List of shipwrecks in 1869
The list of shipwrecks in 1869 includes some of the ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1869.
January
15 January
- Lord Coke (
United Kingdom): The ship was wrecked on the Sizewell Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her four crew were rescued by the Southwold Lifeboat.[1]
22 January
Unknown date
- Glide (
United States): Destroyed by a boiler explosion.
February
12 February
- Schooner Friends ( United Kingdom): Driven ashore at Margate, Kent in a storm.[3]
March
26 March
- Pilot cutter Mystery (
Australia): Wrecked in Keppel Bay, Rockhampton, Queensland.
May
Unknown date
- Banryū (
Imperial Japanese Navy): Sank during the Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay. - Chōyō ( Imperial Japanese Navy): Sank during the Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay with the loss of 73 lives.
September
12 September
- Carnatic ( United Kingdom): Ran aground on the Sha`b Abu Nuhas reef, Red Sea with the loss of 31 lives.
23 September
- Ocean Wave (
United States): Sank in Lake Michigan during a storm.
December
5 December
- Loretta (
Spain): The schooner was abandoned in the Bristol Channel off Porthcawl, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. All on board were rescued by Good Deliverance (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[4]
13 December
- Corliana ( United Kingdom): The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Llanmadoc, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Clonakilty, County Cork to Newport, Monmouthshire[4]
31 December
- Nuavo Plato (
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Austria-Hungary): The brig foundered on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew survived.[4]
Unknown date
- Elsinore (
Denmark): The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Walberswick, Suffolk, United Kingdom before 30 December.[1] - Triumph (
Haiti): Disappeared off Cape Hatteras, United States after 19 December; en route from Chester, Pennsylvania to Port au Prince; apparently sinking with the loss of all hands.
Unknown date
- Avonmore ( United Kingdom): Anchored off Sharp's Nose in the parish of Morwenstow, Cornwall where the captain ordered the three masts to be cut down. She drifted on to the rocks below Hawker's Hut, close to Higher Sharpnose Point. Seven out of twenty-two crew died. She was en route from Cardiff to Montevideo with coal.[5]
- Diana ( United Kingdom): Driven ashore at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire and broke up, a total loss.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874". Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. pp. p88. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ↑ "Avonmore". Pastscapes. English Heritage. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
| Ship events in 1869 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 |
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