List of shipwrecks in 1860
The list of shipwrecks in 1860 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1860.
January
26 January
- John & Isabella (
United Kingdom): The brig foundered in the North Sea off Walberswick, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.[1]
February
8 February
- Hungarian ( United Kingdom): The steamship was wrecked at Cape Ledge, Nova Scotia, Canada with the loss of all 205 people on board.
10 February
- Ralph Barnell ( United Kingdom): The fishing smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Easton Bavents, Suffolk.[1]
April
5 April
- John Purdie ( United Kingdom): The schooner, in ballast, struck a sunken rock near the Runnelstone and sank. The crew escaped in the ship's boat. She was on a voyage from St Michael's Mount, Cornwall to Llanelly, Glamorgan.[2]
18 April
- Helena (
Norway): The brig struck the Runnelstone. Despite taking on water she was towed to Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom by a passing steamer. She was on a voyage from Bergen to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom with a cargo of ice.[2]
May
22 May
- Malabar ( United Kingdom): The steamship was wrecked at Point de Galle, Ceylon. All on board were rescued.
June
21 June
- USCS Robert J. Walker (
United States Coast Survey): The survey ship sank in a collision off the coast of New Jersey, 12 nautical miles (22 km) southeast of Absecon Light, with the death of twenty people.[3]
July
13 July
- Agnes (
New South Wales): The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Newcastle, New South Wales. She was on a voyage from Newcastle to Sydney.
14 July
- Osvetitel (
Austrian Empire: The ship was wrecked in fog on the Maiden Bower Rock in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued and most of her cargo of barley was recovered. She was on a voyage from Brăila, United Principalities to Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[4]
August
16 August
- Colonsay ( United Kingdom): The full-rigged ship was wrecked on a reef two miles off Speedwell Island, Falkland Islands on voyage from the Chincha Islands and Callao for England with guano. The crew of about 22 were marooned ashore for 11 days before rescued by a sealer and taken to Stanley.[5]
19 August
- Aurora ( United Kingdom): The brig went ashore, in fog, on the Brow-of-Ponds, in the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly while carrying wheat from Brăila, United Principalities to Falmouth. Her crew survived but the cargo was lost and the wreck was sold 23 August.[4]
September
2 September
- SMS Frauenlob (
Prussian Navy): The schooner foundered off Yokohama, Japan in a typhoon with the loss of all hands.
8 September
- Lady Elgin ( United States): The Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard owned steamship was accidentally rammed and sunk by schooner Augusta ( United States) off Highland Park, Illinois. There were in excess of four hundred dead.[6]
14 September
- Punjab ( United Kingdom): The barque struck the Seven Stones reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall. The crew and passengers, bar one, was rescued by the Joshua and Mary ( United Kingdom) and landed at Falmouth, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Algoa Bay to Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands carrying 300 tons of wool and hides[7]
October
14 October
- Jeune Honore (
France): The schooner was in collision with an Austrian vessel and foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lavernock Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[8]
Unknown date
- Kingston ( United Kingdom): The schooner was wrecked at Penarth Head, Glamorgan. Her six crew were rescued.[8]
November
14 November
- Elizabeth Ann ( United Kingdom): The smack was wrecked on the coast of Dorset. Her three crew were rescued.[9]
26 November
- Empire ( United Kingdom): The ship sank during a severe gale in the North Channel, Isles of Scilly after hitting the Peaked Rock.[4][10]
Unknown date
- Cezimpra ( United Kingdom): The schooner ran aground on the sands at the back of the Bude breakwater, Cornwall. Her crew escaped via a line thrown to the shore.[11]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874". Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Noall, Cyril (1968). Cornish Lights and Ship-Wrecks. Truro: D Bradford Barton.
- ↑ NOAA "NOAA confirms wreck is lost 19th century U.S. Coast Survey steamer
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Larn, Richard (1992). Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar.
- ↑ "Loss of a Glasgow vessel and sufferings of the crew". Daily News (4556) (London). 18 December 1860.
- ↑ Boyer, Dwight (1971). True Tales of the Great Lakes. Cleveland, OH: Freshwater Press Inc. pp. 177–208. ISBN 0-912514-48-5.
- ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ Allsop, Tim; Cawthray, Anna (2009). Underwater Scilly. Scilly: Marshfield Underwater Publications. ISBN 9780956187406.
- ↑ "Cezimpra". Pastscape. English Heritage. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
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| Ship commissionings: | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 |