List of shipwrecks in 1873

The list of shipwrecks in 1873 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1873.

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1873
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Northfleet  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship sank with the loss of 293 lives after being rammed while at anchor by the steamship Murillo ( Spain) three miles off Dungeness. There were 86 survivors.

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Talisman  United Kingdom The 738-gross register ton general cargo ship foundered 48 nautical miles (89 km) northwest of The Burlings archipelago off Portugal.[1]

February

3 February

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Mary Russell  United Kingdom The brig was driven ashore at Dunwich, Suffolk.[2]
Unidentified brigantine flag unknown Foundered in heavy seas on the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall. The captain of a nearby French schooner decided it was too dangerous to approach the wreck, leaving those on board to drown.[3]

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Chacabuco  United Kingdom The 999-ton iron–hulled full-rigged ship carrying wheat from San Francisco to Liverpool, sank off the Great Orme, United Kingdom with the loss of 24 lives after SS Torch collides with her, also sinking.[4]

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Boyne  United Kingdom The 690-ton iron–hulled barque carrying sugar from Semarang to Falmouth, sank under Angrouse Cliff near Mullion Cove, Cornwall with the loss of all but four of her crew.[5][6][7]

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Odysseus  Greece The barque was driven ashore and wrecked on Pwll Du Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Swansea, Glamorgan.[8]

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Dollart  Germany The schooner got into difficulties of Cemaes Head, Cardiganshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[9]

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Atlantic  United Kingdom
The wreck of Atlantic.
The ocean liner hit an underwater rock off Marr's Head, Meagher's Island (now Mars Head, Mars Island), Nova Scotia, Canada, and sank with the loss of between 535 and 560 lives. There were 371 survivors.

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Nebula  United Kingdom The barque ran aground at Port Eynon Point, Glamorgan and was severely damaged. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Cardiff, Glamonrgan. Nebula was later refloated, repaired and returned to service.[8]

June

5 June

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1873
ShipCountryDescription
PSS Waverley  United Kingdom Two funnels, two masts side paddle wheel propulsion and accommodation for 450-560 passengers. Used on the Southampton - Channel Islands service. On 5th June 1873 she was wrecked in fog on Platte Boue Rock, Little Roussel, Guernsey.[10] [11]

7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Stornoway  United Kingdom The clipper was wrecked on the Kentish Knock off the coast of England at the mouth of the River Thames.

10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Cornish Girl  United Kingdom Mousehole sailing lugger sank after striking the Round Rock in the Spanish Ledges on the Isles of Scilly in fine weather. No lives lost.[12]

July

1 July

List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Tromp  Netherlands Ran aground off Cape Räz Ghärib, Egypt on maiden voyage. Refloated on 10 August, repaired and returned to service.[13]

August

12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Elizabeth  France The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel south east of Worms Head, Glamorgan, United Kingdom with the loss of one of her five crew. Survivors were rescued by the schooner Pet ( United Kingdom). Elizabeth was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine.[8]

29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Ironsides  United States The paddle steamer ran aground at Hog Island, Virginia, and was lost.
Triton  Germany The barque was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of two of her eight crew. Survivors were rescued by the paddle tug Digby Grand ( United Kingdom).[8][8]

September

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Ocean  United Kingdom The smack ran aground at Cardigan. Her two crew were rescued.[9]

October

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Peggy  United Kingdom The sloop foundered off Cardigan. Her two crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Cardigan.[9]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Fernando el Católico  Spanish Navy Cantonal Revolution: The gunboat sank off the coast of Spain with heavy loss of life after colliding with the broadside ironclad Numancia ( Spanish Navy).

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Meridian  United States The schooner sank in Lake Michigan off Sister Bay, Wisconsin, during a storm.

November

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Helen Patterson  Canada The barque was wrecked off Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Portland, Maine, United States.[14]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Clarisse  France The barque, based in Granville, Manche lost in the Minquiers, Channel Islands, during a trip from Bordeaux (Aquitaine) to her home port. There was only one survivor.[15] [16]
Ville du Havre  France
An illustration of Ville du Havre (right) sinking after colliding with Loch Earn (left). Loch Earn later sank as well.
The paddle steamer sank with the loss of 226 lives in the Atlantic Ocean at 47°21′N 35°31′W / 47.350°N 35.517°W / 47.350; -35.517 after a collision with the three-masted ship Loch Earn ( United Kingdom). Loch Earn rescued 87 survivors.
Loch Earn  United Kingdom The three-masted ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean without loss of life after a collision with the paddle steamer Ville du Havre ( France). Her passengers and crew and survivors she had taken aboard from Ville du Havre were rescued by the cargo ship Tremountain ( United States).

26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Coquette  France The schooner was wrecked near Porthleven, Cornwall.[17]

December

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Vaderland  Belgium Collided off South Foreland, England with fishing lugger Consolation ( United Kingdom) which sank.[18]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Tetuán  Spanish Navy Cantonal Revolution: The broadside ironclad burned and sank, perhaps due to sabotage, while undergoing repairs at Cartagena, Spain.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Unidentified A full-rigged ship wrecked on the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall.[3]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1873
ShipCountryDescription
Alexander Oldham  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer was lost during 1873.[19]
Ellen Martin  United Kingdom The schooner beached on Summerlease Point Cliffs, north Cornwall, while attempting to enter the harbour at Bude. Her crew was taken off by breeches buoy and the ship's figurehead was in the captain's garden for many years.[20]
Grecian  United Kingdom The cargo ship foundered.[21]
Ismailia  United Kingdom After being sighted in the Atlantic Ocean on 2 October during a voyage from New York City to Glasgow, Scotland, with 52 people on board, the passenger-cargo ship disappeared without trace.[21]
Otto  Norway The brig was fifty-eight days out from Bahia for Falmouth when she was wrecked in Mount's Bay. The Penzance lifeboat Richard Lewis rescued eight men, a dog and a pig at the third attempt. (Wrecked again in 1888).[22]
Rose  United Kingdom Five nights after the Otto, easterly hurricane strength winds wrecked the schooners Rose and Treaty ( United Kingdom) while the lifeboat was on call off the Eastern Green, Penzance to aid the schooner Marie Emile ( France) which was heading for her home port of Lorient with a cargo of coal from Cardiff. All saved on board. [22]
Treaty  United Kingdom Five nights after the Otto, easterly hurricane strength winds wrecked the schooners Rose and Treaty ( United Kingdom) while the lifeboat was on call off the Eastern Green, Penzance to aid the schooner Marie Emile ( France) which was heading for her home port of Lorient with a cargo of coal from Cardiff. All saved on board. [22]

References

  1. ↑ "SS Talisman (1873)". wrecksite.eu.
  2. ↑ Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  4. ↑ "Chacabuco". Coflein. Aberystwyth: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. February 2010. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  5. ↑ McBride, P. W. J.; Richard, L. & Davis, R. (Ferdinand Research Group). (1971) "A Mid–17th Century Merchant Ship-wreck near Mullion, Cornwall: interim report". Cornish Archaeology 10: 75–78
  6. ↑ Larn, Richard and Bridget (1997). "Vol 1 Section 4". Shipwreck Index of the British Isles. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping ISBN 0-900528-88-5
  7. ↑ "Boyne". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  9. 1 2 3 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  10. ↑ "PSS Waverley [+1873]". wrecksite.eu.
  11. ↑ "1873". RNLI.
  12. ↑ Larn, Richard (1971). Cornish Shipwrecks – The Isles of Scilly. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
  13. ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  14. ↑ "Helen Patterson - 1873". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  15. ↑ "SV Clarisse (+1873)". wrecksite.eu.
  16. ↑ Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
  17. ↑ Treglown, Tony (2011). Porthleven in Years Gone by; Local Shipwrecks. Ashton: Tony Treglown.
  18. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  19. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Fisher
  20. ↑ "Ellen Martin". Pastscape. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  21. 1 2 "Grecian". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  22. 1 2 3 Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. A History. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
Ship events in 1873
Ship launches: 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878
Ship commissionings: 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878
Ship decommissionings: 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878
Shipwrecks: 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878
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