List of shipwrecks in 1871

The list of shipwrecks in 1871 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1871.

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1871
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec

January

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1871
Ship Country Description
Theodore Engels  Belgium Driven ashore at Maurities during a gale, later refloated and returned to service.[1]

25 January

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1871
Ship Country Description
Brig Sarah  United Kingdom Wrecked off Margate, Kent in a storm.[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1871
Ship Country Description
Glide  United States Destroyed by a boiler explosion.

February

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1871
Ship Country Description
RNLB Robert Whitworth and 28 other ships RNLI
 United Kingdom		 28 ships were wrecked in Bridlington Bay, Yorkshire during the Great Gale of 1871. Over 50 sailors were drowned in the calamity, despite rescue efforts by the townspeople. The local lifeboat, RNLB Robert Whitworth, was also lost with 6 of her 9 crew.[3]

March

9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1871
Ship Country Description
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.[4]

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1871
Ship Country Description
Collingwood  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme Regis, Dorset.[5]

April

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1871
Ship Country Description
Cornish Diamond  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of two of her crew.[4]

June

13 June

List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1871
Ship Country Description
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

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1871
Ship Country Description
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

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1871
Ship Country Description

November

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1871
Ship Country Description
Robert Cottle  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground off Southwold, Suffolk and was wrecked with the loss of three of her six crew.[6]

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1871
Ship Country Description
Emperor  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked upon St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia.

December

7 December

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1871
Ship Country Description
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.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  2. ↑ Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
  3. ↑ Wilson, Mike (2002), The Great Gale of 1871, Harbour Heritage Museum
  4. 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  6. 1 2 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). 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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