List of shipwrecks in 1866

The list of shipwrecks in 1866 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1866.

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1866
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

10 January

List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1866
Ship Country Description
Hannah Moore  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Rat Island, Devon with the loss of nineteen of her 25 crew. She was on a voyage from Chile to Queenstown, County Cork.[1]

14 January

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1866
Ship Country Description
Ocean Bride  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Langton Matravers, Dorset.[2]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1866
Ship Country Description
Dinanais  France Sailing from Dinan (Brittany), ran aground on the coast of St Ouen Jersey, Channel Islands [3]

March

20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1866
Ship Country Description
Eliza Jane  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Equity ( United Kingdom).[1]

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1866
Ship Country Description
Elizabeth  United Kingdom The smack sank at Cardigan. Her six crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[4]
Vesta  United Kingdom The brig foundered in Swansea Bay. Her seven crew were rescued by Martha and Anne ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[1]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1866
Ship Country Description
Queen  United Kingdom The paddle steamer struck the Tings Rocks, in the Bristol Channel off Hartland Point, Devon and was holed. She was beached at Clovelly, Devon where she subsequently broke her back and was a total loss. All on board survived[1]

April

4 April

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1866
Ship Country Description
Ebgante Quebec While en route to Liverpool from New York City with oak, she was abandoned by her crew 100 miles west of the Isles of Scilly. The crew were picked up by the Ferdinand of Bremen and later transferred to the pilot cutter Agnes and taken to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.[5]

25 April

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1866
Ship Country Description
Cubana  United Kingdom Sunderland barque struck the Seven Stones reef while both her master and mate were asleep below. She was bound for St Jago, Cuba with sixteen crew, one passenger and a cargo of coal, iron and mining gear. Ten of the crew and the passenger took to one of the boats and rowed to the lightship and transferred to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly by pilot cutter.[5]

May

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1866
Ship Country Description
Hornet  United States of America The clipper ship burned at sea and sank in the Pacific Ocean during a voyage from New York City to San Francisco, California. The crew abandoned ship in three open lifeboats, two of which disappeared. Fourteen men survived for 43 days aboard the third boat before reaching Hawaii on 15 June 1866.

13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1866
Ship Country Description
General Grant  United States of America
General Grant
The barque ran aground and sank off the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand. Sixty-eight were lost (fifty-five passengers and thirteen crew). Several attempts were made to salvage the gold.

July

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1866
Ship Country Description
Palestro  Regia Marina Third Italian War of Independence, Battle of Lissa: The coastal defense ship exploded and sank in the Adriatic Sea off Lissa with the loss of 211 of her 230-man crew after the ironclad warship SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Max (Austrian Empire Imperial Austrian Navy) rammed her, dismasting her and setting her afire.
Re d'Italia  Regia Marina Third Italian War of Independence, Battle of Lissa: The ironclad warship capsized and sank in the Adriatic Sea off Lissa with the loss of 400 of her 566-man crew after the ironclad warship SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Max (Austrian Empire Imperial Austrian Navy) rammed her.

September

10 September

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1866
Ship Country Description
Chasseur  France The brig was wrecked on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the tug Tweed ( United Kingdom). Chasseur was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Barcelona, Spain.[1]

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1866
Ship Country Description
Emilie  United Kingdom The schooner sank in five minutes after hitting the Seven Stones reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall in fog, while bound from Poole for Runcorn. Her crew of five survived.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?213318 |title=Dinanais (+1866) |publisher=wrecksite.eu
  4. ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
Ship events in 1866
Ship launches: 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871
Ship commissionings: 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871
Ship decommissionings: 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871
Shipwrecks: 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871
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