List of shipwrecks in 1860

The list of shipwrecks in 1860 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1860.

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1860
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1860

Ship	Country	Description
SS Northerner	USA	Built in 1847, she was sold to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in December 1850. She was used on the San Francisco to Panama City service until May 1853. She was then used as a spare steamer and later placed on the San Francisco – Columbia River and Puget Sound service. A state historic landmark, cross and monument mark the spot where she was wrecked near Humboldt Bay on January 7, 1860 with the loss of 38 lives.[1][2][3][4]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1860

Ship	Country	Description
John & Isabella	United Kingdom	The brig foundered in the North Sea off Walberswick, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.[5]

February

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Hungarian	United Kingdom	The steamship was wrecked at Cape Ledge, Nova Scotia, Canada with the loss of all 205 people on board.

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Ralph Barnell	United Kingdom	The fishing smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Easton Bavents, Suffolk.[5]

27 February

List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1860

Ship	Country	Description
PS Nimrod	Ireland	The paddle steamer was driven ashore and wrecked at St David's Head, Wales.[6]

April

5 April

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1860

Ship	Country	Description
John Purdie	United Kingdom	The schooner, in ballast, struck a sunken rock near the Runnelstone and sank. The crew escaped in the ship's boat. She was on a voyage from St Michael's Mount, Cornwall to Llanelly, Glamorgan.[7]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Helena	Norway	The brig struck the Runnelstone. Despite taking on water she was towed to Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom by a passing steamer. She was on a voyage from Bergen to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom with a cargo of ice.[7]

30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Roger Stewart	United Kingdom	The ship, built about 1810 as Arab, foundered in a hurricane in 36°N 72°W, Mobile, Alabama for Liverpool with cotton. Only seven of the crew of 24 were rescued.[8]

May

22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Malabar	United Kingdom	The steamship was wrecked at Point de Galle, Ceylon. All on board were rescued.

June

21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1860

Ship	Country	Description
USCS Robert J. Walker	United States Coast Survey	The survey ship sank in a collision off the coast of New Jersey, 12 nautical miles (22 km) southeast of Absecon Light, with the death of twenty people.[9]

July

13 July

List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Agnes	New South Wales	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Newcastle, New South Wales. She was on a voyage from Newcastle to Sydney.

14 July

List of shipwrecks: 14 July 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Osvetitel	Austrian Empire	The ship was wrecked in fog on the Maiden Bower Rock in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued and most of her cargo of barley was recovered. She was on a voyage from Brăila, United Principalities to Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[10]

August

16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Colonsay	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was wrecked on a reef two miles off Speedwell Island, Falkland Islands on voyage from the Chincha Islands and Callao for England with guano. The crew of about 22 were marooned ashore for 11 days before rescued by a sealer and taken to Stanley.[11]

19 August

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Aurora	United Kingdom	The brig went ashore, in fog, on the Brow-of-Ponds, in the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly while carrying wheat from Brăila, United Principalities to Falmouth. Her crew survived but the cargo was lost and the wreck was sold 23 August.[10]

September

2 September

List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1860

Ship	Country	Description
SMS Frauenlob	Prussian Navy	The schooner foundered off Yokohama, Japan in a typhoon with the loss of all hands.

8 September

List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Lady Elgin	United States	The Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard owned steamship was accidentally rammed and sunk by schooner Augusta ( United States) off Highland Park, Illinois. There were in excess of four hundred dead.[12]

14 September

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Punjab	United Kingdom	The barque struck the Seven Stones reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall. The crew and passengers, bar one, was rescued by the Joshua and Mary ( United Kingdom) and landed at Falmouth, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Algoa Bay to Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands carrying 300 tons of wool and hides[13]

October

6 October

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1860

Ship	Country	Description
SS Connaught	United Kingdom	The paddle steamer sprang a leak, caught fire and sank in the Atlantic Ocean 87 nautical miles (161 km) off the coast of Massachusetts, United States. All on board, nearly 600 people, were rescued by the brig Minnie Schiffer ( United States).[14]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Jeune Honore	France	The schooner was in collision with an Austrian vessel and foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lavernock Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[15]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Kingston	United Kingdom	The schooner was wrecked at Penarth Head, Glamorgan. Her six crew were rescued.[15]

November

14 November

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Elizabeth Ann	United Kingdom	The smack was wrecked on the coast of Dorset. Her three crew were rescued.[16]

26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Empire	United Kingdom	The ship sank during a severe gale in the North Channel, Isles of Scilly after hitting the Peaked Rock.[10][17]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1860

Ship	Country	Description
Cezimpra	United Kingdom	The schooner ran aground on the sands at the back of the Bude breakwater, Cornwall. Her crew escaped via a line thrown to the shore.[18]

References

1. CERES, State Historical Landmarks. "CERES State Historical Landmarks". CERES.
2. Vincent, Francis (1860). Semi-Annual United States Register. Philadelphia: Francis Vincent. p. 672.
3. GenDisasters. "Cape Medocino, CA Steamship Northerner Wreck, Jan 1860". CERES.
4. "The Loss of the Steamship Northerner.; STATEMENT OF CAPT. DALL--NAMES OF THE LOST AND SAVED.". The New York Times. January 20, 1860.
5. Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
6. "Loss of the "Nimrod", Steamship". Monmouthshire Merlin. 10 March 1860. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
7. Noall, Cyril (1968). Cornish Lights and Ship-Wrecks. Truro: D Bradford Barton.
8. "Vessels Foundered". The Morning Chronicle (29134) (London). 26 May 1860. p. 6.
9. NOAA "NOAA confirms wreck is lost 19th century U.S. Coast Survey steamer
10. Larn, Richard (1992). Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar.
11. "Loss of a Glasgow vessel and sufferings of the crew". Daily News (4556) (London). 18 December 1860.
12. Boyer, Dwight (1971). True Tales of the Great Lakes. Cleveland, OH: Freshwater Press Inc. pp. 177–208. ISBN 0-912514-48-5.
13. Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
14. "Inside the hunt for a million-dollar haul of ocean gold". BBC Future. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
15. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
16. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
17. Allsop, Tim; Cawthray, Anna (2009). Underwater Scilly. Scilly: Marshfield Underwater Publications. ISBN 9780956187406.
18. "Cezimpra". Pastscape. English Heritage. Retrieved 18 December 2012.

Ship events in 1860
Ship launches:	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865
Ship commissionings:	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865
Ship decommissionings:	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865
Shipwrecks:	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865