List of shipwrecks in April 1867

The list of shipwrecks in April 1867 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during April 1867.

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1 April
List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Alabama  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer was destroyed by fire at Grand View, Louisiana.

2 April
List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Dasher  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued.[1]
Fanny Rostock The ship was wrecked near Skagen, Denmark with the loss of all hands.[2][3]
Frithiof  Norway The ship was driven ashore at Skagen. She was on a voyage from Mandal to a Baltic port.[2]
South Australian South Australia The steamer was wrecked on the coast of South Otago, New Zealand while en route from Port Chalmers to Melbourne. She hit rocks heavily, stoving in part of her hull, and she took on water rapidly. All hands were saved.[4]
Superb  United Kingdom The ship was run into by the brig Azoff ( United Kingdom) and sank off Anholt, Denmark. Her crew were rescued by Azoff.[2]
Thane of Fife  United Kingdom The sloop sank near Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.[2]

4 April
List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Highland Chief  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on the Haisborough Sands, Norfolk. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire to Alicante, Spain.[5]

5 April
List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Augusta Louise  United States The ship was run down and sunk off the Irish coast by Louisiana ( United States). Her crew were rescued by Louisiana.[6]
Queen New Zealand The steamer struck rocks and foundered near the Brothers Islands in Cook Strait while en route from Wellington to Nelson. The crew were rescued from a lifeboat near the entrance to Tory Channel by the steamer Adelaide. All hands were saved.[7]
Shirllywick  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Kirkcudbright. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Carrickfergus, County Antrim to Maryport, Cumberland.[3]
Tantamar  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Key Breton. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Cienfuegos, Cuba.[8]

9 April
List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Unnamed  United Kingdom The collier was wrecked on the Knecht Sand, in the North Sea.[3]

12 April
List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Star of the Teign  United Kingdom The ship was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Satellite ( United Kingdom). Star of the Teign was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Guayaquil, Ecuador.[9]
Suffolk Hero  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on "Davillian Island". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Galway.[6]

14 April
List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Ernstatningen  Norway The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Harriet Agnes ( United Kingdom). Ernstatningen was on a voyage from Norway to Honfleur, Manche, France.[10]

15 April
List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Marie  France The ship sank off Le Croisic, Loire-Inférieure. She was on a voyage from Douarnenez, Finistère to an English port.[10]

16 April
List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Onehunga New Zealand The schooner went ashore and was wrecked near the mouth of the Fox River, New Zealand.[11]

17 April
List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Iona New Zealand The cables of the schooners Iona and Cymraes became entangled in a heavy sea near Hokitika. The crew of the Cymraes managed to clear her in a damaged but reparable state, but the Iona was driven ashore and wrecked.[11]

18 April
List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Egbert  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked at Bembridge, Isle of Wight. Her crew were rescued.[12]
Sinai  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Wolves, in the Bristol Channel off the coast of Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Wexford to Newport, Monmouthshire.[10]

19 April
List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Hamlin  United Kingdom The ship ran aground off the Brisons, Cornwall and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to London.[10]
Vollenhove Kolberg The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Kolberg. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Kolberg.[10]

21 April
List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Hind  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea off Sea Palling, Norfolk with the loss of her captain.[13]

24 April
List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Harriet Agnes  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Gravesend, Kent to Copenhagen, Denmark. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.[14]

25 April
List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Daring  United Kingdom The smack sank at Ramsgate, Kent.[15]

26 April
List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Ashley  United Kingdom The ship ran aground and sank in Broad Sound. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Ardglass, County Down to Newport, Monmouthshire.[16]
Cupid, and
Flora		 British North America
 Denmark		 The ship Cupid collided with the schooner Flora off Majorca, Spain. Flora sank. Cupid was taken in tow by Aurora ( United Kingdom) but foundered on 29 April 30 nautical miles (56 km) south of the "Poranerolles Lighthouse" with the loss of two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Aurora.[17]

27 April
List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Fortuna  Prussia The ship was run into by Ariel (Template:Country data UKGI) and sank at Swinemünde. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Rügenwalde to Stettin.[18]

29 April
List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Elizabeth Brown  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the North Sea 60 nautical miles (110 km) south east of Buchan Ness, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued by Concordia ( Hamburg). Elizabeth Brown was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Gothenburg, Sweden.[18]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in April 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Abel Tasman  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in the Laccadive Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bombay, India to Liverpool, Lancashire.[19]
Alice Grey  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned before 20 April.[20]
Aurora  Denmark The galeas struck the Horns Reef and sank with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from an English port to Ringkøbing. The wreck came ashore at "Gravlup" on 14 April.[16]
Eva British North America The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshiire to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She was subsequently taken in to Faial Island, Azores in a derelict condition.[21]
Scandinavian  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Key West, Florida, United States on or before 16 April. She was on a voyage from Pensacola, Florida to Liverpool, Lancashire.[10]
Sea King  United Kingdom The barque was sunk by ice in the Saint Lawrence River with the loss of five of her crew. She was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America.[22]

References
  1. "Ship News". The Times (25816). London. 21 May 1867. col F, p. 13.
  2. "Ship News". The Times (25776). London. 4 April 1867. col C, p. 11.
  3. "Ship News". The Times (25782). London. 11 April 1867. col F, p. 11.
  4. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 143.
  5. "Ship News". The Times (25778). London. 6 April 1867. col F, p. 11.
  6. "Ship News". The Times (25804). London. 7 May 1867. col F, p. 11.
  7. Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 143–144.
  8. "Ship News". The Times (25828). London. 4 June 1867. col D, p. 14.
  9. "Ship News". The Times (25847). London. 26 June 1867. col F, p. 12.
  10. "Ship News". The Times (25791). London. 22 April 1867. col F, p. 9.
  11. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 144.
  12. W. B. Baines (23 April 1867). "The Late Bark Egbert". The Times (25792). London. col B, p. 7.
  13. "Ship News". The Times (25793). London. 24 April 1867. col F, p. 11.
  14. "The Harriet Agnes". The Times (258890). London. 15 August 1867. col D, p. 9.
  15. Larn, Richard (1977). Goodwin Sands Shipwrecks. Newton Abbott: David and Charles. p. 118. ISBN 0 7153 7202 5.
  16. "Ship News". The Times (25798). London. 30 April 1867. col E, p. 11.
  17. "Ship News". The Times (25805). London. 8 May 1867. col F, p. 12.
  18. "Ship News". The Times (25801). London. 3 May 1867. col F, p. 5.
  19. "Ship News". The Times (25809). London. 13 May 1867. col C-D, p. 7.
  20. "Ship News". The Times (25806). London. 14 May 1867. col D, p. 13.
  21. "Ship News". The Times (25827). London. 3 June 1867. col F, p. 11.
  22. "Lost in the Ice". The Times (25825). London. 31 May 1867. col C, p. 5.

Bibliography
  • Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.
Ship events in 1867
Ship launches: 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872
Ship commissionings: 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872
Ship decommissionings: 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872
Shipwrecks: 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872

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