List of shipwrecks in February 1867

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

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2 February
List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Souveneer Vanswiction  Netherlands The brig was driven ashore at Beachy Head, Sussex, United Kingdom. Her thirteen crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Antwerp, Belgium. Souveneer Vanswicton broke up on 4 February.[1]

3 February
List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
James  United Kingdom The schooner sank off the Black Rocks, in Cardigan Bay, Wales. She was later salvaged.[2]

4 February
List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Courier  United Kingdom The brig collided with Star of the West ( United Kingdom) and sank.[3]
St. Croix  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Gouvernuer ( Belgium). St. Croix was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Leith, Lothian.[4]

5 February
List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Edouard  France The sloop was lost when she hit a rock north of Plateau des Minquiers, south of Jersey in the Channel Islands.[5]

6 February
List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Albert Edward II, and
Georgiana		 Royal National Lifeboat Institution
 United States		 While coming to the assistance of the schooner Georgiana, which was dragging her anchors and being driven onto the Doom Bar at the mouth of the River Camel in Cornwall, England, the lifeboat was driven ashore at St Minver, Cornwall, with five of the lifeboat crew drowning. One crew member from Georgiana also drowned.[6]

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Charlotte McDonald  United Kingdom The brig sank in the Bay of Dinant off Camaret-sur-Mer, Finistère, France. Her crew were rescued.[7]
Edendale  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned at sea. She was on a voyage from Samarang, Netherlands East Indies to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.[8]
Fanny Lambert  United Kingdom During a voyage from Cardiff, Wales, to Dieppe, France, the steamship sank in a Force 10 west-northwesterly gale between 6 and 8 nautical miles (11 and 15 km) north of St Ives Head, Cornwall, England. The entire crew of 18 lost their lives.[9][10]
Star of Faith  United States The ship was wrecked near Tabasco.[11]

7 February
List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Fanny  United Kingdom The brig sank in the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent.[7]

8 February
List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Fortuna  Hamburg The ship was driven ashore at Broughton, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Puerto Cabello, Venezuela to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.[4]

9 February
List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Blonde  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in the Gulf of Mexico.[8]
C. E. Rosenberg  United States The ship was wrecked near Tabasco.[11]
Gironde  French Navy The Loire-class transport ship was wrecked in the Caribbean Sea.[12][13][12]
Hermann  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in the Gulf of Mexico.[8]
Janet Walls  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium.[4]

10 February
List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Industry  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Wick, Caithness. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Thurso to Wick.[4]

11 February
List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Zanoni  United Kingdom While on voyage from Port Wakefield to Port Adelaide in South Australia, the Liverpool registered barque foundered during a squall in Gulf St Vincent early in the afternoon. Fourteen crew and two passengers escaped to the vessel’s small boats and were rescued at 11:00 p.m. that day by the sailing ketch Powles (flag unknown).[14]

12 February
List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Duchess of Portland  United Kingdom The ship foundered 15 miles off Hartlepool after taking in water. Crew were saved from the ship's boat. She had been sailing from Sunderland to Le Conquet with a cargo of coal.[15]
Susan Mary  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and sank off the Nab Lightship ( Trinity House). Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to London.[4]

13 February
List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Star of the Evening New Zealand The steamer was wrecked at Poverty Bay whilst en route from Napier to Auckland. She struck rocks which at first seemed to have caused only slight damage, but the ship broke up within an hour. Six of the 17 people on board (three crew and three passengers) drowned.[16]

14 February
List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Gibraltar  United Kingdom The steamship foundered in the Dogger Bank. Her crew were rescued by a fishing smack. She was on a voyage from Helsingborg, Sweden to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
William and Sarah  United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 60 nautical miles (110 km) north west of the Isles of Scilly. Her crew were rescued by Heimdal ( Denmark. William and Sarah was on a voyage from Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex to Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire..[17]

16 February
List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Nile New Zealand The 24-ton schooner became a wreck after running ashore at the mouth of the Haast River. This may have been the same Nile which was reported wrecked in June 1864.[16]

17 February
List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Royal Mint  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Carpenter's Rock, Sierra Leone.[18] Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone to Liverpool, Lancashire.[19]

19 February
List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Mercury New Zealand The cutter became a wreck after running ashore at East Cape, New Zealand. [20]

20 February
List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Constance  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Jordan Flats, in Liverpool Bay. She was refloated.[21]

21 February
List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Alida British North America The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Cleopatra ( United Kingdom). Alida was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Boston, Massachusetts, United States.[22][23]
Queen Hortense  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Westmoreland ( United Kingdom), Queen Hortense was on a voyage from Trinidad to the Clyde.[24]

26 February
List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Bertha  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Rocques. She was on a voyage from La Guayrato Puerto Cabello, Venezuela .[8]

27 February
List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Confiance  France The schooner ran aground and sank at Fécamp, Seine-Inférieure. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Fécamp.[25]

28 February
List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Gratitude  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked at Aberdovey, Merionethshire. Her crew were rescued by the Aberdove Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Aberdovey.[25]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in February 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Cameronian  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in Dungarvan Bay in early February. She was later refloated and towed to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[26]
Conheath  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Singapore, Straits Settlements before 7 February.[7]
Fortuna  Prussia The brig was driven ashore and wrecked in Broughton Bay, Wales. Her crew were rescued.[27]
Gazelle  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at the entrance to the Rhio Strait between 8 and 22 February. She was on a voyage from Singapore to London.[28]
Julia  United Kingdom The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 15 February.[29]
Marette  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in the Rhio Strait. She was on a voyage from Singapore to London.[29]
Moonlight  United States The brig ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, United Kingdom. She was refloated with assistance.[30]

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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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