List of shipwrecks in 1871

The list of shipwrecks in 1871 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1871.

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1871
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January

5 January
List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Theodore Engels  Belgium Driven ashore at Maurities during a gale, later refloated and returned to service.[1]

16 January
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Mary Louisa  New Zealand The 19-ton ketch capsized in a sudden storm at the mouth of Pelorus Sound, New Zealand.[2]

25 January
List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Sarah  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked in the North Sea off Margate, Kent, England, in a storm.[3]

26 January
List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Shamrock  New Zealand The 23-ton cutter grounded and was wrecked on the Whangapoua bar, New Zealand.[2]

February

6 February
List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Massachusetts  United States The 351-ton whaling ship was lost at Scammon Bay, Territory of Alaska, north of Cape Romanzof (61.7818°N 166.0372°W / 61.7818; -166.0372 (Cape Romanzof)).[4]

10 February
List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1871
ShipCountryDescription
RNLB Robert Whitworth and 28 other ships RNLI
 United Kingdom		 Twenty-eight ships were wrecked in Bridlington Bay, Yorkshire, England, during the Great Gale of 1871. Over 50 sailors were drowned in the calamity, despite rescue efforts by the townspeople. The local lifeboat, RNLB Robert Whitworth ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution), also was lost with six of her nine crew.[5]

14 February
List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Airedale  New Zealand The 286-ton brig-rigged steamer struck a reef near Waitara, New Zealand, while en route from Manukau Harbour to New Plymouth.[6]

20 February
List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Banshee  New Zealand The 70-ton schooner foundered after holing on a reef near Moeraki, New Zealand, while en route from Nelson to Dunedin. The five men on board took to the lifeboat, but it capsized. Only one of the five crew survived.[7]

March

9 March
List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Daring  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Pwlldu Bay, Glamorgan, Wales, with the loss of all six crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea to Cardiff, Wales.[8]

15 March
List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Collingwood  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.[9]

25 March
List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Twilight  New Zealand The 55-ton schooner was wrecked near Cape Maria van Diemen, New Zealand during a gale, with the loss of two crew.[10]

27 March
List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Hindu  Norway The 255-ton brig hit rocks in Foveaux Strait, New Zealand, while en route to Dunedin. Attempts at refloating the vessel failed and she broke up in a heavy surf. All 15 crew survived.[11]

April

5 April
List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Charlotte  New Zealand The cutter ran aground and was wrecked at Tahaenui Beach, near Nuhaka, New Zealand.[12]

5 April
List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Jane  New Zealand The 19-ton ketch was wrecked at Kemp Point, near Cape Jackson in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds.[12]

21 April
List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Cornish Diamond  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal in the Bristol Channel with the loss of two of her crew.[8]

May

15 May
List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Jinko Maru  Japan The disabled junk washed ashore on Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands with three survivors aboard. She had been adrift since November 1870, when a storm carried away her masts and rudder during a voyage along the coast of Japan from Ise to Kumano with a cargo of rice.[13]

20 May
List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1871
ShipCountryDescription
T.S. Webb  United Kingdom The iron screw steamer sank within a few minutes after a collision with the New York steamer Paraguay off Dungeness, England.

24 May
List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Foam  New Zealand The 40-ton ketch was driven onto Farewell Spit, New Zealand, in a sou'westerly gale and was wrecked.[12]

27 May
List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Tairoa  New Zealand The 51-ton paddle steamer became unresponsive while crossing the bar at Port Molyneux, at the mouth of the Clutha River and became a total loss.[12]

28 May
List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Julia  New Zealand The 15-ton schooner was wrecked at Takatu Point in the Hauraki Gulf with the loss of one life.[12]

June

1 June
List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Industry  New Zealand The 24-ton schooner was wrecked on the bar at the mouth of the Waikato River.[12]

11 June
List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Brothers And Sister  New Zealand The 21-ton ketch was driven ashore and wrecked at Constant Bay, Charleston on New Zealand's South island West Coast after her mooring lines broke.[12]

17 June
List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1871
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Megaera  Royal Navy After springing a leak four days earlier during a voyage from South Africa to Australia, the troopship was beached at Île Saint-Paul in the Indian Ocean. She was declared a total loss.

20 June
List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Kingfisher  United States The clipper sprang a leak during a voyage from San Francisco, California, to New York City. In distress, she put into port at Montevideo, Uruguay, where she was surveyed and condemned. However, she was sold locally in November 1871, and subsequently was repaired and returned to service as Jaime Ciblis ( Uruguay).

22 June
List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Eclair  New Zealand The 17-ton cutter was wrecked inside the mouth of the harbour at Tairua, New Zealand during a gale, likely because she was not carrying enough ballast.[14]
Knight Errant  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship broke up in a heavy gale off Tierra del Fuego. The full-rigged cargo ship Sam Cearns ( United Kingdom) rescued 24 of her crew; five crewman from the two ships combined died during the rescue.

26 June
List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Sam Cearns  United Kingdom The full-rigged cargo ship was wrecked off Tierra del Fuego in a heavy gale. All 60 people on board - 36 crew member from Sam Cairns and 24 survivors from the full-rigged ship Knight Errant ( United Kingdom), which had foundered on 22 June – reached shore safely.

July

20 July
List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Waterman unknown The 113-ton brigantine foundered while moored offshore in a storm off Hokitika, New Zealand. No lives were lost.[14]

30 July
List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Westfield  United States
Illustration of the recovery of bodies after the Westfield disaster.
The Staten Island Ferry, a steamboat, suffered a boiler explosion while moored at her slip at South Ferry on Manhattan in New York City. The explosion killed 85 people and injured hundreds of others.

31 July
List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Premier  New Zealand The 296-ton barque went ashore while trying to leave the harbour at Oamaru, New Zealand. Her rudder unshipped and mast broke. Attempts were made to refloat her over the next two months, and were finally successful in late September, but before she could be placed under controlled tow she was dashed on the rocks and became a total wreck.[14]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Golden Fleece  United States After arriving at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on 6 July 1871, with a fire in her forward hold that her crew had discovered on 4 July, the clipper was scuttled at Tobin′s Wharf in Halifax Harbour to extinguish it. After the 20 feet (6.1 m) of water in her hold was pumped out, the fire broke again, but was extinguished again by spraying water into the hold. The ship was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
Rose  New Zealand The ketch sailed from Westport, New Zealand with a crew of three in early July, but failed to arrive at her destination. Wreckage identified as belonging to the Rose washed up near Karamea on 20 July.[14]
HMS Vindictive  Royal Navy The store ship foundered at Fernando Po. Her wreck was sold on 24 November.

August

30 August
List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Peter Cracroft  New Zealand The 19-ton cutter stranded on Great Barrier Island and became a complete wreck.[15]

September
Illustration of the whaling ships trapped by ice in September 1871 in the Whaling Disaster of 1871.

In the Whaling Disaster of 1871, 32 U.S. whaling ships – one of them registered in the Kingdom of Hawaii – were trapped in pack ice in the Chukchi Sea in a line about 60 miles (97 km) south of Point Franklin, Territory of Alaska, and abandoned between 2 and 14 September. All 1,219 people aboard the ships were rescued by seven other whaling ships – Arctic, Chance, Daniel Webster, Europa, Lagoda, Midas, and Progress (all  United States) – that had not become trapped. One trapped vessel, Minerva ( United States) was discovered intact in 1872 and returned to service, but the other ships were crushed in the ice, sank, wrecked on the coast, or were stripped of wood or burned by the local Inupiat people. Details of each wreck are below.

2 September
List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Comet  Kingdom of Hawaii Whaling Disaster of 1871: The whaling ship – sources differ on whether she was a bark or a brig – was crushed in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska between Point Franklin and the Seahorse Islands. Her crew survived.[16]
YC-6  Royal Navy The yard craft – formerly the Clown-class gunboat HMS Clown – was lost in a typhoon at Hong Kong.
YC-7  Royal Navy The yard craft – formerly the Albacore-class gunboat HMS Forester – was lost in a typhoon at Hong Kong.

7 September
List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Roman  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 358-ton whaling ship was crushed by ice and lost in the Chukchi Sea off the Seahorse Islands (70°53′N 158°42′W) off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[17]

12 September
List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Awashonks  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 376-ton whaling bark was crushed between two ice floes and lost in the Chukchi Sea off the Seahorse Islands (70°53′N 158°42′W) off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived and was rescued by other whaling ships.[18]

13 September
List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Monticello  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 356-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Wainwright Inlet. Her crew survived.[4]

14 September
List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Carlotta  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 480-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[16]
Champion  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 367-ton full-rigged whaling ship was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[16]
Concordia  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 368-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived. Her wreck was found in 1872, destroyed by fire.[16]
Contest  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 341-ton whaling ship – sources differ on whether she was a bark or a full-rigged ship – was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[16]
Elizabeth Swift  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 327-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska at Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W) near Wainwright Inlet. Her crew survived.[19]
Emily Morgan  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 365-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[19]
Eugenia  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 315-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[19]
Fanny  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 391-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[20]
Florida  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 470-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived. Her wreck, burned to the waterline, was found aground in the Seahorse Islands in 1872.[20]
Gay Head  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 300-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived. Her wreck was found in 1872, destroyed by fire.[21]
George  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 259-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[21]
George Howland  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 361-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[21]
Henry Taber  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 296-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[22]
J. D. Thompson  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 432-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[13]
John Wells  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 357-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[13]
Julian  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 290-ton full-rigged whaling ship was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[13]
Mary  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 373-ton whaling ship was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[4]
Massachusetts  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 356-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived. Later reports indicate that her wreck eventually drifted around Point Barrow into the Beaufort Sea and was looted by Alaska Natives.[4]
Minerva  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 337-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). By the spring of 1872, she had drifted around to the entrance of Wainwright Inlet. Her crew survived. She was salvaged in 1872.[4]
Navy  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 385-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[23]
Oliver Crocker  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 305-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[24]
Paiea (or Paira Kahola)  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 386-ton bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska at Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W) near Wainwright Inlet (70°36′N 160°00′W). Her crew survived.[25]
Reindeer  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 332.33-ton wooden ship was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W) and Wainwright Inlet (70°36′N 160°00′W). Her crew survived.[17]
Seneca  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 328-ton whaler was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher. Her crew survived. Her wreck was found during 1872 frozen solidly in the ice with its bowsprit and rudder missing and its bulwarks stove in after being dragged by ice a distance up the coast.[26]
Thomas Dickason  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 461-ton whaler was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived. Her wreck was found during the summer of 1872 lying on its side on the shore, bilged and full of water.[27]
Victoria  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 149-ton whaling brig was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[28]
Victoria II  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 149-ton whaling bark was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Belcher (70°47′40″N 159°39′02″W). Her crew survived.[28]
William Rotch  United States Whaling Disaster of 1871: The 290-ton bark was forced ashore by ice and abandoned without loss of life south of Wainwright Inlet (70°36′N 160°00′W) near Point Barrow, Territory of Alaska. Her crew survived.[29]

17 September
List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Bouvet  French Navy The sloop-of-war was wrecked near Haiti.[30]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Oriole  United States The 280-ton whaling bark was crushed by ice and abandoned off the Siberian coast of the Russian Empire near Saint Lawrence Bay in Chukotka. She later was towed to Plover Bay on the southern coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia and abandoned again.[24]

October

5 October
List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Midlothian  New Zealand The 15-ton ketch stranded on the bar at the mouth of the Wairoa River and became a complete wreck.[15]

14 October
List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Leonidas  New Zealand The 79-ton schooner foundered after hitting rocks at the entrance to Whangape Harbour.[15]

15 October
List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1871
ShipCountryDescription
A. H. Badger  New Zealand The barque collided with the United States paddle steamer Nevada in the mid-Tasman Sea, some 300 miles west of New Zealand's North Cape. The barque's rigging was carried away and the hull was holed below the waterline. Those on board took to the lifeboats, from which they were rescued by the crew of the Alice Cameron.[31]

19 October
List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Byzantium  United States The 179-ton whaliing brig struck a reef in Weynton Passage (50°35′N 126°49′W) in Johnstone Strait off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, then slid off the reef and sank in 360 feet (110 m) of water.[32]

25 October
List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Aparima  New Zealand The 30-ton ketch was washed ashore by a swell near the entrance to the Mataura River when the wind dropped to a flat calm shortly after she left her moorings.[15]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Rifleman  New Zealand The 81-ton schooner left Lyttelton, New Zealand for Havelock on 10 October, and was last seen fighting a gale near Cape Campbell. No trace of the ship or her six crew was ever found.[15]

November

5 November
List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Robert Cottle  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground off Southwold, Suffolk and was wrecked with the loss of three of her six crew.[33]

10 November
List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Mosquito  New Zealand The 15-ton ketch was beached on Kapiti Island during a gale, and became a complete wreck.[15]
Waihopi (or Waihopai)  New Zealand The 34-ton schooner was wrecked in Palliser Bay, close to the mouth of the Ruamahanga River, during a gale. All hands were saved.[15]

11 November
List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Angelina  New Zealand The 22-ton ketch became stranded and wrecked at Port Underwood, New Zealand.[34]

20 November
List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Hattie C. Besse  United States The four-masted sailing ship was stranded on the coast of the Washington Territory, 20 miles (37 km) south of Cape Flattery.

22 November
List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Ahuriri  New Zealand The 131-ton iron steamer hit an uncharted rock and sank off the Otago coast near Waikouaiti. All on board took to the lifeboat and arrived safely on shore.[34]

27 November
List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Emperor  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked upon St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia.

December

7 December
List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Friends  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Southwold, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to Southwold.[33]

14 December
List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Midge  New Zealand The 92-ton schooner was wrecked while trying to enter Kaipara Harbour, New Zealand.[34]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: unknown date 1871
ShipCountryDescription
USS Chattanooga  United States Navy The decommissioned screw frigate was sunk by drifting ice at her moorings at League Island in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her wreck was sold in January 1872.

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1871
ShipCountryDescription
Aries Unknown The steamer was lost at Cranberry Inlet on the coast of New Jersey.[35]
Catherine Jackson Unknown The vessel 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.[35]
Jane Ann  New Zealand The ketch left Greymouth, New Zealand in April 1871 and was not sighted again. Wreckage was recovered from the sea near Haumuri Bluff in early June which proved to be from the Jane Ann. No trace of her crew were ever found.[12]
Kanrin Maru  Imperial Japanese Navy The screw corvette was wrecked in a typhoon at Esashi, Hokkaido, Japan.
O. H. Canady 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.[35]
Oneida 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.[35]
Porcia  United States The vessel was lost in the Arctic on or near the north coast of the Territory of Alaska.[25]
Snaefell  Isle of Man The paddle steamer ran aground while operating on the Douglas, Isle of Man–Liverpool, England, route. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
Villotine Unknown The barque 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.[35]
America  Uruguay The steamship suffered a catastrophic fire due to an overheated boiler off the coast of Punta Espinillo, outside the harbor of Montevideo. One of the survivors was Ramón Artagaveytia.

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Notes
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  2. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 172.
  3. Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
  4. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (M)
  5. Wilson, Mike (2002), The Great Gale of 1871, Harbour Heritage Museum
  6. Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 172–173.
  7. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 173.
  8. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  9. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  10. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 174.
  11. Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 174–175.
  12. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 175
  13. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (J)
  14. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 176.
  15. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 177.
  16. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (C)
  17. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (R)
  18. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (A)
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  30. Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 321.
  31. Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 177–178.
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Ship events in 1871
Ship launches: 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876
Ship commissionings: 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876
Ship decommissionings: 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876
Shipwrecks: 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876


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