List of shipwrecks in 1859
The list of shipwrecks in 1859 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1859.
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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Unknown date |
January
21 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Czar | ![]() |
The 740 ton government transport ship was wrecked on the Vrogue Rocks, off Bass Point, The Lizard, Cornwall. The coastguard from Cadgwith and Church Cove saved some of the crew but the captain and his family drowned. Following the tragedy Mrs Agar of Lanhydrock donated money to buy the first Lizard Lifeboat (Anna Maria) which was stationed later in the year. Czar was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Malta with a cargo of ammunition and uniforms.[1] |
February
4 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ignez de Castro | ![]() |
The steamship was wrecked at Peniche, Portugal. Crew and passengers saved.[2] |
26 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Jaseur | ![]() |
. The Algerine-class gunboat) ran aground on the Bajo Nuevo Bank, in the Caribbean Sea. Her crew survived. |
27 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lochlibo | ![]() |
The ship was wrecked and a total loss on Hartland Point, Devon, while carrying coal from Newport to Rio de Janeiro.[3] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Jubilee | ![]() |
The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Minsmere Sluice, Suffolk before 14 February.[4] |
March
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pizarro | ![]() |
The brigantine foundered off Cape Horn in early March. |
April
27 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fame | ![]() |
The fishing vessel capsized near the Seven Stones Lightship (![]() |
May
5 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary | ![]() |
The ship was run down and sunk in the Irish Sea by Tivy (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Amelia | ![]() |
The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel. Her four crew were rescued.[7] |
June
28 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Argo | ![]() |
The passenger ship was wrecked in Trepassey Bay. All on board survived. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Two unidentified schooners | One was driven ashore, above the spring high tide mark, in Par harbour, Cornwall during ″very considerable oscillations of the sea″. A second schooner's hawsers parted and she was driven out of the harbour by the current and went ashore nearby. This was on 25 or 26 June.[8] |
July
7 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Elk | ![]() |
The Belfast and Glasgow mail steamer ran aground at Ballymacormick Point near Groomsport, County Down.[9] |
14 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Arrow | ![]() |
The brigantine ran aground off the Tweed River Bar, New South Wales.[10] |
Dohallard | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked in the Bay of Biscay while en route to Nantes.[11] |
27 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Duque do Porto | ![]() |
After hitting a rock in fog, the ship was beached at Peniche.[12] |
August
1 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ebenezer | ![]() |
Four died when Ebenezer hit the Tweed River bar, New South Wales while en route from Sydney to Tweed River.[13] |
6 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Admella | ![]() |
The passenger ship hit Carpenters Reef, about 20 miles (32 km) off Cape Northumberland, South Australia, while bound for Melbourne, New South Wales from Adelaide. Differing accounts give eighty-three or eighty-nine people lost their lives.[14][15] |
Equateur | ![]() |
Carrying coal from Sydney to Calcutta, the barque was lost in the Torres Strait, off Murray Island.[16] |
7 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nantucket | ![]() |
The whaler was wrecked off the Island of Nashawena, Massachusetts. |
17 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Aigrette | ![]() |
A boiler exploded and she sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south-west of Antivari, Principality of Montenegro in the Adriatic Sea.[17] |
City of Calcutta | ![]() |
Ran aground in the Hooghly River, West Bengal, India.[18] |
29 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Plymouth | ![]() |
The schooner's cargo shifted in a WNW force 9 gale, and she foundered in the Bristol Channel 12 miles (19 km) south-west of Newport, Monmouthshire after she sprang a leak. She was en route to London with railway track.[19] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Patriot | ![]() |
The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Easton Bavents, Suffolk before 9 August.[4] |
September
4 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Suffolk | ![]() |
The brig ran aground off Tuggerah Beach, New South Wales, while in ballast from Launceston, Tasmania to England.[20] |
17 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lucinde | ![]() |
The brig was wrecked off Minsmere, Suffolk, United Kingdom with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by the Southwold Lifeboat. Lucinde was on a voyage from Memel to Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom.[4] |
20 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Express | ![]() |
The South Western Steam Co mail ship sank near Corbiere Jersey Channel Islands. [21] |
28 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Friends | ![]() |
The ketch foundered on the Helwick Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all six crew.[7] |
October
17 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Iris | ![]() |
The schooner caught fire and sank in the Bristol Channel off Hartland Point, Devon. She was carrying coal from Cardiff to Devoran, Cornwall.[3] |
24 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Troy | ![]() |
Eighteen people lost when Troy foundered in Lake Huron while carrying passengers and wheat. Eight people survived.[22] |
25 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Busy | ![]() |
The sloop was abandoned in the Bristol Channel 8 miles (13 km) south of Lundy Island, Devon.[19] |
Eliza | ![]() |
The smack was driven ashore and wrecked at The Mumbles, Glamorgan.[7] |
Margaret Lloyd | ![]() |
The dandy foundered in the Irish Sea off Cardigan Island, Cardiganshire. Her eight crew were rescued by the Cardigan Lifeboat.[6] |
Morning Star | ![]() |
The smack foundered in the Irish Sea off Cardigan Head, Cardiganshire with the loss of her three crew. |
Union | ![]() |
The sloop was driven ashore at Worms Head, Glamorgan. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Bridgwater, Somerset to Llanelli, Glamorgan.[7] |
Unidentified ships | Two lost on the Stones reef, Cornwall during a storm known as the Royal Charter Storm.[23] | |
Unidentified ships | Three (a barque, brigantine and schooner) lost on Lundy in the Bristol Channel.[19] |
26 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ann | ![]() |
While carrying iron ore, the snow from Blyth was stranded and lost on Morte Point, north Devon in a north-west force 11.[3] |
Rose | ![]() |
The schooner from Padstow was stranded and lost on Morte Point, north Devon. All crew were lost with the exception of William Darke, the owner and master of the vessel.[3] |
Clara | ![]() |
The schooner was stranded and a total loss on Morte Point, north Devon.[3] |
Iron Age | ![]() |
All eleven crew died when Iron Age foundered off Trevose Head, Cornwall.[24] |
Royal Charter | ![]() |
![]() Royal Charter. In what became known as the Royal Charter Storm, the steam clipper dragged her anchors and was wrecked in Lligwy Bay near Moelfre, with the loss of over four hundred and fifty lives.[25] |
28 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Neptune | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore at Southwold, Suffolk.[4] |
30 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ann Emma | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore at Southwold, Suffolk.[4] |
31 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Robert Henry | ![]() |
The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Pennard, Glamorgan. Her crew survived.[7] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Oscar | ![]() |
The brig was driven ashore at St Mawes, Cornwall, United Kingdom in a severe storm. She was later refloated.[26] |
November
1 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hero | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore at Southwold, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was later refloated and taken in to Lowestoft, Suffolk for repairs.[4] |
Royalist | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Southwold.[4] |
Silva | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Southwold.[4] |
2 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sanda | ![]() |
The barque was driven ashore on the Kenfig Sands, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued.[7] |
7 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Chincas | ![]() |
The ship was driven onto Loe Bar, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, United Kingdom when her anchor cable parted in high winds. She was bound for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom with 3,000 tons of coal and was the largest sailing ship to be wrecked on the bar. Four of the crew of thirty-five lost their lives.[23] |
Beverley | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked on the shore one mile south–west of Upton Cliff, near Bude, Cornwall. Her crew and one female passenger were rescued by the rocket apparatus and her captain jumped overboard and reached the shore.[27] |
15 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Herald of the Morning | ![]() |
The ship was severely damaged by fire in Hobsons Bay, New South Wales. |
17 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Burmah | ![]() |
The ship was sighted in the Pacific Ocean (48°S 97°E / 48°S 97°E) whilst on a voyage from London to New Zealand. No further trace, presumed subsequently foundered with the loss of all on board. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Raven | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Dunwich, Suffolk.[4] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Good Hope | ![]() |
The ship foundered in the Irish Sea. She was on a voyage from Cardigan to Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.[6] |
William & Mary | ![]() |
The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at The Mumbles, Glamorgan. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Youghal, County Cork.[7] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Yemassee | ![]() |
The ship was lost in Loch Bharcasaig.[28] |
References
- ↑ "The Lizard in Landewednack". Lizard History Society.
- ↑ "Loss of the Screw Steamer 'Ignez de Castro'". Glasgow Herald (6050). 8 February 1859. p. 2.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Larn, Richard; Larn, Bridget (1997). Shipwreck Index of the British Isles. Volume 1, Section 1 – North Devon. London: Lloyds Register of Shipping. ISBN 0 900528 88 5.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
- ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
- 1 2 3 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ↑ Edmunds, Richard (1862). The Land's End District: Its Antiquities, Natural History, Natural Phenomena and Scenery. London: J Russell Smith.
- ↑ Lettens, Jan. "PSS Elk (+1895)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
- ↑ Lettens, Jan. "Arrow (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ↑ De Maisonneuve, Bernard. "Dohallard (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ↑ Avec43. "Duque do Porto (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- ↑ Lettens, Jan. "Ebenezer (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
- ↑ Allen, Tony. "SS Admella (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
- ↑ "The Admella Story". Admella. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
- ↑ Lettens, Jan. "Equateur (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- ↑ Avec43. "SS Aigrette (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ↑ Allen, Tony. "SV City Of Calcutta (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- 1 2 3 Larn, Richard; Larn, Bridget (1997). Shipwreck Index of the British Isles. Volume 1, Section 1a – Lundy. London: Lloyds Register of Shipping. ISBN 0 900528 88 5.
- ↑ Lettens, Jan. "Suffolk (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ↑ cite |title=Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche |published=2008 |author=YvesDufiel
- ↑ Gothro, Phil. "SS Troy (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- 1 2 Treglown, Tony (2011). Porthleven in Years Gone by; Local Shipwrecks. Ashton: Tony Treglown.
- ↑ Allen, Tony. "SV Iron Age (+1859)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
- ↑ "The sinking of the Royal Charter". Merseyside maritime museum. National museums Liverpool. Archived from the original on August 6, 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
- ↑ Pollard, Chris (2007). The Book of St Mawes. Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove. ISBN 978 1 84114 631 7.
- ↑ "Beverely". Pastscapes. English Heritage. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
- ↑ McKenzie, Steven. "Lost ships and aircraft recorded in sea off Scotland". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
Ship events in 1859 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1854 | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 |
Ship commissionings: | 1854 | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1854 | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 |
Shipwrecks: | 1854 | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 |
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