List of shipwrecks in 1870
The list of shipwrecks in 1870 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1870.
1870 | |||
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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
January
2 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Eliza | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all hands.[1] |
4 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Maria | United States Navy | The paddle tug collided with the monitor USS Miantonomoh ( United States Navy) and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.[2] |
16 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Laura | United Kingdom | The vessel sprang a leak and foundered in the English Channel 9 nautical miles (17 km) south of Bridport, Dorset. Her nine crew were rescued.[3] |
24 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Oneida | United States Navy |
28 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Boston | United Kingdom | Departed Halifax, Nova Scotia for Liverpool. No further trace, possibly foundered in a storm on 30 January. |
March
2 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Shōhei Maru | Imperial Japanese Navy | The sailing frigate was wrecked on a sandbar at 41°52′N 140°07′E / 41.867°N 140.117°E off what is now Kaminokuni, Hokkaidō, Japan, after a storm. |
17 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Normandy | United Kingdom | The paddle-wheel mail steamer sank with the loss of 10 lives in the English Channel 20 miles from The Needles after colliding with the screw steamship Mary (flag unknown). Mary rescued 50 survivors. |
May
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Joseph Hume | United Kingdom | The ship foundered on or about 10 May with some loss of life.[4] |
June
1 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cremorne | United States | The clipper passed through the Golden Gate bound for Liverpool, England. No further trace. |
17 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Forward | Canada | Battle of Boca Teacapan: The steamship, which had been seized by Mexican pirates and was in use as a pirate ship, was beached in the Teacapan Estuary at Boca Teacapan, Sinaloa, Mexico, when she was destroyed by United States Navy and United States Marine Corps personnel manning six boats – a howitzer-equipped launch and five cutters – from the sloop-of-war USS Mohican ( United States Navy). |
23 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary | United Kingdom | The schooner was in collision with the steamship Sheldrake ( United Kingdom) and sank with the loss of one life. Survivors were rescued by Sheldrake, which lost a crew member in the accident. Mary was on a voyage from Barrow in Furness, Lancashire to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[1] |
July
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Maeander | Royal Navy | The sailing frigate foundered in a gale in the South Atlantic Ocean off Ascension Island at 7°54′45″S 14°24′24″W / 7.91250°S 14.40667°W. |
September
6 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Captain | Royal Navy | The masted turret ship capsized and sank in a gale in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Finisterre, Spain, with the loss of approximately 480 lives. There were 27 survivors. |
October
12 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Brigand | United Kingdom | The schooner was in collision with another vessel off The Mumbles, Glamorgan, Wales, and foundered. Her crew were rescued by the tug Pero Gomez ( United Kingdom).[1] |
Joseph et Marie | flag unknown | The schooner foundered off Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sardinia, Italy to Swansea.[1] |
Key West | United States | The merchanr steamer ran aground off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and was wrecked.. |
16 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sydney | United Kingdom |
19 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cambria | United Kingdom | The passenger-cargo steamship was wrecked off the Giant's Causeway, Ireland. |
26 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kennet | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Bridport, Dorset.[3] |
29 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Saginaw | United States Navy |
November
17 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Seraing | Belgium | Wrecked near Björkösund, Gulf of Finland.[5] |
29 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Union | Germany | The Norddeutscher Lloyd mail steamer, Bremen for New York with 310 passengers, after repairing engine in heavy weather, stranded off Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire. All passengers, 112 crew and mails were landed in boats.[6] The ship later broke up.[7] |
December
9 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Dasher | United Kingdom | The pilot cutter struck the Tusker Rock, in the Bristol Channel and was wrecked. Her three crew were rescued by Good Deliverance ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[1] |
15 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Psyche | Royal Navy | The paddle dispatch vessel was wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off Catania, Sicily, Italy. |
24 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ulpiano | Spain | The barque was stranded on Süderoogsand, Föhr, Germany 54°25′30″N 8°28′44″E / 54.425°N 8.478889°E[8] |
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ "Maria". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- 1 2 "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ "No. 23709". The London Gazette. 24 February 1871. p. 706.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ "The Shipwreck of the German Steamship "Union"". The Aberdeen Journal (6413). 7 December 1870. p. 6.
- ↑ "Breaking up of the steamer Union". The Dundee Courier & Argus (5417). 12 December 1870. p. [3].
- ↑ Das Meer legt die "Ulpiano" frei (German)
See also
Ship events in 1870 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 |
Ship commissionings: | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 |
Shipwrecks: | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 |
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