List of shipwrecks in 1870#August

The list of shipwrecks in 1870 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1870.

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|ship=Alarm

|flag=22px Newfoundland Colony

|desc=The sealer was sunk by ice.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=16 July 1870 |issue=9528 }}

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|ship=Alice

|flag={{flag|New South Wales|1870}}

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=2 January 1871 |page=7 |issue=26949 |column=C }}

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|ship=Aurora

|flag={{flag|New Zealand}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Timaru.

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|ship=B. C. Schriviner

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The schooner was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the {{convert|7|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.{{Cite web |url=https://njscuba.net/sites/site_lavallette.php |title=njscuba.net "Lavallette Wreck" |access-date=1 March 2020 |archive-date=23 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223173713/https://njscuba.net/sites/site_lavallette.php |url-status=dead }}

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|ship=Betsy

|flag={{flag|New Zealand}}

|desc= The cutter left Napier bound for Auckland and was never seen again.Ingram & Wheatley, p. 172.

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|ship=Cessina

|flag={{flag|New South Wales|1870}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Flinders Island, Tasmania. She was on a voyage from Newcastle to Adelaide, South Australia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=1 November 1870 |issue=9621 }}

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|ship=Challenger

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig collided with the steamship Avoca ({{flag|South Australia|1870}} and sank in Port Phillip Bay.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=6 December 1870 |page=5 |issue=26926 |column=F }}

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|ship=Charles Edward

|flag={{flag|New Zealand}}

|desc=The steamship struck a rock near Hokitika and sank.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=23 May 1870 |page=8 |issue=26757 |column=D }}

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|ship=Clarissa

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Tahiti.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=3 May 1870 |issue=9464 }}

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|ship=Colonist

|flag={{flag|New South Wales|1870}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Elizabeth Reef. She was on a voyage from Sydney to New Caledonia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=26 August 1870 |issue=9563 }}

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|ship=Countess of Sheffield

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was lost in the Torres Strait.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=13 September 1870 |page=5 |issue=26754 |column=F }}

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|ship=Dolphin

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands with loss of life. Five survivors took to the jolly boat, according to a message in a bottle that washed up at Southport, Lancashire on 23 March.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=2 April 1870 |page=10 |issue=26714 |column=F }}

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|ship=Edward Edgar

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship foundered off Valentia Island, County Cork according to a message in a bottle that washed up at Ilfracombe, Devon in September.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=20 September 1870 |issue=9584 }}

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|ship=Eli Whitney

|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Tahiti. She was on a voyage from Newcastle, New South Wales to San Francisco, California.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=27 April 1870 |issue=9459 }}

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|ship=Gilman D. King

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The schooner was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the {{convert|7|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.

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|ship=Highlander

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Newcastle, New South Wales.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=14 May 1870 |issue=9474 }}

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|ship={{ship|Russian ship|Il'mena||2}}

|flag={{navy|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship sank. She was refloated by means of air bags.

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|ship=Jane

|flag={{flag|New Zealand}}

|desc=The schooner was lost whilst on a voyage from the Bay of Islands to Thames.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=5 September 1870 |issue=9571 }}

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|ship=Jeanie Oswald

|flag={{flag|South Australia|1870}}

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Fitzroy River. She was on a voyage from Adelaide to Rockhampton, Queensland. She was consequently condemned.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=29 November 1870 |page=6 |issue=26920 |column=F }}

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|ship=John Collins

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The schooner was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the {{convert|7|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.

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|ship=Lagos

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The sailing barge was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean after 31 August. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Lagos, Africa.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping News |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=5 January 1871 |issue=9676 }}

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|ship=Layard

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked at Timaru.

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|ship=Leon

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship caught fire in Chichora Bay and was scuttled. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Valparaíso, Chile.

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|ship=Lizzie Lane

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The sloop was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the {{convert|7|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.{{Cite web |url=https://njscuba.net/sites/site_lavallette.php |title=njscuba.net "Lavallette Wreck" |access-date=1 March 2020 |archive-date=23 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223173713/https://njscuba.net/sites/site_lavallette.php |url-status=dead }}

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|ship=Mary

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. She was on a voyage from Callao, Peru to Queenstown, County Cork.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=12 February 1870 |page=12 |issue=26672 |column=D }}

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|ship={{ship|Russian gunboat|Metch||2}}

|flag={{navy|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The gunboat sank at Tranzund, Grand Duchy of Finland. She was refloated by means of air bags.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Raising Sunken Vessels |date=30 October 1875 |issue=28460 |page=4 |column=E }}

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|ship=Myrtle

|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in the Aleutian Islands late in 1870.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-m/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (M)]

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|ship=Othello

|flag=22px Newfoundland Colony

|desc=The sealer was sunk by ice.

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|ship={{SV|Pocumtuck||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}

|desc=The fishing schooner was run ashore near Ship Harbor, Nova Scotia. Condemned and sold.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/1870.htm |title=1870 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=6 July 2021}}

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|ship=Scudd

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The schooner was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the {{convert|7|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.

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|ship=Star of the East

|flag={{flag|New Zealand}}

|desc=The steamship was lost near Napier.

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|ship=Stormbird

|flag={{flag|New South Wales|1870}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned off Green Cape.

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|ship=Summer Cloud

|flag={{flag|New South Wales|1867}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked in Wreck Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Melbourne, Victoria to Newcastle.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=27 December 1870 |page=5 |issue=26944 |column=F }}

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|ship=United Brothers

|flag=22px Newfoundland Colony

|desc=The sealer was sunk by ice.

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References

=Notes=

=Bibliography=

Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.

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