List of shipwrecks in 1861

The list of shipwrecks in 1861 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1861.

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1861
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

3 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1861
Ship Country Description
Mary Jane  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel and was abandoned. She was subsequently taken in to Porthcawl, Glamorgan, repaired and returned to service.[1]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1861
Ship Country Description
Dewi Wynn  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked at Cardigan. Her eight crew were rescued.[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1861
Ship Country Description
Mersey  United Kingdom 219 ton Brixham brig wrecked on the beach at Porthleven, Cornwall.[3]

February

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1861
Ship Country Description
Hero  United Kingdom The Bideford polacca brigantine slipped her moorings in Penzance harbour during SSW hurricane force winds. Four of her crew and two others drowned.[4]
Mentor United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Jersey The ship parted her cables in the Isles of Scilly and collided with the brig Arthemise ( France). The crew managed to get on board the Arthemise which was then ran ashore.[5]
Pauline  France Carrying railway iron from Ardrossan to Rouen, the schooner was driven onto Crow Bar in the Isles of Scilly[5]

March

19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1861
Ship Country Description
Award  United Kingdom While on her second voyage and bound from Liverpool for New Orleans, the 846 ton sailing ship struck rocks 1.5 miles (2.4 km) off Gweal. NNW force 8 to 9 winds drove her on to the northern end of Gweal, in the Isles of Scilly, pushing her bow on to land and forming a temporary bridge to the island. After twelve hours the crew of twenty-four managed to scramble ashore.[6]

May

24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1861
Ship Country Description
Polar Star  United States The ship was wrecked on the west coast of Kamchatka in the Sea of Okhotsk during a dense fog and gale. The first mate and a boat's crew were lost in attempting to get ashore. The rest of the crew were saved by the barque Alice ( United States) and ship Oliver Crocker ( United States).[7][8][9]

October

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1861
Ship Country Description
USS South Wind  United States During the American Civil War the schooner was scuttled in the Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina.

December

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1861
Ship Country Description
USS Phoenix  United States During the American Civil War the whaler was scuttled off Tybee Island, Georgia, USA.

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1861
Ship Country Description
USS South America  United States During the American Civil War the whaler was beached at Tybee Island, Georgia, USA.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1861
Ship Country Description
Villiers  United Kingdom The brigantine was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of two of her eight crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Alicante, Spain.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Treglown, Tony (2011). Porthleven in Years Gone by; Local Shipwrecks. Ashton: Tony Treglown.
  4. ↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications. ISBN 0-9533028-0-6.
  5. 1 2 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  6. ↑ "Valhalla - Award 1861". Tresco Estate. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  7. ↑ Williams, H. (1964). One whaling family. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.
  8. ↑ Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876. Castle. ISBN 1-55521-537-8.
  9. ↑ Williams, H. (1964). One whaling family. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.
Ship events in 1861
Ship launches: 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866
Ship commissionings: 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866
Ship decommissionings: 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866
Shipwrecks: 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866
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