List of shipwrecks in 1869

The list of shipwrecks in 1869 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1869.

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1869
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January

8 January
List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Minnie  New Zealand The ketch was driven onto rocks and holed at Little Akaloa, Banks Peninsula. All hands survived.[1]

15 January
List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Lord Coke  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Sizewell Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her four crew were rescued by the Southwold Lifeboat.[2]

19 January
List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Union  United States The sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Lafayette rapids on the Dayton River in Oregon. Her boiler later was salvaged.

22 January
List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Demetrius flag unknown The ship was driven ashore at Bridport, Dorset, England.[3]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Glide  United States The sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by a boiler explosion.

February

12 February
List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Friends  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Margate, Kent, England, in a storm.[4]

13 February
List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Hermann  United States The paddle steamer was wrecked at Point Kwatzu, Japan with the loss of 275 lives.[5]
Providence  Kingdom of Great Britain The ship was wrecked on 13 February 1869 on Corton Sands. She was taken to Shields and broken up there in 1870.[6]

14 February
List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1869
ShipCountryDescription
St. Vincent  United Kingdom The 834-ton ship went ashore in a heavy gale in Palliser Bay, Cook Strait, while en route from Wellington Harbour to Lyttelton Harbour. Twenty of the 22 men on board perished.[7]

20 February
List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1869
ShipCountryDescription
SMS Graf Radetzky  Austro-Hungarian Navy The screw frigate sank in the Adriatic Sea 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) north-northwest of Lissa after suffering a gunpowder explosion. The explosion and sinking killed 344 men, leaving 24 survivors.[8]

27 February
List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Ida Ziegler unknown The clipper went ashore in a heavy gale at Petane Beach, Napier, New Zealand. All hands were saved.[9]

28 February
List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Little Fred  New Zealand The 131-ton schooner ran aground and was wrecked to the north of the mouth of the Kaipara Harbour in a heavy gale.[9]
Woodpecker  New Zealand The 24-ton paddle steamer was wrecked in a heavy gale at the mouth of the Patea River, New Zealand. Her crew were rescued by the paddle steamer Sturt.[9]

March

9 March
List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Blue Jacket  United States The clipper was abandoned four days after her cargo caught fire in the South Atlantic Ocean off the Falkland Islands. Her nine survivors were rescued on 16 March by the barque Pyrmont ( North German Confederation).

26 March
List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Mystery  Australia The lugger, serving as a pilot cutter, was wrecked in Keppel Bay, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.

29 March
List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1869
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Ferret  Royal Navy The brig was wrecked in the Strait of Dover off Dover, England.[10]

April

19 April
List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1869
ShipCountryDescription
United Kingdom  United Kingdom The steamship departed from New York for a British port. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all on board.[11]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Johanna  New Zealand The schooner departed Timaru for Auckland in early April, and was not seen again.[12]
John B. Russell  New Zealand The 56-ton schooner departed Lyttelton Harbour for Auckland in early April, and was not seen again.[12]

May

10 May
List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Luella  Canada The schooner capsized in a gale and was driven ashore and wrecked in the Barren Islands (58°57′N 152°15′W) off the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska.[13]

11 May
List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Chōyō Maru  Imperial Japanese Navy
Illustration of the explosion of Chōyō Maru.
Boshin War, Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay: The steam corvette exploded and sank in Hakodate Bay, Japan, with the loss of at least 86 lives when she suffered a hit in her ammunition magazine during combat with the paddle schooner Banryū ( Republic of Ezo).

14 May
List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Necromancer  New Zealand The 14-ton schooner sprang a leak and was run ashore on Farewell Spit. She rapidly broke up.[14]

15 May
List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Cheduba  United Kingdom The steamship sank in the Bay of Bengal with the loss of all hands.

24 May
List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Collingwood  New Zealand The barque was wrecked after grounding at Timaru. She was caught in a heavy swell with no breeze. All hands were saved.[14]
Susan Jane  New Zealand The barque was wrecked after grounding at Timaru. She was caught in the same treacherous conditions as the Collingwood (qv). All hands were saved.[14]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date May 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Banryū Republic of Ezo Boshin War, Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay: The paddle schooner was beached on the shore of Hakodate Bay, Japan, and set on fire after running out of ammunition. She later was salvaged and placed in commercial service.

June

5 June
List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Dove  New Zealand The schooner was holed on rocks and foundered at McIntosh Bay, Banks Peninsula.[12]

19 June
List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Grayling  New Zealand The cutter was lost in a fierce gale in northern Hawke Bay, going under with all hands some 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the mouth of the Wairoa River.[12]
Hero  New Zealand The schooner was driven ashore between Wairoa and Mahia Peninsula during the same gale which destroyed the Grayling (qv). All hands were saved.[12]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date June 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Jubilee  New Zealand The 40-ton schooner left Napier for Auckland on 18 June and was not seen again. It is likely she succumbed to the same gale which caused the loss of the Grayling and Hero (qv).[12]

July

1 July
List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Bruce  New Zealand The paddle steamer foundered when she turned broadside on to the surf at the mouth of the Grey River. All crew and passengers were saved.[15]

30 July
List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Prince Edward Victoria (Australia) The 194-ton brig foundered in a gale southwest of West Cape, New Zealand, while en route to Timaru. All ten on board survived, travelling by longboat to Bluff.[16]

August

6 August
List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Pfeil  Kingdom of Hawaii The brig was lost at Cape York (65°25′N 167°28′W) on the coast of the Territory of Alaska. Her crew was rescued.[17]

September

1 September
List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1869
ShipCountryDescription
James Dixon  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked on Gotland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia to London.[18]

7 September
List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Yarra unknown The 32-ton paddle steamer stranded on a spit at the mouth of New Zealand's Hokitika River and broke up.[16]

8 September
List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Pearl  New Zealand The ketch was wrecked at the mouth of the Grey River while en route from Dunedin. The weather was calm but there was a heavy swell. She capsized, and three crew members were drowned.[19]

9 September
List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Rambler  New Zealand The 72-ton schooner became stranded at the mouth of the Okarito River and became a total wreck.[20]

12 September
List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Carnatic  United Kingdom
The wreck of Carnatic, The Illustrated London News, 16 October 1869.
The steamship was wrecked on the Sha`b Abu Nuhas reef in the Red Sea with the loss of 31 lives.

23 September
List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Ocean Wave  United States The scow schooner sank without loss of life in Lake Michigan off Door County, Wisconsin, during a storm.

30 September
List of shipwrecks: 30 September 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Eagle  United States The 336-ton whaling bark was wrecked in the Chukchi Sea on Sea Horse Shoal (70°53′N 158°42′W) off Point Franklin on the coast of the Territory of Alaska. The vessel John Carver ( United States) rescued her crew.[21]

October

2 October
List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Harry Bluff  New Zealand The 11-ton cutter ran aground on a bar at Charleston, New Zealand, with the loss of two crew.[20]

15 October
List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Diana  New Zealand The 25-ton ketch caught fire and was destroyed in the Whanganui Inlet in New Zealand's South Island.[20]

26 October
List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Frank Shaw  United Kingdom The collier ran aground on the Goodwin Sands in the English Channel off Kent, England, and was wrecked with the loss of eight of her 28 crew. Survivors were rescued by the Broadstairs and Ramsgate lifeboats ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[22]

30 October
List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Lightning  United Kingdom The clipper was scuttled in Corio Bay off Geelong, Victoria, Australia, after a fire aboard her went out of control.

November

20 November
List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Airdrie  United Kingdom The schooner foundered off Culzean Castle, Ayrshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ayr to Carrickfergus, County Antrim.[23]

December

5 December
List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Loretta  Spain The schooner was abandoned in the Bristol Channel off Porthcawl, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. All on board were rescued by Good Deliverance ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[24]

13 December
List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Blanche Barkley  New Zealand The fishing cutter was wrecked off Taiaroa Head, New Zealand, capsizing with the loss of both men on board.[20]
Corliana  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Llanmadoc, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Clonakilty, County Cork to Newport, Monmouthshire[24]

19 December
List of shipwrecks: 19 December 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Gorgon  French Navy The corvette was wrecked at Brest, Finistère.[25]

24 December
List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Rose Ann  New Zealand The 26-ton schooner stranded on a sandspit in the Whangapoua Harbour and became a wreck.[20]

31 December
List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1869
ShipCountryDescription
Nuavo Plato  Austria-Hungary The brig foundered on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew survived.[24]

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ShipCountryDescription
Elsinore  Denmark The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Walberswick, Suffolk, United Kingdom before 30 December.[2]
Gorgone  French Navy The paddle corvette foundered in the Bay of Biscay during a storm sometime on 18 or 19 December during a voyage from A Coruña, Spain, to Cherbourg, France.[26][27]
Triumph  Haiti The casemate ironclad disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean off the United States East Coast, probably off the Delaware Capes or Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, sometime after 19 December while en route from Chester, Pennsylvania. to Port au Prince, Haiti, apparently sinking with the loss of all hands.

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869
ShipCountryDescription
A. S. Ruthven  United States The screw steamer was lost during 1869.[28]
Ann Corbett 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.[29]
Avonmore  United Kingdom Anchored off Sharp's Nose in the parish of Morwenstow, Cornwall, England, where the captain ordered the three masts to be cut down. She drifted on to the rocks below Hawker's Hut, close to Higher Sharpnose Point. Seven out of twenty-two crew died. She was en route from Cardiff to Montevideo with coal.[30]
Diana  United Kingdom The whaler was driven ashore at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, England, and broke up, a total loss.
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.[31]
Italian  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked at Cape Finisterre, Spain.[32]
Jabez Howes  United States The sloop was lost sometime prior to 10 July 1869 in the waters of the Territory of Alaska at a location identified as the "Black Fox Islands" – possibly a reference to the Fox Islands group in the eastern Aleutian Islands.[33]
M. M. Merriman 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.[29]
Matoaka or Mataoka  United Kingdom The 1,092-ton full-rigged ship disappeared after departing Lyttelton, New Zealand, on 13 May bound for London with 32 crew and 45 passengers people on board.[34]
R. C. Waldron 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.[29]
Syrian  United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked in Corcubion Bay, near Cape Finisterre, northwest Spain.[35]

References

Notes
  1. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 161.
  2. Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  3. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  4. Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
  5. "Ocean Steam Navigation Company, New York 1846-1857". The Ships List. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  6. Tyne Built ships – Providence.
  7. Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 161–163.
  8. Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 275.
  9. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 163.
  10. thisismast.org Royal Navy Loss List Complete Database p. 134.
  11. "United Kingdom". Caledonian Maritime Heritage Trust. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  12. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 165.
  13. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (L)
  14. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 164.
  15. Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 165–166.
  16. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 166.
  17. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (P)
  18. "James Dixon". Tynebuilt. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  19. Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 166–167.
  20. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 167.
  21. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (E)
  22. Bignell, Alan (2001). Kent Shipwrecks (Second ed.). Newbury: Countryside Books. pp. 29–32. ISBN 1 85306 719 9.
  23. "Airdrie". Caledonian Maritime Heritage Trust. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  24. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  25. "Paddle corvettes (2nd class, 300 nhp)". Shipscribe. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  26. Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 285.
  27. plongee-infos.com "Chaque jour, une épave : 18 décembre 1869, la Gorgone," 18 December 2017. (French)
  28. Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: A. S. Ruthven
  29. njscuba.net "Lavallette Wreck"
  30. Historic England. "Avonmore (1062382)". PastScape. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  31. Gaines, p. 106.
  32. "Italian". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  33. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (J)
  34. Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 164–165.
  35. "Syrian". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

Bibliography
Ship events in 1869
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