List of shipwrecks in 1866

The list of shipwrecks in 1866 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1866.

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1866
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Unknown date
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January

4 January

List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1866
Ship	Country	Description
USS Narcissus	United States Navy	The screw steamer was wrecked at Egmont Key, Florida, and sank with the loss of all hands.

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1866
Ship	Country	Description
William and Mary	New Zealand	The schooner was being towed to sea at Greymouth by the tug Lioness. The tug, through the pilot's inattention, drifted too far north causing the William and Mary to ground. Owing to the heavy swell, the Lioness was forced to cut the schooner loose.[1]

10 January

List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Hannah Moore	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Rat Island, Devon, England, with the loss of nineteen of her 25 crew. She was on a voyage from Chile to Queenstown, County Cork.[2]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1866
Ship	Country	Description
London	United Kingdom	1887 illustration of London sinking. The passenger steamship sank in the Bay of Biscay. Of the 239 or 263 people on board (sources differ), only 19 survived.

14 January

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Ocean Bride	United Kingdom	The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Langton Matravers, Dorset, England.[3]

20 January

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Martha	New Zealand	The schooner went aground while trying to cross the rivermouth bar at Greymouth. She was stuck fast, and all attempts to free her failed. Note: this wreck should not be confused with the wreck of an identically named ship on 1 April 1866.[1]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Dinanais	France	Sailing from Dinan (Brittany), ran aground on the coast of St Ouen Jersey, Channel Islands [4]

February

11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Elizabeth	United Kingdom	The brig, of Exeter, under Captain John Back, was en route from Newcastle upon Tyne to Plymouth with a cargo of coal. Driven by a storm, she lost her rudder on the Beer Pan Rocks off Hengistbury Head then went aground and was wrecked on a sand-bank at the entrance to Christchurch Harbour opposite Mudeford. There were seven crew on board. Three men perished before the remaining four men, including Captain Back, were eventually rescued by the brave endeavour of local fishermen.[5]

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Eliza	United Kingdom	The schooner, of Teignmouth, under Captain William Nathan Bryant, was en route from London to Topsham with a cargo of coal. Caught in a storm, she was wrecked off Poole. Her crew of six all perished.[6][7]

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Elizabeth	United Kingdom	The brigatine, of Teignmouth, under Captain James French, was caught in a storm and wrecked off Poole. There were six crew on board. They took to a boat that capsized and four men, including Captain French, perished. One man remained clinging to the upturned boat until rescued by Coastguards, and another succeeded in swimming ashore.[7]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Esther	New Zealand	The schooner went aground and was wrecked to the south of the mouth of the Manawatu River, with the loss of four lives.[1]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Jessie	New Zealand	The schooner left Stewart Island for Hokitika on February 26, carrying a crew of four. She was never sighted again.[1]

March

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Catherine	unknown	The whaling barque was lost in fine weather in the Chatham Islands. The ship's master, Captain James Lucas, died on board on February 21, and command passed to a Mr McGuinness who — through inexperience, drunkenness, or a combination of the two — failed to successfully handle the ship.[1]

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Libelle	Bremen	The barque struck the reef at Wake Island and sunk. After three weeks, the crew and passengers departed the uninhabited and dry atoll in a longboat and a gig. The ship's buried and scattered treasure of mercury (quicksilver), coins and precious stones was recovered by various vessels over the next two years.[8]

10 March

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Sea Bird	Tasmania	The schooner went aground close to Greymouth, New Zealand, and broke up.[9]
William	New South Wales	The schooner went aground on a spit at the mouth of New Zealand's Grey River, seriously damaging her hull. She was washed off the spit several days later and sank.[10]

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Eleanor	New Zealand	The 58-ton paddle steamer was washed ashore three miles north of Greymouth, and became a total wreck.[9]

20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Eliza Jane	United Kingdom	The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Equity ( United Kingdom).[2]

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Elizabeth	United Kingdom	The smack sank at Cardigan, Wales. Her six crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[11]
Vesta	United Kingdom	The brig foundered in Swansea Bay, Wales. Her seven crew were rescued by Martha and Anne ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Fusilier	None	The unregistered schooner was wrecked in the Derwent River.[12]
Queen	United Kingdom	The paddle steamer struck the Tings Rocks, in the Bristol Channel off Hartland Point, Devon, England, and was holed. She was beached at Clovelly, Devon, where she subsequently broke her back and was a total loss. All on board survived[2]

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Curlew	New Zealand	The cutter was wrecked at Auckland wharf during a gale which raged from 30 March to 1 April.[9]
Martha	New Zealand	The schooner was wrecked at Mechanics Bay, Auckland, during a gale which raged from 30 March to 1 April. Note: this wreck should not be confused with the wreck of an identically named ship on 20 April 1866.[9]

4 April

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Ebgante	Canada	While en route to Liverpool from New York City with a cargo of oak, the vessel was abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean 100 miles west of the Isles of Scilly. The crew were picked up by the Ferdinand ( Bremen) and later transferred to the pilot cutter Agnes ( United Kingdom) and taken to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.[13]

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Gilmore	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was wrecked off St Martin's, Isles of Scilly. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Southampton, Hampshire to Quebec City, Canada.

17 April

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Morning Star	New Zealand	The schooner was wrecked on Stephenson Island while en route from Whangaroa to Auckland. All hands were saved.[14]

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Amphion	French Navy	The sloop-of-war was wrecked off Veracruz, Mexico.[15]

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Oporto	United Kingdom	The brig was abandoned in the Bay of Biscay. Her crew were rescued by Thia Elpis ( Greece). She was on a voyage from Sines, Portugal to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[16]
Yarra	unknown	The 63-ton schooner was wrecked off the New Zealand coast.[17]

25 April

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Cubana	United Kingdom	The Sunderland barque struck the Seven Stones reef while both her master and mate were asleep below. She was bound for St Jago, Cuba, with 16 crew, one passenger, and a cargo of coal, iron, and mining gear. Ten of the crew and the passenger took to one of the boats, rowed to the Sevenstones Lightship, and transferred to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, by pilot cutter.[13]

26 April

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Water Witch	United States	Overloaded with iron ore, the schooner sank in a storm on Lake Champlain. An infant on board was killed.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Quickstep	New Zealand	The cutter was lost while en route from Manukau to Greymouth. Wreckage was found near Waiuku.[9]

May

2 May

List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Wonga Wonga	New Zealand	The 40-ton steamer was lost while attempting to enter the Grey River at Greymouth. A strong current caught her and slewed her, causing her to run aground. The heavy surf knocked her about to the extent that her back was broken. No lives were lost.[18]

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Flach	Chilean Navy	The submarine sank with the loss of her entire 11-man crew during a test run in the bay off Valparaiso, Chile.
Hornet	United States	The clipper ship burned at sea and sank in the Pacific Ocean during a voyage from New York City to San Francisco, California. The crew abandoned ship in three open lifeboats, two of which disappeared. Fourteen men survived for 43 days aboard the third boat before reaching Hawaii on 15 June 1866.

14 May

List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Brisk	New Zealand	The cutter was holed and foundered in the Hauraki Gulf. It is thought that it was deliberately scuttled as an insurance fraud.[14]
General Grant	United States	The wreck of General Grant at Auckland Island. The 1,200-ton barque ran aground and sank off the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand. She was en route from Hobsons Bay, Victoria, to London carrying passengers, plus a cargo of wool, hides, and some 2,576 ounces of gold. Sixty-eight of those aboard (55 passengers and 13 crew) were lost. The remaining crew and passengers were marooned on the Auckland Islands for over a year and a half, and several of them did not survive the ordeal. They survivors were finally rescued by the New Zealand whaling brig Amherst in November 1867. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to salvage gold from the wreck.[19]

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Progress	New Zealand	The cutter was lost several miles off the mouth of the Manukau Harbour. Of the crew of three, only one made it ashore alive.[14]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date May 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Maria	New Zealand	The 161-ton schooner went aground on a spit at Hokitika ripping out the starboard side of her hull.[18]

June

10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Triton	unknown	The 140-ton brigantine was wrecked at Palliser Bay, New Zealand, while en route from Port Chalmers to Newcastle.[14]

21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Wild Wave	New Zealand	The schooner was caught in a strong gale in Pelorus Sound and capsized. Only two of the crew of seven survived.[14] This ship should not be confused with another schooner of the same name which was lost in the Chatham Islands on 17 July.

22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Annie	New Zealand	The ketch was caught in a violent storm in Lyttelton Harbour. She broke her cables and was driven into rocks.[20]
Brothers	New Zealand	The schooner was caught in a violent storm in Lyttelton Harbour. She broke her cables and was carried down harbour where she was driven onto rocks.[20]
Streamlet	New Zealand	The schooner was caught in a violent storm in Lyttelton Harbour. She was driven onshore, hitting a large whaling boat en route, and was holed. When her cargo of lime made contact with the water, she caught fire.[14]

24 June

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Agincourt	United Kingdom	The ship foundered at 36°S 25°E while sailing from Southampton to Hong Kong with coal and boilers. The crew was saved but the captain died of exhaustion.[21]

25 June

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Gundagai	New Zealand	The paddle steamer was wrecked at Patea when she went ashore and broke her back.[20]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date June 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Two Sisters	New Zealand	The cutter was lost off the Coromandel Peninsula. She stranded on rocks on 25 June, but was successfully refloated and continued her journey for Auckland. She was not sighted again, though wreckage was discovered near Whangapoua in early July.[20]

July

4 July

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Calypso	New South Wales	The brig was en route from Newcastle, New South Wales to Dunedin, New Zealand with a cargo of coal. She struck a gale in Foveaux Strait and was damaged, and changed course for Stewart Island to repair the damage. Here she struck an uncharted reef and was holed. Her captain changed course again, to try to make harbour, but she hit bottom close to the island's southern shore, becoming a wreck.[22]

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Cawarra	New South Wales	The paddle steamer was overwhelmed by large waves and sank bow first in the harbour at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, with the loss of 60 lives. Only one passenger survived.

13 July

List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Rambler	New Zealand	The schooner foundered off the New Zealand North Island east coast with the loss of three lives. The ship was last spotted from the Cutter Greenwich on the 12th, which was running from an approaching gale and heavy sea.[23]

14 July

List of shipwrecks: 14 July 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Netherby	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship ran aground and sank off King Island in the Bass Strait. All 462 people on board survived both the sinking and being marooned on the island.

15 July

List of shipwrecks: 15 July 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Annie Laurie	New Zealand	The cutter foundered five miles from the Aldermen Islands in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty.[24]

16 July

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Vivid	New Zealand	The schooner encountered bad weather while en route from Wairoa to Napier and began to leak. She filled fast and was abandoned by her captain and two passengers off Mahia Peninsula. The wreckage of the boat came ashore two days later.[23]

17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Wild Wave	New Zealand	The schooner foundered on an uncharted reef near Cuba Channel, northwest of Chatham Island. The ship became a total wreck but all hands were saved.[24] This ship should not be confused with another schooner of the same name which was lost in the Marlborough Sounds on 21 June.

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Deese	unknown	The schooner was wrecked on Cape Farewell, New Zealand. The crew abandoned ship and were marooned on the spit until rescued by the steamer Tararua.[25]
Palestro	Regia Marina	Third Italian War of Independence, Battle of Lissa: The coastal defense ship exploded and sank in the Adriatic Sea off Lissa with the loss of 211 of her 230-man crew after the ironclad warship SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Max ( Austrian Navy) rammed her, dismasting her and setting her afire.
Re d'Italia	Regia Marina	Re d'Italia Third Italian War of Independence, Battle of Lissa: The ironclad warship capsized and sank in the Adriatic Sea off Lissa with the loss of 400 of her 566-man crew after the ironclad warship SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Max ( Austrian Navy) rammed her.

23 July

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1866
Ship	Country	Description
George	New Zealand	The schooner foundered near Waiheke Island whilst en route from Thames to Auckland. All hands were lost with the ship.[25]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Caroline	New Zealand	The ketch sailed from Okarito sometime in July, and was not seen again. There were four men on board.[23]
Sea Serpent	New Zealand	The schooner sailed from Chatham Island for Wellington during July, and was not seen again. There were six on board.[25]

August

6 August

List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Affondatore	Regia Marina	The ironclad warship sank in a storm while in port at Ancona, Italy. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[2]

September

2 September

List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Rio de Janeiro	Brazilian Navy	1869 illustration of Rio de Janeiro sinking. Paraguayan War, Battle of Curuzú: The ironclad warship sank immediately with the loss of 53 lives after striking a mine in the Apa River.

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1866
Ship	Country	Description
General Sherman	United States	After several days under attack by Korean forces while stranded on Yanggak island in the Taedong River across from Pyongyang, Korea, the sidewheel paddle steamer was set ablaze by Korean fireboats. Those of her crew who survived to reach shore were massacred by the Koreans.[2]

6 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Ross D. Mangles	United Kingdom	The steamship collided with the steamship Ryhope and sank.[26]

10 September

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Chasseur	France	The brig was wrecked on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the tug Tweed ( United Kingdom). Chasseur was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Barcelona, Spain.[2]

12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Culgoa	New Zealand	The barque went aground on a bar in Hokianga Harbour.[27]

15 September

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Three Sisters	New Zealand	The schooner was en route from Dunedin to Greymouth when she was caught in a gale. The captain attempted to put her into Nelson Harbour for safety, but she hit Arrow Rock and foundered.[28]

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Emilie	United Kingdom	The schooner sank in five minutes after hitting the Seven Stones reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall, England, in fog while bound from Poole for Runcorn, England. Her crew of five survived.[13]

21 September

List of shipwrecks: 21 September 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Thane	unknown	The steamer was wrecked when she stranded on the bar at the mouth of New Zealand's Grey River while leaving Greymouth for Sydney with a load of coal.[28]

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Sheridan	United States	The screw steamer was lost through stranding.

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Ontario	United States	The 489-ton whaling bark was abandoned in the Chukchi Sea at 70 degrees 25 minutes North latitude after she collided with the whaling bark Helen Mar ( United States). She floated through the Bering Strait as a derelict during the winter of 1866–1867, eventually washing ashore on the coast of the Russian Empire in Siberia, 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) north of Cape Chaplino in Chukotka.[29]

October

2 October

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1866
Ship	Country	Description
James Daly	New Zealand	The schooner was wrecked at Waikawa in the Catlins with the loss of all her crew.[28]

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Result	United Kingdom	The ship was burnt in Hobson's Bay, Melbourne.[30]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Juno	Tasmania	The barque, laden with 466 tons of coal, was wrecked on Farewell Spit, New Zealand. All hands were saved but the cargo was lost.[31]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Sylph	New Zealand	The schooner left Kaipara Harbour for Auckland on 10 October. Wreckage from the ship was washed up near Ahipara eight days later. All hands were lost.[28]

November

3 November

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Lizzie Scott	New Zealand	The barque was wrecked on a reef near Chatham Island while en route from Wellington to Callao. The crew were rescued by the New Zealand government steamship St Kilda.[32]

12 November

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Tambo	New Zealand	The schooner was lost after becoming stuck on a bar at the mouth of the Hokitika River. After failed attempts to free her, the crew abandoned ship. Shortly after this, part of the sandbar collapsed, and the unmanned ship was carried into the surf where she foundered.[33]

29 November

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Adolphus	New South Wales	The brigantine was wrecked without loss of life on rocks west of Pier Head at the harbour at Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.[13]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Katie Dyer	United States	Bound from Callao, Peru, to New York City with a cargo of guano, the 1,275-ton sailing vessel sank with the loss of 13 lives in the North Atlantic Ocean off Fire Island Lighthouse on Fire Island off the south coast of Long Island, New York, immediately after colliding with the screw steamer Scotland ( United Kingdom). Scotland rescued her 14 survivors. Both Katie Dyer and her cargo were a total loss.[34][35]
Scotland	United Kingdom	Illustration "Wreck of the Steamship 'Scotland,' Bound for Liverpool, Off Sandy Hook," Harper's Weekly, December 29, 1866. While trying to return to New York City during a voyage carrying passengers and cargo from New York City to Liverpool, England, after suffering damage in a collision earlier in the day with the sailing vessel Katie Dyer ( United States), the 3,695-ton iron-hulled screw steamer was beached in a sinking condition in 22 feet (7 m) of water on a shoal off Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. All on board — including 14 survivors from Katie Dyer — survived. Scotland broke up during a storm before she could be salvaged and became a total loss except for some fittings stripped from her. Deemed a hazard to navigation, her wreck was demolished with dynamite two years later.[34][35]

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Wallace	New Zealand	The schooner was lost after it struck a reef of Chaslands Mistake in the Catlins. The crew were rescued by the schooner Edward and Christopher, laden with 466 tons of coal, was wrecked on Farewell Spit, New Zealand. All hands were saved but the cargo was lost.[33]

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Ellen	New Zealand	The cutter, heavy with a cargo of flour bound for Hokitika became stranded on the bar at Sumner, New Zealand, and broke up. All hands were saved.[33]

16 December

List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Eliza	South Australia	The ship was wrecked at Port Fairy, Victoria.[12]

20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Clarendon	New Zealand	The 16-ton schooner was wrecked when it ran into an unexpected gale at Moeraki while en route from Port Chalmers to Oamaru. She was driven on shore and was inundated by the surf.[36]
Volunteer	New Zealand	The cutter was wrecked on the bar at the mouth of the Fox River, with the loss of one life.[33]

24 December

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Pioneer	New Zealand	The steamer was wrecked at the Manukau Heads when she parted her moorings during a heavy swell.[37]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Cambodia	unknown	The 811-ton barque was wrecked on the bar at the mouth of New Zealand's Manukau Harbour. She was en route from Bombay to Howland Island and was attempting to put into the harbour for provisions, but the captain mistook a smaller channel for the main entrance channel.[37]

27 December

List of shipwrecks: 27 December 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Commodore	United States	The 984-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer was beached at Horton's Point on the north coast of Long Island at Southold, New York, to prevent her from sinking during a storm. All on board survived, but she was wrecked.[38]
Prince Consort	New Zealand	The 35-ton schooner was wrecked at Timaru. She was hit broadside by a heavy sea which shifted her ballast causing her to heel over.[39]

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1866
Ship	Country	Description
W. B. Thompson	United States	Carrying a cargo of railroad wheels, the schooner sank off Sandy Hook, New Jersey.[40]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date December 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Eclipse	New Zealand	The schooner was wrecked at the mouth of the Buller River in early December.[39]
Isabella	New Zealand	The schooner went ashore on rocks at the mouth of the Fox River, severely holing her hull.[33]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1866
Ship	Country	Description
Alex Majors	United States	The steamboat sank in the Missouri River at Grand River.[41]
Eliza Simpson	New Zealand	The 53-ton schooner left Port Chalmers on 22 June and was not seen again.[20]
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.[42]
Kate	New Zealand	The ketch was wrecked at Okarito in late April or early May.[18]
Lady Franklin	New Zealand	The 40-ton schooner left Port Chalmers on 22 June and was not seen again.[20]
Oamaru	New Zealand	The 25-ton schooner left Port Chalmers in June and was not seen again.[20]
R. G. Porter	Unknown	The schooner was lost at Point Pleasant, New Jersey.[43]
Sarah	Victoria (Australia)	The schooner was wrecked to the north of the mouth of the Rangitikei River during a heavy gale early in the year. All hands were saved.[9]
Victoria	United States	The 487-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost in 1866.[44]

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Martin, George W., ed., Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1905–1906, Volume 9, Topeka, Kansas: State Printing Office, 1906, p. 297.
Gaines, p. 106.
njscuba.net "Lavallette Wreck"
Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Victoria

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.

Ship events in 1866
Ship launches:	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871
Ship commissionings:	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871
Ship decommissionings:	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871
Shipwrecks:	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871

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[SNZD125-1] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 125.

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[SNZD125126-10] Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 125–126.

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[SNZD126127-17] Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 126–127. The text of Ingram & Wheatley is confusing as to the actual location of the wreck, seeming to say that it was off the coast of Ninety Mile Beach, Banks Peninsula, and South Otago.

[SNZD127-18] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 127.

[SNZD130135-19] Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 130–135.

[SNZD129-20] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 129.

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[SNZD130-23] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 130.

[SNZD135-24] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 135.

[SNZD136-25] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 136.

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[SNZD137-28] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 137.

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[SNZD138-31] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 138.

[SNZD138139-32] Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 138–139.

[SNZD139-33] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 139.

[njscubakatiedyerscotland-34] scuba.net Scotland

[ussupremecourtscotland-35] United States Supreme Court 105 U.S. 24 THE SCOTLAND Opinion of the Court

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[SNZD140-37] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 140.

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[40] scuba.net "Train Wheel Wreck"

[41] Martin, George W., ed., Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1905–1906, Volume 9, Topeka, Kansas: State Printing Office, 1906, p. 297.

[gainesp106-42] Gaines, p. 106.

[43] scuba.net "Lavallette Wreck"

[44] Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Victoria