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The list of shipwrecks in October 1868 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1868.

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1 October

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List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1868
Ship State Description
Elizabeth  United Kingdom The brig ran aground on the William Bank, in the White Sea. She was abandoned the next day. Two of her seven crew subsequently died.[1][2][3]

2 October

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List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1868
Ship State Description
Alin  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on Skierenaffin, in the Sound of Islay. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Fort William, Inverness-shire.[4]
Diana  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was refloated.[5][4]
Fremad Dantzic The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Dantzic to Dublin, United Kingdom.[6]
Gunso  Norway The ship ran aground on the Galloper Sand. She was on a voyage from Piteå, Sweden to London, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken in to Dover, Kent, United Kingdom in a leaky condition.[4]
Harkaway  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Stettin to Leith, Lothian. She was refloated and towed in to Granton, Lothian.[6]
Heinrich Rostock The barque was driven ashore and wrecked on the west coast of Jutland. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom to Rostock.[6][7]
Josephine  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Union ( United Kingdom). Josephine was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire to Christiania, Norway.[5]
Komna  Greece The ship caught fire at Navarino and was scuttled.[5]
Peace and Plenty  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Dunbar, Lothian in a capsized condition.[4]
Siff Canada Canada The ship departed from Falmouth, Cornwall for Boston, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[8]
Utility  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Galloper Sand. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Dunkerque, Nord. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Dover in a leaky condition.[9]

3 October

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List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1868
Ship State Description
Ann  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in the Sound of Islay. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Fort William, Inverness-shire.[10]
Blanche  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Cape Henry, Virginia, United States. She was on a voyage from Great Isaac Cay, Bahamas to Baltimore, Maryland, United States.[11][12]
Orion  United Kingdom The ship was destroyed by fire at Paraíba, Brazil.[13][14]
Zodiac  United Kingdom The ship ran aground in the Sunda Strait. She was on a voyage from Singapore, Straits Settlements to London. She was refloated and put in to Anjer, Netherlands East Indies.[15]
No. 43  United Kingdom The pilot boat was run down and sunk in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight by Syria ( United Kingdom) with the loss of all four people on board.[16]

4 October

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List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1868
Ship State Description
Fame  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore near "Jakli", Russia. She was refloated.[17]
Vier Gebroeders  Netherlands The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Vertrouwen ( Belgium). Vier Gebroeders was on a voyage from the Meuse (Dutch: Maas) to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.[18]

5 October

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List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1868
Ship State Description
Dream  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on The Needles, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Southampton, Hampshire.[19]
Emily  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Taylor Reef, off "Lamley Island". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Dublin.[9]
Hero  United Kingdom The ship ran aground west of Point Molinos, Spain. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Falmouth, Cornwall.[20] She was refloated on 7 October and towed in to Málaga, Spain.[21]
Isabella  United Kingdom The schooner sank in the North Sea 90 nautical miles (170 km) off the coast of Norway. Her crew were rescued by the brig Anne Mariana ( United Kingdom). Isabella was on a voyage from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire to Stettin.[22][23][24][25]
Mersey  United Kingdom The ship caught fire at Lindisfarne, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Arbroath, Forfarshire.[17]
Naomi  United Kingdom The ship struck a sunken wrecked 10 nautical miles (19 km) south west of the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork.[9]
Perseverance  United States The steamship caught fire and sank in Lake Ontario with the loss of fourteen of her nineteen crew. She was on a voyage from Buffalo to Oswego, New York.[26]

6 October

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List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1868
Ship State Description
Dream  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in The Needles, Isle of Wight. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Southampton, Hampshire.[27]
Geertje Dykstra  Netherlands The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Løkken-Vrå, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Middelburg, Zeeland to Memel, Prussia.[28][17][21]
Sir James Duke  United Kingdom The steamship collided with another vessel and sank in the Girond at Pauillac, Gironde, France. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Bordeaux, Gironde.[29]
Victoria  United Kingdom The schooner struck a sunken pile at the mouth of the River Tees and sank. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Exeter, Devon. She was refloated on 18 October.[30][31]

7 October

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List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1868
Ship State Description
Diadem  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London.[19]
Gustav Wismar The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[19]
Hagen  Norway The sloop was discovered off Buchan Ness, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom in a capsized condition. She was taken in to Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.[25]
J. C. Dering Canada Canada The schooner capsized off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States with the loss of seven of the ten people on board. She was on a voyage from Digby, Nova Scotia to Boston, Massachusetts.[32]
Mangalore  United Kingdom The ship caught fire in the River Mersey. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Calcutta, India. The fire was extinguished and she resumed her voyage.[9]
Unnamed Flag unknown The schooner capsized and sank off Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts with the loss of all hands.[32]

8 October

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List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1868
Ship State Description
Chimborazo  United States The barque was driven ashore and wrecked south of Tabasco. Her crew were rescued.[33][34]
Forfar  United States The schooner sank in Lake Michigan with the loss of four lives.[26]
Swift  United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak and foundered off Lundy Island, Devon. Her crew were rescued by the pilot boat No. 8 ( United Kingdom). Swift was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Teignmouth, Devon.[35]
Vim  United States The tug suffered a boiler explosion and sank at New York.[26]

9 October

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List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1868
Ship State Description
Mersey  United Kingdom En route from Sunderland, to Arbroath, Scotland, the schooner sprang a leak in the North Sea off Lindisfarne. Water came in contact with her cargo of quicklime, causing her to catch fire. She was beached, saving the crew, but the vessel was lost.[36]
Rover  United Kingdom The ship ran aground and sank off Silloth, Cumberland. The only person on board was rescued by the Silloth Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Skinburness, Cumberland to Annan, Dumfriesshire.[21]

10 October

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List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1868
Ship State Description
Alma  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Exeter, Devon.[37]
Anna  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and sank in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Teignmouth, Devon.[22]
Brill  United Kingdom The ship departed from the Clyde for Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[38]
Powerful  United Kingdom The steamship collided with the ferry Tynemouth ( United Kingdom) and sank in the River Tyne. Her crew survived.[39][40]
Joachim  Bremen The barque was destroyed by fire in the South Atlantic (35°57′S 7°50′W / 35.950°S 7.833°W / -35.950; -7.833). Her crew were rescued by China ( United States) Joachim was on a voyage from Bremen to Rangoon, Burma.[41]
Repeal  United Kingdom The ship collided with the steamship Marion ( United Kingdom) and foundered in the North Sea off Whitby, Yorkshire with the loss of one of her three crew. Survivors were rescued by Marion. Repeal was on a voyage from Rochester, Kent to South Shields, County Durham.[39][42]
Speedwell  United Kingdom The ship was assisted in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire in a sinking condition. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Ipswich, Suffolk.[43]

11 October

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List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1868
Ship State Description
Thomas Chalmers  United Kingdom The collier ran aground on the Oosterbank, in the North Sea off Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Netherlands.[22] She was refloated the next day and taken in to Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland.[42]
Urania  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Saint-Nazaire, Ille-et-Vilaine, France. She was on a voyage from Nantes, Loire-Inférieure, France to Gloucester.[37] She was refloated and beached.[44]

12 October

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List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1868
Ship State Description
Fancy United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The schooner was wrecked at Greville Harbour, D'Urville Island with the loss of three of her crew. The sole surviving crewman was rescued by the schooner Jane Anderson.[45]
Manhattan  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Burbo Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from New York to Liverpool, Lancashire.[21] She was refloated with the assistance of two tugs and taken in to Liverpool.[46][42]
Nelson United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The steamer was wrecked when it a heavy swell while trying to leave Whanganui Inlet. All those on board were saved.[47]

14 October

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List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1868
Ship State Description
George and Anne  United Kingdom The fishing lugger was run into by the fishing lugger Alma ( United Kingdom) and sank in the North Sea 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Corton, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by Alma.[48][49]
Hibernia  United Kingdom The ship ran aground in the Dardanelles. She was on a voyage from Taganrog, Russia to Plymouth, Devon. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug and resumed her voyage.[50]
Punjaub  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Miscou Island, New Brunswick, Canada. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bathurst, New Brunswick. She was consequently condemned.[51][52] Punjaub was refloated on 27 April 1869 and taken in to Bathurst, where she arrived on 4 May.[53]

15 October

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List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1868
Ship State Description
Elizabeth United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The cutter was wrecked after being driven ashore on the Otago coast during a gale.[47]
Festina Lente  Argentina The ship was wrecked on the English Bank, in the River Plate.[54] She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Buenos Aires.[55]
Isabella United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The brigantine was driven ashore near Hokitika during a gale.[47]
Woodman  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on a reef off Soa Island, Outer Hebrides with the loss of two lives. She was on a voyage from Easdale, Argyllshire to Leith, Lothian.[56]

16 October

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List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1868
Ship State Description
Clyde  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in Loch Tarbert. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Londonderry.[44]
Defiance  United Kingdom The brigantine was driven ashore and severely damaged at Maryport, Cumberland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bangor to Maryport.[11]
Rapid  United Kingdom The tug caught fire at Greenock, Renfrewshire and was scuttled.[11]
Satellite United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The 27-ton cutter was wrecked on the South Island west coast during a gale.[47]

17 October

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List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1868
Ship State Description
C. A. Jones Canada Canada The barque ran aground at Cape Canso, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Windsor, Nova Scotia to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.[57]
Countess of Selkirk  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and damaged in Buyhouse Bay. She was on a voyage from Buyhouse Bay to Maryport, Cumberland.[56]
Echo  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Antina ( Netherlands). Echo was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands.[50]
Letitia  United Kingdom The ship capsized at Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Portsmouth. She was righted the next day.[11]
Mary Ann United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Guernsey The cutter was wrecked at Cap Fréhel, Côtes du Nord, France. Her crew were rescued by a pilot boat. She was on a voyage from Pontrieux, Côtes-du-Nord to Guernsey.[44][58]
Phantom  United Kingdom The schooner collided with a collier and sank off Whitby, Yorkshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Southampton, Hampshire.[11]
Union  United Kingdom The steamship foundered with the loss of all 40 crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to New York, United States.[59]

18 October

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List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1868
Ship State Description
Almo  Russia The ship put in to Brest, Finistère, France on fire. She was on a voyage from Rangoon, Burma to Cork or Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[11]
Maggie Armstrong  United Kingdom The ship departed from Queenstown, County Cork for Boston, Massachusetts, United States. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[60]
Margaret  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Ramsgate, Kent. She was on a voyage from Waterford to Hull, Yorkshire. She was refloated the next day.[11]

19 October

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List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1868
Ship State Description
Despatch  United States The ship was driven ashore in Jeddo Bay.[61]
Louvre  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean and set afire. Her crew were rescued by Jane ( United Kingdom). Louvre was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire.[62][63]
Orient  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Warnemünde, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Stralsund to Leith, Lothian. She was refloated and put in to Swinemünde, Prussia in a leaky condition.[11][61][44]

20 October

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List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1868
Ship State Description
Ellen  United Kingdom The steamship was destroyed by fire off the coast of Loire-Inférieure, France. Her crew were rescued.[64]

21 October

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List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1868
Ship State Description
Amelia  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned off the Tongue Lightship ( Trinity House). Her crew survived.[65]
Annie  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore "south of Black". She was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to Troon, Ayrshire. She was refloated and towed in to Troon.[56]
Del Norte  United States
Wreck of Del Norte watercolor

The 601-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost. Sources disagree on the location of the incident. One claims that she was lost at Valdez, Department of Alaska. Another claims that Del Norte was wrecked in fog approximately 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) north of Victoria, Colony of British Columbia, during a southbound voyage from Sitka, Territory of Alaska. Others place her wreck at Porlier Pass (49°01′00″N 123°35′00″W / 49.01667°N 123.58333°W / 49.01667; -123.58333 (Porlier Pass)) in British Columbia.[66]

Esther and Margaret  United Kingdom The ship collided with Ida ( United Kingdom) and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by Ida. Esther and Margaret was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to Troon, Ayrshire. She came ashore near Whitehaven and sank.[67]
Gladstone  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at L'Islet, Quebec, Canada. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Quebec City, Canada.[67][68] She was later refloated and taken in to Quebec City in a severely damaged condition.[69]
Henrietta Flag unknown The schooner ran aground at the mouth of the Goatzacoalcos River. She was on a voyage from Minatitlán, Mexico to a British port.[70]
Jacques Cartier Canada Canada The schooner was wrecked on the coast of Labrador, Newfoundland Colony.[58]
Juligs Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin The ship ran aground off Dragør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.[56]
Mary Curley  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore in Vineyard Sound. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Saint John's, Newfoundland Colony. She was refloated.[71]

22 October

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List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1868
Ship State Description
Argos  United Kingdom The brig was driven ashore at "Vatergarn", Sweden.[56] She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Hartlepool, County Durham. She was consequently condemned.[71]
Australian  United Kingdom The passenger ship ran ashore and was wrecked north of San Christorão, Brazil. All twenty people on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sydney, New South Wales to London.[72][73][74]
Christine  Prussia The ship collided with a British barque in the North Sea. She consequently foundered off the Dudgeon Sandbank the next day. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom to Messina, Sicily, Italy.[75][65][64]
Comet  Bremen The ship was sighted off the South Foreland, Kent, United Kingdom whilst on a voyage from Bahia, Brazil to Bremen. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[76]
Congress  United States While bound for Chicago, Illinois, with a cargo of salt, apples, and railroad iron, the wooden steamer ran aground and burned in Lake Huron on the coast of Michigan near North Point. Her wreck lies in 17 feet (5.2 m) of water at 45°00′52″N 83°15′33″W / 45.014459°N 83.259048°W / 45.014459; -83.259048 (Congress).[77][78]
Devon  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked on the Brisson Rock, off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of fourteen lives. A survivor was rescued by the Sennen Lifeboat Matthew Nicholas ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[79]
Emma  United Kingdom The brig was driven ashore and damaged at Falmouth, Cornwall.[50]
Francisco Alvarez  Chile The ship was wrecked on "Musgora Island". She was on a voyage from Port Gamble, Washington Territory to Valparaíso.[80]
Jules  United Kingdom The ship collided with the steamship Buda and capsized. Her crew were rescued. She was towed in to Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.[50]
Koophandel Flag unknown The barque ran aground at Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland, Netherlands.[50]
Perkanos  Sweden The barque was wrecked at Eckerö, Grand Duchy of Finland.[69] She was on a voyage from Nyhamn to Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.[81]

23 October

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List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1868
Ship State Description
Christina Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin The schooner collided with a barque in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom. She foundered the next day off the Dudgeon Lightship ( Trinity House). Her crew were rescued by George ( United Kingdom).[82]
Devon  United Kingdom The lighter was wrecked on the Brisons, off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of seventeen of the eighteen people on board. The survivor was rescued by the Sennen Cove Lifeboat.[83]
F. T. Barney  United States
F. T. Barney
The wooden schooner was on a voyage from Cleveland, Ohio, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a cargo of coal when the schooner T. J. Bronson accidentally rammed her in Lake Huron, sinking her in 160 feet (49 m) of water off the coast of Michigan at 45°29′09″N 83°50′33″W / 45.485833°N 83.8425°W / 45.485833; -83.8425 (F. T. Barney). Her crew survived.[84][85]
Governor General  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Teignmouth, Devon. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Martinique. She was refloated with assistance from a fishing trawler.[50][82]
Leichhardt  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship, anchored near the Girdler Sand, The Nore in the Thames estuary, preparing for her voyage to Wellington, New Zealand, was run into by the steamship North Star ( United Kingdom) and cut to the waterline. All 49 people on board were transferred to North Star. She subsequently capsized and was wrecked.[86][87][88]
Leo  United Kingdom The brigantine was driven ashore and severely damaged on Walney Island, Lancashire.[89] She had become a wreck by 29 October.[90]
Martha Ann  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked east of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to the River Tyne.[75]
North Hampton  United States The steamship was run into by the steamship Continental ( United States) and sank off Newhaven, Connecticut. All on board were rescued.[91]
Speedwell  United Kingdom The schooner was run down and sunk in the North Sea by the steamship J. M. Strachan ( United Kingdom) with the loss of two of her four crew. Speedwell was on a voyage from Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham to Swansea, Glamorgan.[89]
Venus  United Kingdom The ship departed from Waterford for Swansea. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[92]

24 October

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List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1868
Ship State Description
Augusta  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Doom Bar. Her thirteen crew were rescued by the Padstow Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Saint-Nazaire, Ille-et-Vilaine, France to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Padstow, Cornwall.[64][93]
Betty and Louise  Hamburg The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in St Andrews Bay. Her nine crew were rescued by the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Burntisland, Fife, United Kingdom.[94][93]
Carrie  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Johnshaven, Aberdeenshire with the loss of all five crew.[95]
Cora  United Kingdom The schooner foundered off Johnshaven with the loss of all nads. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Aberdeen.[75][51]
Dahlia  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on the Annat Bank, off Montrose, Forfarshire and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the Montrose Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire.[75][64]
Demetrius, and
Trojan 		 United Kingdom The steamship Trojan collided with the steamship Demetrius and was beached at Seacombe, Cheshire. She was on a voyage from Patras, Greece to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated on 25 October and beached at Tranmere, Cheshire Demetrius was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Liverpool. She was taken in to Liverpool for repairs.[89][75][64]
Eagle  United Kingdom The ship sank off the Tongue Sand. Her crew were rescued.[75] She was on a voyage from Looe, Cornwall to Gravesend, Kent.[64]
Frances  United Kingdom The brig sank off the Galloper Sandbank. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Henry Morton ( United Kingdom). Frances was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Le Tréport, Seine-Inférieure, France.[75][96][97]
Ganges  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Alexandria, Egypt. She was refloated the next day with the assistance of a number of fishing smacks and tugs and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a leaky condition.[96][64]
Malta  United Kingdom The brig was abandoned off Happisburgh, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by a fishing lugger. She subsequently came ashore at Happisburgh.[75][96] Malta was later run into and broke up.[64]
Maria Sophia  United Kingdom The ship foundered in Morecambe Bay with the loss of all twelve crew. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Liverpool.[98]
Ocean Belle  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Aurora ( United Kingdom). Ocean Belle was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[99]
Speedwell  United Kingdom The schooner was run down and sunk by the steamship James Strachan ( United Kingdom) with the loss of two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by James Strachan.[100]
Vulcan  Norway The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Johnshaven with the loss of thee of her eight crew. Survivors were rescued by rocket apparatus.[75][95] She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Aberdeen.[101][51]
William  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Cairnryan, Wigtownshire. She was refloated on 4 November and taken in to Stranraer, Wigtownshire.[64][102]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The sloop sank at the mouth of the River Trent. Her crew survived.[97]

25 October

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List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1868
Ship State Description
Active  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Lunner Platte, in the North Sea.[64]
A. H. Chitton  United States The barque was destroyed by fire off Cleveland, Ohio. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cleveland to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.[71]
Colgrain  United Kingdom The ship was sighted in the Atlantic Ocean whilst on a voyage from London to Galle, Ceylon. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[8]
Croxdale  United Kingdom The brig foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to Hamburg.[103]
Eclat  United Kingdom The ship ran aground off Bembridge, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated on 27 October and taken in to Portsmouth, Hampshire.[104]
Gesser flag unknown The ship ran aground on the Lunner Platte.[64]
Jane  United Kingdom The schooner foundered off the mouth of the Humber. Her crew were rescued by the brig George Andrews ( United Kingdom).[97]
John Roberts  United Kingdom The ship ran aground, capsized and sank at Waren Mill, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Newton, Northumberland to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[104] She was refloated the next day and taken in to Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.[105]
Lord Hartington  United Kingdom The brigantine was destroyed by fire at Hunter's Point, New York City, United States with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from New York City to Queenstown, County Cork.[101][51][81][41]
Princess  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near Wremen, Prussia[64] She was on a voyage from Brement to Hartlepool, County Durham.[104]
Prosper  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Audierne, Finistère, France. She was on a voyage from Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire to Hull, Yorkshire.[14]
Rogate  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground between Glückstadt, Prussia and "the Stor".[104] She was refloated on 6 November with the assistance of two steamships and towed in to Glückstadt.[99]
Spitfire  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near Imsum, Prussia.[64] She was on a voyage from Bremen to London.[104]
Trave Flag unknown The brig was driven ashore near Wremen.[64] She was on a voyage from Bremen to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom.[104][105]
Warwick  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Nordergrunde, in the North Sea and was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Hamburg.[104]
William  United Kingdom The ship caught fire at Dartmouth, Devon and was scuttled with assistance from HMS Britannia and HMS Enchantress (both  Royal Navy).[64][82]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The collier, a brig, was driven ashore near Wremen.[104]

26 October

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List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1868
Ship State Description
Arrow  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Luner Platte, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Bremen to South Shields, County Durham.[104] She was refloated on 3 November and taken in to the Geeste.[71]
Blackness  United Kingdom The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to the Nieuwe Diep.[102]
Donor  United Kingdom The collier ran aground on the Zuidwal, in the Wadden Sea.[64]
Empress  United Kingdom The hulk was driven ashore at Pwllcrochan, Pembrokeshire and became hogged.[14]
Norma  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore at "Larche", Denmark. She was on a voyage from London to Memel, Prussia.[64]
Pilote  France The schooner ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Nantes, Loire-Inférieure to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken in to Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium in a severely leaky condition and was placed under repair.[104][97][14]
Sovereign  India The ship struck rocks at "Kwing Island", China. She was on a voyage from Shanghai, China to London. She was refloated and taken in to Foo Chow Foo, China for repairs.[106][107]
Speedwell  United Kingdom The sloop sprang a leak and foundered in the Irish Sea 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) north east of Great Orme Head, Caernarfonshire. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Prince of Wales ( United Kingdom). Speedwell was on a voyage from Port Dinorwic, Caernarfonshire to Runcorn, Cheshire.[108]
Unnamed  United States The ship was driven ashore near Southport, Lancashire, United Kingdom.[64]

27 October

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List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1868
Ship State Description
Bismarck  Prussia The ship was wrecked at "Tennyama".[109]
Borderer  United Kingdom The ship struck a sunken rock off Cape Agulhas, Cape Colony and foundered. Eight of her crew reached land, the boat with the other twelve crew was discovered in a capsized condition. She was on a voyage from Penang, Straits Settlements to London.[33][110]
Constantia  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on Düne, Heligoland with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland to Hamburg.[101][51]
Crest United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The ketch was wrecked near the mouth of Akaroa Harbour when it struck rocks, with the loss of two lives.[111]
Forest Queen  United Kingdom The ship departed from South Shields, County Durham for Guadeloupe. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hans.[112]
Franklin  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Cairnryan, Wigtownshire.[101]
Jane  United Kingdom The ship foundered off the Outer Dowsing Sandbank, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from London to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.[88]
John and Ann  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Lemvig, Norway with the loss of her captain. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Antwerp, Belgium.[88]
Nordpolen  Norway The ship was towed in to Ulvesund in a waterlogged condition. She was on a voyage from a Baltic port to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.[57]
Prosper  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on Heligoland.[101]
No. 11 Heligoland The fishing sloop was driven ashore on Düne.[51]
Two unnamed vessels  Netherlands The ships were driven ashore on Düne. One of them was wrecked.[51]

28 October

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List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1868
Ship State Description
Alexander  Hamburg The schooner departed from the Rio Grande do Sul for a British port. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[113][112]
Ellen and Mary  United Kingdom The schooner was scuttled at Garlieston, Wigtownshire. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to the Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire.[14]
Robert Anderson  United Kingdom The brigantine ran aground on the Blacktail Sand, in the Thames Estuary.[105]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The Mersey Flat was wrecked on the West Hoyle Bank, in Liverpool Bay with the loss of all hands.[90]

29 October

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List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1868
Ship State Description
Champion  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore on Walney Island, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued.[90]
John  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on the Dutch coast in a wrecked condition.[14]
Malvern  United Kingdom The ship, which had caught fire on 25 October, was abandoned off Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Valparaíso, Chile.[114][115][116]
Newton  United Kingdom The ship ran aground near Porthcawl, Glamorgan. She was refloated on 2 November and towed to Appledore, Devon for repairs.[14]
Unnamed Flag unknown The brig sank off the Hugo Bank, in the Bristol Channel.[14]

30 October

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List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1868
Ship State Description
RMS Grecian  United Kingdom The steamship struck a rock and sank in the Saint Lawrence River. Her passengers were rescued.[117]
Karsinde  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Lowestoft, Suffolk to Groningen, Netherlands.[69]
Primus  Sweden The barque was sighted off Fortress Monroe, Virginia, United States whilst on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to London, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[118]
Tempest  United Kingdom The ship departed from New York for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[118]
Theodorus  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Salthouse Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Lancashire. Her fifteen crew were rescued by the Blackpool and Lytham Lifeboats. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Edina, Liberia. She was refloated and taken in to Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.[13][93]
Unnamed Flag unknown The schooner foundered off Ameland, Friesland, Netherlands with the loss of all hands.[119]
Unnamed Flag unknown The schooner foundered off Amrum, Prussia with the loss of all hands.[57]

31 October

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List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1868
Ship State Description
Ariadne  United Kingdom The schooner was run down and sunk in the North Sea 6 nautical miles (11 km) south of Scarborough, Yorkshire by a French lugger. Her four crew survived.[120][32]
Bonita United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Jersey The ship foundered in the English Channel 10 nautical miles (19 km) off the coast of Devon with the loss of her captain. The two survivors were each rescued by a fishing trawler.[32]
Florence  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at "Eitzenloch". She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Cuxhaven. She was refloated and completed her voyage.[14]
Jura  United Kingdom The schooner departed from South Shields, County Durham for Dublin. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[118]
Lion  United Kingdom The steamship struck a sunken wreck and foundered off Dagerort, Russia. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Cronstadt, Russia.[121][99]
HMS Pallas  Royal Navy The ironclad caught fire off Gibraltar. Seventeen crew were injured. The fire was extinguished with assistance from a United States Navy warship.[122]
Paraguay  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore on Amrum, Friesland, Netherlands.[123][14] She was refloated and found to be leaky.[57]
Persia  United Kingdom The ship was destroyed by fire at sea. Her crew were rescued by Black Watch ( United Kingdom). Persia was on a voyage from Greenock, Renfrewshire to Bombay, India.[124]
St. Helier  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked at Wyk auf Föhr, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Lagos, Africa to Hamburg.[125]
T. F. Gates  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Dutch coast. She was on a voyage from Galaţi, Ottoman Empire to Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.[13]

Unknown date

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in October 1868
Ship State Description
Daniel  Italy The ship was wrecked on the coast of Brazil.[67]
Enterprise  United Kingdom The ship sank near Fort Mahon, Mallorca, Spain. She was on a voyage from Livorno, Italy to a port in Dorset.[67]
Falcon Flag unknown The ship was destroyed by fire at Swatow, China before 27 October.[81]
Fritz and Betsey Flag unknown The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Sweden.[69]
Helena  France The steamship was destroyed by fire off Capbreton, Landes.[105]
Neptunus Rostock The ship was driven ashore on Læsø, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Bergen, Norway to Rostock. She had been refloated by 8 October and taken in to Fredrikshavn, Denmark in a severely leaky condition.[21]
Prince Consort  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Visby, Sweden.[25]
Protector  United Kingdom The ship departed from Hull, Yorkshire for Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all 25 crew.[126]
R. Hines Canada Canada The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 12 October.[104]
Sulina  United Kingdom The ship foundered in Dingle Bay after 2 October with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Falmouth, Cornwall for Dingle, County Kerry.[127][128]
Souvenir  United Kingdom The galeas was abandoned in the North Sea (54°50′N 4°05′E / 54.833°N 4.083°E / 54.833; 4.083) on or before 5 October. She was on a voyage from Burntisland, Fife to the Elbe.[18][9]
Spes  United Kingdom The ship was lost off "Platorf".[23]
Stag  United Kingdom The ship was destroyed by fire at Bombay, India.[65]
Stockton  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in Boston Bay.[67]
Vesta  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore on Saaremaa, Russia. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was refloated on 12 October and taken in to "Hafen Attel".[37]
Virgen de Solidad  Spain The ship was wrecked on the English Bank, in the River Plate. She was on a voyage from Barcelona to Monte Video, Uruguay.[13]

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