List of shipwrecks in December 1868

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|ship=Castigliona

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the coast of County Wexford with the loss of five of her sixteen crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bombay, India. She was refloated on 12 December and towed into Liverpool by the steamships Duncannon and Ross, and the tug William Wallace (all {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ireland |date=3 December 1868 |page=7 |issue=26298 |column=A-B }}{{Cite news |title=Wreck of the Castigliona - Five Lives Lost |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=3 December 1868 }}

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|ship=Cynthia

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

|desc=The ship departed from Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada for Liverpool, Lancashire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

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|ship=Grietje

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The fishing vessel was wrecked in the Dogger Bank. Her crew were rescued by the fishing smack Criterion ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Local Intelligence |newspaper=Hull Packet|location=Hull |date=23 April 1869 |issue=4395 }}

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|ship=Beyham

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Knock Sand. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Waterford. She was refloated and assisted into Grimsby, Lincolnshire by a lifeboat.

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|ship=Madelon

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Naples, Italy.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 December 1868 |issue=6507 }}

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|ship=Maids

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Ouse Sand, in the Thames Estuary. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 December 1868 |issue=13834 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Marie

|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Cork, United Kingdom with the loss of all hands.

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|ship=Alexandra

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Belfast, County Antrim.

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|ship=Annie

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Souter Point, Northumberland, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from London to the Tyne.

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|ship=Ethuriel

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

|desc=The brigantine collided with the barque Liverpool ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was beached in the Belfast Lough. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Maryport, Cumberland. She was refloated and towed back to Belfast.

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|ship=Flora

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned on St. Peter's Bank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was taken into Old Man's Bay, where she was condemned.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 January 1869 |issue=6536 }}

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|ship=Flora

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Souter Point. She was on a voyage from London to the River Tyne.

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|ship=Gefuil

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the Middle Sand, in the Humber. She was on a voyage from Gävle to the Humber.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 December 1868 |issue=6508 }}

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|ship=Harfruen

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The barque was towed into Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom in a waterlogged condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 December 1868 |issue=13833 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Rival

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

|desc=The ship struck the quayside at Ramsgate, Kent and became severely leaky. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Saint John's, Newfoundland Colony.

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|ship=Victoria

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner collided with Berwick ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank off the mouth of the River Tyne. Her crew were rescued by Berwick. Victoria was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to the River Tyne.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=11 December 1868 |issue=10120 }}

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|ship=William Gillies

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at "Carrendall", Argyllshire. Her fifteen crew were rescued by the Campbeltown Lifeboat Lord Murray (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). William Gillies was on a voyage from London to Ardrossan, Ayrshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=8 December 1868 |page=5 |issue=26302 |column=F }}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was run down and sunk in the North Sea off Marsden, County Durham by the steamship Berwick ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Her crew were rescued by Berwick.{{Cite news |title=A Danish Schooner Run Down |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 December 1868 |issue=13834 |page=7}}

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|ship=Andrew Jackson

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

|desc=The clipper was wrecked on a reef in the Gaspar Strait in the Netherlands East Indies.

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|ship=Annie Kimball

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

|desc=The ship struck a rock in the Gaspar Strait and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Shanghai, China to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies. She completed her voyage, but was consequently condemned.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 February 1869 |issue=6578 }}

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|ship=Brothers

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

|desc=The skiff capsized at Greenock, Renfrewshire. Her three crew were rescued by a steamship.

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|ship=Clara Novello

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

|desc=The ship departed from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada for Queenstown, County Cork. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

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|ship=Juventa

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on rocks north of Bermuda. She was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Queenstown.{{Cite news |title=Limekilns |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=10 March 1869 |issue=4866 }}

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|ship=Martha

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Francis Carvill ({{flag|United States|1867}}). Martha was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Saint John's, Newfoundland Colony.

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|ship=Nancy Riley

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Guadeloupe. She was on a voyage from an English port to Guadeloupe.

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|ship=Orpheus

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Nieuwe Diep. She was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland to Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.

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|ship=Sir Ralph Abercrombie

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|20|nmi|km}} east of Tristan d'Acunha. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Telegraph ({{flagicon|UKGBI}} Cape Colony). Sir Ralph Abercrombie was on a voyage from London to Yokohama, Japan.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Cape of Good Hope |date=21 January 1869 |page=5 |issue=26340 |column=B }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Cape of Good Hope |date=22 January 1869 |page=5 |issue=26341 |column=D }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 January 1869 |issue=7090 }}

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|ship=St. Pierre á Caens

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Spital Scar Rocks, near Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Fredrikstad to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France.

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|ship=Swift

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

|desc=The ship departed from Poronal Bay, Prince Edward Island for Liverpool, Lancashire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 May 1869 |issue=6648 }}

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|ship=Annie Jane

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

|desc=The fishing sloop collided with the fishing boat Celine ({{Flag|Belgium}}) and sank {{convert|8|nmi|km}} off the Galloper Sandbank. Her crew were rescued by a Russian schooner.{{Cite news |title=Run Down in the Channel |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=11 December 1868 |issue=29643 |page=4 }}

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|ship=Ariel

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

|desc=The brigantine was wrecked at Bannow, County Wexford with the loss of all but one of her crew. She was on a voyage from Portmadoc to Waterford.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=8 December 1868 |issue=7052 }}{{Cite news |title=Casualties at Sea |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=9 December 1868 |issue=9028 }}

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|ship=Castilian

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Harlech, Caernarfonshire and was wrecked with the loss of three of her 21 crew. Survivors were rescued by the Portmadoc Lifeboat John Ashbury (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Castilian was on a voyage form Quebec City, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=The Late Severe Gales |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=8 December 1868 |issue=9565 }}

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|ship={{SS|City of Boston|1865|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Liverpool. She was refloated and towed back to New York.{{Cite news |title=Accident to the Steamship City of Boston |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 December 1868 |issue=6511 }}

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|ship=Earl

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

|desc=The brigantine was wrecked in the "Keroe Islands" was the loss of all but one of her seven or eight crew. She was on a voyage from Portmadoc, Caernarfonshire to Waterford.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 December 1868 |issue=6511 }}

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|ship=J. T. A.

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Langness Peninsula, Isle of Man.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=12 December 1868 |issue=7056 }}

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|ship=Juventa

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

|desc=The ship sank off Bermuda. She was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Liverpool. She was refloated the next day and taken into St. George's, Bermuda.

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|ship=Kate Mills

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Saint Andrews, Fife. She was on a voyage from London to Dundee, Forfarshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 December 1868 |issue=6510 }}

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|ship=Thorwaldsen

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Kingroad in a waterlogged condition. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to Bristol, Gloucestershire.

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|ship=Vaillant

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel.

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|ship=Vision

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. Her five crew were rescued by the Castletown Lifeboat Commercial Traveller (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite news |title=Severe Storm at Liverpool. - Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=8 December 1868 |issue=9565 }} Vision was on a voyage from Drogheda, County Louth to Garston, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 December 1868 |issue=6511 }}

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|ship=Alarm

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Bremen. She was refloated the next day with the assistance of steamships.

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|ship=Caroline Beeson

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands.

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|ship=Eledona

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Vlissingen.

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|ship=Express

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

|desc=The schooner was run down and sunk off Gibraltar by the steamship Sidon. Her eight crew were rescued by Sidon. Express was on a voyage from Catania, Sicily, Italy to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Mediterranean |date=14 December 1868 |page=8 |issue=26307 |column=E }}

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|ship=Fawn

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

|desc=The smack struck the pier at Ramsgate, Kent and was wrecked with the loss of two of her five crew.

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|ship=Gamester

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

|desc=The fishing smack was damaged by fire at West Hartlepool, County Durham.

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|ship=Nordstjorn

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Vlissingen.

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|ship=North Britain

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Long Rock, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England with the loss of seven of her nineteen crew. survivors were rescued by the Penzance Lifeboat Richard Lewis (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). North Britain was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Southampton, Hampshire.{{cite book|last=Carter|first=C|title=The Port of Penzance. A History|year=1998|publisher=Black Dwarf Publications|location=Lydney}}{{Cite news |title=Wreck of the North Briton |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=7 December 1868 }}{{Cite news |title=Further Shipping Disasters and Loss of Life |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=9 December 1868 |issue=4790 }}

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|ship=Richard Lewis

|flag=File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution

|desc=The Penzance Lifeboat capsized whilst going to the aid of North Britain ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}. Two of her crew were severely injured.

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|ship=Stella

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Ipswich, Suffolk.{{Cite news |title=The Late Severe Gales |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=12 December 1868 |issue=6763 }}

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|ship=Tyne

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New Zealand

|desc=The schooner ran aground near the entrance to Wellington Harbour and became a total wreck.Ingram & Wheatley, p. 161.

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The fishing smack sank in the River Thames at Barking, Essex with the loss of both crew.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 December 1868 |issue=13836 |page=6 }}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was refloated with the assistance of a lugger and a steamship but found to be severely leaky and was taken in tow for London.

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground off Ellewoutsdijk, Zeeland.

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground and sank off Ellewoutsdijk.

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|ship=Annette

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was damaged in a gale at Amsterdam, North Holland.

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|ship=Bootry

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was damaged in a gale at Amsterdam.

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|ship=Caroline Beeson

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Swansea, Glamorgan. She was refloated on 13 December and put back to Antwerp.

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|ship=Catharina

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was damaged in a gale at Amsterdam.

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|ship=Clio

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was damaged in a gale at Amsterdam.

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|ship=Cornelia Catharina

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was damaged in a gale at Amsterdam.

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|ship=Courrier

|flag={{flagicon|France}} Saint Pierre

|desc=The ship was lost near St. Ann's Head, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Drie Gesusters

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was damaged in a gale at Amsterdam.

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|ship=Elizabeth

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was damaged in a gale at Amsterdam.

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|ship=Goor Nagtias

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was damaged in a gale at Amsterdam.

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|ship=Henry and Maria

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

|desc=The fishing smack collided with the barque Jason ({{Flag|Norway|1844}}) and foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Jason.

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|ship=Isabella Thompson

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts to Clare, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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|ship=Jenny Jenkins

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

|desc=The ship collided with the steamship Lord Raglan and sank in the North Sea off Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by Lord Raglan. Jenny Jenkins was on a voyage from the River Tyne to Exeter, Devon.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=11 December 1868 |page=11 |issue=26305 |column=F }}

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|ship=Maalstroom

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was damaged in a gale at Amsterdam.

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|ship=Minniehaha

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Conch Reef, off the coast of Florida. She was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom. She was refloated but ran aground again. She was refloated and taken into Key West, Florida on 10 December for repairs.

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|ship=Potosi

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Tome, Japan. She was on a voyage from Tome to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and resumed her voyage, but sprang a severe leak and had to be beached.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=27 January 1869 |issue=6554 }}

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|ship=Pride of the Ocean

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Yarmouth |newspaper=Bury and Norwich Post |location=Bury St. Edmunds |date=14 December 1868 |issue=4512 |page=6 }}

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|ship=Sarah Ann

|flag=22px Newfoundland Colony

|desc=The ship departed from Baltimore, Maryland, United States for Saint John's. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 April 1870 |issue=14270 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Appearance

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Sarpsborg, Norway.

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|ship=Assistant

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Rotterdam, South Holland.

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|ship=Chanticleer

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on a reef north east of Pemba Island, Zanzibar. She was on a voyage from Bombay, India to Zanzibar.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=18 February 1869 |page=11 |issue=26364 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 February 1869 |issue=13898 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Clarendon

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New Zealand

|desc=The 157-ton brig was deliberately run ashore to the north of Hokitika in order to save the crew when she sprang a leak.

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|ship=Congress

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Fleetwood, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Fleetwood.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 December 1868 |issue=13837 |page=7 }} She was refloated and towed into Fleetwood.

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|ship=Express

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

|desc=The brigantine was run down and sunk in the North Sea {{convert|10|nmi|km}} north north east of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire by the steamship {{SS|Sidon|1861|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=10 December 1868 |issue=1864 |page=8 }}{{Cite news |title=A Brigantine and All Hands Run Down in the North Sea |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 December 1868 |issue=13841 |page=7 }} She was on a voyage from a port in Sutherland to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

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|ship=Frances and Charlotte

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Chichester, Sussex.

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|ship=John P. Paint

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

|desc=The barque departed from Boston, Massachusetts for Queenstown, County cork, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

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|ship=Malanta

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Rotterdam.

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|ship=May Flower

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Barber Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from London to West Hartlepool, County Durham. She was refloated and assisted into Lowestoft, Suffolk in a severely leaky condition.

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|ship=Stirling Castle

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Kinghorn, Fife. Her four crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Sunderland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=16 December 1868 |issue=6310 }}

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|ship=Voorwarts

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship ran aground and was wrecked on the Schullhoep, in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from St. Ubes, Portugal to Rotterdam. Voorwarts was refloated on 17 December.

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at the entrance to the Bosphorus with the loss of all but one of her crew.

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|ship=Adam Wilhelm

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Skagen. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Copenhagen.

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|ship=Ann

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Harwich, Essex. She was on a voyage from Colchester, Essex to Ipswich, Suffolk. She was refloated the next day and towed into Harwich.

}}

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|ship=Heilingenhafen

|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Læsø, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom to Kiel. She was later refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

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|ship=John Black

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

|desc=The brigantine was scuttled at Soldier's Point, County Antrim. Her crew were rescued. She had been refloated by 28 December and taken into Warrenpoint, Count Antrim.

}}

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|ship=Ilma

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Trindelen Rock and was abandoned by her crew.

}}

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|ship=Vectis

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the Irish Sea with the loss of one of her sixteen crew. Survivors were rescued by the barque Nyanza ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Vectis was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bombay, India.

}}

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|ship=Voltaic

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the River Foyle. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Londonderry. She was refloated on 12 December and taken into Londonderry.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 December 1868 |issue=13842 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Atalanta

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Barber Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was refloated but was consequently run onto the Outer Bank, off Happisburgh, Norfolk, where she was wrecked. Her eleven crew were rescued by the Happisburgh Lifeboat Huddersfield (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Atalanta was on a voyage from London to Hull, Yorkshire.

}}

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|ship=Catherine and Margaret

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Beaumaris, Anglesey.

}}

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|ship=Cham

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The chasse-marée was wrecked on the Longnose Rock, off Kingsgate, Kent, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Somme to Blyth, Northumberland, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 December 1868 |issue=13842 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Clyde

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked near "Feaghaig", {{convert|7|nmi|km}} south of Campbeltown, Argyllshire with the loss of two lives. She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Londonderry.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Deborah

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground at Woodbridge, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Hull to Woodbridge.

}}

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|ship=Deerhound

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Ouze Edge Sand, in the Thames Estuary.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=11 December 1868 |issue=13839 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Duxceline

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and sank at Margate, Kent, United Kingdom She was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire to Gravesend, Kent.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elizabeth and Mary

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Beaumaris.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elizabeth Brown

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Ouze Edge Sand.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Emma

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

|desc=The ship collided with the paddle steamer {{PS|Prince Alfred|1861|2}} ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was beached at Carrickfergus, County Antrim. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Workington, Cumberland. She had been refloated by 15 December and taken into Belfast for repairs.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=19 December 1868 |page=11 |issue=26312 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Emerald

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, collided with the barque Fanny ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the River Thames at Tilbury, Essex.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 December 1868 |issue=6514 }}{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=18 December 1868 |issue=10121 }} Her nine crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London.{{Cite news |title=Total Loss of a Hartlepool Brig in the Thames |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=12 December 1868 |issue=13840 |page=6 }} Emerald was refloated on 13 January 1869 and towed into London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=14 January 1869 |issue=7084 }}

}}

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|ship=Esther

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Holme Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Experiment

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Par, Cornwall.

}}

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|ship=Fruiterer

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from London to Lowestoft.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fruit Girl

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Ouze Edge Sand.

}}

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|ship=Grance

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Margate. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Grace Wright

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Macherioch, Argyllshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Killala, County Mayo.

}}

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|ship=G. T. Ward

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at "Saalze". She was on a voyage from Lübeck to an English port.

}}

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|ship=Hannah Mary

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and sank at Margate. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Boulogne.

}}

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|ship=Hero

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at the mouth of the River Dee. She was refloated and assisted into the River Dee by the Point of Ayr Lifeboat.{{Cite news |title=Disasters in the Gales |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=14 December 1868 |issue=9032 }}

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|ship=Heviland

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. She was refloated the next day.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ino, and
Ranger

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

|desc=The lugger Ranger ran into the schooner Ino and was abandoned by her eleven crew, who got on board Ino, which was subsequently abandoned. All sixteen people on board Ino were rescued by the Yarmouth Lifeboat Swift (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Ino was on a voyage from South Shields to Taganrog, Russia. She drove ashore at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and was wrecked. Ranger was subsequently taken into Great Yarmouth by a lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at St. Ives, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Hayle, Cornwall. She was refloated and taken into St. Ives.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lion

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Ardrossan, Ayrshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Little Gem

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Beaumaris.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Magdala

|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Loch Boisdale. She was on a voyage from Shediac, Nova Scotia to Dundalk, County Louth, United Kingdom. She was refloated but found to be severely leaky.

}}

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|ship=Margaret and Ann

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Warrenpoint, County Antrim with the loss of one of her four crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Newry, County Antrim.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=New Parliament

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Par.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Reindeer

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

|desc=The schooner was run down and sunk in the Belfast Lough by the steamship Electric ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by Electric. Reindeer was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Dublin.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 December 1868 |issue=6514 }}

}}

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|ship=Rose and Mary

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Cowes, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Portsmouth, Hampshire to Swansea, Glamorgan.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 December 1868 |issue=13841 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Stirling Castle

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Vous Rocks, off the coast of Fife. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Sunderland, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Kirkcaldy |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=12 December 1868 |issue=4793 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tonderghe

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Portwilliam, Wigtownshire to Whitehaven, Cumberland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Isle of Man

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in Ross Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Douglas.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=16 December 1868 |issue=7059 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William

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

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

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on Pladda with the loss of four of her five crew. She was on a voyage from Troon to Belfast.{{Cite news |title=Yarmouth |newspaper=Bury and Norwich Post |location=Bury St. Edmunds |date=14 December 1868 |issue=4512 |page=6 }}{{Cite news |title=The Late Storm on the Arran Coast |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=15 December 1868 |issue=9033 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 December 1868 |issue=6520 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=11 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Ann

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Moville, County Donegal. She was refloated on 15 December with the assistance of a number of tugs.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bacabec

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Echo ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Bacabec was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada to Sligo.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 January 1869 |issue=6535 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Belt

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Moville. She was on a voyage from Londonderry to Bangor, County Down. She was refloated on 15 December with the assistance of a number of tugs.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{PS|City of Hamburg|1834|2}}

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

|desc=The paddle steamer ran aground at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from London to Great Yarmouth. Her passengers were taken off. She was refloated the next day and taken into Great Yarmouth in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Clyde

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Campbeltown, Argyllshire with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Londonderry.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Express

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Appledore, Devon. She was on a voyage from Sydney, New South Wales to Barnstaple, Devon. She was later refloated and taken into Appledore.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Glenharvee

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Campbeltown with the loss of two of her crew.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gossamer

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Prawle Point, Devon with the loss of 31 of the 48 people on board.{{Cite news |title=Awful Wreck on the Devon coast |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=11 December 1868 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Herald

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Bangor, County Down.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and sank at Ramsey, Isle of Man. Her four crew were rescued by the Ramsey Lifeboat Two Sisters (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Jane was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Isle of Man

|desc=The smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Ramsey. Her crew were rescued by the Ramsey Lifeboat Two Sisters (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Jane was on a voyage from Ramsey to Whitehaven, Cumberland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Magnet

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

|desc=The brig sprang a leak and was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Hamburg.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=4 January 1869 |page=7 |issue=26326 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Another Vessel Run Down in the River |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 January 1869 |issue=13860 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nereid

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

|desc=The ship foundered. She was on a voyage from Cette, Hérault to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône.{{Cite news |title=Shipping News |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=19 December 1868 |issue=4799 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nethania

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

|desc=The brig was run down and sunk by a schooner off the North Foreland, Kent. Her six crew survived. She was on a voyage from South Shields to Caen, Calvados, France.{{Cite news |title=Five Vessels Wrecked off Margate |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 December 1868 |issue=13841 |page=6 }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of a Colchester Brig and Narrow Escape of the Crew |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Colchester |date=16 December 1868 |issue=1983 |volume=38 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Prudence

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Ramsey. Her four crew were rescued by the Ramsey Lifeboat Two Sisters (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).> Prudence was on a voyage from Garston, Lancashire to Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.

}}

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|ship=Rehoboth

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

|desc=The ship sank off Beachy Head, Sussex. Her crew survived. she was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Lymington, Hampshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Seaman

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Bangor, County Down.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thames

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Carnsore, County Wexford with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Queenstown, County Cork to Newport, Monmouthshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Wasdale

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

|desc=The brig was run down and sunk off Lamlash, Isle of Arran with the loss of all seven crew. She was on a voyage from Whitehaven to Newport.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=7 January 1869 |issue=4815 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=12 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Bangalore

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Lamlash, Isle of Arran. She was refloated on 14 December and put back to Greenock, Renfrewshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bartolotto

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Port Mandri", Greece. She was on a voyage from Bourgas, Ottoman Empire to a British port. She had been refloated by 31 December and taken into Piraeus.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 January 1869 |issue=13864 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Emily Anne

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Chapel St Leonards, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from London to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Equity

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

|desc=The smack collided with Queen Victoria ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank. Her crew were rescued by Queen Victoria.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=16 December 1868 |page=9 |issue=26309 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=16 December 1868 |issue=13843 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Heilingenhafen

|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on "Hatheriff". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom to Kiel.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hero

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

|desc=The ship sank in the Irish Sea {{convert|2|nmi|km}} north west of Puffin Island, Anglesey. Her four crew survived. She was on a voyage from Réunion to Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium.{{Cite news |title=Amlwch |newspaper=North Wales Chronicle |location=Bangor |date=19 December 1868 |issue=2192 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Liffey

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Portavogie, County Down with the loss of all but her captain. She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Newry, County Antrim.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nethania

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

|desc=The brig was run into by a schooner and sank at Broadstairs, Kent. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Caen, Calvados, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rose

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

|desc=The ship was holed in the River Usk and capsized. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ruby

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

|desc=The ship sank at Nefyn, Caernarfonshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk to Liverpool, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Three Janes

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Douglas, Isle of Man with the loss of six of her crew. She was on a voyage from Preston, Lancashire to Douglas. She was refloated and take into Douglas.{{Cite news |title=Shocking Calamity in Douglas Bay |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 December 1868 |issue=6520 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=13 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Dorset

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

|desc=The ship departed from Port Talbot, Glamorgan for Highbridge, Somerset. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Missing Ship |date=19 December 1868 |page=7 |issue=26312 |column=F }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eleanor and Grace

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

|desc=The ship drove ashore at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. She was on a voyage from the River Duddon to Briton Ferry, Glamorgan. She was refloated on 17 December.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 December 1868 |issue=13845 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lady Flora Hastings

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

|desc=The schooner collided with Trossach ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank off the Tongue Sand. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Ramsgate, Kent.{{Cite news |title=A Dundee Ship in Collision |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=16 December 1868 |issue=4796 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nordstfjernan

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

|desc=The barque ran aground off Häfringe Island and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to Stockholm.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 December 1868 |issue=13844 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pehr

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at St Mawes Castle, Cornwall, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Norway to La Rochelle, Charente-Inférieure, France. She was refloated with the assistance of a steamship and taken into Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 May 1869 |issue=7193 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Sizewell Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. The Aldeburgh and Thorpeness Lifeboats Ipswich and Pasco (both File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution) were launched but found no sign of her.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Late Gales |date=16 December 1868 |page=10 |issue=26309 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

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|ship=Anne Milne

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

|desc=The steamship was destroyed by fire and sank at Dundee, Forfarshire. She was refloated on 4 January 1869 and taken into Perth.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Beaufeau

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Batten Reef, in Plymouth Sound. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Great Gales on the West Coast. Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=14 December 1868 |issue=1868 |page=3 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Canada

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The barque sank off Bettystown, County Meath. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Sierra Leone.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Emily Burnyest

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Trefusis Point, Cornwall. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helena

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Doom Bar. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Vigo, Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hound

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Great Cumbrae, Argyllshire. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Troon, Ayrshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marthe Helene

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Lemvig. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Horten.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Orient

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Dragør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Stettin to Leith. She was refloated and put into Copenhagen, Denmark in a severely leaky condition and was beached there.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pher

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

|desc=The brig ran aground at St Mawes Castle, Cornwall. She was refloated and taken into Falmouth, Cornwall.

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|ship=Providence

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore in Ramsey Bay. She was on a voyage from Garston, Lancashire to Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.

}}

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|ship=Sarah Anne

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

|desc=The brig ran aground and sank at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire with the loss of five of her crew. She was on a voyage from Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, France to Swansea, Glamorgan.

}}

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|ship=Vegesack

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The ship departed from Cardiff for Havana, Cuba. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=24 June 1869 |issue=7222 }}

}}

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|ship=Veteran

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore on the Isle of Arran. She was on a voyage from Troon to Belfast.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Drogheda, County Louth, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=15 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Advice

|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|50|46|N|21|50|W}}). Her twelve crew were rescued by the steamship {{SS|Denmark|1865|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Advice was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Saint John, New Brunswick.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 December 1868 |issue=6521 }}

}}

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|ship=Architect

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. Her crew were rescued by Claribel ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Architect was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to an English port.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=16 January 1869 |page=12 |issue=26336 |column=C }} She came ashore at Hillswick, Shetland Islands on 3 February 1869.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 March 1869 |issue=6587 }}

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|ship=Cavoda

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked near Drogheda, County Louth with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Sierra Leone.{{Cite news |title=General News |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 December 1868 |issue=9036 }}

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|ship=Eclipse

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Arichat, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was on a voyage from Digby, Nova Scotia to the Clyde.

}}

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|ship=Fancy

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Silivri, Ottoman Empire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Berdyansk, Russia to a British port.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 December 1868 |issue=6521 }}

}}

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|ship=Fides

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Vlieland, Friesland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from New York to Bremen.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=16 December 1868 |issue=6518 }}

}}

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|ship=Grace

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

|desc=The schooner sank at Margate, Kent. Her crew were rescued by the Broadstairs Lifeboat Bulmer White (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Grace was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was refloated on 16 December and taken into Margate.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 December 1868 |issue=6516 }}

}}

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|ship=Happy Return

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Nairn to Cromarty.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=15 January 1869 |page=5 |issue=26335 |column=E }}

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|ship=Hooyland

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Kilmore, County Wexford with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Surinam to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.

}}

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|ship=Royal Dane

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

|desc=The ship ran aground near Seraglio Point, Ottoman Empire. She was on a voyage from Taganrog, Russia to a British port. She was refloated and subsequently resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Aberdeen |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=31 December 1868 |issue=4809 }}

}}

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|ship=Royal Tar

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea {{convert|12|nmi|km}} off the mouth of the Humber. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Rouen ({{flag|France}}). Royal Tar was on a voyage from Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex to Goole, Yorkshire.

}}

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|ship=Tyne

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on Marmara Island, Ottoman Empire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Constantinople to Enos, Ottoman Empire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=25 December 1868 |page=5 |issue=26317 |column=E }}

}}

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|ship=Wilhelmine

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship capsized in the Black Sea at the entrance to the Bosphorus. She was on a voyage from Galaţi, Ottoman Empire to a British port.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=19 December 1868 |issue=7062 }}

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The brig foundered off the Copeland Islands, County Antrim with the loss of several of her crew. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Belfast, County Antrim.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=16 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Clyde

|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada

|desc=The brigantine was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Alma ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Clyde was on a voyage from Verte Bay, Nova Scotia to Belfast, County Antrim, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=31 December 1868 |page=9 |issue=26322 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Elizabeth Mary

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

|desc=The schooner was driven onto the Naylor Rock, Margate, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Antwerp, Belgium. She was refloated the next day and taken into Margate.

}}

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|ship=Jane

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

|desc=The ship sank in Angle Bay. She was refloated on 30 December and taken into Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire where she was condemned.

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=17 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Daisy

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

|desc=The smack was run into by the steamship Don Pedro ({{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}) and sank at Grimsby, Lincolnshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=18 December 1868 |issue=7061 }} She was raised on 19 December and taken into Grimsby.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Forester

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Lee Flat, in the Suriname River. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Pernambuco, Brazil.

}}

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|ship=Lucien

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Myfor Bank. She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina to London. She was refloated and taken into Falmouth, Cornwall in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=10 February 1869 |issue=13891 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Millbank

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Penarth, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Penarth.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pet

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

|desc=The schooner struck rocks in East Tarbert Bay and sank. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to São Miguel Island, Azores.

}}

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|ship=Preciosa

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked south of Egersund, Norway with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg to an English port.

}}

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|ship=John Wesley

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in Lough Swilly. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire to Galway.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 December 1868 |issue=6521 }} She was refloated on 22 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=The Beal

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Horse Rock, in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=18 December 1868 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Callioup (or Galicub), and
Charkeich (or Sharkie)

|flag={{flagicon|Ottoman Empire|red}} Ottoman Empire

|desc=The steamships collided in the Black Sea at "Carabournon". Callioup sank with the loss of 50 of the 165 people on board. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Constantinople. Charkeich was consequently beached at Çeşme{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Turkey and Greece |date=24 December 1868 |page=10 |issue=26316 |column=A }}{{Cite news |title=Latest News |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=Birmingham |date=24 December 1868 |issue=3254 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=6 January 1869 |issue=6313 }}{{Cite news |title=Fearful Collision Between Two Steamers |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=7 January 1869 |issue=34341 }}{{Cite news |title=The Disastrous Collision in the Mediterranean |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=8 January 1869 |issue=29667 |page=6 }}

}}

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|ship=Chevy Chase

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Scheelhoek, off the coast of Zeeland, Netherlands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dunsundie

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

|desc=The ship strurck a sunken rock and was damaged. She was on a voyage from "Burraira" to Hull, Yorkshire. She put into Gibraltar in a leaky condition

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helen

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Whitburn, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Henrietta Brewis

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|44|45|N|40|09|W}}). Her crew were rescued by the barque Sharston ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Henrietta Brewis was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Bahia, Brazil.{{Cite news |title=Foundering of the Henrietta Brewis in the Atlantic |date= January 1869 }}

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|ship=L{{'}}Auguste

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The lugger was lost on this date. Her crew were rescued by Noera ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Multiple News Items |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=7 February 1870 |issue=14201 |page=3 }}

}}

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|ship=Livonia

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

|desc=The ship ran aground and was damaged at Arbroath, Forfarshire, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lucien

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

|desc=The brig was driven onto the Mylor Bank, in the English Channel off the coast of Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina to London. She was refloated and taken into Falmouth, Cornwall in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=19 December 1868 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Earl of Elgin, and
Thames

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

|desc=The steamship Earl of Elgin collided with the steamship Thames in the River Thames and was beached at Tilburyness, Essex. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London. She was refloated on 21 December and taken into London. Thames sank at Northfleet, Kent.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=21 December 1868 |page=6 |issue=26313 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 December 1868 |issue=13848 |page=7 }} She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire to London. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 December 1868 |issue=13853 |page=8 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hannah and Jane

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at Blakeney, Norfolk. She was refloated on 22 December and taken into Blakeney.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Henrietta

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was run ashore near Beaumaris, Anglesey.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=21 December 1868 |issue=6522 }}

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|ship=Oernen

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Otto ({{flag|Denmark}}). Oernen was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Ebeltoft.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=20 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Alarm

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Zuidwal, in the Wadden Sea. She was on a voyage from Bremen to Cardiff, Glamorgan.

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|ship=Florence

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Charlestown, Cornwall.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Harkaway

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

|desc=The ship departed from The Downs for the Canary Islands. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=26 February 1869 |issue=6580 }}

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|ship=Mary Ann

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Souter Point, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France to the River Tyne.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=23 December 1868 |issue=6524 }}

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|ship=Villafranca

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The lugger was wrecked on Havre de Pas, Jersey, Channel Islands with the loss of two of her three crew. The survivor was rescued by the tug Toby ({{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Jersey). Villafranca was on a voyage from Dinan, Côtes-du-Nord to Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Fatal Wreck |date=23 December 1868 |page=6 |issue=26315 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Serious Gales |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=4 December 1868 |issue=7066 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=21 December 1868 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Adventure

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked at Pakefield, Suffolk. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to a port in Mayenne, France.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Catherine

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Loch Ryan and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Larne, County Antrim. She subsequently floated off and drove out to sea.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Commerce

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Blyth, Northumberland with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Gravesend, Kent to Blyth.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ellen

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

|desc=The ship struck a sunken wreck off Race's Shoal, in the North Sea and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Whitby, Yorkshire to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Estrella

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Roques Reefs. All on board survived on an uninhabited island {{convert|6|nmi|km}} from the wreck. They were rescued on 27 December by {{ship|Venezuelan ship|Bolivar||2}} ({{Navy|Venezuela|1863}}). Estrella was on a voyage from Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands to Curaçao.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The West India and Pacific Mails |date=29 January 1869 |page=5 |issue=26347 |column=B }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Favourite

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Newcombe Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=25 December 1868 |issue=10122 }}

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|ship=Hamilton

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Sea Palling, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to London. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Harriet

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at "Portmacksand", Wigtownshire. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Barsalloch, Wigtownshire. She was refloated but drove ashore near Garliestown and was wrecked.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=16 January 1869 |issue=13870 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Helen

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

|desc=The schooner struck a sunken rock and foundered {{convert|3|nmi|km}} south west of the Dudgeon Lightship (22px Trinity House), in the North Sea. Her crew got on board the lightship. They were rescued on 23 December by the steamship Resolute ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Helen was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rouen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kinloss

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in the North Sea near Muchalls, Kincardineshire, Scotland, with the loss of one of her five crew.{{London Gazette |issue=23489 |date=16 April 1869 |page=2294 }} She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Aberdeen.{{Cite news |title=A Melancholy Story |newspaper=North Wales Chronicle |location=Bangor |date=2 January 1869 |issue=2194 }}

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|ship=Peter Fordeskjold

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Hittarp Reef. She was on a voyage from an English port to Copenhagen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Starry Banner

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

|desc=The steamship was reported to have foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{Convert|700|nmi|km}} west of Ireland (island) with the loss of 122 of the 164 people on board. Survivors were reported to have been rescued by a French barque and having been landed at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was reported to have been on a voyage from New York City to Alexandria, Egypt. However, the story was believed to be a hoax, with no vessel of that name listed in American Lloyd's Register and no accounts from survivors forthcoming from Boulogne.{{Cite news |title=The Storm on Sunday |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=Birmingham |date=29 December 1868 |issue=3258 }}{{Cite news |title=Terrible Disaster at Sea |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=29 December 1868 |issue=29658 |page=8 }}{{Cite news |title=The Reported Loss of the Starry Banner |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=30 December 1868 |issue=9582 }}

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|ship=Weardale

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 December 1868 |issue=13848 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=22 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Active, and
Brothers

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

|desc=The schooner Active collided with Brothers in the River Usk. Both vessels were beached. Brothers was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Cardiff, Glamorgan.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=12 January 1869 |issue=138656 |page=7 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jackal

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

|desc=The ship struck a rock off Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. She completed her voyage in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off Cromer, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by Cornish Diamond ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Mary was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Trouville-sur-Mer, Calvados, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pioneer

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

|desc=The schooner collided with the steamship Kinghorn ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned in the North Sea. Her five crew were rescued by Kinghorn and the Caister Lifeboat. Pioneer was on a voyage from Torquay, Devon to South Shields, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Yarmouth |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=26 December 1868 |issue=6767 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sacra Famiglia

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Messina, Sicily. She was on a voyage from Catania, Sicily to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Southern Empire

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Hermione ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and the brig Johann Amelia ({{flag|Portugal|civil}}). Southern Empire was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 January 1869 |issue=6536 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=22 January 1869 |issue=7091 }}

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=23 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Adele

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire in the Indian Ocean. Those on board took to four boats. One boat with nine people on board reached land, five people in another boat were rescued by Frederick ({{flag|United States|1867}}). Those in the other two boats were reported missing. Adele was on a voyage from Bremen to a port in Aracan, Burma.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Cape Mails |date=8 April 1869 |page=9 |issue=26406 |column=C }}

}}

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|ship=Helen

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea off the Dudgeon Sand. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France.{{Cite news |title=Yarmouth |newspaper=Bury and Norwich Post |location=Bury St Edmunds |date=29 December 1868 |issue=4514 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=24 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Adsey

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at the Landguard Fort, Felixtowe, Suffolk. She was refloated and taken into Harwich, Essex.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=25 December 1868 |issue=13851 |page=8 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alderman

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

|desc=The brig was run into by the steamship Valetta ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank off Orfordness, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by Valetta. Alderman was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alexander

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

|desc=The ship struck a wreck in the Sunk Channel and was damaged. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France. She put into Lowestoft, Suffolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Castle

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

|desc=The smack was abandoned off Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. Her nine crew were rescued by the Aberystwyth Lifeboat Evelyn Wood (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Castle was on a voyage from Kingstown, County Dublin to Aberystwyth.{{Cite news |title=Valuable Life boat Services |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=28 December 1868 |issue=29657 |page=3 }} She came ashore and was wrecked.

}}

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|ship=Diamond and
Fuchsia

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

|desc=The collier Fuchsia, a brig, was run into by John and Mary ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) off Aldeburgh, Suffolk and was abandoned by her crew, who reached shore in their boat. Fuchsia was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to London. She subsequently collided with the schooner Diamond ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}, which was abandoned by her three crew; they got on board Fuchsia, which was driven ashore at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Those on board were rescued by the Aldeburgh Lifeboat Pasco (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Diamond was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to London.< She was subsequently taken into Lowestoft, Suffolk in a derelict condition by the smacks Secret and Vesper (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

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|ship=Isabella

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

|desc=The brig ran aground off Pakefield, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London. She was refloated and taken into Lowestoft in a sinking condition.

}}

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|ship=Jeune Adolphe

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Blakeney, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Julia

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in Aberlady Bay. She sank the next day and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Cockenzie, Lothian to Pont-Audemer, Eure, France.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=23 January 1869 |issue=7092 }}

}}

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|ship=Saucy Lass

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

|desc=The ship collided with Merton ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank off the Cork Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk with the loss of two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Merton.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=25 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Anne Catherine

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on "Hatteriff". She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Nyborg, Denmark.

}}

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|ship=Annie

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Channel Islands. She was on a voyage from London to Cardiff, Glamorgan. She was refloated and put into Cowes, Isle of Wight in a leak condition.

}}

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|ship=Australian

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground {{convert|2|nmi|km}} from Norfolk, Virginia, United States. She was on a voyage from Mobile, Alabama to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=11 January 1869 |issue=7081 }} She was refloated on 27 December and taken into Norfolk.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=13 January 1869 |issue=7083 }}

}}

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|ship=Chebucto

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked in Annotto Bay, Jamaica. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 January 1869 |issue=6557 }}{{Cite news |title=Rewards for Saving Life |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=25 June 1869 |issue=1363 }}

}}

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|ship=Cuthebert

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. All 40 people on board were rescued by the barque America ({{flag|United States|1867}}). Cuthbert was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Severe Weather in the Atlantic |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 February 1869 |issue=6576 }}

}}

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|ship=Sophie

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

|desc=The ship foundered {{convert|2|nmi|km}} off the Saltee Islands, County Wexford. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Waterford.

}}

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|ship=Thomas Gillespie

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked {{convert|17|nmi|km}} south west of Cape Spartel, Morocco with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Genoa and Naples, Italy.{{Cite news |title=Wreck and Great Loss of Life |newspaper=Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper |location=London |date=3 January 1869 |issue=1363 |edition=Fourth }}{{Cite news |title=Wreck of the Screw Steamer Thomas Gillespie |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=6 January 1869 |issue=9052 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=26 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Ardwell

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked north of Zandvoort, North Holland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Zierikzee, North Holland.

}}

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|ship={{ship|French frigate|Cacique||2}}

|flag={{navy|France}}

|desc=The convict hulk sank at Cayenne, French Guiana with the loss of several lives.{{Cite news |title=Sinking of a Convict Hulk |newspaper=Sheffield Independent |location=Sheffield |date=17 February 1869 |issue=4866 |page=2 |volume=48 }}

}}

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|ship=Florence Nightingale

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked off the coast of Africa with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Bathurst, Gambia Colony and Protectorate to Sierra Leone. The nineteen survivors reached the "Isle des Los" in a raft, from whence they were rescued by the whaler S. A. Paine ({{flag|United States|1867}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipwreck on the African Coast. Dreadful Sufferings of the Crew and Passengers |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 February 1869 |issue=6559 }}

}}

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|ship=Ida

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

|desc=The ship collided with the brig Topsy ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank at Deal, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=29 December 1868 |issue=7070 }}

}}

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|ship=Isabella

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her five crew were rescued by the steamship Thames ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=The Gales |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=29 December 1868 |issue=1879 }} Isabella was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Maldon, Essex.

}}

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|ship=Jane

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Margate, Kent.

}}

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|ship=Malvina

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

|desc=The ship was run into by the steamship Falcon ({{Flag|Bremen}}) and was beached on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=29 December 1868 |issue=7070 }} She was later refloated with the assistance of six smacks and was towed into London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=31 December 1868 |issue=7072 }}

}}

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|ship=Maggie Lorimer

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

|desc=The ship sank at Dunkirk, Nord, France. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Dunkirk.

}}

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|ship=Marsden

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Whiting Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to London. She was refloated and taken into Harwich, Essex in a leaky condition.

}}

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|ship=Mohawk

|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada

|desc=The brig ran aground at the entrance to the Strangford Lough. She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire, United Kingdom to Cuba. She was refloated and taken into Ballyhenry, County Antrim, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 December 1868 |issue=6530 }}

}}

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|ship=Nancy

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

|desc=The brigantine was wrecked on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Southampton, Hampshire.

}}

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|ship=Orient

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

|desc=The brig ran aground and sank on the Gunfleet Sand. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Hope ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Orient was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=29 December 1868 |page=9 |issue=26320 |column=C }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of a Shields Brig |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 December 1868 |issue=6530 }}

}}

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|ship=Portia

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was beached at Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.

}}

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|ship=Sarah Nicholson

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Eastern Passage. She was on a voyage from London to Shanghai, China. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

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|ship=Sisters

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand. Her crew were rescued by the brig Triune ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Sisters was on a voyage from South Shields to London.{{cite book |title=The Salvagers |first=Hervey |last=Benham |author-link=Hervey Benham |page=191 |publisher=Essex County Newspapers Ltd |location=Colchester |year=1980 |isbn=00-950944-2-3}}{{Cite news |title=Foundering of Two Shields Vessels |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 December 1868 |issue=6530 }}

}}

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|ship=Speculation

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

|desc=The ship ran aground and sank off Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by the smacks New Unity and Snowdrop ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Speculation was on a voyage from Hartlepool to London.

}}

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|ship=Springflower

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

|desc=The ship departed from South Shields for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 March 1869 |issue=6586}}

}}

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|ship=Standering, or
Stanislaus

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand. Her nine crew were rescued by the steamship Thames ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civiil}}).{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Nottinghamshire Guardian |location=Nottingham |date=1 January 1869 |issue=1193 }}

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|ship=Traveller

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Gunfleet sand, floated off and sank. Her crew were rescued by the brig Nexo ({{flag|Denmark}}). Traveller was on a voyage from South Shields to London.{{Cite news |title=Ten Vessels Lost on the Gunfleet Sands |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 January 1869 |issue=13859 |page=6 }}

}}

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|ship=Victoire Eugène

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship departed from Casablanca, Morocco for Ipswich, Suffolk. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 March 1869 |issue=6598 }}

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|ship=No. 9

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

|desc=The pilot boat was run down and severely damaged by the steamship {{RMS|China|1862|6}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}) with the loss of two lives. Twelve people were rescued by China. No. 9 was taken into Liverpool.

}}

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|ship=Ballywalter Lifeboat

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

|desc=The lifeboat capsized in the Belfast Lough with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by the Coastguard.{{Cite news |title=The Recent Gales |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=30 December 1868 |issue=29659 |page=2 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=27 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Baltic

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from West Hartlepool, County Durham to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bride{{'}}s Maid

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and damaged at Trouville, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Trouville.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cabot, and
Flying Cloud

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

|desc=The barque Cabot was driven into the brig Flying Cloud at Plymouth, Devon. Both vessels were driven on to the Batten Reef and were wrecked. Cabot was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden to Bristol, Gloucestershire. She was refloated the next day and taken into Sutton Harbour. Flying Cloud was on a voyage from Pernambuco, Brazil to Leith, Lothian. Her ten crew were rescued by the Plymouth Lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Captain Manby

|flag={{Flag|France}}

|desc=The lifeboat capsized whilst going to the aid of Only Son ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais with the loss of two or five of her ten crew.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=1 January 1869 |issue=10123 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=China

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of nine of her fifteen crew. Survivors were rescued by W. H. Jenkins ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). China was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Cardiff, Glamorgan.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=13 February 1869 |page=5 |issue=26360 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of the China and Nine Lives |newspaper=Sheffield Independent |location=Sheffield |date=23 March 1869 |issue=4895 |page=3 |volume=48 }}

}}

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|ship=Concord

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Bowmore, Islay. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Galway to Maryport, Cumberland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=George

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Knock Sand and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hitena

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

|desc=The brigantine was abandoned in the English Channel off the coast of Sussex. Her crew were rescued by the Worthing Lifeboat Jane (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Hitena was subsequently taken into Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Miranda

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Iona ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Miranda was on a voyage from Blakeney, Norfolk to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Okeanos

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Sizewell Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure. She floated off and sank. Her seven crew were rescued by the smack Four Brothers ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=30 December 1868 |page=10 |issue=26321 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=Heavy Gales, Wrecks, and Great Loss of Life |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=2 January 1869 |issue=6768 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Only Son

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

|desc=The collier, a schooner, was driven ashore at Boulogne. Her seven crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Inverkeithing, Fife to Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, France.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Late Gale |date=30 December 1868 |page=7 |issue=26321 |column=E }}

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|ship=Queen of Britain

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Girdler Sand, in the Thames Estuary. She was on a voyage from Demerara, British Guiana to London. She was refloated and towed into London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=30 December 1868 |issue=7071 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Shepherdess

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Hamburg ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Triune

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

|desc=The brig ran aground and was wrecked on the Cork Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. All on board were rescued by Volunteer ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Triune was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London.

}}

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|ship=Violette

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

|desc=The barque capsized in the River Mersey. All ten crew were rescued by the gig Kate, the tug Speedwell (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), and the Liverpool Lifeboat Liverpool No. 1 (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Violette was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Runcorn, Cheshire.{{Cite news |title=Serious Gales |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=29 December 1868 |issue=29658 |page=8 }}{{Cite news |title=The Capsizing of the Violette |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 December 1868 |issue=6530 }} She was righted on 1 January 1869 and taken into Liverpool.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=2 January 1869 |page=6 |issue=26324 |column=D }}

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|ship=Wanderer

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on Meyer's Ledge, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from the Firth of Forth to Brake, Prussia.

}}

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|ship=Waterloo

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

|desc=The barque collided with a Dutch brig and caught fire off the east coast of Kent. She ran onto the Goodwin Sands and sank. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Livorno, Italy to Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=1 January 1869 |issue=13857 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The lighter struck rocks at Kilcreggan, Argyllshire and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ballachulish, Inverness-shire to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=28 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Arlington

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Nelson Point, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada to Bristol, Gloucestershire. She was later refloated and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 December 1868 |issue=13855 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bilbao

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on Scroby Sands, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the Great Yarmouth Lifeboat. She was refloated the next day and taken into Great Yarmouth in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=31 December 1868 |issue=13856 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Castle Eden

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Rangoon, Burma. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 February 1869 |issue=6559 }}

}}

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|ship=Catherina

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

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea {{convert|50|nmi|km}} off Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by the fishing smack Fox ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Catherina was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to South Shields, County Durham.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Recent Gales |date=1 January 1869 |page=7 |issue=26323 |column=B }}

}}

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|ship=Dugueschin

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Sunderland, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hedwig

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Geestendorf.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Home

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

|desc=The brig was towed into A Coruña, Spain by the steamship Luxor ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), being in a sinking condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Horace

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

|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Adrift in the North Sea |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=16 January 1869 |issue=6770 }}

}}

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|ship=Jesse

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

|desc=The Thames barge was abandoned in the Thames Estuary off Faversham, Kent. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Gravesend to Murston, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 January 1869 |issue=13861 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Leopard

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Westward Ho!, Devon. Her crew were rescued by Hope (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution) with the loss of a crewman from the lifeboat. Leopard was on a voyage from Sombrero, Antigua to Gloucester.{{cite web |url=http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |title=A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks |first=Ron |last=Tovey |publisher=Swansea Docks |access-date=19 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222065415/http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |archive-date=22 December 2014 |df=dmy-all }}{{Cite news |title=Royal National Lifeboat Institution |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=8 January 1869 |issue=7079 }}

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|ship=Marie

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

|desc=The ship sank at Glückstadt, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire to Flensburg, Prussia.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Moonbeam

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Geestendorf.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Morice

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Terneuzen, Zeeland. She was on a voyage from Antwerp to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ocean Gem

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

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Kaloot Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Zeeland. She was on a voyage from Antwerp to Sunderland. She was refloated on 28 January 1869 and taken into Terneuzen, Zeeland.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=1 February 1869 |issue=13883 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Pace

|flag={{flag|Austria-Hungary|civil}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked in Bideford Bay with the loss of four of her fourteen crew. Survivors were rescued by the Bideford Lifeboat Hope (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Pace was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom to Venice.{{Cite news |title=Wrecks on the North Devon Coast. Loss of Six Lives |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=30 December 1868 |issue=9582 }} She was refloated on 19 May 1869 and beached.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Princess

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Ainsdale, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=31 December 1868 |issue=7072 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=29 December 1868 |sort=}}

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|ship=Carnatic

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued by the brig Archimedes ({{Flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}). Carnatic was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Cartagena, Spain.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=18 January 1869 |issue=7087 }}

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|ship=Crossfell

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Albion ({{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Guernsey). Crossfell was on a voyage from London to South Shields, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disaster |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=30 December 1868 |issue=9582 }}

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|ship=George Bennett

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

|desc=The brigantine was abandoned off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued by the smack Mystery ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

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|ship=Josephine

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

|desc=The ship struc the pier at Ramsgate, Kent. She was holed by her anchor and sank. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Le Tréport, Seine-Inférieure, France.

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|ship=Maria Elizabeth

|flag=22px Danzig

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Euboea, Greece with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 January 1869 |issue=13863 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Provident

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Wolves Rock and was abandoned by her crew. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Swansea, Glamorgan. She was refloated and towed into Cardiff, Glamorgan in a severely leaky condition.

}}

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|ship=Syrian

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground off Tarifa, Spain. She was refloated and put back to Gibraltar, but sprang a severe leak the next day. She was taken intow by {{HMS|Crocodile|1867|6}} ({{navy|UK}}). The tow was passed to {{HMS|Warrior|1860|6}} ({{navy|UK}}) on 31 December.

}}

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|ship=Victoria

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on Scroby Sands, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the Gorleston Lifeboat. She was refloated and taken into Great Yarmouth, where she sank.{{Cite news |title=The Late Gale |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=31 December 1868 |issue=7072 }}

}}

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|ship=Brunette

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Inférieure, France. She was refloated with the assistance of two smacks and put into Harwich, Essex.

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|ship=Loire et Bretagne

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The steamship collided with a fishing smack at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom and was beached.

}}

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|ship=Venus

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Wyk auf Föhr, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Anna Maria

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

|desc=The brig collided with the barque Biaggo Asserto ({{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civl}}) off Gibraltar. She was taken in tow by the tugs Belge, Jackal and Lion (all {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and beached at Gibraltar. Anna Maria was on a voyage from Genoa to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

}}

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|ship=Ellen

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

|desc=The ship was lost near Ringkøbing, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Bayonne, Basses-Pyrénées, France to Hamburg.

}}

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|ship=Hope

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

|desc=The barque was towed into Gibraltar in a derelict condition. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Martinique.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=1 January 1870 |issue=14170 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Aden

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

|desc=The ship was reported missing, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

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|ship=Americana

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

|desc=The ship was taken into Dingle Bay in a derelict condition.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Annetta

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

|desc=The barque was lost near Swatow, China before 4 December.

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|ship=Annetta

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

|desc=The barque foundered. Some of her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Argo

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Visby, Sweden before 8 December.

}}

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|ship=Argos Nicholaos

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Media, Algeria before 24 December.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=25 December 1868 |issue=6526 }}

}}

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|ship=Bonne Amelie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked off Cabo de Santa Maria, Portugal with the loss of all on board. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde, France to Buenos Aires, Argentina.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 December 1868 |issue=6507 }}

}}

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|ship=Charlotte Ann

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Danzig. She was refloated and put into Gothenburg, Sweden in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Chiozza

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship foundered in the Black Sea.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 December 1868 |issue=6517 }}

}}

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|ship=Cocomandel

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

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire near Batavia, Netherlands East Indies. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Swatow, China.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 December 1868 |issue=6511 }}

}}

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|ship=Cœur de Lion

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Bordeaux, Gironde before 29 December.

}}

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|ship=Constance

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

|desc=The barque capsized at Taganrog, Russia. Her crew were rescued by the steamship {{SS|Theban|1866|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

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|ship=Dorritt

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

|desc=The steamship foundered in the Bristol Channel. She was on a voyage from Bridgwater, Somerset to a Welsh port.{{Cite news |title=Latest Telegrams |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=19 December 1868 |issue=7062 }}

}}

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|ship=Emily McNear

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Mackay's Shoals, in the Bahamas. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts to Mobile, Alabama.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 December 1868 |issue=6509 }}

}}

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|ship=Ernst Reinhardt

|flag=22px Stettin

|desc=The ship was run down and sunk by Dionne ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Her crew were rescued by Dionne. Ernst Reinhardt was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom to Stettin.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=15 December 1868 |page=11 |issue=26308 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship=Finke Senior

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Thomas Point, Maryland. She was on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Baltimore, Maryland.

}}

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|ship=Frederica Wilhelm

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Chefoo, China.

}}

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|ship=Gleaner

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at São Miguel Island, Azores.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gloria

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 5 December.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=10 December 1868 |issue=13838 |page=7 }} She was subsequently towed into L'Orient, Morbihan, France.

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|ship=Harmony

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Rose Blanche, Newfoundland Colony. She was on a voyage from Cádiz, Spain to La Poile, Newfoundland Colony.

}}

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|ship=Henriette

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 13 December.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=9 February 1869 |page=12 |issue=26356 |column=A }}

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|ship=Hill

|flag={{flagicon|Russian Empire}} Grand Duchy of Finland

|desc=The barque was lost at the entrance to the Bosphorus.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 December 1868 |issue=6525 }}

}}

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|ship=Hope

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned {{convert|25|nmi|km}} west northwest of Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Her eighteen crew were rescued by the steamship Memnon ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Hope was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Martinique. She was towed into Gibraltar by Memnon.

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|ship=Hound

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

|desc=The schooner sank in the Belfast Lough off Donaghadee, County Down. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Maryport, Cumberland.

}}

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|ship={{SV|James S. Ayer||2}}

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

|desc=The fishing schooner was lost on the Grand Banks. Lost with all 12 hands.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/1868.htm |title=1868 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=7 July 2021}}

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|ship=Jane Ann Marsh

|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in Lake Ontario. Her seven crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Royal Humane Society |date=15 July 1869 |page=10 |issue=26490 |column=F }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Josephine Nichols

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Mosquito Coast.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kitty

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

|desc=The schooner departed from Lowestoft, Suffolk for Barking, Essex. Subsequently reported missing.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lise Amelie

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship foundered off the coast of Uruguay with loss of life.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 December 1868 |issue=6523 }}

}}

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|ship=Maria

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

|desc=The ship was lost off the coast of the Newfoundland Colony. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Portmadoc, Caernarfonshire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mercur

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

|desc=The ship capsized at Taganrog.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mile

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Gabarus, Nova Scotia, Canada before 26 December. She was on a voyage from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Boston, Massachusetts.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Myrtle

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

|desc=The ship sank off Burial Island, in the Belfast Lough.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rebecca Laind

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

|desc=The ship collided with a steamship and sank off Seville, Spain.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=30 December 1868 |issue=9582 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Reinhardt

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Rio Grande. She was on a voyage from Montevideo, Uruguay to Antwerp, Belgium.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sardis

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

|desc=The steamship was run down and sunk off Cape Spartel, Algeria by the steamship Thetis ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Her crew were rescued by Thetis. Sardis was on a voyage from Smyrna, Ottoman Empire to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Mediterranean |date=9 January 1869 |page=10 |issue=26330 |column=E }}

}}

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|ship=St. Anna

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked. It was on a voyage from Odesa, Russia to a British port.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thomas

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Carnsore Point, County Wexford with the loss of two of her crew.{{Cite news |title=Ireland |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=14 December 1868 |issue=29645 |page=5 }}

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|ship=Unione D

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Porthcawl, Glamorgan, United Kingdom on or before 10 December. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to Trieste.

}}

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|ship=William Edward

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in Hardman Bay with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=19 December 1868 |issue=9575 }}

}}

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|ship=William Taylor

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked at Lândana, Portuguese Angola before 6 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{reflist|20em}}

• 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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