List of shipwrecks in 1868

The list of shipwrecks in 1868 includes some of the ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1868.

January

Albion ( United Kingdom): The brig ran aground off Whitford Point, Glamorgan and was abandoned by her seven crew, who all subsequently drowned.^[1]

Amethyst ( United Kingdom): The ship foundered om the Bristol Channel off Llanelli, Glamorgan with the loss of all hands.^[1]
Anne ( United Kingdom): The ship was wrecked on Burry Holms, in the Bristol Channel.^[1]
Brothers ( United Kingdom): The ship was driven ashore at Llanelli.^[1]
Huntress ( United Kingdom): The ship was driven ashore at Llanelli.^[1]
Jennie Celine ( United Kingdom): The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Llanelli with the loss of all hands.^[1]
Mary Fanny ( United Kingdom): The ketch was driven ashore and damaged in Rhosilli Bay. She was later repaired and returned to service. Mary Fanny was shelled and sunk by a German Submarine on 15 September 1918.^[1]^[2]
Onward ( United Kingdom): The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Llanelli with the loss of all hands.^[1]
Roscius ( United Kingdom): The ship was driven ashore at Llanelli.^[1]

Marie Leocadie (flag unknown): The ship was wrecked at Bridport, Dorset.^[3]

Gleaner ( United States): The 135 ton Newport, Rhode Island brig was thought to have hit the Seven Stones reef and sank 30 miles (48 km) NW by W of Land's End, Cornwall.^[4]

Alicia ( United Kingdom): The barque was wrecked at Kurrachee, India. Her crew were rescued.^[5]

USS Naiad ( United States of America): The steamboat sank at Napoleon, Missouri.39°08′00″N 94°04′25″W / 39.1332°N 94.0735°W / 39.1332; -94.0735 (USS Naiad)

Torrent ( United States of America): The wooden barque foundered in a storm and went ashore in Cook Inlet, Alaska.^[6]

USS Wateree ( United States): While in port at Arica (then part of Peru) an earthquake struck the city subjecting Wateree and other ships in the harbour to several tsunamis. The last tsunami broke the side-wheeler gunboat's anchor chains and drove her ashore almost 500 yards (457 metres) inland from the normal high-water mark.^[7]

Alexandria ( United States): The tug caught fire and was destroyed at City Point, Virginia.

North Britain ( United Kingdom) : The barque was driven ashore at Long Rock, Mount's Bay, Cornwall.^[8]

Kinloss ( United Kingdom): The schooner was wrecked near Muchalls, Kincardineshire with the loss of one of her five crew.^[9]

Leopard ( United Kingdom): The ship was driven ashore at Westward Ho!, Devon. Her crew were rescued by Hope ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) with the loss of a crewman from the lifeboat. Leopard was on a voyage from the West Indies to Gloucester.^[1]
Pace ( Austrian Empire): The ship was wrecked in Bideford Bay with the loss of two of her fourteen crew. Survivors were rescued by Hope ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Pace was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom to Fiume.^[1]

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
↑ "Mary Fanny". Uboat.net. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 23684. pp. 5619–5620. 2 December 1870.
↑ "The Torrent Shipwreck Project". Lostshipwrecks.com. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
↑ "Wateree". United States Navy. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. A History. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 23489. p. 2294. 16 April 1869.

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