List of shipwrecks in 1866
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The list of shipwrecks in 1866 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1866.
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[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Alex Majors | United States | The steamboat sank in the Missouri River at Grand River.[1] |
Edward | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Taewan".[2] |
Emma | Western Australia | The schooner was wrecked at the North West Cape. She was on a voyage from Port Walcot to Fremantle. All on board survived the wreck, but were captured by the local inhabitants. They were subsequently killed and eaten.[3] |
Ernestine | Stettin | The ship foundered in the Gulf of Mexico. She was on a voyage from Minatitlán, Mexico to London, United Kingdom.[4] |
General McNeil | Unknown | The sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at Howards Bend near St. Louis, Missouri, sometime during the 1860s.[5] |
Jane | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was wrecked. |
Kate | New Zealand | The ketch was wrecked at Okarito in late April or early May.[6] |
Kenna | Kingdom of Hanover | The schooner departed from Seville, Spain for the River Tyne in late May or early June. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all on board.[7] |
Lanuca, or Laura |
United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Formosa.[2] |
Lilly | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at "Taewan".[2] |
Loda | United Kingdom | The ship was destroyed by fire. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Melbourne, Victoria and Shanghai, China.[8] |
Nelly | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at "Tawnfoo".[2] |
Penang | United States | The barque ran aground in the Paracel Islands between 25 March and 6 May. She was on a voyage from Saigon, French Cochinchina to Hong Kong. She was refloated and resumed her voyage in a severely leaky condition.[9] |
Polades | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Formosa.[2] |
R. G. Porter | United States | The schooner was lost at Point Pleasant, New Jersey.[10] |
Rising Dawn | British North America | The ship was sunk by ice at Ivituut, Greenland.[11] |
Rylanders | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked.[2] |
Santiago | Chile | The ship was wrecked on George Island, Falkland Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Iquique to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.[12] |
Sarah | Victoria | The schooner was wrecked to the north of the mouth of the Rangitikei River during a heavy gale early in the year. All hands were saved.[13] |
Victoria | United States | The 487-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost in 1866.[14] |
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Martin, George W., ed., Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1905–1906, Volume 9, Topeka, Kansas: State Printing Office, 1906, p. 297.
- ^ a b c d e f "Shipping". Liverpool Mercury. No. 5866. Liverpool. 16 November 1866.
- ^ "A Shipwrecked Crew Eaten by Cannibals". Birmingham Daily Post. No. 5539. Birmingham. 12 April 1876.
- ^ "Mercantile Ship News". The Standard. No. 12996. London. 3 April 1866. p. 7.
- ^ Gaines, p. 106.
- ^ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 127.
- ^ "Marine Intelligence". Newcastle Courant. No. 10000. Newcastle upon Tyne. 24 August 1866.
- ^ "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury. No. 5662. Liverpool. 23 March 1866.
- ^ "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 24029. Edinburgh. 5 July 1866.
- ^ "njscuba.net "Lavallette Wreck"". Archived from the original on 2020-02-23. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Ship News". The Times. No. 25624. London. 9 October 1866. col F, p. 9.
- ^ "Ship News". The Times. No. 25634. London. 20 October 1866. col F, p. 9.
- ^ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 126.
- ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Victoria
Bibliography
[edit]- Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008 Archived 2010-11-29 at the Wayback Machine, ISBN 978-0-8071-3274-6.
- Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.