List of shipwrecks in 1869

The list of shipwrecks in 1869 includes some of the ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1869.

table of contents

1869
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

January

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Lord Coke	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked on the Sizewell Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her four crew were rescued by the Southwold Lifeboat.[1]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Demetrius	flag unknown	The ship was driven ashore at Bridport, Dorset.[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Glide	United States	Destroyed by a boiler explosion.

February

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Schooner Friends	United Kingdom	Driven ashore at Margate, Kent in a storm.[3]

March

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Pilot cutter Mystery	Australia	Wrecked in Keppel Bay, Rockhampton, Queensland.

May

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Banryū	Imperial Japanese Navy	Sank during the Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay.
Chōyō	Imperial Japanese Navy	Sank during the Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay with the loss of 73 lives.

September

12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Carnatic	United Kingdom	Ran aground on the Sha`b Abu Nuhas reef, Red Sea with the loss of 31 lives.

23 September

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Ocean Wave	United States	Sank in Lake Michigan during a storm.

October

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Frank Shaw	United Kingdom	The collier ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent and was wrecked with the loss of eight of her 28 crew. Survivors were rescued by the Broadstairs and Ramsgate lifebats.[4]

December

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Loretta	Spain	The schooner was abandoned in the Bristol Channel off Porthcawl, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. All on board were rescued by Good Deliverance ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[5]

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Corliana	United Kingdom	The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Llanmadoc, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Clonakilty, County Cork to Newport, Monmouthshire[5]

31 December

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Nuavo Plato	Austria-Hungary	The brig foundered on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew survived.[5]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Elsinore	Denmark	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Walberswick, Suffolk, United Kingdom before 30 December.[1]
Triumph	Haiti	Disappeared off Cape Hatteras, United States after 19 December; en route from Chester, Pennsylvania to Port au Prince; apparently sinking with the loss of all hands.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1869

Ship	Country	Description
Avonmore	United Kingdom	Anchored off Sharp's Nose in the parish of Morwenstow, Cornwall where the captain ordered the three masts to be cut down. She drifted on to the rocks below Hawker's Hut, close to Higher Sharpnose Point. Seven out of twenty-two crew died. She was en route from Cardiff to Montevideo with coal.[6]
Diana	United Kingdom	Driven ashore at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire and broke up, a total loss.

References

1. Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
2. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
3. Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
4. Bignell, Alan (2001). Kent Shipwrecks (Second ed.). Newbury: Countryside Books. pp. 29–32. ISBN 1 85306 719 9.
5. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
6. "Avonmore". Pastscapes. English Heritage. Retrieved 8 April 2014.

Ship events in 1869
Ship launches:	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874
Ship commissionings:	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874
Ship decommissionings:	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874
Shipwrecks:	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.