List of shipwrecks in 1873
The list of shipwrecks in 1873 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1873.
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May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Unknown date |
January
22 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Northfleet | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship sank with the loss of 293 lives after being rammed while at anchor by the steamship Murillo ( Spain) three miles off Dungeness. There were 86 survivors. |
23 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Talisman | United Kingdom | The 738-gross register ton general cargo ship foundered 48 nautical miles (89 km) northwest of The Burlings archipelago off Portugal.[1] |
February
3 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Russell | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore at Dunwich, Suffolk.[2] |
Unidentified brigantine | flag unknown | Foundered in heavy seas on the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall. The captain of a nearby French schooner decided it was too dangerous to approach the wreck, leaving those on board to drown.[3] |
March
2 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Boyne | United Kingdom | The 690-ton iron–hulled barque carrying sugar from Semarang to Falmouth, sank under Angrouse Cliff near Mullion Cove, Cornwall with the loss of all but four of her crew.[4][5][6] |
3 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Odysseus | Greece | The barque was driven ashore and wrecked on Pwll Du Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Swansea, Glamorgan.[7] |
7 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Dollart | Germany | The schooner got into difficulties of Cemaes Head, Cardiganshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[8] |
April
1 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Atlantic | United Kingdom |
23 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nebula | United Kingdom | The barque ran aground at Port Eynon Point, Glamorgan and was severely damaged. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Cardiff, Glamonrgan. Nebula was later refloated, repaired and returned to service.[7] |
June
5 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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PSS Waverley | United Kingdom | Two funnels, two masts side paddle wheel propulsion and accommodation for 450-560 passengers. Used on the Southampton - Channel Islands service. On 5th June 1873 she was wrecked in fog on Platte Boue Rock, Little Roussel, Guernsey.[9] [10] |
7 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Stornoway | United Kingdom | The clipper was wrecked on the Kentish Knock off the coast of England at the mouth of the River Thames. |
10 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cornish Girl | United Kingdom | Mousehole sailing lugger sank after striking the Round Rock in the Spanish Ledges on the Isles of Scilly in fine weather. No lives lost.[11] |
July
1 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Tromp | Netherlands | Ran aground off Cape Räz Ghärib, Egypt on maiden voyage. Refloated on 10 August, repaired and returned to service.[12] |
August
12 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Elizabeth | France | The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel south east of Worms Head, Glamorgan, United Kingdom with the loss of one of her five crew. Survivors were rescued by the schooner Pet ( United Kingdom). Elizabeth was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine.[7] |
29 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ironsides | United States | The paddle steamer ran aground at Hog Island, Virginia, and was lost. |
Triton | Germany | The barque was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of two of her eight crew. Survivors were rescued by the paddle tug Digby Grand ( United Kingdom).[7][7] |
September
13 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ocean | United Kingdom | The smack ran aground at Cardigan. Her two crew were rescued.[8] |
October
19 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Peggy | United Kingdom | The sloop foundered off Cardigan. Her two crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Cardigan.[8] |
20 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fernando el Católico | Spanish Navy | Cantonal Revolution: The gunboat sank off the coast of Spain with heavy loss of life after colliding with the broadside ironclad Numancia ( Spanish Navy). |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Meridian | United States | The schooner sank in Lake Michigan off Sister Bay, Wisconsin, during a storm. |
November
18 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Helen Patterson | Canada | The barque was wrecked off Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Portland, Maine, United States.[13] |
22 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Clarisse | France | The barque, based in Granville, Manche lost in the Minquiers, Channel Islands, during a trip from Bordeaux (Aquitaine) to her home port. There was only one survivor.[14] [15] |
Ville du Havre | France | |
Loch Earn | United Kingdom | The three-masted ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean without loss of life after a collision with the paddle steamer Ville du Havre ( France). Her passengers and crew and survivors she had taken aboard from Ville du Havre were rescued by the cargo ship Tremountain ( United States). |
26 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Coquette | France | The schooner was wrecked near Porthleven, Cornwall.[16] |
December
8 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Vaderland | Belgium | Collided off South Foreland, England with fishing lugger Consolation ( United Kingdom) which sank.[17] |
30 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Tetuán | Spanish Navy | Cantonal Revolution: The broadside ironclad burned and sank, perhaps due to sabotage, while undergoing repairs at Cartagena, Spain. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unidentified | A full-rigged ship wrecked on the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall.[3] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alexander Oldham | United States | The sidewheel paddle steamer was lost during 1873.[18] |
Ellen Martin | United Kingdom | The schooner beached on Summerlease Point Cliffs, north Cornwall, while attempting to enter the harbour at Bude. Her crew was taken off by breeches buoy and the ship's figurehead was in the captain's garden for many years.[19] |
Grecian | United Kingdom | The cargo ship foundered.[20] |
Ismailia | United Kingdom | After being sighted in the Atlantic Ocean on 2 October during a voyage from New York City to Glasgow, Scotland, with 52 people on board, the passenger-cargo ship disappeared without trace.[20] |
Otto | Norway | The brig was fifty-eight days out from Bahia for Falmouth when she was wrecked in Mount's Bay. The Penzance lifeboat Richard Lewis rescued eight men, a dog and a pig at the third attempt. (Wrecked again in 1888).[21] |
Rose | United Kingdom | Five nights after the Otto, easterly hurricane strength winds wrecked the schooners Rose and Treaty ( United Kingdom) while the lifeboat was on call off the Eastern Green, Penzance to aid the schooner Marie Emile ( France) which was heading for her home port of Lorient with a cargo of coal from Cardiff. All saved on board. [21] |
Treaty | United Kingdom | Five nights after the Otto, easterly hurricane strength winds wrecked the schooners Rose and Treaty ( United Kingdom) while the lifeboat was on call off the Eastern Green, Penzance to aid the schooner Marie Emile ( France) which was heading for her home port of Lorient with a cargo of coal from Cardiff. All saved on board. [21] |
References
- ↑ "SS Talisman (1873)". wrecksite.eu.
- ↑ Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- 1 2 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
- ↑ McBride, P. W. J.; Richard, L. & Davis, R. (Ferdinand Research Group). (1971) "A Mid–17th Century Merchant Ship-wreck near Mullion, Cornwall: interim report". Cornish Archaeology 10: 75–78
- ↑ Larn, Richard and Bridget (1997). "Vol 1 Section 4". Shipwreck Index of the British Isles. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping ISBN 0-900528-88-5
- ↑ "Boyne". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- 1 2 3 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ "PSS Waverley [+1873]". wrecksite.eu.
- ↑ "1873". RNLI.
- ↑ Larn, Richard (1971). Cornish Shipwrecks – The Isles of Scilly. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- ↑ "Helen Patterson - 1873". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ↑ "SV Clarisse (+1873)". wrecksite.eu.
- ↑ Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
- ↑ Treglown, Tony (2011). Porthleven in Years Gone by; Local Shipwrecks. Ashton: Tony Treglown.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Fisher
- ↑ "Ellen Martin". Pastscape. English Heritage. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
- 1 2 "Grecian". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- 1 2 3 Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. A History. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
Ship events in 1873 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 |
Ship commissionings: | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 |
Shipwrecks: | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 |
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