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The list of shipwrecks in 1856 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1856.


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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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References


January

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1856
Ship State Description
Pacific  United States The passenger ship departed from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom for New York. She subsequently struck an iceberg and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 186 people on board.

February

6 February

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1856
Ship State Description
Glenmoriston  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Southwold, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.[1]

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1856
Ship State Description
Catherine Jenkins  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in Lucas Cove, Glamorgan with the loss of seven of her eleven crew. She was on a voyage from Santiago de Cuba, Cuba to Swansea, Glamorgan.[2]

April

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1856
Ship State Description
Odin  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked on th Barnard Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk before 16 April.[1]

May

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1856
Ship State Description
William IV  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Walberswick, Suffolk before 12 May.[1]

31 May

List of shipwrecks: 31 May
Ship State Description
Julia  United Kingdom The brig went down at Long Sand, Essex on a voyage from Hartlepool to Brest. The captain, Isaac Wilson, his mate, Will Bain, Mrs Barbara Bain and two of their children were drowned. This was confirmed by a letter from the ship's owner, John Holliday, written on 13 March 1858 to George Müller, to support the application for admission of William Bain, another child of Will Bain, to the Bristol orphanage. This letter is held by The George Müller Charitable Trust in Bristol. Another letter reveals that all but one member of the crew and another child of Will (possibly William?) were lost.

June

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1856
Ship State Description
Mount Vernon  United States The ship was stove by ice and sank southwest of Iony Island in the western Sea of Okhotsk. The crew and most of the cargo of oil were saved by the ship Barnstable ( United States).[3][4]

July

25 July

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1856
Ship State Description
Santo Andre  Spain The galley foundered off Boa Vista, Cape Verde Islands, Portugal.[5]

August

10 August

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1856
Ship State Description
Alexander Coffin  United States The ship ran aground Makanrushi during a heavy fog. The vessel was righted by cutting away her masts and got off the rocks by lighting her of gear and cargo. She was then jury-rigged and taken to Ayan, where she was condemned and sold at auction. The crew and cargo of oil and bone were saved.[6][7][8][9]

28 August

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1856
Ship State Description
Isaac Allerton  United States The ship foundered in a hurricane 15 nautical miles (28 km) east south east of Key West, Florida.

September

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1856
Ship State Description
Arabia  United States The steamboat struck a submerged object and sank in the Missouri River near Kansas City, Kansas. All on board survived.

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1856
Ship State Description
Niagara  United States The palace steamer caught fire and asank in Lake Michigan with the loss of more than 60 lives.

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1856
Ship State Description
Emmet  United Kingdom The ship foundered in Swansea Bay. Her crew were rescued.[2]
Happy return  United Kingdom The ship foundered in Swansea Bay. Her crew were rescued.[2]
Monkey  United Kingdom The schooner foundered in Swansea Bay. Her crew were rescued.[2]
Pascoe Grenfell  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore in Swansea Bay.[2]
Pioneer  United Kingdom The brigantine foundered in Swansea Bay. Her crew were rescued.[2]
Swiftsure  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore in Swansea Bay.[2]
Western Star  United Kingdom The schooner foundered in Swansea Bay. Her crew were rescued.[2]

October

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1856
Ship State Description
Natchez  United States The ship was wrecked in Nikolaya Bay in the western Sea of Okhotsk during a gale. Most of the crew were rescued by the bark Harmony ( United States); four men wintered by the wreck – one of which died. The three survivors and most the cargo of oil and bone were saved by the ship Italy ( United States) the following year.[10][11]

November

4 November

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1856
Ship State Description
Lyonnaise  France The steamer was struck by the barque Adriatic during fog on November 2nd and sank on November 4th in the Nantucket Shoals, in the Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket, Massachusetts. About 130 of her 150 passengers and crew perished.[12]

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1856
Ship State Description
Eleanor Lancaster  United Kingdom The three-masted barque was wrecked on Oyster Bank, in the Pacific Ocean off Newcastle, New South Wales. Her sixteen crew survived

December

9 December

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1856
Ship State Description
Petronilia  Belgium The barque was wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom with the loss of four of her crew.[13]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1856
Ship State Description
Coromandel  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Sea Witch  United States The clipper ran aground off Havana, Cuba and was wrecked.

References

  1. ^ a b c Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  3. ^ The Friend (Vol. V, No. 11, Nov. 15, 1856, p. 85, Honolulu).
  4. ^ Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876. Castle. ISBN 1-55521-537-8.
  5. ^ "SHIPWRECKS". Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  6. ^ Whalemen's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript (Vol. XIV, No. 41, Dec. 16, 1856, New Bedford).
  7. ^ Whalemen's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript (Vol. XIV, No. 42, Dec. 23, 1856, New Bedford).
  8. ^ The Friend (Vol. V, No. 12, Dec. 11, 1856, p. 93, Honolulu).
  9. ^ Frances Henrietta, of New Bedford, Sept. 9, 1856, Nicholson Whaling Collection.
  10. ^ Hawaii. (1865). Reports of a portion of the decisions rendered by the Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Islands in law, equity, admiralty, and probate. Honolulu: Govt. Press.
  11. ^ Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876. Castle. ISBN 1-55521-537-8.
  12. ^ "Loss of the French Steamer Lyonnaise". Wilmington Journal. Wilmington, N.C. November 21, 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  13. ^ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
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