List of shipwrecks in 1860

The list of shipwrecks in 1860 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1860.

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1860
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1860
Ship Country Description
SS Northerner  USA Built in 1847, she was sold to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in December 1850. She was used on the San Francisco to Panama City service until May 1853. She was then used as a spare steamer and later placed on the San Francisco – Columbia River and Puget Sound service. A state historic landmark, cross and monument mark the spot where she was wrecked near Humboldt Bay on January 7, 1860 with the loss of 38 lives.[1][2][3][4]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1860
Ship Country Description
John & Isabella  United Kingdom The brig foundered in the North Sea off Walberswick, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.[5]

February

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1860
Ship Country Description
Hungarian  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked at Cape Ledge, Nova Scotia, Canada with the loss of all 205 people on board.

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1860
Ship Country Description
Ralph Barnell  United Kingdom The fishing smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Easton Bavents, Suffolk.[5]

April

5 April

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1860
Ship Country Description
John Purdie  United Kingdom The schooner, in ballast, struck a sunken rock near the Runnelstone and sank. The crew escaped in the ship's boat. She was on a voyage from St Michael's Mount, Cornwall to Llanelly, Glamorgan.[6]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1860
Ship Country Description
Helena  Norway The brig struck the Runnelstone. Despite taking on water she was towed to Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom by a passing steamer. She was on a voyage from Bergen to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom with a cargo of ice.[6]

May

22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1860
Ship Country Description
Malabar  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked at Point de Galle, Ceylon. All on board were rescued.

June

21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1860
Ship Country Description
USCS Robert J. Walker United States United States Coast Survey The survey ship sank in a collision off the coast of New Jersey, 12 nautical miles (22 km) southeast of Absecon Light, with the death of twenty people.[7]

July

13 July

List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1860
Ship Country Description
Agnes United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New South Wales The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Newcastle, New South Wales. She was on a voyage from Newcastle to Sydney.

14 July

List of shipwrecks: 14 July 1860
Ship Country Description
Osvetitel  Austrian Empire The ship was wrecked in fog on the Maiden Bower Rock in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued and most of her cargo of barley was recovered. She was on a voyage from Brăila, United Principalities to Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[8]

August

16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1860
Ship Country Description
Colonsay  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked on a reef two miles off Speedwell Island, Falkland Islands on voyage from the Chincha Islands and Callao for England with guano. The crew of about 22 were marooned ashore for 11 days before rescued by a sealer and taken to Stanley.[9]

19 August

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1860
Ship Country Description
Aurora  United Kingdom The brig went ashore, in fog, on the Brow-of-Ponds, in the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly while carrying wheat from Brăila, United Principalities to Falmouth. Her crew survived but the cargo was lost and the wreck was sold 23 August.[8]

September

2 September

List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1860
Ship Country Description
SMS Frauenlob Kingdom of Prussia Prussian Navy The schooner foundered off Yokohama, Japan in a typhoon with the loss of all hands.

8 September

List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1860
Ship Country Description
Lady Elgin  United States The Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard owned steamship was accidentally rammed and sunk by schooner Augusta ( United States) off Highland Park, Illinois. There were in excess of four hundred dead.[10]

14 September

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1860
Ship Country Description
Punjab  United Kingdom The barque struck the Seven Stones reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall. The crew and passengers, bar one, was rescued by the Joshua and Mary ( United Kingdom) and landed at Falmouth, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Algoa Bay to Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands carrying 300 tons of wool and hides[11]

October

6 October

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1860
Ship Country Description
SS Connaught  United Kingdom The paddle steamer sprang a leak, caught fire and sank in the Atlantic Ocean 87 nautical miles (161 km) off the coast of Massachusetts, United States. All on board, nearly 600 people, were rescued by the brig Minnie Schiffer ( United States).[12]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1860
Ship Country Description
Jeune Honore  France The schooner was in collision with an Austrian vessel and foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lavernock Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[13]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1860
Ship Country Description
Kingston  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked at Penarth Head, Glamorgan. Her six crew were rescued.[13]

November

14 November

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1860
Ship Country Description
Elizabeth Ann  United Kingdom The smack was wrecked on the coast of Dorset. Her three crew were rescued.[14]

26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1860
Ship Country Description
Empire  United Kingdom The ship sank during a severe gale in the North Channel, Isles of Scilly after hitting the Peaked Rock.[8][15]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1860
Ship Country Description
Cezimpra  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on the sands at the back of the Bude breakwater, Cornwall. Her crew escaped via a line thrown to the shore.[16]

References

  1. ↑ CERES, State Historical Landmarks. "CERES State Historical Landmarks". CERES.
  2. ↑ Vincent, Francis (1860). Semi-Annual United States Register. Philadelphia: Francis Vincent. p. 672.
  3. ↑ GenDisasters. "Cape Medocino, CA Steamship Northerner Wreck, Jan 1860". CERES.
  4. ↑ "The Loss of the Steamship Northerner.; STATEMENT OF CAPT. DALL--NAMES OF THE LOST AND SAVED.". The New York Times. January 20, 1860.
  5. 1 2 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  6. 1 2 Noall, Cyril (1968). Cornish Lights and Ship-Wrecks. Truro: D Bradford Barton.
  7. ↑ NOAA "NOAA confirms wreck is lost 19th century U.S. Coast Survey steamer
  8. 1 2 3 Larn, Richard (1992). Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar.
  9. ↑ "Loss of a Glasgow vessel and sufferings of the crew". Daily News (4556) (London). 18 December 1860.
  10. ↑ Boyer, Dwight (1971). True Tales of the Great Lakes. Cleveland, OH: Freshwater Press Inc. pp. 177–208. ISBN 0-912514-48-5.
  11. ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  12. ↑ "Inside the hunt for a million-dollar haul of ocean gold". BBC Future. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  13. 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  14. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  15. ↑ Allsop, Tim; Cawthray, Anna (2009). Underwater Scilly. Scilly: Marshfield Underwater Publications. ISBN 9780956187406.
  16. ↑ "Cezimpra". Pastscape. English Heritage. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
Ship events in 1860
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Ship commissionings: 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865
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Shipwrecks: 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865
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