List of shipwrecks in 1867

The list of shipwrecks in 1867 includes some of the ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1867.

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1867
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

January

3 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Marianne Shifornaine	France	The lugger foundered nine miles north of Govrevy Point, Cornwall, United Kingdom while bound for Nantes from Cardiff with coal and other, unspecified cargo. Three of the four crew lost their lives.[1]

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Eliza	United Kingdom	The schooner heading for Devoran from Wales with coal, lost her foremast and maintopmast in a gale, and attempted to make for St Ives. She anchored between Gurnard's Head and the Three Oar Stone but was blown back out to sea where the steamship Colon took off all of her crew of seven, bar one man Richard Bawden who fell overboard and drowned. The Eliza sank off Plymouth the previous year.[1]
Oliver Lloyd	United Kingdom	The sloop was driven out of Cardigan in a gale. Her three crew were rescued by John Stuart () Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Cardigan. Oliver Lloyd was later taken in to Cardigan.[2]
Salome	United Kingdom	and Heiress ( United Kingdom) of Teignmouth were each attended by the lifeboat Richard Lewis ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) which was launched twice at Long Rock, Mount's Bay, Cornwall.[3][4]
Selina Ann	United Kingdom	Six men from the Looe brigatine were saved by the Richard Lewis ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) in Mount's Bay.[4] The Richard Lewis saved thirty men from four different shipwrecks.[5]
Turtle Dove	United Kingdom	The smack was driven out of Cardigan in a gale. Her three crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Cardigan. Turtle Dove was later taken in to Cardigan.[2]

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Courrier de Dieppe	France	Wrecked off Dymchurch, Kent in a gale and heavy sea. One man was rescued by the Rev Charles Cobb who waded into the surf.[5]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1867

Ship	Country	Description
John Gray	United Kingdom	While on voyage from Demerara to London, the Glasgow registered barque beached at Long Rock in a tremendous SSW gale. Thirteen crew were saved by the lifeboat Richard Lewis ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[3]
Seraphim	France	The brigantine was wrecked near Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, United kingdom. Her eight crew were rescued by City of Bath ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[6]

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Ann & Emily	United Kingdom	The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme, Dorset.[7]
Coronation	United Kingdom	The smack was lost off Cardigan. Her four crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Plymouth, Devon.[2]
Espoir	France	The lugger foundered in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by City of Bath ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Nantes, Loire-Atlantique.[6]
Panda	United Kingdom	The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme.[7]
Spec	United Kingdom	The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme.[7]
Tiger	United Kingdom	The steamship was heading for Liverpool from Bayonne with an unspecified cargo when she foundered off either the Brisons or Pendeen in a force 9 NW gale. All fourteen on board lost their lives. The ship's boat was found at Porthchapel and Joseph Bawden of Phillack was committed at Camborne Petty Sessions to two months hard labour for concealment of staves, the property of Her Majesty's Customs.[1]
Vulan	United Kingdom	The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme.[7]
Zenith	United Kingdom	The brig foundered in the Bristol Channel off Burry Holms with the loss of all hands.[6]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Superior	Sweden	The brig, with coal for London from Cardiff, lost her bearings and canvas off the Cornish coast and struck a reef at Millook. Nine of the fifteen aboard lost their lives including the Captain.[1]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Blayais	France	The brig, ran aground on the board of the Minquiers, S of Jersey Channel Islands. The crew escaped with life boats. .[8]

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Humane Society's lifeboat		The lifeboat went to the aid of an unnamed three-masted vessel ( France) which went ashore at the back of Calais pier. Five of the English voluntary lifeboat crew drowned when the lifeboat capsized.[5]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Vesper	Brazil	The Clyde built paddle-wheel steamer split in half and foundered approximately 50 miles (80 km) off the Isles of Scilly while heading for Bahia, Brazil where she was going to work the rivers as a ferry. Most of the crew were saved by the steamer Vigilante ( Denmark) bar three.[5]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Unnamed ships		A number of ships on the Thames were dismasted, stove in or driven ashore by one to 12 ft (3.7 m) thick ice blocks, which were breaking up.[5]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1867

Ship	Country	Description
		Unnamed steamer lost with only 80 of the 400 onboard found (report in the Morning Herald, New York).[5]

February

3 February

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1867

Ship	Country	Description
James	United Kingdom	The schooner sank off the Black Rocks, in Cardigan Bay. She was later salvaged.[2]

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Edouard	France	The sloop was lost by hitting a rock N of Plateau des Minquiers, S of Jersey Channel Islands.[9]

6 February

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Albert Edward II	Royal National Lifeboat Institution	During a service to the schooner Georgiana, which was dragging her anchors and being driven onto the Doom Bar, the lifeboat was driven ashore at St Minver with five of the lifeboat crew drowning. One crew from Georgiana also drowned.[10]
Fanny Lambert	United Kingdom	The steamship sank in a force 10 WNW gale, 6 miles (9.7 km) – 8 miles (13 km) north of St Ives Head, Cornwall. She was heading to Dieppe from Cardiff and all eighteen crew lost their lives.[1][11]

11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Zanoni	United Kingdom	While on voyage from Port Wakefield to Port Adelaide in South Australia, the Liverpool registered barque foundered during a squall in Gulf St Vincent early in the afternoon of 11 February 1867. Fourteen crew and two passengers escaped to the vessel’s small boats and were rescued at 11 pm that day by the sailing ketch Powles.[12]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Fortuna	Prussia	The brig was driven ashore and wrecked in Broughton Bay. Her crew were rescued.[6]

March

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Providence	United Kingdom	The Channel Island brig collided with the Gambia ( United Kingdom) of Plymouth, struck the Albert Pier and sank off Penzance harbour, Cornwall. Both crews were saved.[13][14]

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Jonkeer		went ashore on rocks near Polurrian in Mount's Bay during a storm. The only survivor, a Greek sailor, climbed the cliff, in Mullion parish and was discovered the following morning.[15]

July

17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Monarch	Victoria	Ran aground on the western side of Port Phillip while on voyage from Melbourne to Newcastle.[16]

October

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Amazon	Canada	The brigantine was driven ashore on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada and was abandoned. Salvaged in 1868, repaired and returned to service as Mary Celeste.

November

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Marie	Greifswald	The brig was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her eleven crew were rescued by the Penarth Lifeboat.[6]

December

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Good Intent		The brigantine, carrying coal, sank after hitting the Crim Rocks, in the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly.[17]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1867

Ship	Country	Description
Eliza		The coal hulk was wrecked in the Isles of Scilly. Her figurehead is in the Tresco Abbey Gardens on Tresco.[18]

References

1. Larn, Richard; Larn, Bridget (1997). Shipwreck Index of the British Isles. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
2. "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
3. Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications. ISBN 0-9533028-0-6.
4. Corin, J; Farr, G (1983). Penlee Lifeboat. Penzance: Penlee & Penzance Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. p. 120. ISBN 0-9508611-0-3.
5. "General Miscellany". Royal Cornwall Gazette. 24 January 1867. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
6. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
7. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
8. cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?208853 |title=SV Blayais (+1867) |publisher=wrecksite.eu
9. cite web |url=tp://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?213838 |title=SV Edouard (+1867) |publisher=wrecksite.eu
10. Larn, Richard; Larn, Bridget. Wreck & Rescue round the Cornish coast. Redruth: Tor Mark Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-85025-406-8.
11. Lettens, Jan. "SS Fanny Lambert [+1867]". wrecksite. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
12. "South Australian Shipwrecks, The Zanoni 1865 - 1867" (PDF). Heritage South Australia, Government of South Australia. 2000. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
13. 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.
14. "Providence". English Heritage NMR. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
15. Anon (1914). A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Penzance and West Cornwall (Twelfth (revised) ed.). London: Ward Lock.
16. Lettens, Jan. "Monarch (+1867)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
17. Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
18. "Eliza". Geograph. Retrieved 8 August 2012.

Ship events in 1867
Ship launches:	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872
Ship commissionings:	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872
Ship decommissionings:	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872
Shipwrecks:	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872