List of shipwrecks in 1872

The list of shipwrecks in 1872 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1872.

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|ship=Annie Scott

|flag={{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}}

|desc=The ship departed from Shanghai, China on "31 September" for Hiogo, Japan. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=17 April 1873 |issue=27666 |page=11 |column=F }}

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|ship=Black Diamond

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked between Moonta and Wallaroo.

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|ship=Braunstone

|flag={{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}}

|desc=The steamship was abandoned at sea between 9 January and 15 July. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Pacasmayo, Peru.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=16 July 1872 |issue=27430 |page=7 |column=E }}

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|ship=Correo de Lebu

|flag={{flag|Chile}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the south coast of Chile.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 January 1873 |issue=7796 }}

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|ship=Chuckiang

|flag={{flagcountry|Qing dynasty|1862}}

|desc=The steamship was wrecked in the Hainan Strait. She was on a voyage from Hong Kong to Shanghai.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=2 April 1872 |issue=10064 }}

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|ship=Clarence

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked between Bald Hill and "Norogora". She was on a voyage from Sydney to Port Macquarie

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|ship=Coryphæus

|flag={{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Aila, Ottoman Syria. At least five crew survived.{{Cite news |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=26 October 1872 |issue=30853 |page=5 }}

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|ship=Don Leandro

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The 86-ton two-masted lumber schooner was wrecked. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[http://scubagonewild.com/documents/Encyclopedia%20of%20Civil%20War%20Shipwrecks%20-%20(Malestrom).pdf Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129144606/http://scubagonewild.com/documents/Encyclopedia%20of%20Civil%20War%20Shipwrecks%20-%20(Malestrom).pdf |date=29 November 2010 }}, {{ISBN|978-0-8071-3274-6}}, p. 27.

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|ship=Doon

|flag={{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}}

|desc=The ship was lost in the South China Sea.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 March 1872 |issue=10052 }} Her crew took to two boats. Six crew in one of the boats were rescued by the barque Veritas ({{flag|Sweden|1844}}). Those in the other boat were reported missing.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=1 May 1872 |issue=14899 }}

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|ship=Elizabeth Fry

|flag={{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked between 26 January and 9 February. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.

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|ship=Fanny Campbell

|flag={{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Banks Islands. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=6 August 1872 |issue=10172 }}

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|ship=Glenmark

|flag={{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}}

|desc=The clipper left Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand, for Gravesend, Kent in early 1872 with a cargo of wool and fifty people on board. Presumed foundered with the loss of all on board.Ingram & Wheatley, p. 184.

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|ship=Hannah Bloomfield

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

|desc=The ship ran aground. She was on a voyage from Sydney to Cleveland Bay, Queensland.

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|ship=Huntsman

|flag={{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}}

|desc=The sealer, a brig was lost in ice off Cape St. Charles, Newfoundland Colony with the loss of 45 of her 61 crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Loss of a Greenock Sealer |date=14 May 1872 |issue=27376 |page=13 |column=E }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Intelligence |date=22 May 1872 |issue=27383 |page=5 |column=A }}

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|ship=James Merriman

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The barque was wrecked in the Torres Strait.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=19 March 1872 |issue=27328 |page=12 |column=E }}

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|ship=Lola Montes

|flag={{flag|Queensland|1870}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Brisbane to Cleveland Bay.

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|ship=Maggie Wright

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

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Kingston, Jamaica on 9 August or 9 September.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=30 September 1872 |issue=10219 }}

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|ship={{USS|Mohican|1859|2}}

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

|desc=The decommissioned steam sloop-of-war sank at her moorings at Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California, during the second half of the year. She was refloated, beached, and scrapped.

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|ship=Panther

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The steamer was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey, United States 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=Petrel

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in the New Hebrides.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=20 February 1872 |issue=10028 }}

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|ship={{USS|Picket Boat No. 5}}

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

|desc=The torpedo boat was lost.[http://scubagonewild.com/documents/Encyclopedia%20of%20Civil%20War%20Shipwrecks%20-%20(Malestrom).pdf Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129144606/http://scubagonewild.com/documents/Encyclopedia%20of%20Civil%20War%20Shipwrecks%20-%20(Malestrom).pdf |date=29 November 2010 }}, {{ISBN|978-0-8071-3274-6}}, p. 186.

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|ship={{SS|Russia|1872|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship struck a sunken rock and sank in Lake Erie off Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada in November or December. She was refloated, repaired and returned to service.

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|ship=Sarah Anne Blanche

|flag={{flagicon|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} Tasmania

|desc=The ship was wrecked.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=11 July 1872 |issue=10150 }}

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|ship=Sarah M.

|flag={{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}}

|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean between 9 April and 13 May. Her crew were rescued by Bucephalus ({{flagicon|Newfoundland}} Newfoundland Colony). Sarah M. was on a voyage from Penarth, Glamorgan to Quebec City, Canada.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=17 May 1872 |issue=27379 |page=7 |column=F }}

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|ship=Solarie Brignardello

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}

|desc=The ship was lost off Cape Horn, Chile. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=1 May 1872 |issue=27365 |page=12 |column=D }}

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|ship=Sophie

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Honshu, Japan with the loss of two of her crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=5 March 1872 |issue=27316 |page=10 |column=E }}

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|ship=Sunshine

|flag={{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}}

|desc=The ship departed from Richibucto, New Brunswick, Canada for Liverpool in late November or early December. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=10 April 1873 |issue=27660 |page=6 |column=E }}

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|ship=Suwo Nada

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The steamship was lost in the South China Sea.Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=7 February 1872 |issue=14827 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Theophile Marie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship departed from Brest, Finistère for Gloucester, United Kingdom between 12 October and 15 November. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 February 1873 |issue=15159 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Ticonderoga

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

|desc=The clipper was wrecked off the coast of India.

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|ship=Tuhlee

|flag={{flagcountry|Qing dynasty|1862}}

|desc=The tug was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Fuzhou to Shanghai.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=10 February 1872 |issue=10020 }}

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|ship=Waimea

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked in the Richmond River.

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|ship={{SV|William J. Dale||2}}

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

|desc=The fishing schooner was lost returning from the Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, in November 1872, but never reached port. Lost with all 9 hands.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/wjdale.htm |title= The William J. Dale |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=5 July 2021}}

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|ship={{PS|Young Australian||2}}

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

|desc=The paddle tug sank at the mouth of the Roper River.

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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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