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

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1869

Ship	Country	Description
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]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Union	United States	The sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Lafayette rapids on the Dayton River in Oregon. Her boiler later was salvaged.

22 January

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Glide	United States	The sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by a boiler explosion.

February

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Friends	United Kingdom	The schooner was driven ashore at Margate, Kent, England, in a storm.[3]

March

9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Blue Jacket	United States	The clipper was abandoned four days after her cargo caught fire in the South Atlantic Ocean off the Falkland Islands. Her nine survivors were rescued on 16 March by the barque Pyrmont ( North German Confederation).

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Mystery	Australia	The lugger, serving as a pilot cutter, was wrecked in Keppel Bay, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.

May

11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Chōyō Maru	Imperial Japanese Navy	Illustration of the explosion of Chōyō Maru. Boshin War, Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay: The steam corvette exploded and sank in Hakodate Bay, Japan, with the loss of at least 86 lives when she suffered a hit in her ammunition magazine during combat with the paddle schooner Banryū ( Republic of Ezo).

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Cheduba	United Kingdom	The steamship sank in the Bay of Bengal with the loss of all hands.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Banryū	Republic of Ezo	Boshin War, Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay: The paddle schooner was beached on the shore of Hakodate Bay, Japan, and set on fire after running out of ammunition. She later was salvaged and placed in commercial service.
Matoaka	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship disappeared after departing Lyttelton, New Zealand, on 13 May bound for London with 77 people on board.

September

12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Carnatic	United Kingdom	The wreck of Carnatic, The Illustrated London News, 16 October 1869. The steamship was wrecked on the Sha`b Abu Nuhas reef in the Red Sea with the loss of 31 lives.

23 September

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Ocean Wave	United States	The scow schooner sank without loss of life in Lake Michigan off Door County, Wisconsin, during a storm.

October

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Frank Shaw	United Kingdom	The collier ran aground on the Goodwin Sands in the English Channel off Kent, englad, and was wrecked with the loss of eight of her 28 crew. Survivors were rescued by the Broadstairs and Ramsgate lifebats ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[4]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Lightning	United Kingdom	The clipper was scuttled in Corio Bay off Geelong, Victoria, Australia, after a fire aboard her went out of control.

December

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1869

Ship	Country	Description
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).[5]

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Corliana	United Kingdom	The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Llanmadoc, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Clonakilty, County Cork to Newport, Monmouthshire[5]

31 December

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Nuavo Plato	Austria-Hungary	The brig foundered on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew survived.[5]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Elsinore	Denmark	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Walberswick, Suffolk, United Kingdom before 30 December.[1]
Triumph	Haiti	The casemate ironclad disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean off the United States East Coast, probably off the Delaware Capes or Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, sometime after 19 December while en route from Chester, Pennsylvania. to Port au Prince. Haiti, apparently sinking with the loss of all hands.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869

Ship	Country	Description
A. S. Ruthven	United States	The screw steamer was lost during 1869.[6]
Avonmore	United Kingdom	Anchored off Sharp's Nose in the parish of Morwenstow, Cornwall, England, 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.[7]
Diana	United Kingdom	The whaler was driven ashore at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, England, and broke up, a total loss.
Italian	United Kingdom	The cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked at Cape Finisterre, Spain.[8]
Syrian	United Kingdom	The cargo ship was wrecked in Corcubion Bay.[9]

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