List of shipwrecks in 1867

The list of shipwrecks in 1867 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1867.

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1867
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January

3 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Marianne Shifornaine  France The lugger foundered nine miles north of Govrevy Point, Cornwall, United Kingdom while bound for Nantes from Cardiff with coal and other, unspecified cargo. Three of the four crew lost their lives.[1]

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Eliza  United Kingdom The schooner, heading for Devoran, Cornwall, England, from Wales with coal, lost her foremast and maintopmast in a gale, and attempted to make for St Ives, Cornwall. She anchored between Gurnard's Head and the Three Oar Stone but was blown back out to sea, where the steamship Colon (flag unknown) took off all of her crew of seven, bar one man, Richard Bawden, who fell overboard and drowned. The Eliza sank off Plymouth.[1]
Heiress  United Kingdom The vessel, of Teignmouth, England, was attended by the lifeboat Richard Lewis ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Richard Lewis was launched twice at Long Rock, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, and saved 30 men from four different shipwrecks on this date.[2][3]
Oliver Lloyd  United Kingdom While on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, England, to Cardigan, Wales, the sloop was driven out of Cardigan in a gale. Her three crew were rescued by the lifeboat John Stuart () Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Oliver Lloyd was later taken in to Cardigan.[4]
Salome  United Kingdom The vessel, of Teignmouth, England, was attended by the lifeboat Richard Lewis ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Richard Lewis was launched twice at Long Rock, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, and saved 30 men from four different shipwrecks on this date.[2][3]
Selina Ann  United Kingdom Six men from the Looe brigantine were saved by the lifeboat Richard Lewis ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) in Mount's Bay.[3] Richard Lewis was launched twice at Long Rock, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, and saved 30 men from four different shipwrecks on this date.[5]
Turtle Dove  United Kingdom The smack was driven out of Cardigan in a gale. Her three crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Cardigan. Turtle Dove was later taken in to Cardigan.[4]

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Courrier de Dieppe  France The vessel was wrecked off Dymchurch, Kent, England, in a gale and heavy sea. The Reverend Charles Cobb rescued one crewman by wading into the surf.[5]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1867
ShipCountryDescription
John Gray  United Kingdom While on voyage from Demerara to London, the Glasgow registered barque beached at Long Rock in a tremendous south-southwesterly gale. Thirteen crew were saved by the lifeboat Richard Lewis ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[2]
Seraphim  France The brigantine was wrecked near Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, United kingdom. Her eight crew were rescued by City of Bath ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[6]

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Ann & Emily  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme, Dorset.[7]
Coronation  United Kingdom The smack was lost off Cardigan. Her four crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Plymouth, Devon.[4]
Espoir  France The lugger foundered in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by City of Bath ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Nantes, Loire-Inférieure.[6]
Panda  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme.[7]
Spec  United Kingdom The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme.[7]
Tiger  United Kingdom The steamship was heading for Liverpool from Bayonne with an unspecified cargo when she foundered off either the Brisons or Pendeen in a force 9 NW gale. All fourteen on board lost their lives. The ship's boat was found at Porthchapel and Joseph Bawden of Phillack was committed at Camborne Petty Sessions to two months hard labour for concealment of staves, the property of Her Majesty's Customs.[1]
Vulan  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme.[7]
Zenith  United Kingdom The brig foundered in the Bristol Channel off Burry Holms with the loss of all hands.[6]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Superior  Sweden The brig, carrying a cargo of coal from Cardiff, Wales, to London, lost her bearings and canvas off the coast of Cornwall, England, and struck a reef at Millook. Nine of the 15 aboard lost their lives, including the captain.[1]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Blayais  France The brig ran aground in the Minquiers, south of Jersey in the Channel Islands. The crew escaped in lifeboats.[8]

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Lifeboat (name unknown)  United Kingdom A Royal Humane Society lifeboat capsized when it went to the aid of a French three-masted vessel (name unknown) which had gone ashore at the back of Calais pier. Five members of the English volunteer lifeboat crew drowned.[5]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Vesper  Brazil The Clyde-built paddle steamer split in half and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 50 miles (80 km) off the Isles of Scilly while steaming to Bahia, Brazil, where she was going to work the rivers as a ferry. Three members of her crew died; the rest were saved by the steamer Vigilante ( Denmark).[5]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Several ships A number of ships on the River Thames in England were dismasted, stove in, or driven ashore by ice that was breaking up into blocks that were one to 12 feet (0.3 to 3.7 meters) thick.[5]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Emily New Zealand The schooner foundered in fine weather on the bar at Sumner. It is thought that her hull had been previously damaged.[9]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Unidentified steamship Unknown A steamship was lost with only 80 of the 400 people aboard found.[5][10]

February

3 February

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
James  United Kingdom The schooner sank off the Black Rocks, in Cardigan Bay, Wales. She was later salvaged.[4]

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Edouard  France The sloop was lost when she hit a rock north of Plateau des Minquiers, south of Jersey in the Channel Islands.[11]

6 February

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Albert Edward II Royal National Lifeboat Institution While coming to the assistance of the schooner Georgiana (flag unknown), which was dragging her anchors and being driven onto the Doom Bar at the mouth of the River Camel in Cornwall, England, the lifeboat was driven ashore at St Minver, Cornwall, with five of the lifeboat crew drowning. One crew member from Georgiana also drowned.[12]
Fanny Lambert  United Kingdom During a voyage from Cardiff, Wales, to Dieppe, France, the steamship sank in a Force 10 west-northwesterly gale between 6 and 8 nautical miles (11 and 15 km) north of St Ives Head, Cornwall, England. The entire crew of 18 lost their lives.[1][13]

11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Zanoni  United Kingdom While on voyage from Port Wakefield to Port Adelaide in South Australia, the Liverpool registered barque foundered during a squall in Gulf St Vincent early in the afternoon. Fourteen crew and two passengers escaped to the vessel’s small boats and were rescued at 11:00 p.m. that day by the sailing ketch Powles (flag unknown).[14]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Duchess of Portland  United Kingdom The ship foundered 15 miles off Hartlepool after taking in water. Crew were saved from the ship's boat. She had been sailing from Sunderland to Le Conquet with a cargo of coal.[15]

13 February

List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Star of the Evening New Zealand The steamer was wrecked at Poverty Bay whilst en route from Napier to Auckland. She struck rocks which at first seemed to have caused only slight damage, but the ship broke up within an hour. Six of the 17 people on board (three crew and three passengers) drowned.[9]

16 February

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Nile New Zealand The 24-ton schooner became a wreck after running ashore at the mouth of the Haast River. This may have been the same Nile which was reported wrecked in June 1864.[9]

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Mercury New Zealand The cutter became a wreck after running ashore at East Cape, New Zealand. [16]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Fortuna  Prussia The brig was driven ashore and wrecked in Broughton Bay, Wales. Her crew were rescued.[6]

March

7 March (about)

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Emma  Colony of Western Australia Emma, a 116 ton, two-masted wooden schooner, departed Tien Tsin Harbor (later Cossack) for Fremantle on 3 March, with 42 passengers and crew, but never arrived. Those on board included the explorer Trevarton Sholl and Charles Nairn, the first European to settle in the Pilbara region and a brother-in-law of the vessel's owner, Walter Padbury. By 24 April, Emma was regarded as "conisderably overdue" at Fremantle. [17] The wreckage of Emma was discovered on a reef at Point Maud, Coral Bay, during the late 1970s or early 1980s.[18]

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Taraipine New Zealand The schooner left Wairoa on March 7, and anchored overnight at Paritu, south of Gisborne. She sailed the next day and was not seen again. [16]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Rover  United States The bark struck a coral reef called Qixingyan near Oluanpi, Formosa, and drifted into the area of Kenting, Formosa. Surviving crew members who made it to shore were massacred by Taiwanese Aborigines, prompting an unsuccessful U.S. military expedition against the offending Paiwan tribe.

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Sir Duncan Cameron New Zealand The cutter was wrecked at Napier during a severe gale, with the loss of four lives. [16]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Stately New Zealand The 80-ton schooner was wrecked at Oamaru during a gale, when she was driven onto rocks. All hands were saved. [16]

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Providence  United Kingdom The Channel Island brig collided with the Gambia ( United Kingdom) of Plymouth, England, struck the Albert Pier, and sank off the harbour at Penzance, Cornwall, England. Both crews were saved.[19][20]

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Jonkeer Unknown The vessel went ashore on rocks in Mount's Bay near Polurrian, England, during a storm. The only survivor, a Greek sailor, climbed the cliff in Mullion parish and was discovered the following morning.[21]

27 March

List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Montmorency  United Kingdom The ship was destroyed by fire at Napier, New Zealand. She had arrived with immigrants from the United Kingdom on the 24th. They had all disembarked, and the crew abandoned the ship during the fire, but all cargo was lost. [22]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Henry New Zealand The schooner went ashore and was wrecked on Mahia Peninsula towards the end of the month. All hands were saved. [23]

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Alabama  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer was destroyed by fire at Grand View, Louisiana.

2 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
South Australian South Australia The steamer was wrecked on the coast of South Otago, New Zealand while en route from Port Chalmers to Melbourne. She hit rocks heavily, stoving in part of her hull, and she took on water rapidly. All hands were saved.[23]

5 April

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Queen New Zealand The steamer struck rocks and foundered near the Brothers Islands in Cook Strait while en route from Wellington to Nelson. The crew were rescued from a lifeboat near the entrance to Tory Channel by the steamer Adelaide. All hands were saved.[24]

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Onehunga New Zealand The schooner went ashore and was wrecked near the mouth of the Fox River, New Zealand.[25]

17 April

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Iona New Zealand The cables of the schooners Iona and Cymraes became entangled in a heavy sea near Hokitika. The crew of the Cymraes managed to clear her in a damaged but reparable state, but the Iona was driven ashore and wrecked.[25]

May

7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Ben Nevis New Zealand The schooner left Wanganui for Havelock and was never seen again.[25]

9 May

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Goldseeker unknown The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Hokitika while en route from Melbourne.[25]

11 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1867
ShipCountryDescription
William Cargill  United Kingdom The paddle tug collided with the steamship Fairy ( United Kingdom) and sank in the River Tyne. Her crew survived. She was refloated on 15 May.[26]

12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Frithjoy New Zealand The schooner was wrecked at Kennedy Bay during a strong gale. All hands were saved.[25]

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Smuggler New Zealand The schooner capsized near Rodney Point, Whanganui Island, while en route from Whangarei to Auckland, with the loss of one life, the ship's cook.[27]
Three Brothers New Zealand The schooner was wrecked at Waikawa Heads when it dragged its anchor while riding out a gale.[27]

30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1867
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Osprey  Royal Navy The gunboat was wrecked on the coast of South Africa in Algoa Bay off Cape St. Francis.[28]

June

1 June

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Assaye  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship struck the South Rock and foundered. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Demerara, British Guiana to Liverpool, Lancashire.[29]

7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Torquil  Victoria The 294-ton barque was wrecked in Spirits Bay, New Zealand. She sprang a leak on 3 June while heading to New Zealand from Tongatapu, and as her pumps were not strong enough to counteract the leak, she made for the nearest landfall. She was deliberately beached on the sands at Spirits Bay, but a strong gale sprung up, wrecking the vessel.[30]

19 June

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1867
ShipCountryDescription
USS Sacramento  United States Navy The sloop-of-war was wrecked on a reef at the mouth of India′s Godavari River without loss of life.

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Alpha New Zealand The 18-ton cutter went ashore at Ahipara during a strong gale and became a total wreck.[31]

23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Agnes New Zealand The 100-ton schooner was wrecked at the mouth of the Turanganui River near Gisborne when the wind died as she was entering the river and the tide carried her onto rocks.[31]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown date June 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Elizabeth New Zealand The cutter was wrecked at Hokitika in early June. The tug Lioness, which was towing her, grounded on a sandspit, and the Elizabeth was carried into her by the tide. The tug was damaged, but the Elizabeth became a total wreck.[27]

July

7 July

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Rapid New Zealand The schooner was wrecked at West Wanganui while leaving port.[31]

17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Lady Lyttleton  United Kingdom The barque sank in the Emu Point Channel in Oyster Harbour near Albany, Western Australia.
Monarch Victoria (Australia) The vessel ran aground on the western side of Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia, while on a voyage from Melbourne to Newcastle.[32]

18 July

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Harriet New Zealand The brigantine was wrecked at Greymouth. She got into difficulties while being towed into port on the 12th, and was obliged to anchor by a sandbank. A gale on the 18th caused her to part her cables and drift onto a spit where she was at the mercy of the elements.[31]

22 July

List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Frederick New Zealand The barque was wrecked on a sandspit at Hokitika within hours of the brigantine Gratitude grounding on the same spit.[33]
Gratitude New Zealand The brigantine was wrecked on a sandspit at Hokitika within hours of the barque Frederick grounding on the same spit.[34]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Vistula New Zealand The 139-ton brigantine went ashore during a heavy gale at Oamaru. Several other ships and boats ran aground during the same gale but — unlike the Vistula — were successfully refloated.[34]

August

1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Edward and Christopher New Zealand The schooner was wrecked at Stony Bay, close to the entrance to Akaroa Harbour, during a heavy gale.[35]
Mary Ann Christina New Zealand The schooner was wrecked on Ninety Mile Beach during a strong gale. She was driven ashore in order to save the crew, some 3 km south of the wreck of the Vixen (see below).[34]
Vixen New Zealand The schooner (also reported as a ketch) was wrecked on Ninety Mile Beach during a strong gale. The ship capsized, and all but one of her crew drowned.[34]

2 August

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Cordelia New Zealand The 29-ton cutter was wrecked near Baring Head near Wellington with the loss of all three on board.[35]

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Nautilus New Zealand The 29-ton schooner was wrecked on Whale Island in the Bay of Plenty. She was en route to Auckland and took shelter in the lea of the island during a gale, but dragged both anchors and ran on shore.[35]
Stella  United States The barque was wrecked on an island in Shelikhov Gulf in the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk. Two men were lost as the barque was smashed on the rocks. The rest of the crew were rescued by nearby vessels.[36][37][38]

14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Edward Moore New Zealand The 16-ton schooner was driven ashore and wrecked 8 km south of the mouth of the Manawatu River.[35]

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Emerald Isle New Zealand The 29-ton schooner foundered off the Buller coast with the loss of all on board during a storm.[39]
Mariner New Zealand The schooner was wrecked near Whangarei.[35]

September

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Mountain Maid New Zealand The brig wcaught on the bar at the mouth of the Buller River and became a total wreck.[39]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Lizzie New Zealand The 19-ton cutter was driven ashore and wrecked 8 km north of the mouth of the Manawatu River. All hands were saved.[39]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date September 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Celt New Zealand Wreckage of the schooner — which had been en route from Lyttelton to Auckland — was washed ashore on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island on 7 September.[39]
El Rayo  Colombian National Navy The Colombian government screw steamer was blown from her moorings in the harbor at Cartagena, Colombia, in mid-September and wrecked on a coral reef, where she was abandoned.

October

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Endeavour New Zealand The cutter was driven ashore on Rangitoto Reef in the Hauraki Gulf.[39]

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Lady Wynward New Zealand The cutter was wrecked near East Cape during a severe gale, while en route from Napier to Auckland. All hands were saved.[40]
Manukau New Zealand The 300-ton schooner was wrecked with the loss of two lives close to the mouth of the Manawatu River while en route from Newcastle, New South Wales to Wellington.[41]

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Sea Slipper Unknown The vessel was wrecked at Spotted Island off Labrador. William Jackman (1837–1877) swam to the vessel 27 times to bring everyone on board safely to shore.

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Amsterdam  United Kingdom The 639-gross register ton cargo ship was wrecked in dense fog on rocks on the south coast of Long Island, New York, just west of Montauk Point with the loss of all hands.[42]
Matilda New Zealand The schooner was wrecked at Okarito. She was leaving harbour when the breeze failed and she became unmanageable, drifting onto rocks.[40]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Æolus New South Wales The ketch was wrecked at Hole in the Wall, Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia, without loss off life.

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Thomas Parker  United Kingdom
Thomas Parker
The schooner was wrecked on St Mary's Isle, Douglas, Isle of Man.

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Emma Eliza New Zealand The schooner broke up when she went ashore while trying to enter Hokitika harbour during a gale.[43]
Rhone  United Kingdom
The wreck of Rhone in 2003.
The brig-rigged passenger steamship was wrecked off Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands during a hurricane, killing 123 people. Only 23 people – all of them crew members – survived.

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Hope New Zealand The 25-ton schooner grounded and was wrecked on Rurima Island's reef in the Bay of Plenty.[40]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Amazon Canada The brigantine was driven ashore on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was abandoned. Salvaged in 1868, repaired and returned to service as Mary Celeste.

November

2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Elizabeth New Zealand schooner grounded and was wrecked on the bar at Hokitika while being towed into port.[43]

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Mary Ann White New Zealand The 14-ton schooner grounded and was wrecked on Rangitoto Reef in the Hauraki Gulf.[43]

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Affiance New South Wales The 374-ton barque hit rocks close to Kapiti Island on 5 November while en route from Newcastle, New South Wales to Lyttelton. The barque was damaged sufficiently that the captain decided to put into Wellington Harbour. By this stage, the ship was taking on considerable water, and the pumps could not keep up. She was steered ashore at Fitzroy Bay, just south of the harbour entrance, to prevent loss of life.[43]
Flying Cloud New Zealand The schooner went ashore during a storm at the mouth of the Grey River.[43]

9 November

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Cymraes New Zealand The 28-ton schooner parted her cable during a storm and was wrecked at the mouth of the Grey River.[44] The same ship had narrowly avoided wrecking on 17 April 1867 (qv).

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Hendrick Hudson  United States The schooner-rigged screw steamer was lost near Havana, Cuba.

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Marie Greifswald The brig was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her 11 crew were rescued by the Penarth Lifeboat ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[6]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1867
ShipCountryDescription
USS De Soto  United States Navy A tsunami tore the sidewheel paddle steamer from her moorings at St. Thomas in the Danish Virgin Islands and threw her onto a wharf. A later tsunami wave picked her up off the wharf and washed her back into the harbor, where her crew was able to effect repairs that kept her from sinking.

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Highlander New Zealand The brig parted her cables and went ashore at Oamaru.[44]
Levy New Zealand The barque foundered on the bar at Sumner while carrying coal from Lyttelton to Heathcote. All hands were saved.[44]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Caroline New Zealand The schooner was wrecked at Oamaru. She was attempting to put to sea in a heavy gale when her sails split and she became unmanageable.[44]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Therese  United Kingdom The steamship departed from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire for Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[45]

18 December

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Sir George Seymour  United Kingdom The ship was carrying a cargo of coal from Liverpool to Bombay when the cargo suffered spontaneous combustion at 25°S 25°W. Her crew abandoned her; Leda ( United Kingdom), which was on her way to Calcutta, rescued 15 crew members.[46]

20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Mapere New Zealand The 30-ton schooner capsized and was lost near Tairua during a squall, possibly as a result of her ballast shifting. All hands were saved.[44]

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Colonel Stell  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer was lost.[47]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Good Intent Unknown The brigantine, carrying coal, sank after hitting the Crim Rocks, in the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly.[48]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Carlotta Unknown The schooner was lost in the vicinity of "Squan," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.[49]
Charles E. Pope Unknown The schooner was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.[49]
Cordula Unknown The full-rigged ship was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.[49]
Eliza Unknown The coal hulk was wrecked in the Isles of Scilly. Her figurehead is in the Tresco Abbey Gardens on Tresco.[50]
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.[51]
G. W. Hinson Unknown The schooner was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.[49]
Harrier New Zealand The cutter left Auckland for Wellington in mid-May with a crew of two and a cargo of doors and other house fittings, and was not seen again.[35]
Hawkhead New Zealand Wreckage from the schooner was discovered off the east coast of New Zealand's South Island in June 1867, several months after the vessel was reported missing.[31]
O.K.  United States The 48- or 75-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost in either 1867 or 1881.[52]
Phoenix New Zealand The schooner left Okarito for Dunedin on 13 May, and was not seen again.[31]
Platt Valley  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River near the Arkansas shoreline across from Memphis, Tennessee, after striking the wreck of the sidewheel ram CSS General Beauregard ( Confederate States Navy).[53]
Shooting Star  United States The clipper was wrecked off the coast of Formosa.
Village Belle New Zealand The brigantine left Bluff Harbour in late April en route for Newcastle, New South Wales. She sat out a storm in Foveaux Strait for several weeks, but was not seen again after that.[39]

References

Notes

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Ship events in 1867
Ship launches: 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872
Ship commissionings: 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872
Ship decommissionings: 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872
Shipwrecks: 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872
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