List of shipwrecks in 1866
The list of shipwrecks in 1866 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1866.
January
10 January
- Hannah Moore (
United Kingdom): The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Rat Island, Devon with the loss of nineteen of her 25 crew. She was on a voyage from Chile to Queenstown, County Cork.[1]
14 January
- Ocean Bride ( United Kingdom): The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Langton Matravers, Dorset.[2]
March
20 March
- Eliza Jane ( United Kingdom): The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Equity ( United Kingdom).[1]
23 March
- Elizabeth ( United Kingdom): The smack sank at Cardigan. Her six crew were rescued by John Stuart (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[3] - Vesta ( United Kingdom): The brig foundered in Swansea Bay. Her seven crew were rescued by Martha and Anne ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[1]
Unknown date
- Queen ( United Kingdom): The paddle steamer struck the Tings Rocks, in the Bristol Channel off Hartland Point, Devon and was holed. She was beached at Clovelly, Devon where she subsequently broke her back and was a total loss. All on board survived[1]
April
4 April
- Ebgante Quebec: While en route to Liverpool from New York with oak, she was abandoned by her crew 100 miles west of the Isles of Scilly. The crew were picked up by the Ferdinand of Bremen and later transferred to the pilot cutter Agnes and taken to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.[4]
25 April
- Cubana ( United Kingdom): Sunderland barque struck the Seven Stones reef while both her master and mate were asleep below. She was bound for St Jago, Cuba with sixteen crew, one passenger and a cargo of coal, iron and mining gear. Ten of the crew and the passenger took to one of the boats and rowed to the lightship and transferred to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly by pilot cutter.[4]
May
13 May
- General Grant (
United States of America): The barque ran aground and sank off the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand. Sixty-eight were lost (fifty-five passengers and thirteen crew). Several attempts were made to salvage the gold.
Clipper ship Hornet. Bound from New York to San Francisco, burned at sea. Fourteen men survived for 43 days in an open boat before reaching Hawaii.
September
10 September
- Chasseur (
France): The brig was wrecked on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the tug Tweed ( United Kingdom). Chasseur was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Barcelona, Spain.[1]
18 September
- Emilie ( United Kingdom): The schooner sank in five minutes after hitting the Seven Stones reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall in fog, while bound from Poole for Runcorn. Her crew of five survived.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 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.
- ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
| Ship events in 1866 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 |
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