List of shipwrecks in 1871
The list of shipwrecks in 1871 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1871.
1871 | |||
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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Unknown date |
January
5 January
25 January
February
10 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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RNLB Robert Whitworth and 28 other ships | ![]() ![]() |
Twenty-eight ships were wrecked in Bridlington Bay, Yorkshire, England, during the Great Gale of 1871. Over 50 sailors were drowned in the calamity, despite rescue efforts by the townspeople. The local lifeboat, RNLB Robert Whitworth (![]() |
March
9 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Daring | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Pwlldu Bay, Glamorgan, Wales, with the loss of all six crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea to Cardiff, Wales.[4] |
15 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Collingwood | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.[5] |
April
21 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cornish Diamond | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal in the Bristol Channel with the loss of two of her crew.[4] |
June
17 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Megaera | ![]() |
After springing a leak four days earlier during a voyage from South Africa to Australia, the troopship was beached at Île Saint-Paul in the Indian Ocean. She was declared a total loss. |
20 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kingfisher | ![]() |
The clipper sprang a leak during a voyage from San Francisco, California, to New York City. In distress, she put into port at Montevideo, Uruguay, where she was surveyed and condemned. However, she was sold locally in November 1871, and subsequently was repaired and returned to service as Jaime Ciblis (![]() |
22 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Knight Errant | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship broke up in a heavy gale off Tierra del Fuego. The full-rigged cargo ship Sam Cearns (![]() |
26 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sam Cearns | ![]() |
The full-rigged cargo ship was wrecked off Tierra del Fuego in a heavy gale. All 60 people on board - 36 crew member from Sam Cairns and 24 survivors from the full-rigged ship Knight Errant (![]() |
July
30 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Westfield | ![]() |
![]() Illustration of the recovery of bodies after the Westfield disaster. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Golden Fleece | ![]() |
After arriving at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on 6 July 1871, with a fire in her forward hold that her crew had discovered on 4 July, the clipper was scuttled at Tobin′s Wharf in Halifax Harbour to extinguish it. After the 20 feet (6.1 meters) of water in her hold was pumped out, the fire broke again, but was extinguished again by spraying water into the hold. The ship was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. |
September
2 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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YC-6 | ![]() |
The yard craft – formerly the Clown-class gunboat HMS Clown – was lost in a typhoon at Hong Kong. |
YC-7 | ![]() |
The yard craft – formerly the Albacore-class gunboat HMS Forester – was lost in a typhoon at Hong Kong. |
17 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bouvet | ![]() |
The sloop-of-war was wrecked near Haiti.[6] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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33 whaling ships | All ![]() |
![]() Illustraion of the whaling ships trapped by ice in September 1871 in the Whaling Disaster of 1871. ![]() |
November
5 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Robert Cottle | ![]() |
The schooner ran aground off Southwold, Suffolk and was wrecked with the loss of three of her six crew.[7] |
20 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hattie C. Besse | ![]() |
The four-masted sailing ship was stranded on the coast of the Washington Territory, 20 miles (37 km) south of Cape Flattery. |
27 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Emperor | ![]() |
The barque was wrecked upon St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia. |
December
7 December
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Chattanooga | ![]() |
The decommissioned screw frigate was sunk by drifting ice at her moorings at League Island in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her wreck was sold in January 1872. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kanrin Maru | ![]() |
The screw corvette was wrecked in a typhoon at Esashi, Hokkaido, Japan. |
Snaefell | ![]() |
The paddle steamer ran aground while operating on the Douglas, Isle of Man–Liverpool, England, route. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. |
References
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
- ↑ Wilson, Mike (2002), The Great Gale of 1871, Harbour Heritage Museum
- 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 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. 321.].
- 1 2 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
Ship events in 1871 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 |
Ship commissionings: | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 |
Shipwrecks: | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 |
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