List of shipwrecks in 1861

The list of shipwrecks in 1861 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1861.

January

Mary Jane ( United Kingdom): The ship ran aground on the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel and was abandoned. She was subsequently taken in to Porthcawl, Glamorgan, repaired and returned to service.^[1]

Dewi Wynn ( United Kingdom): The schooner was wrecked at Cardigan. Her eight crew were rescued.^[2]

Mersey ( United Kingdom): 219 ton Brixham brig wrecked on the beach at Porthleven, Cornwall.^[3]

Hero ( United Kingdom): The Bideford polacca brigantine slipped her moorings in Penzance harbour during SSW hurricane force winds. Four of her crew and two others drowned.^[4]
Mentor ( Jersey): The ship parted her cables in the Isles of Scilly and collided with the brig Arthemise ( France). The crew managed to get on board the Arthemise which was then ran ashore.^[5]
Pauline ( France): Carrying railway iron from Ardrossan to Rouen, the schooner was driven onto Crow Bar in the Isles of Scilly^[5]

Award ( United Kingdom): While on her second voyage and bound from Liverpool for New Orleans, the 846 ton sailing ship struck rocks 1.5 miles (2.4 km) off Gweal. NNW force 8 to 9 winds drove her on to the northern end of Gweal, in the Isles of Scilly, pushing her bow on to land and forming a temporary bridge to the island. After twelve hours the crew of twenty-four managed to scramble ashore.^[6]

USS South Wind ( United States): During the American Civil War the schooner was scuttled in the Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina.

USS Phoenix ( United States): During the American Civil War the whaler was scuttled off Tybee Island, Georgia, USA.

USS South America ( United States): During the American Civil War the whaler was beached at Tybee Island, Georgia, USA.

Villiers ( United Kingdom): The brigantine was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of two of her eight crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Alicante, Spain.^[1]

↑ 1.0 1.1 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
↑ Treglown, Tony (2011). Porthleven in Years Gone by; Local Shipwrecks. Ashton: Tony Treglown.
↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications. ISBN 0-9533028-0-6.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
↑ "Valhalla - Award 1861". Tresco Estate. Retrieved 5 November 2013.