List of shipwrecks in December 1863

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|ship=Boadicea

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|43|58|N|36|47|W}}) with the loss of a crew member. Survivors took to a boat; they were rescued on 4 December by the barque Victoria ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Boadicea was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Portland.

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|ship=Chebucto

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

|desc=The brig sank at Falmouth, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.{{Cite news |title=Fearful Gale |newspaper=Royal Cornwall Gazette |location=Truro |date=4 December 1863 |issue=3153 |page=8 }} She was refloated on 29 December.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=1 January 1864 |issue=4960 }}

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|ship=Colonna

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The 102-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Indiana.Gaines, p. 134.

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|ship=Diana

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore on Rat Island, Isles of Scilly. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America to Southampton, Hampshire. She was dismantled in situ and refloated on 8 December.

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|ship=Eagle

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore at Dulas, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Holyhead, Anglesey.

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|ship=Gleaner

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

|desc=The ship was last sighted on this date whilst on a voyage from a Baltic port to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire. Presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=13 January 1864 |issue=3253 }}

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|ship=Hunsingo

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship departed from Dover, Kent, United Kingdom for Syros, Greece and Smyrna, Ottoman Empire. She subsequently foundered in the English Channel; wreckage from the ship washed up on the cost of Somme, France in January 1864.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=16 January 1864 |page=8 |issue=24770 |column=C }}

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|ship=Lavinia

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Rat Island, Isles of Scilly. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Poole, Dorset. She was dismantled in situ.

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|ship=Magicienne

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

|desc=The brig was driven onto rocks near St. Anthony's Lighthouse, Cornwall and sank. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Vera Cruz, Mexico.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 December 1863 |issue=12267 |page=7 }} Magicienne was refloated on 19 December and beached at Flushing, Cornwall.

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|ship=Tecumseh

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The 418-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Confederate States of America.Gaines, p. 74.

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|ship=Triflin

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at the Dunaverty Castle, Argyllshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ayr to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=7 December 1863 |issue=23219 }}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at "Ballyhaigh", County Kerry.

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner ran aground and sank at São Miguel Island, Azores. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Aimable Julie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at the Godrevy Lighthouse, Cornwall, United Kingdom with the loss of three of her six crew. She was on a voyage from Bourgneuf, Charente-Inférieure to Gloucester.

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|ship=Bedascoa

|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}

|desc=The steamship struck the pier at Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Vigo to Hamburg.

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|ship=Beehive

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Leasowe, Cheshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 December 1863 |issue=4935}}

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|ship=Bon Père

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Landunvez, Finistère. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Nantes, Loire-Inférieure.

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|ship=Bulwark

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

|desc=The schooner foundered off Holy Island, Anglesey. Her five crew survived. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Belfast, County Antrim.

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|ship=Demerara

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground on the Girdler Sand, off the north Kent coast. She floated off and came ashore. Her nineteen crew were rescued the next day by the Ramsgate Lifeboat. Demerara was on a voyage from London to Greenock, Renfrewshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Shipping Disasters |date=8 December 1863 |page=3 |issue=24736 |column=F}}

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|ship=Eagle

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat was driven ashore near Leasowe.

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|ship=Factory Girl

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|150|nmi|km}} west of the Isles of Scilly ({{coord|50|20|N|7|00|W}}) with the loss of seven of her crew. Survivors were rescued by the brig Albatross ({{Flag|Norway|1844}}). Factory Girl was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Valparaíso, Chile.

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|ship=Gaston

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked on Ouessant, Finistère. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dieppe to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure.

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|ship=Généreux

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship parted from her anchors and was driven out to sea from Penmarc'h, Finistère. No further trace.

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|ship=Gratitude

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Le Saint, Morbihan, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde, France to Sunderland, County Durham.

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|ship=Guiding Star

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

|desc=The ship was lost in the Atlantic Ocean.

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|ship=Herald

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Mouse Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex and sank. Her crew seven were rescued by the schooner Pilot ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Herald was on a voyage from London to Hartlepool and/or South Shields, County Durham.

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|ship=Hotson

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Parkgate, Cheshire. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Oscar

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Plymouth, Devon. She was on a voyage from Sydney to Falmouth, Cornwall.

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|ship=Providence

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

|desc=The smack foundered off the Gore Sand, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all hands.

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|ship=Quatre Frères

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Newhaven, Sussex, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Calais to Bordeaux, Gironde.

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|ship=Roberto Peel

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

|desc=The ship was run into by Secundus ({{flag|Malta|1814}}) and was driven ashore at Falmouth. She was on a voyage from Berdyansk, Russia to Falmouth. She was refloated with the assistance of a steamship.

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|ship=Sarah

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Barrows Sand. She was on a voyage from London to Sunderland. She was refloated but then driven ashore near Herne Bay, Kent. Sarah was refloated and resumed her voyage, but put in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a leaky condition on 20 December.

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|ship=Secundus

|flag={{flag|Malta|1814}}

|desc=The barque drove into Robert Peel ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was driven ashore at St Just in Roseland, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Berdyansk to Falmouth.

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|ship=Star

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

|desc=The brigantine was abandoned off Whitstable, Kent. Her six crew were rescued by the lugger. Lively ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Star was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was subsequently beached at Margate, Kent.

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|ship=Tredegar

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

|desc=The sloop capsized and sank off Clevedon, Somerset with the loss of four of her five crew. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Bristol, Gloucestershire.

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|ship=William Stoveld

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Clovelly, Devon. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, France with coal.{{cite news |title=Bideford |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000861/18631205/009/0003 |access-date=20 December 2024 |work=Lloyd's List |issue=15493 |date=5 December 1863 |location=London |page=3|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |title=The Late Gales - Shipwrecks and other Disasters |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000328/18631210/029/0007 |access-date=20 December 2024 |work=North Devon Journal |issue=2051 |date=10 December 1863 |location=Barnstaple |page=7|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite web |title=William Stoveld |url=https://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=64930 |website=Scottish Built Ships |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Research Trust |access-date=20 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241220022155/https://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=64930 |archive-date=20 December 2024}}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The collier was driven ashore near Gwithian, Cornwall.

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure, France.

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|ship=Four unnamed vessels

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ships drove ashore in the Isles of Scilly.

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|ship=Adjutant

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

|desc=The tug was driven from her moorings, collided with the steamship Iona ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and then drove ashore at the Potteries, Toxteth, Lancashire.

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|ship=Adorna

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

|desc=The collier departed from Texel, North Holland, Netherlands for the River Tyne. No further trace, presumed foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Missing Ships |date=29 December 1863 |page=7 |issue=24754 |column=E}}

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|ship=Agenoria

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

|desc=The fishing boat was lost in the North Sea off Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship={{HMS|Ajax|1809|6}}

|flag={{navy|UK}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Vengeur|ship of the line}} was driven ashore at Kingstown, County Dublin. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=The Storm Yesterday |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=4 December 1863}}

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|ship={{SS|Albanian|1855|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship collided with Scottish Belle ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was then driven ashore in the River Mersey. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. She was refloated with the assistance of three tugs and taken in to the Sloyne.

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|ship=Ariel

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Peniel Rocks, Anglesey. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Port Madoc, Caernarfonshire.

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|ship=Argus

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Île-Pelée, Manche. She was refloated with assistance from a boat sent from the ironclad {{ship|French ironclad|Couronne||2}} ({{navy|France}}). The boat was then swamped with the loss of all sixteen people on board - two others having remained on board Argus, which then drove ashore and was wrecked with the loss of her captain.

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|ship=Atlas

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Liverpool. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Atlas

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The steamship departed from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône for Algiers, Algeria.{{Cite news |title=France |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 December 1863 |issue=12286 |page=5}} She was subsequently wrecked at Damietta, Egypt.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Foreign Intelligence |date=18 January 1864 |page=10 |issue=24771 |column=A-B}}

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|ship=Bardsey

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Porthdinllaen, Caernarfonshire with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Bangor, Caernarfonshire to Llanelly, Glamorgan.

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|ship=Belle

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven into a steamship in The Downs with the loss of four or five of the ten people on board. Survivors got aboard the steamship. She was on a voyage from London to Algoa Bay. Belle was assisted in to Ramsgate, Kent by the lugger Buffalo and the tug Napoleon (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was severely damaged.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 December 1863 |issue=12268 |page=6 }}

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|ship=Betsey

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Trinity Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Calais, France. She was refloated on 27 December and taken in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

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|ship=Bœotia

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

|desc=The steamship collided with the full-rigged ship John Bunyan ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and then drove against the quayside at New Brighton, Cheshire and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands to Liverpool. She was refloated and taken in to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 December 1863 |issue=4936 }}

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|ship=Breeze

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Crosby, Lancashire. Her four crew survived. She was on a voyage from Belfast to Liverpool.

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|ship=British Lion

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and heeled over in the River Thames at Blackwall, Middlesex.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=4 December 1863 |page=12 |issue=24733 |column=C-E }} She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to London.{{Cite news |title=Two Valuable Ships Driven Ashore in the Thames |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 December 1863 |issue=12267 |page=2 }} She was righted and refloated the next day.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=11 December 1863 |issue=9859 }}

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|ship=Brothers

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Porthdinllaen, Caernarfonshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Aberdovey, Merionethshire.

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|ship=Bulldog

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat capsized and sank off Birkenhead, Cheshire. Her two crew were rescued by the tug Talbot ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

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|ship=Celestial

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and capsized in the River Thames at the entrance to the St Katharine Docks, London. She was on a voyage from China to London. She was righted and taken in to St Katharine Docks.

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|ship=Cheshire

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

|desc=The steamboat was driven against the Prince's Landing Stage, Liverpool and was severely damaged.{{Cite news |title=Terrific Gale |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 December 1863 |issue=4936 }}

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|ship=Choo-Foo

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Liverpool.

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|ship=Clementine

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Hayle, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to La Rochelle, Charente-Inférieure, France.

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|ship=Clemise

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Salt Island, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Colibri

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven against the quayside and damaged at Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure.

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|ship=Confiance

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Holyhead, Anglesey. Her 23 crew were rescued by the Holyhead Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada to Liverpool.

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|ship=Cornelia

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Bremen.

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|ship=Cosmopolitan

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore in the River Thames near Blackwall.

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|ship=Countess of Lonsdale

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

|desc=The steamship was driven against the quayside and damaged at Havre de Grâce.

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|ship=David

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Pactyn Shoal, in the North Sea off the coast of Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated and taken in to Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.

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|ship=De Witt Clinton

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Formby, Lancashire. Her eight crew were rescued by the Southport and Formby Lifeboats. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts to Liverpool.

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|ship=Diamond

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Holyhead. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Belfast to Swansea. She was refloated on 29 December and towed in to Holyhead.

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|ship=Driver

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. Driver was refloated on 8 December with the assistance of a tug and towed in to Wells-next-the-Sea.

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|ship=Driving Mist

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.

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|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Peniel Rocks, off Holyhead with the loss of four of her eleven crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America.

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|ship=Elizabeth Morrow

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Holyhead. Her twenty crew were rescued by the Holyhead Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Old Calabar, Africa.{{Cite news |title=The Recent Gales |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=7 December 1863 |issue=5485 }}

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|ship=Elizabeth and Margaret

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Porthdinllaen. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce to Glasgow, Renfrewshire. Elizabeth and Margaret was later refloated and taken in tow for Liverpool by the tug Rattler ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

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|ship=Emmeline

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat was driven against the quayside and sank at Liverpool. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Enfant de France

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven against the quayside and damaged at Havre de Grâce.

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|ship=Enigma

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

|desc=The yacht was driven ashore and sank in the River Wyre.

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|ship=Epeney Lass

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

|desc=The ship capsized and foundered in the Bristol Channel off Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset with the loss of one of her four crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Burnham-on-Sea.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=4 December 1863 |page=12 |issue=24733 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=The Gale on the Coast, &c. - Several Ships Foundered. - Loss of Life |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 December 1863 |issue=12267 |page=2 }}

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|ship=Ernst

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Carnarvon Bay. She was on a voyage from Nantes to Liverpool.

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|ship=Essex

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.

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|ship=Eure

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven against the quayside and damaged at Havre de Grâce.

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|ship=Fanny Truss

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Fleetwood, Lancashire.

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|ship=Fear Not

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

|desc=The fishing boat was lost in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Finistèrre

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven against the quayside and damaged at Havre de Grâce.

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|ship=Foam

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Spurn Point, Yorkshire with loss of life.

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|ship=Fortitude

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

|desc=The fishing boat was lost in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Francis

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

|desc=The fishing boat was driven ashore on the Dutch coast with the loss of all hands.

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|ship=Friar Tuck

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in the Isles of Scilly. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Foo Chow Foo, China to London.

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|ship={{ship||Fusilier|1856 ship|2}}

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground on the Girdler Sand, off the north Kent coast. All on board, more than 100 people, were rescued by the Ramsgate Lifebota and a tug. She was on a voyage from London to Port Phillip, Victoria.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Late Gale |date=5 December 1863 |page=12 |issue=24734 |column=A }}{{Cite news |title=The Great Gale |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 December 1863 |issue=12268 |page=2 }}{{Cite news |title=The Recent Great Gales |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 December 1863 |issue=12270 |page=6 }} Fusilier was refloated on 11 December and towed in to London.

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|ship=Gannet

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

|desc=The pilot cutter was run down and sunk at Waterford by the steamship Beta ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Her crew survived.{{Cite news |title=Pilot Cutter Run Down |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=5 December 1863 |issue=32643 }}

}}

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|ship=Gabrielle

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Fécamp, Seine-Inférieure with the loss of three of her six crew.

}}

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|ship=Gezina Regna

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the West Hoyle Bank, in Liverpool Bay with the loss of all but one of her crew. The survivor was rescued by a lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Belfast to Mostyn, Flintshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=9 December 1863 |page=12 |issue=24737 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 December 1863 |issue=12271 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Gleaner

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Brean, Somerset.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gleaner

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Ballyheigue, County Kerry. She was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to Cardiff.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Guyon

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hariseekit

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the River Thames at Blackwall. Her jib-boom damaged the Brunswick Hotel. She was refloated.

}}

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|ship=Harmony

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Holyhead. Four of her five crew reached shore, the fifth was rescued. She was on a voyage from Ayr to Dublin and/or Drogheda, County Louth.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Harriett

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore in the River Mersey. She was on a voyage from Newry, County Antrim to Runcorn, Cheshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helen

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Porthdinllaen. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Bangor, Caernarfonshire to London.

}}

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|ship=Helen Campbell

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The barque was driven on to the Clippera Rocks, on the coast of Anglesey and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Dundalk, County Louth to Swansea.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Henry

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Formby. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Belfast to Runcorn.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Henry and Betsey

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Formby. She was on a voyage from Newry to Liverpool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hephzidah

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Porthdinllaen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hibernia

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Holyhead. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Indefatigable

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

|desc=The fishing boat was lost in the North Sea.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Industrie

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned off Holyhead. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Ostend, West Flanders. She was subsequently boarded by some of the crew of the steamship Connaught ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and taken in to Holyhead, where she sank.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Industry

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

|desc=The ship was driven against the quayside and sank at Fremington, Devon.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=James

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=15 January 1864 |issue=9864 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane Brown

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Caernarfon.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jeune François

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig sank at Waterloo, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued. She was refloated on 6 November.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Johanna

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Trinity Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Lincolnshire with the loss of five of her six crew. The survivor was rescued by the smack Secret ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Maldon, Essex.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John

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

|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the Tully Bank, off the coast of Lancashire with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Fleetwood.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 December 1863 |issue=4938 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John

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

|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to King's Lynn, Norfolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John and Jane

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea {{Convert|60|nmi|km}} east by south of Spurn Point. Her crew were rescued by the Barking smack Alfred ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). John and Jane was on a voyage from South Shields to Plymouth, Devon and Rochefort, Charente-Inférieure, France,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=8 December 1863 |page=10 |issue=24736 |column=C }} or from Bremen to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John and William

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

|desc=The collier departed from Blyth, Northumberland for Calais. Presumed subsequently foundered with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John Bull

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Toward Point, Argyllshire. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Santos, Brazil. She was refloated on 8 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John Bunyan

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Liverpool. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John Watts

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

|desc=The Thames barge was driven onto the Buxey Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued by the steam yacht Irene (22px Trinity House). John Watts was on a voyage from London to Harwich, Essex.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Joseph

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The sloop was abandoned in the North Sea. Her six crew were rescued by a fishing smack.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jupiter

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

|desc=The ship was lost. Her eight crew were rescued by a lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lampedo

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground in the River Mersey off Aigburth, Lancashire. Seven passengers were taken off by a lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick to Liverpool. She was refloated the next day and found to be severely leaky.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Laurel

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore at Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Spalding, Lincolnshire to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Leveret

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lew Choo

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore in the River Mersey. She was on a voyage from Bombay, India to Liverpool. She was refloated with the assistance of two tugs.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Liberty

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in St Brides Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Port Madoc to Gloucester.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Longford

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat was driven against the quayside and sank at Garston, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Louise

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at La Trinité-sur-Mer, Morbihan. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Montagne, Gironde. She was refloated on 6 December and taken in to La Trinité-sur-Mer for repairs.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Madras

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the River Mersey. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to Liverpool.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaret and Jane

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned off Barmouth, Merionethshire. Her five crew were rescued by the Barmouth Lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaret and Jessie

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

|desc=The ship was driven against the Nelson Pier, Liverpool. She capsized and sank.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaret Campbell

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Liverpool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The ship foundered off Aberdeen with the loss of all on board. She was on a voyage from Montrose, Forfarshire to Liverpool.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=19 December 1863 |page=5 |issue=24746 |column=F }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Agnes

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Burbo Bank, in Liverpool Bay. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Preston, Lancashire to Dundalk, County Louth.{{Cite news |title=Great Storm |newspaper=Preston Chronicle |location=Preston |date=5 December 1863 |issue=2708 }}{{Cite news |title=The Later Gales |newspaper=Preston Chronicle |location=Preston |date=12 December 1863 |issue=2709 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Jane

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

|desc=The sloop sank off Ramsey, Isle of Man with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Belfast to Whitehaven, Cumberland.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Merlin

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

|desc=The yacht was driven ashore and sank in the River Wyre.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Miriam

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

|desc=The fishing boat was lost in the North Sea with the loss of a crew member.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Napier

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

|desc=The fishing boat was lost in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nelson

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Porthdinllaen. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Caernarfon to Newcastle upon Tyne.{{Cite news |title=Portdinllaen |newspaper=North Wales Chronicle |location=Bangor |date=5 December 1863 |issue=1887 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Neptune

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore at Spurn Point. She was refloated on 10 December and towed in to Hull, Yorkshire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=New Gift

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Menai Strait. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Porthdinllaen.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=North Star

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

|desc=The fishing boat was lost in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Osprey

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Palermo

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Holyhead. Her crew were rescued.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Peace

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

|desc=The sloop foundered off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk with the loss of two of her four crew. She was on a voyage from Chichester, Sussex to a Scottish port.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pearl

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked near "Cerigwith", Anglesy. Her crew were rescued.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pensacola

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Burbo Bank near the Formby Lightship (22px Trinity House) and was severely damaged. Fifteen of her nineteen crew were rescued by a lifeboat, the rest by a steamboat. Pensacola was on a voyage from Quebec City to Liverpool. She was later refloated.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 December 1863 |issue=4937 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Philip

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in St Brides Bay. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Nevis to Bristol, Gloucestershire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Plover

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned on the Trinity Sand with the loss of a crew member. She was subsequently driven ashore at Spurn Point. She was on a voyage from the River Wear to Ipswich, Suffolk.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Providence

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

|desc=The schooner foundered off Portrush, County Antrim with the loss of all four crew. Three would-be rescuers also perished.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ireland |date=5 December 1863 |page=6 |issue=24734 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipwreck and Loss of Life at Portrush |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=4 December 1863 |issue=32642 }} She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Londonderry.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rainbow

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ranger

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rattlesnake

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rebecca

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Porthdinllaen.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=R T K

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Holyhead. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Rouen, Seine-Inférieure to Liverpool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sarah and Ann

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Hunstanton, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to Blyth, Northumberland.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Scottish Lass

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked near Holyhead with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Dublin. She was refloated on 29 December and towed in to Holyhead.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=30 December 1863 |issue=23241 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Seven Brothers

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

|desc=The fishing boat was lost in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sisters

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

|desc=The schooner collided with the schooner Meg Merrilees ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) {{convert|2|nmi|km}} off Ramsey, Isle of Man and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by Meg Merrilees. Sisters was on a voyage from Ardrossan to Morecambe, Lancashire. She was presumed to have foundered.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Skylark

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

|desc=The sloop was wrecked at Holyhead with the loss of all hands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Speed

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at St. Mawes, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Jersey, Channel Islands. She was refloated.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Star

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the River Mersey.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Star

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

|desc=The ship capsized.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Susan

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore {{convert|1|nmi|km}} north of Ramsey. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Swansea Packet

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Burnham-on-Sea with the loss of all four crew.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sybil

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at Burnham-on-Sea. She was refloated on 6 December.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Teaser

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

|desc=The yacht was driven ashore and sank in the River Wyre.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Temperance Star

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=The Loss of Fishing Smacks on the East Coast |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=16 December 1863 |issue=5493 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Three Sisters

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Three Susans

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Porthdinllaen. She was on a voyage from Bangor, Caernarfonshire to Runcorn.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tom

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat was driven against the quayside and sank at Liverpool. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Twilight

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

|desc=The fishing boat was lost in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Great Yarmouth, December 8 |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 December 1863 |issue=5487 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Usio

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her nine crew were rescued by a fishing smack.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Virago

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked near Formby. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Glasgow to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=The Late Storm |newspaper=Blackburn Standard |location=Blackburn |date=9 December 1863 |issue=1506 |volume=28 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Volunteer

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Walter

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat sank off Garston. Her three crew were rescued.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Wedding Ring

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

|desc=The steamboat ran aground in the River Thames between Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge. Her passengers were taken off.{{Cite news |title=Violent Gales |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=4 December 1863 |issue=5483 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Westbourne

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

|desc=The brig collided with a barque and sank off Holyhead with the loss of all ten crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Belize City, British Honduras.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Weston

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the River Mersey. She was on a voyage rom Akyab, Burma to Liverpool. She was refloated with assistance from the tugs Hercules, Speedwell and another (all {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and taken in to Birkenhead.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Wagner

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

|desc=The Mersey flat sank in the Salisbury Dock, Liverpool. All eight people on board were rescued.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Wilhelmsburg

|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}

|desc=The steamship was wrecked off Terschelling with the loss of 356 of the 400 people on board. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Australia.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Late Gales |date=9 December 1863 |page=12 |issue=24737 |column=E }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Loss of the Wilhelsmburg |date=23 December 1863 |page=7 |issue=24749 |column=A }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Winchester

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat was driven against the quayside and sank at Liverpool. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Winford

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat was driven against the quayside and sank at Liverpool. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The brig was wrecked on Scroby Sands, Norfolk with the loss of all hands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in the Hilbre Islands, Cheshire. Her crew were rescued by the Hoylake Lifeboat.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Cheshire Observer |location=Chester |date=5 December 1863 |issue=442 |page=5 |volume=9 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Two unnamed vessels

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

|desc=The Mersey Flats were driven on to the Pluckington Bank, off the coast of Lancashire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore at Liverpool.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat sank at Seacombe, Cheshire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner foundered off the coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom with the loss of all hands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Two unnamed vesels

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

|desc=The smacks were driven ashore at "Portmelvin". Their crews survived.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The steamboat ran aground in the River Thames between Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge. Her passengers were taken off.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=A number of steamboats ran aground in the River Thames between London Bridge and Lambeth, Surrey.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=Three barges sank in the River Thames at Greenwich, Kent.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The brig sank in the River Thames at Woolwich, Kent.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The schooner was driven against the quayside and sank in the Canada Dock, Liverpool.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Rhyl, Denbighshire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ten unnamed vessels

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

|desc=The Mersey Flats, two belonging to Mr Evans, two belonging to Mr Wilkinson, and six others, sank in the River Mersey.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Two unnamed vessels

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

|desc=The Mersey Flats sank in the Salisbury Dock, Liverpool.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Two unnamed vessels

|flag=Flags unknown

|desc=A barque and a schooner were driven ashore {{convert|4|nmi|km}} south west of Southport, Lancashire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Two unnamed vessels

|flag=Flags unknown

|desc=The schooners were driven ashore on the Peniel Sands, Anglesey. Their crews were rescued.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Two unnamed vessels

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

|desc=The fishing boats were driven ashore and wrecked at Tenby, Pembrokeshire. The crew of one were rescued by the Tenby Lifeboat and those of the other were rescued by the smack Emma ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=The Gales |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=5 December 1863 |issue=5484 }}

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Havre de Grâce.

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship foundered off Howth, County Dublin.{{Cite news |title=The Late Gale - Further Particulars |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=7 December 1863 }}

}}

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|ship=Allen

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned off Cromer, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London.

}}

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|ship=Almira

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Newborough, Anglesey. Her crew survived.

}}

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|ship=Anne

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Porthdinllaen, Caernarfonshire.

}}

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|ship=Balmerino

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

|desc=The steamboat sank at Crail, Fife.{{Cite news |title=Local News |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=9 December 1863 |issue=3224 }}

}}

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|ship=Carry

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. she was refloated on 9 December and taken in to Wells-next-the-Sea.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=18 December 1863 |issue=9860 }}

}}

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|ship=Castries

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship put in to Falmouth, Cornwall in a severely damaged condition. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Barbados.

}}

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|ship=Charles Northcote

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Trinity Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Lincolnshire and sank. She was on a voyage from North Shields, Northumberland to Genoa, Italy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Loss of North Country Vessels |date=17 December 1863 |page=5 |issue=24744 |column=C }}

}}

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|ship=Clifton

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off Den Helder, North Holland, Netherlands with the loss of all 35 people on board. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Madras, India.{{Cite news |title=The Recent Great Loss of North Country Seamen |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=5 January 1864 |issue=5510 }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of the Ship Clifton in the North Sea, with All on Board |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=6 January 1864 |issue=5511 }}

}}

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|ship=Columbus

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Alexandria, Egypt.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Comlice

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. Her five crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bremen to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=David

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned at Lindisfarne, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Sunderland.

}}

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|ship=David White

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Formby, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.

}}

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|ship=Diana

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Hinder Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Zeeland, Netherlands and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire to Haiti.

}}

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|ship=Douglas

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by some smacks. Douglas was on a voyage from Sunderland to Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was subsequently taken in tow by the steamship Lord Cardigan ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

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|ship=Dublin

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued. she was on a voyage from Dublin to Cardiff.

}}

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|ship=Duke of Northumberland

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Swansea, Glamorgan. Her eighteen crew were rescued by the Swansea Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from a port in Cuba to Swansea. Duke of Northumberland was later refloated. She was towed in to Grimsby on 22 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eleanora

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship sank in the Crosby Channel. Her crew were rescued by a gig. She was on a voyage from Nantes, Loire-Inférieure to Liverpool.

}}

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|ship=Esperance

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was lost near Cerigwith, Anglesey, United Kingdom with the loss of all but two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by the Holyhead Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Nantes.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eugenie

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

|desc=The ship collided with an Austrian barque and was run onto the Trinity Sand, where she sank with the loss of three of her six crew. Survivors were rescued by the smack Joseph and Mary ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Eugenie was on a voyage from South Shields.

}}

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|ship=Fortitude

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

|desc=The fishing smack was abandoned in the North Sea with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by the fishing smack Catherine ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), which lost two of her crew effecting the rescue.{{Cite news |title=The Recent Gales |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Colchester |date=16 December 1863 |issue=1722 }}

}}

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|ship=Friends

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at the mouth of the River Mersey.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=5 December 1863 |page=12 |issue=24734 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=George

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

|desc=The schooner sank off the Point of Ayr, Cheshire. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=George

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea with the loss of four of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Alert ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). George was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire. She was subsequently taken in to Gothenburg, Sweden.

}}

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|ship=Ina

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Happisburgh, Norfolk with the loss of one of her fifteen crew. Survivors were rescued by the Happisburgh Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from South Shields to Cartagena, Spain.

}}

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|ship=Isabella and Catherine

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at the mouth of the River Mersey with the loss of one of her four crew. She was on a voyage from Westport, County Mayo to Liverpool.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=7 December 1863 |page=5 |issue=24735 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Jerome

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

|desc=The derelict schooner was driven ashore near Crosby, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maria

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Ynys Llanddwyn, Anglesey. Her four crew were rescued by the Caernarfon Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from London to Amlwch, Anglesey.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in Liverpool Bay with the loss of all on board, including three pilots. She was on a voyage from Sligo to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=The Late Storm |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=8 December 1863 |issue=7461 }} She came ashore at Leasowe, Cheshire on 8 December.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 December 1863 |issue=4941 }}

}}

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|ship=Orion

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Hartlepool, County Durham. She was subsequently driven ashore near Hirtshals, Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Orlanda

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

|desc=The collier, a barque, foundered in the North Sea. Her ten crew were rescued by the smack Secret ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Richard

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Trinity Sand and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rival

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

|desc=The smack was abandoned in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. Her five crew were rescued by the smack Standard ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Robert

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig was lost off the Île de Seine, Finistère.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Scipio

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|25|nmi|km}} off Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by the brig Humphreys ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Scipio was on a voyage from the River Tyne to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Solon

|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Gävle to Hull.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=15 December 1863 |page=10 |issue=24742 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Speculant

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea off Texel, North Holland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued by the smack Fox ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Speculant was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Lisbon, Portugal. She came ashore near "Tolstrup", Denmark on 22 December and was wrecked.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=St. Catherine

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Holyhead. Her crew were rescued. She was refloated on 13 December and towed in to Holyhead.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Test

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

|desc=The smack was run down and sunk in the North Sea by the steamship Lord Cardigan ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) Her crew were rescued by the smack Standard and a Barking smack (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thomas Kennion

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, was abandoned in the Dogger Bank. Her crew were rescued by a smack. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt to London. She was taken in to the Nieuw Diep on 11 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Union

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ventspils to Lowestoft, Suffolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Victoria

|flag={{flag|Kingdom of Hanover|civil}}

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Elizabeth and Hannah ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Victoria was on a voyage from Sweden to London. She subsequently came ashore at Ringkøbing, Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{PS|Volunteer|1856|2}}

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

|desc=The paddle tug foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by a fishing lugger.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tynetugs.co.uk/volunteer1856.html |title=Volunteer |publisher=Tyne Tugs |access-date=2 May 2020 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at Maltreath, Anglesey.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 December 1863 |issue=4937 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=5 December 1863 |sort=}}

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|ship=Bellairs

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned off the Dudgeon Sand, in the North Sea. Her seventeen crew were rescued by the schooner Isabella ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was set afire and sank north east of the Leman and Ower Sand. Bellairs was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=The Gale and its Effects |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=11 December 1863 |issue=4116 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Canterbury

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Alexandria, Egypt.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eugenia

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Calcutta, India.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 January 1864 |issue=4968 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Grosbrook

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Ameland, Friesland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=12 December 1863 |issue=4943 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=14 December 1863 |issue=23225}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hammond

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on St. Mary's Isle, Douglas, Isle of Man. She was on a voyage from Belfast to Maryport, Cumberland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=12 December 1863 |issue=23224 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Levant

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Spurn Point, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Hull to Fredrikshald. Levant was refloated on 27 December and taken in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=29 December 1863 |issue=12288 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lucy and Ann

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Larne Lough. She was refloated on 8 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lunna

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned off the Outer Dowsing Sandbank, in the North Sea. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Odense

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Marie ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Odense was on a voyage from Odense to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Prince Rupert

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at St. Anthony's Lighthouse, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from London to Jamaica. She was refloated with assistance.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Princess of Wales

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

|desc=The schooner was driven on to the Lapsand, in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Radical

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued by Max and Emil (Flah unknown). Radical was on a voyage from Danzig to Sunderland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Souvenir

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore east of Gravelines, Nord. She was on a voyage from Gravelines to London and/or Newcastle upon Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Telegraph

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea ({{coord|56|49|N|5|31|E}}). Her crew were rescued by the brig Umeå ({{flag|Sweden|1844}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=15 January 1864 |issue=4121 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

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|ship=August

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Margate, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 December 1863 |issue=12270 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bessies

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Brake Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was refloated and assisted in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ceres

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner, a steamer, was discovered aground and afire at the mouth of the Cape Fear River on the coast of North Carolina, Confederate States of America by the screw steamers {{USS|Aries|1863|6}} and {{USS|Violet|1862|6}} (both {{navy|United States|1863}}). She floated free during the night of 6–7 December, the flames were extinguished, and she was captured by Violet.[http://www.usnlp.org/navychronology/1863b.html usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1863]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Christine

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner sank in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Hope ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Christine was on a voyage from Horsens to Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=18 December 1863 |page=5 |issue=24745 |column=F }}

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|ship=Emanuel

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Øster-Risør to London, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Express

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

|desc=The clipper was destroyed by fire at Calcutta, India.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=31 December 1863 |issue=4959 }}{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=1 January 1864 |issue=3244 }}

}}

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|ship=Fanny McBurney, or
Fanny McBurnie

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The 207-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on Island No. 34 in the Mississippi River.Gaines, p. 94.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Finke

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Niding Rock, in the Baltic Sea. her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Londonderry.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Flora McDonald

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Elie, Fife. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Kirkcaldy, Fife to Montrose, Forfarshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Isaac Newton

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=File:Isaac Newton (steamboat) 01.jpgFile:Isaac Newton (steamboat) 04.jpg The 1,332-ton sternwheel paddle steamer exploded on the Hudson River off Fort Washington, New York, killing nine people.Gaines, p. 110.

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|ship=Karen Elizabeth

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The barque foundered in the Bay of Biscay ({{coord|45|05|N|13|35|W}}). All eleven people on board were rescued by the brig North Pole ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Karen Elizabeth was on a voyage from Cardiff to Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The India and China Mails |date=15 January 1864 |page=10 |issue=24769 |column=D }}

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|ship=Kelloe

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the brig Maria ({{flag|Sweden|1844}}). She was on a voyage from Danzig to London.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=21 December 1863 |issue=12281 |page=7 }} Kelloe came ashore on Rømø, Denmark on 15 December and was wrecked.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lady Gordon

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the North Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Dublin. She was refloated on 11 December and taken in to Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mendschap

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the brig Maria ({{Flag|Sweden|1844}}). Mendschap was on a voyage from Danzig to Groningen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Providence

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Dorette ({{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}). Provindence was on a voyage from Stettin to Leith, Lothian.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=St. Leonards

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

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Calcutta.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Weehawken|1862|6}}

|flag={{navy|United States|1863}}

|desc=File:The soldier in our Civil War - a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, (14576318749).jpg.American Civil War: The monitor foundered at anchor in Charleston Harbor off Morris Island, South Carolina, Confederate States of America ({{Coord|32.7157|-79.8903|format=dms|name=USS Weehawken (1862)}}) during a gale with the loss of 31 lives.Gaines, pp. 156-157.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Zion

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea {{convert|30|nmi|km}} off Spurn Point, Yorkshire. Her four crew were rescued by the smack Neva ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Zion was on a voyage from London to the Clyde.

}}

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|ship=Alert

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Bowmore, Islay, Inner Hebrides.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Blonde

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned on the Dogger Bank with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by the smacks Coquet Water and Prince of Wales ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Delphine

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore on Vlieland, Friesland, Netherlands with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom to Cádiz, Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Diana

|flag=22px Duchy of Holstein

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Eckernförde.

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|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Hartlepool, County Durham. Her four crew were rescued by the Hartlepool Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Faversham, Kent.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eliza Jane

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Danzig to London.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fairy Queen

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Collot Bank, in the Scheldt. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Hartlepool, County Durham. She floated off and came ashore at the Rammekens Castle, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands.

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|ship=Frederick Franz

|flag=22px Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

|desc=The barque was lost in the Dogger Bank with the loss of one of her thirteen crew. Survivors were rescued by the fishing smack Uncle Tom ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Frederick Francz was on a voyage from a port in Mecklenburg-Schwerin to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Haides

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off Fleetwood, Lancashire. She was refloated and towed in to Fleetwood.

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|ship=John Thomas

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

|desc=The ship was lost in the Dogger Bank. Five crew survived. She was on a voyage from Bremen to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

}}

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|ship=Lewis

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

|desc=The smack was abandoned off Irvine, Ayrshire. Her three crew were rescued by the Irvine Lifeboat.

}}

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|ship=Ranger

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

|desc=The smack was run ashore north of Brora. Sutherland. She was on a voyage from Inverness to Fearn, Ross-shire.

}}

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|ship=Sea Walker

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|80|nmi|km}} east of the Isle of May, Fife. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Ossian ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Sea Walker was on a voyage from Danzig to Leith, Lothian.

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by a British ship.

}}

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|ship=Abbots Reading

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

|desc=The ship collided with an Italian barque and was then run into by a schooner. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Valparaíso, Chile. She put in to Holyhead, Anglesey, where she ran aground and heeled over. She was later righted, and put back to Liverpool, where she arrived on 23 December.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 December 1863 |issue=12284 |page=3 }}

}}

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|ship=Antoinette

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Attempting to run the Union blockade and reach Fernandina, Florida, Confederate States of America, the schooner was forced aground on Cumberland Island on the coast of Georgia by the barque {{USS|Braziliera|1856|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}).Gaines, p. 46.

}}

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|ship=Cleopatra and Ceres

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Cardiff, Glamorgan.

}}

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|ship=Eldon

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned on St. Peter's Bank. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America to Gloucester.

}}

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|ship=Ellen Kerr

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Lindisfarne, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Inverness to the River Tyne. She was refloated.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Great Britain||2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was reported to have been wrecked on Santiago, Cape Verde Islands. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Nelson, New Zealand.{{Cite news |title=Loss of the "Great Britain" Steamship |newspaper=York Herald |location=York |date=2 January 1864 |issue=4756 |page=9 }}

}}

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|ship=Hooghly

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the Mediterranean Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sulina, Ottoman Empire to Falmouth, Cornwall.

}}

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|ship=Jarlsø

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Texel, North Holland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bilbao, Spain to Tønsberg.

}}

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|ship=Lorina

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on the Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to the Clyde.

}}

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|ship=Ocean Child

|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}

|desc=The barque collided with the barque Sattara ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned. Her thirteen crew were rescued by Sattara and the barque Due Fratelli ({{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}). Ocean Child was on a voyage from Liverpool to Havana, Cuba.

}}

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|ship=Polynesia

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Adelaide ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Polynesia was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America to Fleetwood, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 December 1863 |issue=4948 }}

}}

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|ship=Rose

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

|desc=The schooner departed from Sunderland, County Durham for Dingwall, Ross-shire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=10 February 1864 |issue=12325 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Sir William Pulteney

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Lindisfarne. She was on a voyage from Danzig to Granton, Lothian. She was refloated.

}}

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|ship=Sovereign

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|40|nmi|km}} south south east of the Buchan Ness Lighthouse, Aberdeenshire. Her six crew were rescued by Thomas ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Sovereign was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Dundee, Forfarshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=16 December 1863 |issue=6049 }}

}}

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|ship=Volunteer

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Cardugos Shoals. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Mauritius to Calcutta, India.{{Cite news |title=The Loss of the Ship Volunteer |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=26 March 1864 |issue=5580 }}

}}

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|ship=No. 1

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Jersey

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the brig Philis ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). No. 1 was on a voyage from Hartlepool to Jersey.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea {{convert|14|nmi|km}} south east of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 December 1863 |issue=23229 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=9 December 1863 |sort=}}

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|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Havana, Cuba. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America to Havana.

}}

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|ship=Mary and Elizabeth

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

|desc=The fishing boat collided with the steamship Calpe ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank at New Brighton, Cheshire.

}}

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|ship=Mayflower

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Cyclops ({{flag|Netherlands}}). Mayflower was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Bilbao, Spain.

}}

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|ship=Telegram

|flag=File:Flagge Wismar.svg Wismar

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Gotland, Sweden to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom. She subsequently came ashore at Sheringham, Norfolk, United Kingdom. She was refloated on 13 December.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=18 December 1863 |issue=3232 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Titia Susannah

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=10 December 1863 |sort=}}

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|ship=Caledonia

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

|desc=The ship ran aground and sank at Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire and was abandoned by her crew. She was refloated and taken in to Preston, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 December 1863 |issue=4942 }}

}}

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|ship=Cecilie

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Wexøe Sand, off the coast of Denmark and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Pori, Grand Duchy of Finland to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Coq Barrola

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Chinchal Dongpo", China. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=2 February 1864 |issue=12318 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fame

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Lytham St. Annes. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Maryport, Cumberland. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Lytham St. Annes.

}}

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|ship=Gretha

|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Elburg, Gelderland, Netherlands to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Hooghly

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the Mediterranean Sea off Algiers, French Algerian. Her crew were rescued by the steamer Ida ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{cite news |title=The Bombay Mail |newspaper=The Standard |issue=12287 |date=28 December 1863 |location=London |page=6}}

}}

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|ship=Josephine Truxillo

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The schooner was burned by Confederate States Army troops on Bayou Lacomb in Louisiana, Confederate States of America.Gaines, p. 68.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Larne

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked near Dunnet Head, Caithness. Her seventeen crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America to Leith, Lothian.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lintin

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Chapagua, British Honduras. Her crew were rerscued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligenct |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=21 January 1864 |issue=23259 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The Yorkshire Billyboy struck the wreck of {{SS|James Dixon|1859|2}} ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the River Tyne.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The North-Eastern Ports |date=12 December 1863 |page=6 |issue=24740 |column=B }} She was on a voyage from London to the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Olympia

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in Loch Indaal. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Galle, Ceylon.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=17 December 1863 |page=12 |issue=24744 |column=B }} She had broken up by 21 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rangoon

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Red Sea. Her passengers were taken off. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Aden. She had been refloated by 25 December and taken in to Aden.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Regina

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore near Dungenes, Kent. She was on a voyage from the Mediterranean to London. She was refloated on 11 January 1864 and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Richard and Sarah

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

|desc=The sloop sank in the English Channel {{convert|6|nmi|km}} off Dartmouth, Devon. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Plymouth to Exeter.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Stephany, or
 Stepheny

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The barge was burned by Confederate States Army troops on Bayou Lacomb.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Troy

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Ningpo, China.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 February 1864 |issue=4989 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unknown

|flag=Unknown

|desc=American Civil War:The Schooner was destroyed by Union forces at Bear Creek, Florida.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6j6kjZQReqkC&q=ship%3A++David+Kemps%2C+1897&pg=PA198 |title=Shipwrecks of Florida: A comprehensive listing |year=1998 |publisher=Pineapple Press/Googlebooks |isbn=9781561641635 |access-date=26 May 2020}}

}}

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|ship=Wopke

|flag={{flag|Kingdom of Hanover|civil}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Dogger Bank. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=11 December 1863 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Concord

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Kentish Knock. Her crew got aboard the Kentish Knock Lightship (22px Trinity House). Concord was on a voyage from London to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Loss of North Country Ships |date=24 December 1863 |page=10 |issue=24750 |column=B }} She was subsequently taken in to Ramsgate, Kent by four smacks, including Persian ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 December 1863 |issue=4945 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fullerton

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Gwinges and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Lisbon and/or Porto, Portugal. She was refloated and put in to Fowey, Cornwall.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=General Beauregard

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: Bound for England with a cargo of cotton, turpentine, and possibly gold, the 824-ton screw steamer ran aground at Carolina Beach, North Carolina and was burned by the Confederate to prevent her capture by Union forces.Gaines, p. 120.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helena

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The 33-ton barge was burned by Confederate States Army troops on Bayou Bonfouca in Louisiana, Confederate States of America.Gaines, p. 66.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hope and Peggy

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

|desc=The ship was run ashore near "Klentcham".

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Richard

|flag=22px Stettin

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Saltholm, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom to Stettin. She had been refloated by 14 December and subsequently resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sarah Bladen

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The 43-ton schooner was burned by Confederate States Army troops on Bayou Bonfouca.Gaines, p. 73.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Phœnix

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

|desc=The ship struck the wreck of Karlo (Flag unknown) and sank off the Goodwin Sands, Kent. Her crew took to two boats. Those in one of the boats were rescued by a ship, the others got on board the Gull Lightship (22px Trinity House). They were taken off by the smack Aurora{{'}}s Increase ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Phœnix was on a voyage from Sunderland to San Francisco, California.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=12 December 1863 |issue=12274 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Transit

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

|desc=The brig struck the Cannon Rock, in the Firth of Clyde. She sank the next day off "Barr Isle". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Cork.{{Cite news |title=Greenock |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=30 December 1863 |issue=7480 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=12 December 1863 |sort=}}

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|ship=Alice Provost

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The 476-ton barque was wrecked while trying to enter port at Port Royal, South Carolina, Confederate States of America. The receiving ship {{USS|Vermont|1848|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}) rescued her crew.Gaines, p. 141.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Anna

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was beached at "Karringan", Sweden. She was on a voyage from Pillau, Prussia to Aberdeen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Belize

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Ameland, Friesland, Netherlands. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russian Empire to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Christian August

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on Flotta, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Nyland, Sweden to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Friendschaft

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore in Kirk Bay, Flotta. She was on a voyage from Norway to Glasson Dock, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Graces

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned off Thurso, Caithness. Her fifteen crew were taken off by the Thurso Lifeboat.{{Cite news |title=Lifeboat Services |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=16 December 1863 |issue=5493 }} She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to South Shields, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hilja

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in Galdings Bay, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bermuda and Nassau, Bahamas.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=12 January 1864 |issue=4969 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=13 January 1864 |issue=7492 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lively

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

|desc=The schooner struck a sunken wreck and foundered off Blakeney, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Daphne ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Lively was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Dartmouth, Devon.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Stephen Watson

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London.{{Cite news |title=Harwich |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=London |date=23 December 1863 |issue=1723 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tetje

|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was beached at "Osterkelt". She was on a voyage from Halmstad to Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=13 December 1863 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gotthielf

|flag=22px Stralsund

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Christiansund, Norway. She was on a voyage from Stralsund to Dublin. She had become a wreck by 18 December

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Regina|1862|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore between Dungeness, Kent and Rye, Sussex. Her 24 crew survived. Regina was on a voyage from Naples, Italy to Gibraltar and London. She was refloated on 4 January 1864 and taken in to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Stranding of a Steamer |date=22 January 1864 |page=7 |issue=24775 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Royal Thistle

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. Eight of her ten crew were rescued by the lugger Wanderer ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), the others by the Ramsgate Lifeboat. Royal Thistle was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Santander, Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Wanderer

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in Machias Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=13 January 1864 |issue=12301 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=14 December 1863 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eastern Light

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Carcos.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 January 1864 |issue=4972}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ernestine

|flag=22px Stettin

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at the entrance to the Agger Canal, Denmark. Her crew were rescued by the barque Crane ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=19 December 1863 |issue=3233 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nautilus

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to El Ferrol, Spain. She was refloated with assistance.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=17 December 1863 |issue=12278 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=S. L. Tilley

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Georgetown. She was refloated the next day.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=1 February 1864 |issue=4986 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=15 December 1863 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Acorn

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

|desc=The schooner ran into the pier, was holed by her anchor and sank at Alloa, Clackmannanshire. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to "Cambria".

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alma Carr

|flag=22px Rostock

|desc=The barque ran aground at North Shields, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ariel

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Rotbal", Denmark. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to Jersey, Channel Islands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 March 1864 |issue=12360 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Aurora

|flag=22px Grand Duchy of Oldenburg

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Sylt, Duchy of Holstein. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom to Hamburg.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Christina Wobbegina

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The tjalk foundered off Texel, North Holland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom to "Heppens".

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fides

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Alfenegues Reef, off the coast of Puerto Rico. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America to Ponce, Puerto Rico.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 January 1864 |issue=12316 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Florence Nightingale

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

|desc=The ship struck a sunken wreck at Lima, Peru and was holed.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 January 1864 |issue=4973}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Honda

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and sank near Trelleborg, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kustine

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner abandoned in the North Sea. She was subsequently driven ashore on Rømø, Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pomeranian

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. She was subsequently driven ashore on Rømø.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Spray

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

|desc=The schooner was destroyed by fire at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.{{Cite news |title=Yarmouth |newspaper=Bury and Norwich Post |location=Bury St. Emunds |date=22 December 1863 |issue=4252 |page=8 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=16 December 1863 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Camel, or
Campbell

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

|desc=The ship struck the pier and sank at Whitehaven, Cumberland. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to Bangor.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Christian

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore {{convert|2|nmi|km}} north of Ayr. She was on a voyage from Sligo to Troon, Ayrshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eleanor

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore at Chisel Head, Somerset.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fame

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Chisel Head. She was on a voyage from Bridgwater to Swansea, Glamorgan.

}}

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|ship=Lorena

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The barque was driven ashore on the Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada to the Clyde. She was refloated on 8 October 1864 and subsequently towed to Ardrossan, Ayrshire.{{Cite news |title=A Derelict |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=17 October 1864 |issue=17730 }}{{cite journal |url=http://www.archive.org/stream/lloydsregisters37unkngoog#page/n290/mode/1up |title=LOR |journal=Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping |year=1864 |publisher=Lloyd's of London |location=London |access-date=27 May 2020}}

}}

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|ship=Lydia Cumming

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

|desc=The smack was run ashore at Lamlash, Isle of Arran. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ayr to Ballantine.

}}

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|ship=Madryn

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Larne, County Antrim. She was on a voyage from Bangor, Caernarfonshire to Londonderry. She was refloated the next day but was so leaky that she had to be beached.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Meg Merilies

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Old Harry Ledge, in the English Channel. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Newport, Monmouthshire. She was refloated and taken in to Poole, Dorset.

}}

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|ship=Ringmahon Castle

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Fécamp, Seine-Inférieure, France with the loss of four of her six crew.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Warbleton

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The ship driven ashore near Crosby, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Prince Edward Island.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 December 1863 |issue=4947 }} Warbleton was refloated on 13 January 1864 and taken in to Liverpool.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=14 January 1864 |page=6 |issue=24768 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=17 December 1863 |sort=}}

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|ship=Asia

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Clee Ness, Lincolnshire. She was refloated and taken in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Betsey

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

|desc=The sloop sank off Saltfleet, Lincolnshire with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Grimsby.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Carrer Bell

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cygnet

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Amble, Northumberland with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by the Coast Guard. She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to Aberdeen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eagle

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Alexandria, Egypt.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=29 January 1864 |issue=4984 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Feofilo

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Grainthorpe, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She became a wreck on 22 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=G. O. Bigelow

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

|desc=American Civil War: Discovered aground and without her cargo at the entrance to Bear Inlet on the coast of North Carolina, Confederate States of America by the armed screw steamer {{USS|Mount Vernon|1859|6}} and the armed supply ship {{USS|New Berne|1862|6}} (both {{navy|United States|1863}}), the 90-ton schooner was scuttled and burned by Confederate forces to prevent her capture.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Grassmere

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Ship Rock, in the Belfast Lough. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to New Zealand.{{Cite news |title=Shippinhg Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 December 1863 |issue=4949 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=23 December 1863 |issue=4952 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hannah and Sarah

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Filey, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Sunderland, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Harley

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Cross Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to London. She was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 December 1863 |issue=12280 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Highbury

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Scarborough, Yorkshire with the loss of two of her nine crew. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Julia

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in Bridlington Bay. She was on a voyage from Blakeney, Norfolk to South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lady Ridley

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Cat Rock, off the coast of Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaret

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Caen, Calvados.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary and Catherine

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore {{convert|4|nmi|km}} south of Bridlington, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dundee, Forfarshire to South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Netta

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Schwarzort, Prussia with the loss of two of her eight crew. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire to Memel, Prussia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Orike and Johann

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Langeoog, Groningen. She was on a voyage from the city of Groningen to Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Oriental

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at West Hartlepool, County Durham. She was on a voyage from Stettin to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire. She was refloated and taken in to Hartlepool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pinkham

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

|desc=The sloop foundered in the North Sea off Saltfleet, Lincolnshire with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Reward

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

|desc=The ship was taken in to Great Yarmouth in a derelict condition. She was on a voyage from London to Leeds, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 December 1863 |issue=12279 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Royal William

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on St Mary's Isle, Douglas, Isle of Man. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Liverpool, Lancashire and Réunion. She was refloated and taken in to Douglas.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=18 December 1863 |sort=}}

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|ship=Alert

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Devar Island, Argyllshire. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Londonderry. She was refloated the next day.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lea

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Örö, Grand Duchy of Finland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Orient

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Hartlepool, County Durham. She was on a voyage from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk to Hartlepool. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=19 December 1863 |sort=}}

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|ship=Auguste Louise

|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore on Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. Fourteen people were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Hamburg.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=26 December 1863 |issue=7477 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Heinrich

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Mayaguana, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from Savanilla, Granadine Confederation to Bremen.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=20 December 1863 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Antonica

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Attempting to run the Union blockade by passing inshore of the armed sidewheel paddle steamers {{USS|Connecticut|1861|6}} and {{USS|State of Georgia|1851|6}} and the hermaphrodite brig {{USS|Governor Buckingham}} (all {{navy|United States|1863}}) and reach Wilmington, North Carolina, Confederate States of America, with a cargo of clothing, cotton, dry goods, general provisions, and liquor and $1,200 in cash, the 563-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the western side of Frying Pan Shoals off Cape Fear, North Carolina. Her crew abandoned ship in her boats, and boat crews from Governor Buckingham captured 42 of her crew. Union forces could not refloat her, and she was abandoned. She broke up a few days later, becoming a total loss.Gaines, p. 113.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cocchino

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Büyükliman, Ottoman Empire. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Multum in Parvo |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=8 January 1864 |issue=9863 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elizabeth Cann

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Toward Castle, Argyllshire. She was on a voyage from Bowling, Dunbartonshire to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She was refloated and towed in to Greenock, Renfrewshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=25 December 1863 |issue=23236 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Haabet

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The barque ran aground off Alicante, Spain. She was on a voyage from an English port to Alicante. She was refloated with assistance from the steamship Niña ({{Flag|Spain|civil-1785}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hjalmar

|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}

|desc=The ship ran aground and heeled over at Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall to Manila, Spanish East Indies.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Powerful

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The sidewheel paddle steamer was abandoned by her crew and was captured at the mouth of the Suwannee River on the coast of Florida, Confederate States of America by the schooner {{USS|Fox|1859|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}). Fox′s crew destroyed her when they could not stop a serious leak aboard her.Gaines, p. 44.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Quincy

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The 396-ton screw steamer foundered at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with the loss of 16 lives.Gaines, p. 127.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thirteen unnamed vessels

|flag=Flags unknown

|desc=The ships were wrecked near Büyükliman.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=21 December 1863 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Agnes

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

|desc=The schooner foundered off Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Hope ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Agnes was on a voyage from Amble, Northumberland to Berwick upon Tweed. She came ashore at Cheswick, Northumberland on 23 December and was wrecked.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Frederick William

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned off Texel, North Holland, Netherlands in a waterlogged condition with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by a Danzig brig. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to the Malabar Coast, India.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Late Gales |date=21 December 1863 |page=9 |issue=24747 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=George Hughes

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked east of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Cartagena, Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Hellespont|1849|2}}

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

|desc=The ship collided with the steamship Hydaspes ({{flag|France}}) and sank in the South China Sea. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 February 1864 |issue=4987 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jean

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Souter Point, Northumberland. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Sunderland, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Little Aggie

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

|desc=The schooner foundered off Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued by Hope ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sarah

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off Bembridge, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Waterford to Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Portsmouth in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tyne

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on Inchgarvie, Lothian. She was on a voyage from South Queensferry, Lothian to Charleston, South Carolina, Confederate States of America. She was refloated on 23 December but was driven ashore at Montrose, Forfarshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=22 December 1863 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Allen

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Jersey

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Walcott, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the Coast Guard using rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields, County Durham. She was refloated on 10 January 1864 and towed in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=12 January 1864 |issue=12300 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Amanda

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Læsø. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Aarhus.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Axe

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Anholt, Denmark. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Montrose, Forfarshire to a Baltic port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Choice

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Grainthorpe, Lincolnshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Iddlea

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

|desc=The ship foundered off Lannion, Côtes-du-Nord, France.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 March 1864 |issue=12346 |page=6 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Louise

|flag=22px Rostock

|desc=The ship was driven ashore east of Warnemünde, Prussia with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from North Shields, Northumberland to Warnemünde.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Orient

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Walcott. Her crew were rescued. She was later refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth. She arrived at North Shields under tow on 10 February 1864 for repairs.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=24 December 1863 |page=11 |issue=24750 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=12 February 1864 |issue=9868 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pearl

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The ship collided with the steamship {{SS|Pladda|1861|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was beached on the Isle of Arran. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Londonderry.{{Cite news |title=Greenock |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=1 January 1864 |issue=7482 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Puma

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner ran aground at Dragør. She was on a voyage from Ystad, Sweden to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Speculant

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Hjørring, Denmark with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Neustadt in Holstein, Duchy of Holstein to Leith, Lothian.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=23 December 1863 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=British India

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Carmarthen Bay. She was on a voyage from Bombay, India to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 December 1863 |issue=4953 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hopper

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

|desc=The sloop was wrecked at North Sunderland, County Durham. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Montrose, Forfarshire to Sunderland, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Johanna Margareta

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Nieuw Diep with the loss of all but two of those aboard. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Zwolle, Overijssel.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMS|Lively|1856|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Albacore|gunboat|||1855}} was wrecked on Schiermonnikoog, Groningen, Netherlands with the loss of her pilot.[http://www.thisismast.org/assets/downloads/rn-loss-list-2017-03-18.pdf thisismast.org Royal Navy Loss List Complete Database p. 86.]{{Cite news |title=Reported Loss of Her Majestey's Gunboat Lively. - Several Vessels Lost With All Hands |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 December 1863 |issue=12289 |page=3 }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of the Gunboat Lively |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=8 January 1864 |issue=4120 }} Her crew were rescued by a Dutch smack.{{Cite news |title=Serious Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=5 January 1864 |issue=23245 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kingston

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

|desc=The ship foundered off Texel, North Holland, Netherlands with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Petronella

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off the Dutch coast.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Reverisco

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on The Platters, off Anglesey. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Pomaron, Portugal to Liverpool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Richard and Harry

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

|desc=The ship foundered off Texel with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rowena

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

|desc=The yacht was driven ashore in Cardwell Bay, Renfrewshire. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Greenock |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=25 December 1863 |issue=7476 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Satisfaction

|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Redcar, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Danzig to West Hartlepool, County Durham. She was refloated the next day and towed in to West Hartlepool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sumatra

|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}

|desc=The ship was lost off Vlieland, Friesland with the loss of all but two or three of her crew. She was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to Gothenburg.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=24 December 1863|sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Frederick Lange

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was holed by ice in the Elbe.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Greyhound

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland, British North America. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. She was refloated on 28 December and taken in to Harbour Grace in a severely leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Norrell

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

|desc=The schooner struck a rock off Donaghadee, County Down. She was on a voyage from Ayr to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and sailed for Belfast, County Antrim. No further trace.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sir Robert Peel

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Juist, Kingdom of Hanover. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Hamburg.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Texan Star

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

|desc=American Civil War, CSS Alabama's South Pacific Expeditionary Raid: The 799-ton barque, carrying a cargo of rice and bound for Singapore, Straits Settlements, was captured and burned in the Strait of Malacca by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ({{navy|Confederate States of America|1863}}).[http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/MaraudersCivilWar/CSSAlabama.html Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Alabama. 1862-1864. Captain Raphael Semmes"]Gaines, pp. 35-36.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Victory

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

|desc=The barque exploded and sank {{convert|4|nmi|km}} off Ilfracombe, Devon. Her crew were rescued by a smack.{{Cite news |title=Ship Blown Up at Sea |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=1 January 1864 |issue=32665 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=25 December 1863 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Susan and Ann

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|70|nmi|km}} off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by Svea ({{flag|Sweden|1844}}). Susan and Ann was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden to Tayport, Fife.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Violette

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Saint Pierre Island. She was on a voyage from Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine to the West Indies. She was later refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 February 1864 |issue=4990 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=26 December 1863|sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Harlingerland

|flag={{flag|Kingdom of Hanover|civil}}

|desc=The galiot was driven ashore on Ibiza, Spain. She was on a voyage from Sulina, Ottoman Empire to an English port.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 January 1864 |issue=4962 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Highlander

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, CSS Alabama's South Pacific Expeditionary Raid: During a voyage in ballast from Singapore, Straits Settlements to Burma, the 1,049- or 1,050-ton (sources disagree) clipper was captured and burned at the western entrance of the Strait of Malacca by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ({{navy|Confederate States of America|1863}}).Gaines, p. 35.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sonora

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War, CSS Alabama's South Pacific Expeditionary Raid: During a voyage in ballast from Singapore to Burma, the 707-ton full-rigged ship was captured and burned at the western entrance of the Strait of Malacca by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ({{navy|Confederate States of America|1863}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=27 December 1863 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Constance

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Swinemünde, Prussia. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rostock.

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|ship=Farewell

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Moropoer", Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Danzig to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire.

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=28 December 1863 |sort=}}

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|ship=Aid

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on "Raza", Outer Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Kirkwall, Orkney Islands to Tobermory, Isle of Mull.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=14 January 1864 |issue=23253 }}

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|ship=Alma

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Ringkøbing. She was on a voyage from Fredrikstad to Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Bessie Rowe

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Oste. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Plymouth, Devon.

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|ship=Sarah

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Cross Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to Hartlepool, County Durham. She was refloated and found to be leaky.

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|ship=Tiger

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Oste. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=29 December 1863 |sort=}}

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|ship=Bertha

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was beached on Saint Pierre Island.

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|ship=Brothers

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

|desc=The ship sank off Harwich, Essex. She was on a voyage from Maldon, Essex to Wakefield, Yorkshire. She was refloated on 9 January 1864 and taken in to Harwich in a waterlogged condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=11 January 1864 |issue=12299 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Caroline Gertrude

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of cotton to Havana, Cuba, ran aground on a bar just inside the mouth of the Ocklockonee River on the coast of Florida and was boarded and burned by boat crews from the screw steamer {{USS|Stars and Stripes|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}).Gaines, p. 39.

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|ship=King William

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Antrim. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Bilbao, Spain.

}}

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|ship=Millman

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

|desc=The brig struck the pier at Ramsgate, Kent and was severely damaged.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=1 January 1864 |issue=12291 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Northumberland

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Cross Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from London to the River Tyne.

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|ship=Sportsman

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

|desc=The coasting schooner ran aground on Taylor's Bank, in Liverpool Bay and sank. Her three crew got on board the Crosby Lightship (22px Trinity House). Sportsman was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Douglas, Isle of Man.

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|ship=Unidentified vessel

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=Carrying a cargo of Mexican blankets, salt, and sundries, the vessel was driven ashore on the coast of Texas {{convert|5|nmi|km}} from the mouth of the San Bernard River during a storm.Gaines, p. 173.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=30 December 1863 |sort=}}

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|ship=Dashaway

|flag=Flagnknown

|desc=The schooner may have been stranded on the coast of California on this date. If so, she was refloated and returned to service.Gaines, pp. 26-27.

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|ship=Johns

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground and sank at Fortrose, Ross-shire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Inverness.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 January 1864 |issue=12997 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Mary Ann

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Hurst Spit, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Southampton, Hampshire. She was refloated on 1 January 1864 with the assistance of a tug and taken in to Southampton.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 January 1864 |issue=12294 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Montana

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

|desc=The paddle steamer was wrecked on the reef off the north shore of Bermuda, becoming a total loss. Her crew and most of her cargo were saved.

}}

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|ship=Nola

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: During a blockade-running voyage from Glasgow, Scotland, with a cargo of dry goods, the 607-Gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer was driven onto a reef and wrecked in the Western Blue Cut area off Ireland Island, Bermuda.Gaines, p. 22.

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|ship=Orion

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore west of Skagen, Denmark.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=6 January 1864 |page=9 |issue=24761 |column=B }}

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|ship=Success

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New Zealand

|desc=The 55-ton schooner was wrecked in Palliser Bay during a gale, with the loss of two of the five crew. She was en route from Lyttelton to Auckland.Ingram & Wheatley, p. 96.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore in Cloghy Bay. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=31 December 1863 |sort=}}

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|ship=Blenheim

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Maasdroogen, in the North Sea off the coast of South Holland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Harwich, Essex to Rotterdam, South Holland. She was refloated on 2 January 1864.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dalkeith

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

|desc=The ship struck the quayside and was severely damaged at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=31 January 1864 |issue=23247 }}

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|ship=Defiance

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Isle of Coll, Inner Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Isleornsay, Isle of Skye, Outer Hebrides to Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=12 January 1864 |issue=7491 }}

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|ship=Egeria

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Matsumai, Japan. She was on a voyage from Shanghai, China to Hakodadi, Japan.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 April 1864 |issue=12380 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Ernesto

|flag=22px Austrian Empire

|desc=The brig ran aground, heeled over and was severely damaged at Dover, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from "Marianople", Russia to Dover.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 January 1864 |issue=12293 |page=7 }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Lloyd v. Iron |date=24 February 1865 |page=11 |issue=25117 |column=A-B }} She was declared a total loss and was broken up.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Lloyd v. Iron |date=23 February 1865 |page=11 |issue=25116 |column=B-C }}

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|ship=Hope

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel {{convert|22|nmi|km}} west south west of Lundy Island, Devon. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Par, Cornwall to Swansea, Glamorgan.

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|ship={{PS|James Watt|1835|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner foundered off Lamlash, Isle of Arran with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Ayr to Belfast, County Antrim.{{Cite web |url=http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=1981&vessel=JAMES+WATT |title=James Watt |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Heritage Trust |access-date=2 March 2020 }}

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|ship=Lammermuir

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

|desc=The ship struck a reef in the Gaspar Strait and sank. She was on a voyage from Shanghai, China to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=25 February 1864 |issue=5007 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Othello

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off Filey, East Riding of Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Filey |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=8 January 1864 |issue=4120 }}

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|ship=Prince of Wales

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Maasdroogen.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Providence

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

|desc=The ship collided with another vessel and was abandoned. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 January 1864 |issue=4965 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Samarang

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off the Goodwin Middle Lightship (22px Trinity House). She was on a voyage from South Shields County Durham to Cartagena, Spain She was refloated and found to be severely leaky and put in to Gravesend, Kent.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Slaney

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Cahore Point, County Wexford. She was on a voyage from Wexford to Cardiff, Glamorgan.

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|ship=Victory

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Dovercourt, Essex. She was on a voyage from Dover to Blyth, Northumberland.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vorwarts

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on "Zanzo". She was on a voyage from Ventspils to Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked on "Zanzo".

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=Unknown date in December 1863 |sort=}}

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|ship=Abo

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Romoc".{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=16 December 1863 |issue=4946 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Acto

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Dogger Bank. She was on a voyage from Stockholm, Sweden to London.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Adler

|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom to Hamburg.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ailsa

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wicklow. She was refloated and put back to Troon, Ayrshire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Albert

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Aberdeen.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Albert

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

|desc=The steamship put in to Texel, North Holland, Netherlands in a sinking condition. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Amsterdam, North Holland.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Albert

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alchymist

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to London.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alert

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

|desc=The steamship was abandoned in the North Sea in a sinking condition before 5 December. Her crew were rescued by Hanse ({{flag|Bremen}}). Alert was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Hamburg. She was subsequently towed in to the Nieuw Diep. She arrived at Hull in a wrecked condition on 22 December.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Anna and Sarah

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Filey, Yorkshire.

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|ship=Anna Maria Wilhelmina

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Bali Strait. She was on a voyage from Amsterdam to Japan. She was refloated and put in to Surabaya, Netherlands East Indies in a leaky condition on 10 December.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=9 February 1864 |issue=4993 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Annegiena

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The ship sank at Bremen.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Annesi Medoc

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The derelict schooner was driven ashore on Terschelling, Friesland.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=August

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

|desc=The ship was run ashore at Palermo, Sicily, Italy. She was on a voyage from Taganrog, Russia to London.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ball

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

|desc=The brigantine collided with another vessel off the North Foreland, Kent and was abandoned by all but one of her crew.

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|ship=Banffshire

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea before 7 December with the loss of all but two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Danzig to Hartlepool, County Durham.

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|ship=Bendigo

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union Blockade: The paddle steamer, a blockade runner, was run ashore in Lockwood's Folly Inlet in late December to prevent capture by a United States Navy squadron. She was set afire and abandoned. Bendigo was on a voyage from Nassau, Bahamas to Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America. She was shelled and severely damaged on 3 January 1846 by {{USS|Fahkee|1862|6}} ({{navy|USA|1863}}. {{USS|Daylight|1859|6}}, {{USS|Fort Jackson|1862|6}}, {{USS|Iron Age|1862|6}}, and {{USS|Montgomery|1858|6}} (all {{navy|United States|1863}}) completed her destruction the following day.[http://www.usnlp.org/navychronology/1864a.html usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January-June 1864]Gaines, p. 50.Gaines, pp. 114-115.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 January 1864 |issue=12312 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Bertha

|flag={{flag|United States|1844}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Luzon, Spanish East Indies.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 January 1864 |issue=4966 }}

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|ship=Bona Fide

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

|desc=The derelict ship was driven ashore on Skagen, Denmark.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bridlington

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

|desc=The collier was presumed to have foundered in the North Sea.

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|ship=British Queen

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

|desc=The ship collided with the schooner Emblem ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} and foundered in the English Channel off The Lizard, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued by a fishing boat. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to "Zealm".{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=2 January 1864 |issue=12292 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Brucks

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg to London.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bulwark

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Lamlash, Isle of Arran.

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|ship=Cadmus

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

|desc=The ship ran aground and sank off "Hermano". She was on a voyage from Weymouth, Dorset to Gothenburg, Sweden.

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|ship=Camperdown

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was discovered in a sinking condition in the North Sea off the coast of West Flanders, Belgium by the cutter Perle ({{flag|Belgium}}), which took off eleven of her crew. Fate of the vessel and rest of her crew unknown.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Capella

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Copenhagen, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Riga to Leith, Lothian.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Catherine

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

|desc=The ship was lost near the Pilsum Lighthouse before 8 December. She was on a voyage from Emden, Kingdom of Hanover to London.

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|ship=Catherine and Mary

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on South Uist, Outer Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Stettin to Drogheda, County Louth.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Charity

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=City of Sydney

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned on the Dogger Bank. She was on a voyage from Soderhamn, Sweden to London.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Clara and Candace

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Clasina Arendina

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Katwijk, South Holland. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland to Belfast, County Antrim, United Kingdom.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Clymax

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Salt Island, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Combie

|flag={{flag|Kingdom of Hanover|civil}}

|desc=The galiot was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bremen to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Comte Roger

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the Brazilian coast. She was refloated and taken in to Maranhão in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 January 1864 |issue=4963 }}

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|ship=Corredifia

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Scaro Reef in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Ventava, Courland Governorate to Bremen. She was refloated and put in to Gothenburg, Sweden in a leaky condition.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cricket

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Llanelly, Glamorgan.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dahlia

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Melvine Reef, in the Bay of Lannion before 28 December.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dauntless

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Brielle, South Holland, Netherlands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dawn

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Newcombe Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from London to Newcastle upon Tyne. She was refloated and taken in to Lowestoft, Suffolk in a severely leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=4 December 1863 |issue=9858 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dido

|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at "Kandestederner".

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Douse Apostles

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Sark, Channel Islands. She was on a voyage from Nantes, Loire-Inférieure to Guernsey, Channel Islands.

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|ship=Dublin

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

|desc=The ship struck a rock off "Novara Kistra", Russia and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Grimsby, Lincolnshire. She subsequently came ashore in Sooja Bay.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elise Antoinette

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|50|nmi|km}} off the Dutch coast before 10 December. Her crew were rescued by a smack. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Alexandria.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ellengowan

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Swine Bottoms, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Ventava to an English port. She was refloated and put in to Helsingør, Denmark on 30 December in a leaky condition.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elvira

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

|desc=The ship sank off Borkum, Kingdom of Hanover. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg to London.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Emilie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Breaksea Point, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Nantes, Loire-Inférieure.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=28 December 1863 |issue=4956 }}

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|ship=Emma Colvin

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New South Wales

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the coast of New Caledonia.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=9 February 1864 |page=12 |issue=24790 |column=C }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ernestine

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Nassau. She was on a voyage from Bermuda to Nassau.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Epulo

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

|desc=The ship was lost in the North Sea on or before 8 December. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Equito

|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Cartagena.

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|ship=Estella Maria

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on the Irish coast. She was refloated on 8 December and taken in to Killough, County Down, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=9 December 1863 |issue=4940 }}

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|ship=Eugenie

|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Oster Kilt" with the loss of three of her crew.s She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Malmö.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eugie

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

|desc=The ship was lost in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to London.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Evangelista

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near "Cabbernado".

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|ship=Eveline

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Cape Colony

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Danger Point before 21 December with the loss of four lives.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Intelligence |date=25 January 1864 |page=12 |issue=24777 |column=A-C }}

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|ship=Faerie Queen

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

|desc=The ship was driven onto the Calshot Spit, in the Solent.

}}

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|ship=Floriville

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

|desc=The collier was presumed to have foundered in the North Sea.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Frederick Bruce

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 26 December.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 February 1864 |issue=7523 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ganges

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea before 12 December. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland to South Shields, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 December 1863 |issue=4944 }}

}}

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|ship=Ganymede

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea before 6 December. Her crew were rescued by a Norwegian vessel. She was on a voyage from Danzig to Hartlepool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=George

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Westerklet". She was on a voyage from Königsberg, Prussia to Leer, Kingdom of Hanover.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Globe

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea before 6 December. She was discovered in the Kattegat and was taken in to Varberg, Sweden in a derelict condition on 15 December.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=25 December 1863 |issue=9861 }}{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=1 January 1864 |issue=9862 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Godt Haab

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea on or before 12 December. Her crew were rescued by the brig Belize ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Godt Haab was on a voyage from Norway to Málaga, Spain. She was towed in to Copenhagenin a derelict condition on 14 December by the steamship Vanguard ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Golden Light

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

|desc=The brig was lost off Corn Island, on the Mosquito Coast. At least four crew survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hamilton

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Belfast Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to La Spezia, Italy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=5 January 1864 |page=12 |issue=24760 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hendrika

|flag=22px Duchy of Holstein

|desc=The koff ran aground off Callantsoog, Kingdom of Hanover. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Eckernförde.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hinda

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Trelleborg, Sweden.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Humility

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned at sea before 20 December. Her crew were rescued by Goldhoorn ({{Flag|Netherlands}}). Humility was on a voyage from Danzig to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Industry

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Rønne, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Stockholm, Sweden to Lisbon, Portugal

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Irene

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked near "Steenberg". She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg to Schiedam, South Holland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Janet Patterson

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked in the Magdalen Islands, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Richibucto, New Brunswick to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 December 1863 |issue=4951 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jessie McGaskin

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

|desc=The ship sank at Kingstown, County Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=CSS John F. Carr

|flag={{navy|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The 200-ton sidewheel cottonclad gunboat was driven ashore on the Matagorda Peninsula on the coast of Texas, Confederate States of America by a severe gale and was burned to prevent her capture by Union forces on 30 or 31 December. Sources differ on her fate, claiming that the fire destroyed her or that Union forces pulled her onto a bank at Lynchburg, Texas to prevent her from sinking in deep water and that she apparently was recaptured by the Confederates and returned to Confederate States Navy service.Gaines, p. 169.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John Margrieta

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked off Harlingen, Friesland. She was on a voyage from the Tyne to Zwolle, Gelderland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John Wesley

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Galway. She was on a voyage from Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland to Maroim, Brazil.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jonge Jacob

|flag={{Flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The galiot was driven ashore at Fedderwardersiel, Kingdom of Hanover before 9 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jonge Paul

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The steamship sank at Norderney, Kingdom of Hanover.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jubilee

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

|desc=The ship departed from Newry, County Antrim for Preston, Lancashire in early December. Presumed foundered in the Irish Sea with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kong Sverre

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea on or before 19 December. her crew were rescued by Jupiter (22px Danzig). Kong Sverre was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Santander, Spain.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 December 1863 |issue=12282 |pages=6–7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lady Sandys

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from London to Whitby, Yorkshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Leriope

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked near Ballyconnolly, County Galway.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lillydale

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

|desc=The ship sank in the Bay of Fundy. She was on a voyage from Windsor, Nova Scotia, British North America to New York.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lizzie Barnard

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The ship was lost near Havana, Cuba. She was on a voyage from New York to Havana.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Luna

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Spiekeroog, Kingdom of Hanover.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maastroom

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore on Terschelling. All on board were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maid of Aln

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaretta

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Grassholm, Pembrokeshire. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt to Cork, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 December 1863 |issue=4939 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maria

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked at Odesa.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Martin Luther

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

|desc=The ship abandoned at sea in a waterlogged condition. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to a British port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Ann

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Spruce Island, New Brunswick after 11 December. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick to Havana. She was later refloated and towed in to Saint John, where she arrived on 24 December in a waterlogged condition{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=20 January 1864 |issue=12307 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mathurin Cor

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Cárdenas, Cuba. She was on a voyage from Cárdenas to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Messenger

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Pennington Spit. She was on a voyage from Waterford to Portsmouth, Hampshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Naiad

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Cherbourg. She was on a voyage from Swansea to Havre de Grâce.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nicholas

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Asiatic coast.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Olivia

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

|desc=The ship was lost on the Dogger Bank before 19 December. Her crew were rescued She was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden to Southampton, Hampshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=25 December 1863 |page=10 |issue=24751 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Onka and Johanna

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Zoutkamp, Groningen to Ipswich, Suffolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Oriental

|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Saratoga Spit. She was on a voyage from Hong Kong to Yokohama, Japan.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 March 1864 |issue=12348 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Peter Annens

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

|desc=The ship struck the Anegada Reef. She was refloated and put in to Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Province

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

|desc=The ship foundered. She was on a voyage from a port in Overijssel, Netherlands to Dundee, Forfarshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Resiza

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Ochakov. She was on a voyage from Nicolaieff to Antwerp, Belgium.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Robert

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

|desc=The ship collided with Speedwell and sank in the North Sea off Skegness, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from London to Hartlepool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rondinilla

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the North Sea with the loss of a crew member. She subsequently came ashore on Fanø, Denmark on 17 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rosalie, or
Rosa Lee

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner burned in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas.Gaines, p. 171.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Royal Union

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Salus

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherlands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=San Francisco

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Bremen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sea Carne

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Örö, Grand Duchy of Finland. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Kronstadt. She was refloated in June 1864 and taken in to a Finnish port.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 August 1864 |issue=12495 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Seamew

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

|desc=The ship foundered. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Souchay

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Victoria

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Melbourne. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sparrow Hawk

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Arbroath, Forfarshire. She was refloated on 8 December and taken in to Arbroath.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=St. Crispin

|flag=22px United States of the Ionian Islands

|desc=The brig was abandoned off Büyükdere, Ottoman Empire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sunderland

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

|desc=The ship struck a sunken wreck in the Gull Stream and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from San Francisco to a British port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Susannah Ann

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea before 26 December.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 January 1864 |issue=12298 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tapio

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Memel, Prussia. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Christiania, Norway to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Telegram

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Danzig to the River Tyne. Telegram was discovered derelict by Ambassador ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), which put some of her crew on board and she was taken in to Kristiansand, Norway.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thomas Wright

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The ship ran aground on a reef off Saint Domingo.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Trois Alrennes

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Camaret-sur-Mer, Finistère. She was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to a French port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ugie

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

|desc=The ship was lost on or before 4 December with the loss of three of her crew.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Venus

|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near "Vlulpo". She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Curaçao.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Venus

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The derelict ship was driven ashore on "Uisk".

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vesper

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

|desc=The collier was presumed to have foundered in the North Sea.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Victory

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Ilfracombe, Devon before 19 December.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=28 December 1863 |page=10 |issue=24753 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ward Jackson

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Schiermonnikoog, Friesland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Wilhelmina

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near "Ballien". She was on a voyage from Saxkøbing to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Wilkinson

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

|desc=The collier was presumed to have foundered in the North Sea.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=More Serious Loss of North Country Shipping and Seamen |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=2 January 1864 |issue=8026}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Vera Cruz, Mexico to Matanzas, Cuba.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William and George

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea ({{coord|57|22|N|6|45|E}}) on or before 8 December.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=8 January 1864 |issue=9863}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Windspiel

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore in the Nieuw Diep with the loss of nine of her crew. She was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to Amsterdam.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Zwaluw

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Amsterdam. She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Amsterdam.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Two unnamed vessels

|flag=Flags unknown

|desc=The ships were wrecked at "Romoc".

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{Reflist|20em}}

• [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}}.
• 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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