List of shipwrecks in 1871
The list of shipwrecks in 1871 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1871.
January
5 January
- Theodore Engels (
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Belgium): Driven ashore at Maurities during a gale, later refloated and returned to service.[1]
25 January
- Brig Sarah (
United Kingdom): Wrecked off Margate, Kent in a storm.[2]
Unknown date
- Glide (
United States): Destroyed by a boiler explosion.
March
9 March
- Daring ( United Kingdom): The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Pwll Du, Glamorgan with the loss of all six crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea to Cardiff.[3]
15 March
- Collingwood ( United Kingdom): The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme Regis, Dorset.[4]
April
21 April
- Cornish Diamond ( United Kingdom): The schooner was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of two of her crew.[3]
June
13 June
- Megaera (
Royal Navy): Sprang a leak on a voyage from South Africa to Australia. Beached at Île Saint-Paul, French Southern and Antarctic Lands on 17 June and declared a total loss.
22 June
- The ship-rigged Knight Errant was lost off Tierra del Fuego; after rescuing her crew the ship Sam Cearns was also wrecked.
September
Unknown date
- - Barks Awashonks, Carlotta, Concordia, Elizabeth Swift, Emily Morgan, Eugenia, Fanny, George Howland, Henry Taber, J D Thompson, Massachusetts, Minerva, Monticello, Navy, Oliver Crocker, Paiea, Roman, Seneca and Thomas Dickason; Brigs Comet, Kohola and Victoria; Ships Contest, Champion, Florida, Gay Head, John Wells, Julian, Mary, Reindeer, William Rotch (all United States): All lost or abandoned in the Whaling Disaster of 1871. Minerva discovered intact in 1872 and returned to service.
November
5 November
- Robert Cottle ( United Kingdom): The schooner ran aground off Southwold, Suffolk and was wrecked with the loss of three of her six crew.[5]
December
7 December
- Friends ( United Kingdom): The ship was driven ashore at Southwold, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to Southwold.[5]
References
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. pp. p89. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874". Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
| Ship events in 1871 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 |
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