |
December
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] |
| Gorgone |
 French Navy |
The paddle corvette foundered in the Bay of Biscay during a storm sometime on 18 or 19 December during a voyage from A Coruña, Spain, to Cherbourg, France.[9][10] |
| Triumph |
 Haiti |
The casemate ironclad disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean off the United States East Coast, probably off the Delaware Capes or Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, sometime after 19 December while en route from Chester, Pennsylvania. to Port au Prince. Haiti, apparently sinking with the loss of all hands. |
Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|
| A. S. Ruthven |
 United States |
The screw steamer was lost during 1869.[11] |
| Avonmore |
United Kingdom |
Anchored off Sharp's Nose in the parish of Morwenstow, Cornwall, England, 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.[12] |
| Diana |
United Kingdom |
The whaler was driven ashore at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, England, and broke up, a total loss. |
| 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.[13] |
| Italian |
United Kingdom |
The cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked at Cape Finisterre, Spain.[14] |
| Syrian |
United Kingdom |
The cargo ship was wrecked in Corcubion Bay.[15] |
References
Notes
- 1 2 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
- ↑ "Ocean Steam Navigation Company, New York 1846-1857". The Ships List. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
- ↑ Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979,
ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 275.
- ↑ thisismast.org Royal Navy Loss List Complete Database p. 134.
- ↑ Bignell, Alan (2001). Kent Shipwrecks (Second ed.). Newbury: Countryside Books. pp. 29–32. ISBN 1 85306 719 9.
- 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.
- ↑ Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979,
ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 285.
- ↑ plongee-infos.com "Chaque jour, une épave : 18 décembre 1869, la Gorgone," 18 December 2017. (French)
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: A. S. Ruthven
- ↑ Historic England. "Avonmore (1062382)". PastScape. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 106.
- ↑ "Italian". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ↑ "Syrian". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
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