List of shipwrecks in August 1867

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

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1 August
List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Dyson  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Archangelsk, Russia.[1]
Edward and Christopher New Zealand The schooner was wrecked at Stony Bay, close to the entrance to Akaroa Harbour, during a heavy gale.[2]
Friedrich  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Archangelsk.[1]
Mary Ann Christina New Zealand The schooner was wrecked on Ninety Mile Beach during a strong gale. She was driven ashore in order to save the crew, some 3 km south of the wreck of the Vixen (see below).[3]
Ocean Bride  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Denouilles Rocks, Jersey, Channel Islands. Her crew were rescued. she was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.[1]
Vixen New Zealand The schooner (also reported as a ketch) was wrecked on Ninety Mile Beach during a strong gale. The ship capsized, and all but one of her crew drowned.[3]

2 August
List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Cordelia New Zealand The 29-ton cutter was wrecked near Baring Head near Wellington with the loss of all three on board.[2]
Willie  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Foilskirt Rocks, off the coast of County Wexford. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Waterford to Dublin.[1]

4 August
List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Isabella Forbes  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire.[4]

9 August
List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Gleaner  United Kingdom The ship was run down and sunk 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off Robin Hoods Bay, Yorkshire by Henry ( United Kingdom). Her crew were rescued by Henry. Gleaner was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Southwold, Suffolk.[5]
Merchant Prince  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Chowl's Cedar Reef. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Bombay, India.[6]

11 August
List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Nautilus New Zealand The 29-ton schooner was wrecked on Whale Island in the Bay of Plenty. She was en route to Auckland and took shelter in the lea of the island during a gale, but dragged both anchors and ran on shore.[2]
Stella  United States The barque was wrecked on an island in Shelikhov Gulf in the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk. Two men were lost as the barque was smashed on the rocks. The rest of the crew were rescued by nearby vessels.[7][8][9]

12 August
List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Krompenerwaard  Netherlands The ship was wrecked at Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony.[10]

13 August
List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Fortuna  Hamburg The ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Herzog Bogislaw ( Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin). Fortuna was on a voyage from Hamburg to Perth, United Kingdom.[11]

14 August
List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Anastasia Trieste The brig was wrecked at Cape Spartel, Morocco. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Trieste.[12]
Edward Moore New Zealand The 16-ton schooner was driven ashore and wrecked 8 km south of the mouth of the Manawatu River.[2]
Geneva  United Kingdom The ship struck The Platters, off the coast of Anglesey and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to "Llanellhaiarn".[5]

16 August
List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Prince Arthur  United Kingdom The tug collided with the steamship Helvetia ( United Kingdom) and sank off Holyhead, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued by Helvetia.[13]

17 August
List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Robert Hudson  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Dogger Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wexford. Her crew were rescued by the Wexford Lifeboat.[14]

18 August
List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Enterprise  United Kingdom The ship sank at Liverpool, Lancashire.[14]
Minerva  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and sank at Maltreath, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Belfast, County Antrim.[14]
River Derwent  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on New Island, Falkland Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Valparaíso, Chile.[15]

19 August
List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Octavie  France The ship struck a rock and sank in the Loire. Her crew were rescued.[11]

20 August
List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Arkadion  Greece Cretan revolt: The paddle steamer was shelled and rammed by Izzedin ( Ottoman Navy) off Cape Krios, Crete. She was consequently beached with the loss of three lives and set afire. The Ottomans extinguished the fire the next day. She was refloated and towed to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, where she arrived on 21 September. Arkadion was repaired and taken in to Ottoman Navy service.[16][17]
Singapore  United Kingdom The paddle steamer struck an uncharted rock and was wrecked at Hakodate, Japan. All 145 people on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Yokohama to Hakodate.[18]

26 August
List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Emerald Isle New Zealand The 29-ton schooner foundered off the Buller coast with the loss of all on board during a storm.[19]
Mariner New Zealand The schooner was wrecked near Whangarei.[2]

28 August
List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Schyrid  United Kingdom The ship collided with Adelaide Fanny ( United Kingdom) and sank off The Smalls, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued by Adelaide Fanny. Schyrid was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands.[20]
St. Antonio Syria Vilayet The brig foundered off Lisbon, Portugal. Her twelve crew were rescued by the steamship Atlas ( United Kingdom).[21]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in August 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Anastasia  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Cape Spartel, Morocco before 15 August. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lanashire to Trieste.[22]
Annie Wilson  United Kingdom The ship foundered off Cape Horn, Chile before 3 August. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Callao, Peru to Queenstown, County Cork.[22]
Exertion  United Kingdom The ship sank in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands to Findhorn, Moray.[4]
James Cruickshank  United Kingdom The ship was destroyed by fire before 5 August. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Carboneras, Spain to Aberdeen.[23]

References
  1. "Ship News". The Times (25880). London. 3 August 1867. col F, p. 12.
  2. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 149.
  3. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 148.
  4. "Ship News". The Times (25881). London. 5 August 1867. col E, p. 12.
  5. "Ship News". The Times (25890). London. 15 August 1867. col F, p. 11.
  6. "Ship News". The Times (2588=83). London. 13 August 1867. col F, p. 10.
  7. Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, Aug. 15, 1867, Old Dartmouth Historical Society.
  8. Whalemen's shipping list and merchants' transcript (Vol. XXV, No. 35, Oct. 29, 1867, New Bedford).
  9. Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American whale fishery from its earliest inception to the year 1876. Castle. ISBN 1-55521-537-8.
  10. "The Cape of Good Hope". The Times (25961). London. 6 November 1867. col C, p. 7.
  11. "Ship News". The Times (25896). London. 22 August 1867. col F, p. 5.
  12. "The Bombay Mails". The Times (25899). London. 26 August 1867. col C, p. 9.
  13. "A Steamtug Sunk". The Times (25893). London. 19 August 1867. col E, p. 7.
  14. "Ship News". The Times (25894). London. 20 August 1867. col F, p. 9.
  15. "Ship News". The Times (25945). London. 18 October 1867. col F, p. 5.
  16. "The Destruction of the Arkadi". The Times (25906). London. 3 September 1867. col B, p. 7.
  17. McTiernan, Mick. "A Sea Battle at Paleochora. The Arkadion Incident". The Paleochora Site. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  18. "The Wreck og the Singapore". The Times (25967). London. 13 November 1867. col D-E, p. 8.
  19. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 150.
  20. "Ship News". The Times (25904). London. 31 August 1867. col E, p. 12.
  21. "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times (25929). London. 30 September 1867. col E-F, p. 7.
  22. "Ship News". The Times (25892). London. 17 August 1867. col D, p. 11.
  23. "Ship News". The Times (25882). London. 6 August 1867. col C, p. 11.

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
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Shipwrecks: 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872

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