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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1866
Ship
State
Description
Alex Majors
United States
The steamboat sank in the Missouri River at Grand River .[ 1]
Edward
United Kingdom
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Taewan".[ 2]
Emma
Western Australia
The schooner was wrecked at the North West Cape . She was on a voyage from Port Walcot to Fremantle . All on board survived the wreck, but were captured by the local inhabitants. They were subsequently killed and eaten .[ 3]
Ernestine
Stettin
The ship foundered in the Gulf of Mexico . She was on a voyage from Minatitlán , Mexico to London , United Kingdom .[ 4]
General McNeil
Unknown
The sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at Howards Bend near St. Louis , Missouri , sometime during the 1860s.[ 5]
Jane
United Kingdom
The full-rigged ship was wrecked.
Kate
New Zealand
The ketch was wrecked at Okarito in late April or early May.[ 6]
Kenna
Kingdom of Hanover
The schooner departed from Seville , Spain for the River Tyne in late May or early June. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all on board.[ 7]
Lanuca , orLaura
United Kingdom
The ship was wrecked on Formosa .[ 2]
Lilly
United Kingdom
The ship was driven ashore at "Taewan".[ 2]
Loda
United Kingdom
The ship was destroyed by fire. She was on a voyage from Cardiff , Glamorgan to Melbourne , Victoria and Shanghai , China .[ 8]
Nelly
United Kingdom
The ship was driven ashore at "Tawnfoo".[ 2]
Penang
United States
The barque ran aground in the Paracel Islands between 25 March and 6 May. She was on a voyage from Saigon , French Cochinchina to Hong Kong . She was refloated and resumed her voyage in a severely leaky condition.[ 9]
Polades
United Kingdom
The ship was wrecked on Formosa.[ 2]
R. G. Porter
United States
The schooner was lost at Point Pleasant , New Jersey .[ 10]
Rising Dawn
British North America
The ship was sunk by ice at Ivituut , Greenland.[ 11]
Rylanders
United Kingdom
The ship was wrecked.[ 2]
Santiago
Chile
The ship was wrecked on George Island , Falkland Islands . Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Iquique to Marseille , Bouches-du-Rhône , France.[ 12]
Sarah
Victoria
The schooner was wrecked to the north of the mouth of the Rangitikei River during a heavy gale early in the year. All hands were saved.[ 13]
Victoria
United States
The 487-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost in 1866.[ 14]
^ Martin, George W., ed., Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1905–1906, Volume 9 , Topeka, Kansas: State Printing Office, 1906, p. 297.
^ a b c d e f "Shipping". Liverpool Mercury . No. 5866. Liverpool. 16 November 1866.
^ "A Shipwrecked Crew Eaten by Cannibals". Birmingham Daily Post . No. 5539. Birmingham. 12 April 1876.
^ "Mercantile Ship News". The Standard . No. 12996. London. 3 April 1866. p. 7.
^ Gaines, p. 106.
^ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 127.
^ "Marine Intelligence". Newcastle Courant . No. 10000. Newcastle upon Tyne. 24 August 1866.
^ "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury . No. 5662. Liverpool. 23 March 1866.
^ "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury . No. 24029. Edinburgh. 5 July 1866.
^ "njscuba.net "Lavallette Wreck" " . Archived from the original on 2020-02-23. Retrieved 2020-03-01 .
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 25624. London. 9 October 1866. col F, p. 9.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 25634. London. 20 October 1866. col F, p. 9.
^ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 126.
^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Victoria
Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks , Louisiana State University Press, 2008 Archived 2010-11-29 at the Wayback Machine , ISBN 978-0-8071-3274-6.
Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.
Shipwrecks 1860–69, by month
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