List of shipwrecks in 1868
The list of shipwrecks in 1868 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1868.
| 1868 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
| May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
| Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| Unknown date | |||
| References | |||
January
2 January
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Victoria |  |
The schooner was lost during a squall in Lake Wakatipu, with the loss of one of the three on board.[1] |
13 January
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Albion |  |
The brig ran aground off Whitford Point, Glamorgan, and was abandoned by her seven crew, who all subsequently drowned.[2] |
| Genova | |
The steamship was wrecked on São Miguel Island, Azores.[3] |
16 January
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tasmanian Maid | |
The paddle steamer was wrecked on Kawarau Reef at New Plymouth, New Zealand. All hands were saved.[1] |
23 January
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Amethyst | |
The ship foundered on the Bristol Channel off Llanelli, Glamorgan with the loss of all hands.[2] |
| Anne | |
The ship was wrecked on Burry Holms, in the Bristol Channel.[2] |
| Brothers | |
The ship was driven ashore at Llanelli.[2] |
| Huntress | |
The ship was driven ashore at Llanelli.[2] |
| Jennie Celine | |
The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Llanelli with the loss of all hands.[2] |
| Mary Fanny | |
The ketch was driven ashore and damaged in Rhossili Bay. She was later repaired and returned to service. Mary Fanny was shelled and sunk by a German Submarine on 15 September 1918.[2][4] |
| Onward | |
The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Llanelli with the loss of all hands.[2] |
| Roscius | |
The ship was driven ashore at Llanelli.[2] |
24 January
26 January
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Joanna | |
The 26-ton schooner went ashore near Sinclair Head during a storm. The crew survived by taking to a lifeboat.[1] |
February
3 February
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Breeze | |
The schooner went ashore and was wrecked at Le Bons Bay, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, during the Great storm of 1868, a cyclone which swept much of the country. All hands were saved.[1] |
| Echunga | |
The ship was wrecked at Napier, New Zealand, during the Great storm of 1868, a cyclone which swept much of the country. All hands were saved.[1] |
| Fortune | |
The 160-ton brig was wrecked 10 miles (16 km) south of Hokianga, New Zealand, during the Great storm of 1868, a cyclone which swept much of the country. Only one of the crew of eight was saved.[6] |
| Otago | |
The 26-ton ketch was wrecked 8 miles (13 km) north of Oamaru, New Zealand, during the Great storm of 1868, a cyclone which swept much of the country. All hands were saved.[6] |
| Sea Bird | |
The schooner was wrecked at Haumuri Bluff, New Zealand, during the Great storm of 1868, a cyclone which swept much of the country. All hands were saved.[6] |
| Star of Tasmania | |
The ship was wrecked at Oamaru, New Zealand, during the Great storm of 1868, a cyclone which swept much of the country. Five lives were lost.[7] |
| Water Nymph | |
The schooner was wrecked at Oamaru, New Zealand, during the Great storm of 1868, a cyclone which swept much of the country. All hands were saved.[6] |
4 February
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Challenge | |
The ketch went ashore and was wrecked at Le Bons Bay, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, during the Great storm of 1868, a cyclone which swept much of the country.[8] |
| William Miskin | |
The 142-ton screw steamer was wrecked at Timaru, New Zealand, during the Great storm of 1868, a cyclone which swept much of the country. One crewman drowned.[9] |
15 February
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Abbey | .svg.png){kind=small} |
The wooden brigantine was wrecked on the coast of New South Wales, Australia, three miles north of Crowdy Head, in a gale. |
16 February
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sea Belle | |
The 27-ton cutter was wrecked after being stranded on a sandspit at Whangapoua, New Zealand.[8] |
| Woodlark | |
The brig was wrecked while carrying cargo from Sydney to Newcastle, New South Wales. |
March
1 March
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HMS Lavinia |  |
The frigate sank in the harbor at Plymouth, England, after colliding with the passenger ship SS Cimbria (.svg.png){kind=small} |
17 March
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Creole | .svg.png){kind=small} |
The 1,229-gross ton screw steamer was wrecked in fog without loss of life on the coast of New Jersey. A wreck in 20 feet (6 m) of water just off Bay Head, New Jersey, nicknamed "Bluff′s Wreck" may be the wreck of Creole.[11] |
19 March
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Express | |
The 149-ton brigantine was wrecked at Port Hutt in the Chatham Islands. All hands were saved.[8] |
| Growler | Unknown flag | The 48.5 ton schooner departed Victoria, Colony of British Columbia, bound for Sitka, Territory of Alaska, but never arrived. Wreckage of and bodies from the ship later washed ashore on the southern end of Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[12] |
24 March
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fly | |
The cutter was driven ashore and wrecked at Oamaru. All hands were saved.[13] |
27 March
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Comet | |
The 17-ton cutter was wrecked at the mouth of the Puhoi River.[13] |
30 March
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Thistle | |
The cutter was wrecked at Bream Head during a heavy sea. Two passengers drowned.[13] |
Unknown date
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Triumph | |
The schooner was driven against Kaikoura wharf during a storm and sank.[8] |
April
6 April
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cleopatra | |
The paddle steamer was wrecked to the west of Cape Palliser during a storm.[13] |
16 April
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Brilliant | |
Her crew abandoned the ship in the North Atlantic. |
18 April
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Lady Brisbane | |
The paddle steamer collided with the tug Flying Cloud ( |
Unknown date
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Henrietta Nathan | unknown | The barque, with a crew of seven, left Lyttelton, New Zealand, for Tasmania on 6 April and was not sighted again. The general belief was that she foundered in a gale off the Tasmania coast late in the month.[13] |
May
4 May
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Arabian | .svg.png){kind=small} |
The sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Missouri River near Atchison, Kansas.[15] |
8 May
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Gleaner | |
The 135-ton Newport, Rhode Island, brig was thought to have hit the Seven Stones reef and sank 30 miles (48 km) northwest by west of Land's End, Cornwall, England.[16] |
23 May
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Bell | |
The 53-ton schooner foundered off Whangaroa Heads.[13] |
| Mystery | |
The steamship ran aground and was wrecked north of Port Patrick, Wigtownshire. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newry, County Antrim to Ardrossan, Ayrshire.[17] |
June
1 June
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Princess |  |
The sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Missouri River at Napoleon, Missouri, at 39.1332°N 94.0735°W |
9 June
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Louisa | |
The 13-ton schooner foundered off Greymouth during a gale, with the loss of all three on board.[13] |
13 June
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Despatch | |
The 98-ton brigantine was driven ashore by a heavy sea just to the north of Timaru, with the loss of the ship's master, J. E. Driver.[18] |
20 June
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alicia | |
The barque was wrecked at Kurrachee, India. Her crew were rescued.[19] |
24 June
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Selma | |
The steamship foundered in the Gulf of Mexico south of Galveston, Texas, off the mouth of the Brazos River. |
July
2 July
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Florence | |
The schooner was captured by Māori warriors in the Chatham Islands and set adrift unmanned with full rig. She grounded and became a total wreck.[20] |
9 July
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| USS Suwanee | |
The gunboat was wrecked in Shadwell Passage in Queen Charlotte Sound off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. |
15 July
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pat The Rover | |
The 79-ton brig broke up after becoming stranded at the entrance to the Grey River during a storm. All hands were saved.[21] |
| Torrent | |
The 576-ton wooden bark struck a reef and foundered in a storm and went ashore in English Bay on the coast of the Territory of Alaska. All on board survived.[22][23] |
23 July
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Watson | |
The brig was wrecked on a reef in Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand. The crew were rescued by the steamer Gazelle.[21] |
31 July
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Curlew | |
Carrying a cargo of lime she had taken on at the jetties of the Nessend Quarry to Castle Point tramway on Lindisfarne, the vessel was in the North Sea off the May Light on the coast of England when water came into contact with the cargo and the heat generated set fire to her. She sank, but her two-man crew was saved.[24] |
August
11 August
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Annie | |
The 16-ton schooner foundered near Cape Kidnappers during a gale.[21] |
13 August
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
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 BAP America. |
| USS Wateree | |
.jpg) Wateree |
| USS Fredonia | |
While the storeship, a bark, was in port at Arica (then part of Peru), an earthquake struck which generated several tsunamis that hit Fredonia. The last tsunami broke Fredonia apart, killing 27 of her 32-man crew.[27] |
19 August
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandria | |
The tug caught fire and was destroyed at City Point, Virginia. |
22 August
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Jane Elkin | |
The 28-ton ketch ran aground and was wrecked on a spit at the mouth of the Grey River.[21] |
30 August
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Corinthian | |
The 390-ton whaling bark was lost at Blossom Shoals (70°23′N 161°57′W) in the Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of the Territory of Alaska.[28] |
September
6 September
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Clyde | |
The 14-ton cutter was crushed between Auckland wharf and the side of the schooner Morea.[21] |
22 September
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hae Hawaii | |
The 368-ton whaling bark dragged her anchor during a gale and was blown ashore on the Seahorse Islands in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska.[29] |
24 September
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HMS Rattler | |
The screw sloop-of-war was wrecked on a reef off northern Hokkaido, Japan.[30] |
25 September
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Nevsky |  |
The screw frigate was wrecked on a sandbar in the North Sea off Thyborøn, Jutland, Denmark, with the loss of five lives. Grand Duke Alexei, son of Tsar Alexander II, was on board and survived. |
October
2 October
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HMS Griffon | |
The Philomel-class gunvessel collided with Pandora (flag unknown) off Little Popo in West Africa and was stranded. |
9 October
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mersey | |
En route from Sunderland, to Arbroath, Scotland, the schooner sprang a leak in the North Sea off Lindisfarne. Water came in contact with her cargo of quicklime, causing her to catch fire. She was beached, saving the crew, but the vessel was lost.[24] |
12 October
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fancy | |
The schooner was wrecked at Greville Harbour, D'Urville Island with the loss of three of her crew. The sole surviving crewman was rescued by the schooner Jane Anderson.[21] |
| Nelson | |
The steamer was wrecked when it a heavy swell while trying to leave Whanganui Inlet. All those on board were saved.[31] |
15 October
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth | |
The cutter was wrecked after being driven ashore on the Otago coast during a gale.[31] |
| Isabella | |
The brigantine was driven ashore near Hokitika during a gale.[31] |
16 October
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Satellite | |
The 27-ton cutter was wrecked on the South Island west coast during a gale.[31] |
21 October
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Del Norte | |
.jpg){kind=spacer} Wreck of Del Norte watercolor The 601-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost. Sources disagree on the location of the incident. One claims that she was lost at Valdez, Territory of Alaska. Another claims that Del Norte was wrecked in fog approximately 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) north of Victoria, Colony of British Columbia, during a southbound voyage from Sitka, Territory of Alaska. Others place her wreck at Porlier Pass (49°01′00″N 123°35′00″W) in British Columbia.[32] |
27 October
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Crest | |
The ketch was wrecked near the mouth of Akaroa Harbour when it struck rocks, with the loss of two lives.[33] |
November
15 November
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HMS Gnat | |
The Beacon-class gunvessel was wrecked on Balabac Island in the Philippines. |
| Kaiyō Maru |  |
The steam frigate was wrecked off Esashi, Hokkaido, Japan, during a storm. |
22 November
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Louisa Downs | |
After her masts were cut away to save her from sinking during a gale, the 11-ton schooner drifted into Dry Bay (59°08′N 138°25′W) on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska and was wrecked on the shore. Her crew of three survived.[34] |
29 November
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Northerner | |
 The wreck of Northerner on 6 May 2010. |
Unknown date
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Streamlet | |
The schooner left Lyttelton Harbour on November 17 for the South Island west coast, and was not seen again. She probably foundered during gales late in the month.[35] |
December
4 December
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Jackson | |
The clipper was wrecked on a reef in the Gaspar Strait in the Netherlands East Indies. |
6 December
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| North Britain | |
The barque was driven ashore at Long Rock, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England.[36] |
| Tyne | |
The schooner ran aground near the entrance to Wellington Harbour and became a total wreck.[35] |
8 December
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Clarendon | |
The 157-ton brig was deliberately run ashore to the north of Hokitika in order to save the crew when it sprang a leak.[35] |
21 December
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Kinloss | |
The schooner was wrecked in the North Sea near Muchalls, Kincardineshire, Scotland, with the loss of one of her five crew.[37] |
28 December
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Leopard | |
The ship was driven ashore at Westward Ho!, Devon. Her crew were rescued by Hope ( |
| Pace |  |
The ship was wrecked in Bideford Bay with the loss of two of her fourteen crew. Survivors were rescued by Hope ( |
Unknown date
| Ship | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Amaranth | |
The steamboat sank in the Missouri River at Smith's Bar in Kansas.[38] |
| Emeline | |
The whaling schooner was lost in the Arctic.[39] |
| 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.[40] |
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| Ship events in 1868 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 |
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