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

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
Sarah	United Kingdom	The brig was wrecked in the North Sea off Margate, Kent, England, in a storm.[2]

February

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1871

Ship	Country	Description
RNLB Robert Whitworth and 28 other ships	RNLI  United Kingdom	Twenty-eight ships were wrecked in Bridlington Bay, Yorkshire, England, 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 ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution), also was lost with six of her nine 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 Pwlldu Bay, Glamorgan, Wales, with the loss of all six crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea to Cardiff, Wales.[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, England.[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

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1871

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Megaera	Royal Navy	After springing a leak four days earlier during a voyage from South Africa to Australia, the troopship was beached at Île Saint-Paul in the Indian Ocean. She was declared a total loss.

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Kingfisher	United States	The clipper sprang a leak during a voyage from San Francisco, California, to New York City. In distress, she put into port at Montevideo, Uruguay, where she was surveyed and condemned. However, she was sold locally in November 1871, and subsequently was repaired and returned to service as Jaime Ciblis ( Uruguay).

22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Knight Errant	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship broke up in a heavy gale off Tierra del Fuego. The full-rigged cargo ship Sam Cearns ( United Kingdom) rescued 24 of her crew; five crewman from the two ships combined died during the rescue.

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Sam Cearns	United Kingdom	The full-rigged cargo ship was wrecked off Tierra del Fuego in a heavy gale. All 60 people on board - 36 crew member from Sam Cairns and 24 survivors from the full-rigged ship Knight Errant ( United Kingdom), which had foundered on 22 June – reached shore safely.

July

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Westfield	United States	Illustration of the recovery of bodies after the Westfield disaster. The Staten Island Ferry, a steamboat, suffered a boiler explosion while moored at her slip at South Ferry on Manhattan in New York City. The explosion killed 85 people and injured hundreds of others.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Golden Fleece	United States	After arriving at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on 6 July 1871, with a fire in her forward hold that her crew had discovered on 4 July, the clipper was scuttled at Tobin′s Wharf in Halifax Harbour to extinguish it. After the 20 feet (6.1 meters) of water in her hold was pumped out, the fire broke again, but was extinguished again by spraying water into the hold. The ship was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

September

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1871

Ship	Country	Description
33 whaling ships	All  United States	Illustraion of the whaling ships trapped by ice in September 1871 in the Whaling Disaster of 1871. Whaling Disaster of 1871: The barks Awashonks, Carlotta, Concordia, Elizabeth Swift, Emily Morgan, Eugenia, Fanny, George, George Howland, Henry Taber, J. D. Thompson, Massachusetts, Minerva, Monticello, Navy, Oliver Crocker, Paiea (or Paia), Roman, Seneca, and Thomas Dickason, the brigs Comet, Kohola, and Victoria, and the full-rigged ships Contest, Champion, Florida, Gay Head, John Wells, Julian, Mary, Reindeer, and William Rotch all were trapped in pack ice in the Chukchi Sea in a line about 60 miles (97 km) south of Point Franklin, Territory of Alaska. All 1,219 people aboard the ships were rescued by seven whaling ships – Europa, Arctic, Progress, Lagoda, Daniel Webster, Midas, and Chance (all  United States) – that had not become trapped. Minerva was discovered intact in 1872 and returned to service, but the other ships were crushed in the ice, sank, or were stripped of wood or burned by the local Inupiat people.

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]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Kanrin Maru	Imperial Japanese Navy	The screw corvette was wrecked in a typhoon at Esashi, Hokkaido, Japan.
Snaefell	Isle of Man	The paddle steamer ran aground while operating on the Douglas, Isle of Man–Liverpool, England, route. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

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