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The list of shipwrecks in October 1865 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1865.

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1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1865
Ship State Description
Ellen Bowes  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore in Tees Bay. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to China. She was refloated with assistance of the tug War Eagle ( United Kingdom) and resumed her voyage.[1]

2 October

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1865
Ship State Description
Forest Queen  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore near Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland, Netherlands.[2][1]
Nautilus  United Kingdom The brig ran aground on the Barber Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields, County Durham. She was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a leaky condition.[2][3]
Swallow  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore near Hellevoetsluis]].[2] She was refloated and resumed her voyage.[1]
X. L.  United Kingdom The ship ran aground off Dundee, Forfarshire. She was on a voyage from London to Dundee.[3]

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1865
Ship State Description
Panola  United States The 89-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in either Grand Bayou or Bayou Goula in Louisiana.[4]
Reindeer United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand A bottle was found near the Waiongara River mouth in December containing a note claiming that the ketch had foundered while en route from Auckland to Wanganui within sight of Mount Egmont, written by the lone survivor of a crew of four. Neither he nor the wreckage were ever found.[5]

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1865
Ship State Description
HMS Terpsichore  Royal Navy The Template:Sclass- was sunk by a mine in the River Medway at Gillingham, Kent.[6]

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1865
Ship State Description
Arrow  United States The ship was wrecked on Umbrella Cay. She was on a voyage from Port Royal, South Carolina to Cuba.[7]
Clipper  United States The 242-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned 70 nautical miles (130 km) upstream of Mobile, Alabama, with the loss of eight lives.[8]

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1865
Ship State Description
Alpha  United States The 107-ton screw steamer exploded in Albemarle Sound on the coast of North Carolina.[9]
Duncan Dunbar  United Kingdom The clipper struck a reef at Rocas Atoll in the South Atlantic Ocean, 269 miles (433 km) northeast of Recife, Brazil, and sank. Good discipline and seamanship enabled the full complement of some 80 passengers and crew to be rescued by RMS Oneida ( United Kingdom) after 10 days on a barren islet.[10][11][12]
Kororarika United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The cutter was holed in Hauraki Gulf and abandoned. The crew survived, making for Auckland in the ship's dinghy.[13]

8 October

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1865
Ship State Description
Enterprise  United States The 26-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River downstream of Red Wing, Minnesota.[14]

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1865
Ship State Description
Atlantic No. 2  United States The 53-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Black Warrior River or Tombigbee River at Demopolis, Alabama.[8]
Tycoon  United States The 332-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Tiptonville, Tennessee.[15]

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1865
Ship State Description
Catherine  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Seaham, County Durham.[16]
Economy  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Hartlepool, County Durham.[16]
Favourite  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Sunderland, County Durham. Her crew were rescued by the tug Privateer ( United Kingdom).[16]
Frederick VII  United Kingdom The ship foundered off the mouth of the River Wear with the loss of all three crew. She was on a voyage from Honfleur, Calvados, France to Seaham.[16]
Medora  United Kingdom The collier, a brig, foundered in the North Sea off the mouth of the River Tyne with the loss of seven crew.[16]
Ringwood  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on the Black Middens, at the mouth of the River Tyne with the loss of three of her five crew.[16]

15 October

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1865
Ship State Description
Atlantic  United States The 1,054-ton screw steamer foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean at 36°03′N 72°30′W / 36.050°N 72.500°W / 36.050; -72.500 (Atlantic) with the loss of 48 lives.[17]

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1865
Ship State Description
Brilliant  United States The 440-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at New Madrid, Missouri, after an oil lamp exploded on board. Sixty-five people on board escaped to shore.[18]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1865
Ship State Description
Bostona No. 2  United States The 304-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank at Craigs Bar on the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Carrollton, Kentucky. She later was refloated.[19]

18 October

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1865
Ship State Description
Agnes  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Goswick, Northumberland with the loss of all hands.[20]
Berry  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Taylor's Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Newry, County Antrim to Boston.[21]
Fear not  United Kingdom The ship ran aground off St. Andrews, Fife and was wrecked with the loss of one of the five people on board. She was on a voyage from London to Dundee, Forfarshire.[20][21]
Friends  United Kingdom The smack was wrecked at St. Davids Head, Pembrokeshire with the loss of one of her three crew.[22]
Henrietta Flag unknown The schooner was wrecked at Burnmouth, Berwickshire, United Kingdom with the loss of all hands.[20]
Janet Allison  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked 5.5 nautical miles (10.2 km) north of Blyth, Northumberland with the loss of seven of her eight crew, her captain alone surviving.[23][20]
Martha  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Lindisfarne, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus.[20]
Ocean  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) east of Dunbar, Lothian. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Bo'ness, Lothian to London.[20]
Sisters  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Rye, Sussex.[21]
William and Mary  United Kingdom The steamboat was wrecked on the Herd Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of County Durham.[20]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) north of Blyth.[20]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The smack was wrecked at Eyemouth, Berwickshire. Her three crew were rescued.[20]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1865
Ship State Description
Chance  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at "Monckwick", Russia. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire.[21]
Elizabeth  United Kingdom The schooner capsized and sank off Whitby, Yorkshire with the loss of all hands.[22]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1865
Ship State Description
Emerald  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at North Sunderland, County Durham with the loss of all hands.[22]
Juno  Netherlands The barque was wrecked on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland to Rangoon, Burma.[24]
Medora  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at North Sunderland with the loss of all hands.[22]
USS Nettle  United States Navy The 50-ton sidewheel tug sank in the Mississippi River after colliding with a United States Navy ironclad.[25]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1865
Ship State Description
Annie  United States The 350-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was run aground on Fig Island, Georgia to avoid sinking after she struck a snag in the Savannah River. She later was refloated.[26]
Majestic  United States The 201-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Point Coupee, Louisiana.[27]
Yosemite  United States Carrying 350 passengers and nearly a ton of gold and silver, the 631-, 1,317-, or 1,319-ton steamer sank after her starboard boiler exploded just after she left the wharf at Rio Vista, California. One source reports that at least between 42 and 51 people died, while another claims that 150 died and 50 were injured. The ship later was refloated, repaired and lengthened, and returned to service.[28]

23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1865
Ship State Description
Alarm  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Labrador, British North America to Oporto, Portugal.[7]
HMS Bulldog  Royal Navy The Template:Sclass- ran aground off Cap Haïtien, Haiti, during a British punitive expedition against Haiti. She was set afire and blown up to prevent her capture by Haitian rebels.[29][30][31][32]
D. H. Mount  United States The 321-ton screw steamer foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean off the United States East Coast between Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida, with the loss of 24 lives.[33]
Valorogue Haiti Haiti The steamship was sunk off Cap Haïtien by cannon fire from HMS Bulldog ( Royal Navy).[31] Some of her crew were rescued by USS De Soto ( United States Navy).[32]

25 October

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1865
Ship State Description
Carl  Hamburg The ship was wrecked at Ringkøbing, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Harburg to Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom.[24]
Republic  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 100 nautical miles (190 km) southeast of Savannah, Georgia, with the loss of 34 lives.[34]

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1865
Ship State Description
Petrus  Norway The brig was driven ashore at "Fornby", Denmark. She was on a voyage from Dram to Rye, Sussex, United Kingdom.[35]

27 October

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1865
Ship State Description
Ann Patterson  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked at Egmond aan Zee, North Holland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to the Nieuw Diep.[35]
Border Chieftain  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Egmond aan Zee.[35]
Hope  United Kingdom The ship ran aground at Ramsgate, Kent.[24]
Iduna  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Marsen, County Durham.[24] She was consequently condemned.[35]
R. B. Taney  United States The 301-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded at Mobile, Alabama.[36]
Rebecca  United Kingdom The brig was driven ashore on Amrum, Kingdom of Hanover. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to South Shields, County Durham. She was refloated and taken in to Wyk auf Fohr, Duchy of Holstein in a leaky condition.[35]
Robert Airey  United Kingdom The tug foundered in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire with the loss of all four crew.[37]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1865
Ship State Description
Edith United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Barbadoes The brig dragged her anchors and came ashore at Castle Point, St Mawes, Cornwall.[38] She was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.[24]
Faith  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. she was on a voyage from Boston, Lincolnshire to London.[24]
Henry  United Kingdom The fishing smack was driven ashore at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued.[24]
Margaret and Jane  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on the Île de Groix, Morbihan, France with the loss of four of her seven crew.[39]
Reaper  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Naylor Rock, off Margate, Kent. Her crew were rescued by the Margate Lifeboat.[24]
Sarah  United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardigan to Valencia, Spain.[35]

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1865
Ship State Description
Cricket  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the English Channel 12 nautical miles (22 km) off Newhaven, Sussex. Her crew were rescued.[24]
Emma  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on the South Bull, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Dublin. Her crew were rescued by the Poole Bay Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Newport, Monmouthshire.[35]
Henry  United Kingdom The fishing smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued.[37]
Margaret  United Kingdom The sloop was destroyed by fire off Lindisfarne, Northumberland.[24]
Ocean  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Caldy Island, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued.[24]
Prince Arthur  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Palmer's Bay, Isle of Thanet, Kent.[24]
Prince Rupert  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and damaged at Liverpool, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne, Victoria. She was refloated and taken in to Liverpool.[24]
St. Malo  France The ship was wrecked at Hayle, Cornwall, United Kingdom with the loss of two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by the Hayle Lifeboat.[24]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on Scroby Sands, Norfolk.[24]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1865
Ship State Description
Desire  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Port Madoc, Caernarfonshire to Boston, Lincolnshire.[24]
Iroquois  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Dover, Kent. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Honfleur, Calvados, France.[35]
John Wesley  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore on Heligoland. Shew as on a voyage from Port Madoc to Hamburg.[35]
Juno Russian Empire Grand Duchy of Finland The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom to Vyborg.[35]
Ligo  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Corton, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus.[24]
Margaretha Johanna  Russia The ship was driven ashore near Bolderāja.[35]
Marion  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Portbeg, Wigtownshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the Belfast Lough to Caernarfon.[37]
Norma  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at the South Foreland, Kent. She was refloated and assisted in to Ramsgate, Kent in a severely leaky condition.[35]
Queen of Ava  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on Dassen Island. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Cape Town, Cape Colony.[40][7]
Thomas Martin  United States Bound for Charleston, South Carolina, with a cargo of lumber, the schooner drifted ashore on the coast of South Carolina at Folly Island north of Georgetown. She had been adrift since she was dismasted on 23 October in a storm in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina between Cape Lookout and Frying Pan Shoals.[41]
Vale of Avoca  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecke near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.[24]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1865
Ship State Description
Izamados  United Kingdom The steamship was abandoned in the English Channel off hte Isle of Wight. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Dunkerque, Nord to Liverpool, Lancashire.[35]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1865
Ship State Description
Betsey  United Kingdom The ship was lost near "Moordwyk-sur-Ouer" before 28 October. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands.[35]
Dover  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on Stoneskar, Russia. She was on a voyage from Vyborg,Grand Duchy of Finland to Gloucester. She was refloated and put in to Fredrikshaven, Denmark in a waterlogged condition on 30 October.[35]
Edith  United Kingdom The ship was lost in the White Sea before 12 October. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Onega, Russia to London.[24]
Gwen Jones  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Helsingør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Port Madoc, Caernarfonshire to Dantsic. She was refloated on 25 October and taken in to Helsingør for repairs.[35]
Jane and Albert  Netherlands The schooner was wrecked at Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. She was on a voyage from London, United Kindom to Iceland.[35]
Republic  United States The steamboat suffered a boiler explosion on the Hudson River with the loss of 14 lives. She was on a voyage from Albany, New York to New York City.[42]
Rival  France The ship foundered in the English Channel off the coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom before 19 October.[21]
Sangalier United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Tasmania The schooner left Hokitika, New Zealand, on 20 October and was not sighted again. She had a crew of four.[13]
Undine United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The schooner stranded on a bank at Greymouth during October. She was washed clear and wrecked when the bank gave way during a flood the following month.[13]

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Notes

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  2. ^ a b c "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury. No. 5515. Liverpool. 3 October 1865.
  3. ^ a b "Mercantile Ship News". The Standard. No. 12841. London. 3 October 1865.
  4. ^ Gaines, p. 71.
  5. ^ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 116.
  6. ^ "Experiments with Torpedo Shells". The Times. No. 25308. London. 4 October 1865. col D-E, p. 12. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  7. ^ a b c "Ship News". The Times. No. 25366. London. 12 December 1865. col F, p. 12. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  8. ^ a b Gaines, p. 1.
  9. ^ Gaines, p. 113.
  10. ^ "The Brazil Mails". The Times. No. 25331. London. 1 November 1865. col C, p. 9. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  11. ^ "News in Brief". The Times. No. 25332. London. 2 November 1865. col B, p. 6. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  12. ^ "The wreck of the Duncan Dunbar". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 January 1866. via Trove
  13. ^ a b c Ingram & Wheatley, p. 117.
  14. ^ Gaines, p. 94.
  15. ^ Gaines, p. 104.
  16. ^ a b c d e f "The Gale Of The North-East Coast". The Times. No. 25314. London. 12 October 1865. col C, p. 12. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  17. ^ Gaines, pp. 12-13.
  18. ^ Gaines, p. 92.
  19. ^ Gaines, p. 134.
  20. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Awful Gale". The Times. No. 25321. London. 20 October 1865. col D, p. 9. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  21. ^ a b c d e "Ship News". The Times. No. 25321. London. 20 October 1865. col F, p. 5. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  22. ^ a b c d "Ship News". The Times. No. 25322. London. 21 October 1865. col E, p. 11. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  23. ^ "Ship News". The Times. No. 25320. London. 19 October 1865. col E, p. 7. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  24. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Ship News". The Times. No. 25330. London. 31 October 1865. col F, p. 11. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  25. ^ Gaines, p. 100.
  26. ^ Gaines, p. 46.
  27. ^ Gaines, p. 69.
  28. ^ Gaines, p. 31.
  29. ^ wrecksite.eu HMS Bulldog (+1865)
  30. ^ Beeton′s Men of the Age and Annals of the Time, Being An Account of Eminent Persons, and a Record of Events, London: War, Lock, and Tyler, 1874, p. 184
  31. ^ a b "Destruction of Her Majesty's Ship Bulldog". The Times. No. 25355. London. 29 November 1865. col D, p. 9. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  32. ^ a b "The Bombardment of Cape Haytien". The Times. No. 25357. London. 1 December 1865. col B, p. 10. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  33. ^ Gaines, p. 13.
  34. ^ Gaines, pp. 49-50.
  35. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Ship News". The Times. No. 25331. London. 1 November 1865. col C, p. 11. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  36. ^ Gaines, p. 6.
  37. ^ a b c "Ship News". The Times. No. 25332. London. 2 November 1865. col C, p. 11. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  38. ^ Larn, Richard; Larn, Bridget (1997). Shipwreck Index of the British Isles. Vol. 1. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
  39. ^ "Shipwreck on the French Coast News". The Times. No. 25371. London. 18 December 1865. col C, p. 12. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  40. ^ "The Cape of Good Hope". The Times. No. 25366. London. 11 December 1865. col B, p. 12. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  41. ^ Gaines, p. 156.
  42. ^ "America". The Times. No. 25340. London. 11 November 1865. col A, p. 12. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)

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