List of shipwrecks in March 1867

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

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4 March
List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Liberty  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the English Channel off Beachy Head, Sussex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, France to Plymouth, Devon.[1]

7 March
List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Emma  Colony of Western Australia Emma, a 116 ton, two-masted wooden schooner, departed Tien Tsin Harbor (later Cossack) for Fremantle on 3 March, with 42 passengers and crew, but never arrived. Those on board included the explorer Trevarton Sholl and Charles Nairn, the first European to settle in the Pilbara region and a brother-in-law of the vessel's owner, Walter Padbury. By 24 April, Emma was regarded as "conisderably overdue" at Fremantle. [2] The wreckage of Emma was discovered on a reef at Point Maud, Coral Bay, during the late 1970s or early 1980s.[3]

8 March
List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Jeune Marie  France The ship was wrecked on the Boeufs. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Bordeaux, Gironde.[1]
Taraipine New Zealand The schooner left Wairoa on March 7, and anchored overnight at Paritu, south of Gisborne. She sailed the next day and was not seen again.[4]

10 March
List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Desiderato Austrian Empire The brig sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the Balearic Isands, Spain. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Genoa, Italy.[5]

12 March
List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Nora  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Dungeness, Kent with the loss of her captain. She was on a voyage from Langsund, Norway to Barrow in Furness, Lancashire.[1]
Rover  United States The bark struck a coral reef called Qixingyan near Oluanpi, Formosa, and drifted into the area of Kenting, Formosa. Surviving crew members who made it to shore were massacred by Taiwanese Aborigines, prompting an unsuccessful U.S. military expedition against the offending Paiwan tribe.

13 March
List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Daring  United Kingdom The ship struck the pier at Ramsgate, Kent and was wrecked with the loss of all five crew.[1]
Oregon  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in Cawsand Bay. Her crew were rescued.[6]
Sir Duncan Cameron New Zealand The cutter was wrecked at Napier during a severe gale, with the loss of four lives. [4]
Utopia  United Kingdom The ship foundered. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bombay and Kurrachee, India.[6]
Wind  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at "Seapark", County Wicklow. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Wicklow.[1]

14 March
List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Stately New Zealand The 80-ton schooner was wrecked at Oamaru during a gale, when she was driven onto rocks. All hands were saved. [4]

16 March
List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
David McNutt  United Kingdom The ship caught fire at Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[5]
Laurids  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Rønne, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to "Veile".[6]

17 March
List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Marmion  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Gyllnoase", Cornwall with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Odessa, Russia to South Shields, County Durham.[6]
Providence  United Kingdom The Channel Island brig collided with the Gambia ( United Kingdom) of Plymouth, Devon, struck the Albert Pier, and sank off the harbour at Penzance, Cornwall. Both crews were saved.[7][8]
Sea Spray  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and sank at Falmouth, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Enos, Ottoman Empire to Falmouth.[6]

21 March
List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Pomona  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent.>[9]
Sarah Bridget  United Kingdom The brigantine ran aground on the Goodwin Sands.[9]

25 March
List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Jonkeer Unknown The vessel went ashore on rocks in Mount's Bay near Polurrian, Cornwall, during a storm. The only survivor, a Greek sailor, climbed the cliff in Mullion parish and was discovered the following morning.[10]

27 March
List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Montmorency  United Kingdom The ship was destroyed by fire at Napier, New Zealand. She had arrived with immigrants from the United Kingdom on the 24th. They had all disembarked, and the crew abandoned the ship during the fire, but all cargo was lost. [11]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in March 1867
ShipCountryDescription
Dagmar  Russia The ship was wrecked on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[12]
Henry New Zealand The schooner went ashore and was wrecked on Mahia Peninsula towards the end of the month. All hands were saved. [13]
Reflect  United Kingdom The ship sank at Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Buenos Aires.[6]
Sir John Moore  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Hong Kong, China.[6]

References
  1. "Ship News". The Times (25759). London. 15 March 1867. col F, p. 9.
  2. The Inquirer and Commercial News, 24 April 1867, p. 2 (3 February 2019).
  3. Western Australian Museum, n.d., Shipwreck Database, "Emma 1867/03 Coral Bay" (3 February 2019).
  4. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 142.
  5. "Ship News". The Times (25761). London. 18 March 1867. col F, p. 12.
  6. "Ship News". The Times (25762). London. 19 March 1867. col A, p. 11.
  7. Larn, Richard and Bridget (1997). "Vol 1 Section 4". Shipwreck Index of the British Isles. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. ISBN 0-900528-88-5.
  8. Historic England. "Providence (923753)". PastScape. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  9. Larn, Richard (1977). Goodwin Sands Shipwrecks. Newton Abbott: David and Charles. p. 118. ISBN 0 7153 7202 5.
  10. Anon (1914). A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Penzance and West Cornwall (Twelfth (revised) ed.). London: Ward Lock.
  11. Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 142–143.
  12. Benham, Hervey (1980). The Salvagers. Colchester: Essex County Newspapers Ltd. p. 190. ISBN 00 950944 2 3.
  13. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 143.

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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