List of shipwrecks in December 1869

{{shipwreck list begin |date=1 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Delphin

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Dunkerque, Nord. She was on a voyage from Pärnu, Russia to Dunkerque.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 December 1869 |issue=6819 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dwina

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Woolpack Sand.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=4 December 1869 |page=11 |issue=26612 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=4 December 1869 |issue=7362 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Emile

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Lemon and Ower Sand, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Skellefteå to Whitehaven, Cumberland, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken into Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helsingør

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Lemon and Ower Sand and was abandoned by her fourteen crew, who were rescued by the Caister Lifeboat Birmingham (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Helsingør was on a voyage from Söderhamn, Sweden to London, United Kingdom. She floated off and came ashore at Gorleston, Suffolk, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Suffolk and Norfolk |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Colchester |date=3 December 1869 |issue=2033 |volume=39}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Isabella

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Tasmania

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Cape Barren Island. She was on a voyage from Bird Island to Launceston. She later floated off and sank.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=24 February 1870 |page=6 |issue=26682 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jeune Joseph

|flag={{flagicon|France}} Algeria

|desc=The ship sank at "Stona".

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Joseph Holmes

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned {{convert|12|nmi|km}} south west of the South Stack Lighthouse, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued by the tug Iron King ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Joseph Holmes was on a voyage from New York to the Clyde.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=2 December 1869 |page=10 |issue=26610 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Linton

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Boulogne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Osbourne House

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

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

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ouse

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Barnard Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to London. She was refloated and taken into Harwich, Essex in a severely leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=2 December 1869 |issue=7360 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pet

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

|desc=The brig collided with the steamship Pelham ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by Pelham. Pet was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.{{Cite news |title=Lowestoft |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=4 December 1869 |issue=6804 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pioneer

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

|desc=The steam lighter suffered a boiler explosion and sank in the Firth of Clyde at Dunoon, Argyllshire with the loss of all five crew. She was on a voyage from Bowling, Dunbartonshire to Brodick, Isle of Arran.{{Cite news |title=Thursday Morning, Dec. 2 |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=2 December 1869 |issue=9334 }}{{Cite news |title=The Fatal Boiler Explosion on board a Lighter |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=3 December 1869 |issue=9335 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Reine des Flots

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship foundered in the Dogger Bank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bilbao, Spain to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ronaldes

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The brig was driven ashore on Terschelling, Friesland. She was on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 December 1869 |issue=14145 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sultana

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

|desc=The ship was sighted in the South West Pass whilst on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to Liverpool. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=21 April 1870 |page=4 |issue=26730 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=2 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alma

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Allinge, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Cork, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 December 1869 |issue=6820 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ancestor

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

|desc=The ship capsized in the River Wear. She was righted on 5 December.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=10 December 1869 |issue=10172 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Celeritas

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

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Stockholm to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was revloated and taken into Ramsgate, Kent in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Frances Mary Phillips

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore at Redcar, Yorkshire. Her three crew were rescued by the Redcar Lifeboat Burton on Trent (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Frances Mary Phillips was on a voyage from Inverkeithing, Fife to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=3 December 1869 |page=5 |issue=26611 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of a Scotch Sloop |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=3 December 1869 |issue=9335 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Freya

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned off Cette, Hérault, France. Her crew were rescued by the Cette Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from London to Cette.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Integrity

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

|desc=The ship departed from the Humber for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 March 1870 |issue=14240 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marsden

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

|desc=The ship departed from Sunderland, County Durham for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Milka Dobrota

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

|desc=The ship capsized and sank off the Salvore Lighthouse with the loss of all but one of her crew. She was on a voyage from Trieste to Queenstown, County Cork.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Santona

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

|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Valparaíso, Chile.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=21 January 1870 |issue=9377 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Solid

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Wyk auf Föhr, Prussia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Star of Scotia

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Kentish Knock. She was refloated and towed into Margate, Kent in a capsized condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sydney

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

|desc=The schooner was discovered derelict off Great Orme Head, Caernarfonshire. She was taken in tow by the tug Talbot ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and beached in the River Mersey.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Woodham

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Neufahrwasser, Prussia.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=3 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Caribou

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

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire in the South Atlantic. Her crew were rescued by Palawan ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Caribou was on a voyage from the Clyde to Bombay, India.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=26 January 1870 |page=10 |issue=26657 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=21 February 1870 |issue=6889 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Celadine

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Robert's Head, County Cork. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Queenstown, County Cork to the Bristol Channel.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eleanor

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

|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Mabel ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=8 December 1869 |page=7 |issue=26615 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Reine et Marie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was boarded by twenty pirates and run ashore on Zakynthos, Greece. She was plundered by the local inhabitants and her crew were forced to abandon her; they were rescued by the steamship Electra. ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Reine et Marie was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Port Said, Egypt.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |date=11 January 1870 |page=10 |issue=26644 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Reliance

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

|desc=The fishing smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Lowestoft, Suffolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Siberia

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Egremont, Lancashire. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 December 1869 |issue=6821 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Victoria

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore between Fatouville and Berville-sur-Mer, Eure, France. Her crew were rescued by the tug Vulcain ({{flag|France}}). Victoria was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=4 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Anne

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

|desc=The schooner foundered off Scarborough, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by a brig.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bradford

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

|desc=The brig sprang a leak and foundered in Bridlington Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Rochester, Kent.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=6 December 1869 |page=5 |issue=26613 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 December 1869 |issue=14147 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Brenton

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Skullmartin Rock, off Ballywalter, County Down and was abandoned. Her five crew were rescued by the Ballywalter Lifeboat Admiral Meynell (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Brenton was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Newport, Monmouthshire. She was subsequently taken into Ballywalter.{{Cite news |title=Lifeboat Services |newspaper=Lancaster Gazetter |location=Lancaster |date=4 December 1869 |issue=4314 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cafarina

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Sunderland, County Durham. Her four crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Randers to the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Constance

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Hartlepool, County Durham. She was on a voyage from Uddevalla, Sweden to Hartlepool. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Gale on the North-east Coast |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=10 December 1869 |issue=4068 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cyprus

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Key Confites. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Matanzas, Cuba.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=23 December 1869 |issue=9352}}{{Cite news |title=The Wreck of the Cyprus |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=4 January 1870 |issue=54600 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fairlie Ann Jones

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground off "Voel Nant".{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 December 1869 |issue=6822 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Glyndwr

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

|desc=The schooner was run ashore and severely damaged at Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Barmouth, Merionethshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=10 December 1869 |issue=7367 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hopeful, or
Hopewell

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

|desc=The smack sank off Rhyl, Denbighshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Llandulas, Denbighshire to Birkenhead, Cheshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane Innes

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

|desc=The brigantine was abandoned in the English Channel {{convert|14|nmi|km}} south south west of Dungeness, Kent. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure, France. Jane Innes was taken into Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France on 6 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lady Warncliffe

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Cardiff, Glamorgan.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Madryn

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

|desc=The schooner was holed by an anchor at Lymington, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from London to Bristol, Gloucestershire. She was taken into Lymington or Yarmouth, Isle of Wight for repairs.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Minerva

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

|desc=The brig sprang a leak and was beached at Sewerby, Yorkshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Southampton, Hampshire. She was refloated and taken into Bridlington, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=7 December 1869 |issue=7364 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Reliance

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rossini

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked near Pernambuco, Brazil. She was on a voyage from Bahia to Pernambuco.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=13 January 1870 |issue=6855 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Schiedam

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The brig sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire, United Kingdom with the loss of her captain. Five survivors were rescued by the Scarorough Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Seaham to Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Speculation

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

|desc=The schooner was run ashore and wrecked at Porthor, Caernarfonshire. She was on a voyage from Aberdovey, Merionethshire to Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Theone

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Rotterdam, South Holland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thetis

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Filey, Yorkshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Seaham. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=5 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Commerce

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground at Wexford.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 December 1869 |issue=7366 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=General Slade

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

|desc=The ship sailed from South Shields, County Durham for Brest, Finistère. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=12 January 1870 |issue=14179 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Germania

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

|desc=The steamship was abandoned in the North Sea in a sinking condition. She was on a voyage from Stockholm to an English port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Linda,
Miranda,
Renata, and an
Unnamed barque

|flag=
{{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
{{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The steamship Miranda collided with the barques Linda, Renata and another at Hull, Yorkshire. All four vessels were severely damaged.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lloreta

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Bristol Channel off Porthcawl, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. All on board were rescued by Good Deliverance (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). LLoreta was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Havana, Cuba.{{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 |accessdate=19 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222065415/http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |archivedate=22 December 2014 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Myrtle

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak in the English Channel off the coast of Sussex and was abandoned by her crew. They were rescued by Hope ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Myrtle was subsequently taken into Newhaven, Sussex by Hope.{{cite book |title=Beachy Head Shipwrecks of the 19th Century |first=David |last=Renno |pages=239–45 |publisher=Amherst Publishing |location=Sevenoaks |year=2004 |isbn=1-903637-20-1}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sylph

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Poole, Dorset.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=6 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Aglae

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|46|48|N|11|24|W}}). Her crew were rescued by the schooner Miss Beech ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Aglae was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure.{{Cite news |title=Falmouth |newspaper=Royal Cornwall Gazette |location=Truro |date=18 December 1869 |issue=3467 |page=4 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alma

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

|desc=The ship collided with Koodan ({{flag|Prussia|civil}}) and sank at Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Caen, Calvados, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Betsey

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Trelleborg, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Montrose, Forfarshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=7 December 1869 |page=5 |issue=26614 |column=E }} She was refloated and taken into Helsingør, Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Columbine

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Wexford. Her five crew were rescued by the Wexford No.2 Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Wexford.{{Cite news |title=Shipwrecks and Life-boat Services |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=8 December 1869 |issue=29953 |page=2 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dusty Miller

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Padstow, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 December 1869 |issue=6823 }} She was on a voyage from Callao, Peru to Padstow.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hannah Jane

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Hamburg.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Iowa|1864|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Kilcreggan, Argyllshire. She was on a voyage from New York to Glasgow, Renfrewshire. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Luigia

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Malamocco, Italy. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Venice, Italy.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaret, and
Mary Ann

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

|desc=The brig Margaret collided with Mary Ann off Cromer, Norfolk and both vessels sank. All six crew of Margaret and seven crew of Mary Ann got into a boat together. They were rescued by Cromer fishermen.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=8 December 1869 |issue=9339 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Ann

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

|desc=The brig was severely damaged by fire at Grangemouth, Stirlingshire with the loss of one life.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=7 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Anglian

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at the North Foreland, Kent. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands to Messina, Sicily, Italy. She was refloated and taken into Ramsgate, Kent.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Aspasia

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Bridgwater, Somerset.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bretonne

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cuban

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

|desc=The ship departed from Greenock, Renfrewshire for Cárdenas, Cuba. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 June 1870 |issue=14319 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Brunette

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|80|nmi|km}} west of the Isles of Scilly. Eleven of her 37 crew landed in the Isles of Scilly in their boat; the rest were rescued by the brig Castle Eden ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Brunette was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=14 December 1869 |page=10 |issue=26620 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=17 December 1869 |issue=4069 }}{{Cite news |title=Lowestoft |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=18 December 1869 |issue=6806 }} She was taken into Brest, Finistère, France in a derelict condition on 23 December.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=27 December 1869 |issue=6840 }} She was declared a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Espoir

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Pentewan, Cornwall, United Kingdom to Naples, Italy.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gall

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

|desc=The yacht ran aground on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Scarborough, Yorkshire to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 December 1869 |issue=14149 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hordaland

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bergen to Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kortenar

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship ran aground near Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 December 1869 |issue=6824 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Manolo

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Brake Sand. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium tob Havana, Cuba. She was refloated but ran aground on the Goodwin Sands. She was again refloated and taken into Ramsgate in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 December 1869 |issue=7366 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=P. C. Merryman

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was on a voyage from the Chincha Islands, Peru to Bordeaux.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Royalist

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Bridgwater.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Stella

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

|desc=The ship ran aground and was abandoned off Hunstanton, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=8 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Annechina Henrietta

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Saaremaa, Russia. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Riga, Russia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eagle

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Port Dinorwic, Caernarfonshire. She was on a voyage from Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, France to Runcorn, Cheshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=13 December 1869 |issue=7369 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ems

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium. She was refloated and taken into Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.{{Cite news |title=Norfolk and Suffolk |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=London |date=17 December 1869 |issue=2035 |volume=39 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gertrude

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Roman Key, Cuba (date of report from Havana).

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=9 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Anne

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked south of Filey, Yorkshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Annie

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

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak and foundered off Scarborough, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by a brig.{{Cite news |title=Further Casualties at Sea |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=11 December 1869 |issue=9881 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Emilie

|flag={{flagc|Netherlands}}

|desc=The galiot collided with the steamship Gnome ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank off Skagen, Denmark. Her crew were resched. She was on a voyage from Helsingborg, Sweden to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=10 December 1869 |issue=7367 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Good Tidings

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

|desc=The ship was run into by Majestic ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=May

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked near Port-la-Nouvelle, Aude, France with the probable loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from India to a British port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Otto

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

|desc=The brigantine collided with the brig Dorothy Thompson ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was then driven ashore and wrecked at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Jakobstad, Grand Duchy of Finland to Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=10 December 1869 |issue=7367 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Pei Ho|1858|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship foundered off the coast of Japan. Her crew survived.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=10 January 1870 |issue=9367 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Santissima Trinidad

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

|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the Puercas and sank. She was on a voyage from Seville to Tenerife, Canary Islands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sarah

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

|desc=The ship foundered off Bardsey Island, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 December 1869 |issue=6829 }} She was on a voyage from Portmadoc, Caernarfonshire to Liverpool, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Seaham

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked south of Filey.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Tyne Queen|1865|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground near Garston, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Huelva, Spain to Liverpool, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Speeton, Yorkshire with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=10 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Anna Helene

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Flemish Banks, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Porto, Portugal. She was refloated and taken into Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Blanche

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned {{convert|18|nmi|km}} off the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork. Her crew took to a boat and a raft. They were rescued by a smack and a pilot boat respectively. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Southampton, Hampshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Egyptian

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on Taylor's Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and taken into Liverpool.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=11 December 1869 |page=11 |issue=26618 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=11 December 1869 |issue=7368 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elleray

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

|desc=The barque stranded on the Matelotes Reef, west of the Pellew Islands, Northern Territory, Australia, and became a total wreck; the crew were saved.{{cite news |title=Maritime Intelligence |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001702/18700214/108/0004 |access-date=24 November 2024 |work=Shipping & Mercantile Gazette |issue=10132 |date=14 February 1870 |location=London |page=4}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Frederickstad

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

|desc=The ship foundered. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Stockholm, Sweden to Rochester, Kent.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Joshua

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

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Also described as ashore at Southsand Head, near Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=11 December 1869 |issue=9342 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ludwig

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Cette, Hérault, France with the loss of her captain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Magellan

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Gibraltar. She was on a voyage from Cette, Hérault to Fécamp, Seine-Inférieure.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Magnus

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

|desc=The brig was damaged at Buenos Aires, Argentina.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Montagu

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Hantoon, County Wexford. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Otto

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Jakobstad to Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Santa Andrea

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the coast of Calabria.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 December 1869 |issue=6827 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Susan

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Drigg, Cumberland. Her five crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Whitehaven, Cumberland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Talitha

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Pakefield, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Rochester, Kent to Hartlepool, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Shipwrecks and Loss of Life |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=15 December 1869 |issue=1511 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=11 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Anne Fisher

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

|desc=The barque collided with John Rennie ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned in the Irish Sea {{convert|20|nmi|km}} north by west of Holyhead, Anglesey and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by John Rennie. Ann Fisher was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Callao, Peru. She was taken in tow by the tug Kingfisher ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Her crew subsequently reboarded her and she was towed into Holyhead.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 December 1869 |issue=6829 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMS|Bristol|1861|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Bristol|frigate}} ran aground. She was subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service.{{Cite news |title=Naval Disasters Since 1860 |newspaper=Hampshire Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=10 May 1873 |issue=4250 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Carlton

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, foundered in the North Sea off Scarborough, Yorkshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Caen, Calvados, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Chillian

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Maryport, Cumberland. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Maryport.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Duncan

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Cerebus Rock, off Arichat, Nova Scotia, Canada and sank. She was on a voyage from Prince Edward Island, Canada to Bristol, Gloucestershire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=13 December 1869 |issue=6828 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Francois and Marie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Orisano, Sardinia, Italy.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Harvest Queen

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Maldonado, Uruguay with the loss of all but two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Monte Video, Uruguay.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=18 January 1870 |page=5 |issue=26650 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hawthorn

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

|desc=The ship was severely damaged at Buenos Aires.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helens

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Point India, Uruguay.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=J. M. Morales

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

|desc=The ship was severely damaged at Buenos Aires.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kelvia

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

|desc=The ship was severely damaged at Buenos Aires.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marion

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 January 1870 |issue=6861 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marius Cæsar

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship collided with another vessel and was beached at Monte Video. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure to Monte Video. She was consequently condemned.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=1 March 1870 |page=10 |issue=26686 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Nelson

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Hull, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Monte Video to Hull.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nueva Borigaen

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven onto a sunken wreck at Buenos Aires, Argentina and was holed.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Porta Cœli

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship caught fire at Saint-Pierre, Martinique and was scuttled.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Reine

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore in Ballyteague Bay. She was on a voyage from Nantes. Loire-Inférieure to the Clyde. She was consequently condemned.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Roderick Dhu

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked near Tarifa, Spain. She was on a voyage from Livorno, Italy to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Casualty |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=13 December 1869 |issue=54582 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Roebuck

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

|desc=The ship was severely damaged at Buenos Aires.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Royal William

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Rock Channel. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=13 December 1869 |page=6 |issue=26619 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sarmiento

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Buenos Aires.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sylphide

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The barque was driven ashore in the River Plate at Mercedes, Uruguay. She was refloated in February 1870 and taken into Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was consequently condemned.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=18 February 1870 |page=10 |issue=26677 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Victor Eleanore

|flag={{flagc|France}}

|desc=The schooner sank in the River Usk. She was on a voyage from Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Somme to Newport, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom. She was refloated on 13 December and taken into Newport in a waterlogged condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Volga

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Hull. She was on a voyage from Hull to Copenhagen, Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Wellington

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Seaford, Sussex. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Whirlwind

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground on the Bronwer Reef, in the Java Sea. She was on a voyage from Hong Kong to Melbourne, Australia. She was refloated on 14 December with assistance from Oliver Cromwell ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and Rajah ({{flagcountry|British Raj}}). Whirlwind resumed her voyage on 19 December.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=11 March 1870 |page=11 |issue=26695 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

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

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

|desc=The steamship collided with the steamship R. L. Alston ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the North Sea off the cost of Norfolk. Her eighteen crew took to the boats; they were rescued by a fishing smack. Xanthe was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Gibraltar.{{Cite news |title=Loss of a Leith Steamer |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=13 December 1869 |issue=9343 }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court of Admiralty, Nov. 16 and 17 |date=18 November 1870 |page=9 |issue=26911 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=12 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Commerce de Paris

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Bigbury Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=13 December 1869 |issue=2176 |page=3 |volume=36 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=14 December 1869 |issue=7370 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Forest Queen

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

|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the Platters, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was refloated with assistance from the smack Syren and the yawls Equivalent and Trio (all {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Ipswich County Court. Admiralty Jurisdiction |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=8 January 1870 |issue=6809 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Meteor

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

|desc=The yacht was wrecked {{convert|5|nmi|km}} from Cape Bon, Beylik of Tunis. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Lancefield ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Meteor was on a voyage from Malta to Tunis, Beylik of Tunis.{{Cite news |title=Malta |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=28 December 1869 |issue=29970 |page=6 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=13 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Adina

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Holme Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her eight crew were rescued by the Lowestoft Lifeboat Letitia (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Adina was on a voyage from Falmouth, Cornwall to Aberdeen.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=Birmingham |date=15 December 1869 |issue=3559 }}{{Cite news |title=Heavy Gale |newspaper=Penny Illustrated Paper |location=London |date=18 December 1869 |issue=429 |page=387 |volume=XVII }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Blanche Barkley

|flag={{flagcountry|New Zealand}}

|desc=The fishing cutter was wrecked off Taiaroa Head, New Zealand, capsizing with the loss of both men on board.Ingram & Wheatley, p. 167.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Concord

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Kilroot Point, County Antrim. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Carrickfergus, County Antrim to Bangor, Caernarfonshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Contessa

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Oyster Island, County Sligo, United Kingdom. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Corliana

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Llanmadoc, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Clonakilty, County Cork to Newport, Monmouthshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Industry

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and damaged at Dover, Kent. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Dover. She was later refloated and taken into Dover for repairs.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Luck{{'}}s All

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Humber. She was refloated and taken into Hedon Haven.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=16 December 1869 |issue=6831 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pearl

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

|desc=The ketch caught fire and was beached at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, where she burnt out. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Harwich, Essex to Sunderland, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Queen Victoria

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

|desc=The brig was run into by the schooner Emily Stewart and sank {{convert|4|nmi|km}} off Hartlepool, County Durham. Her crew were rescued by a pilot coble. She was on a voyage from Hastings, Sussex to Hartlepool.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 December 1869 |issue=6830 }}{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=17 December 1869 |issue=10173 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Robert Hastie

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on St. Patrick's Bridge, off the Saltee Islands, County Wexford. Her sixteen crew survived. She was on a voyage from Dalhousie, New Brunswick, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=15 December 1869 |issue=9345 }}{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 December 1869 |issue=6832 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ryvingen

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

|desc=The barque collided with another vessel and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to Dundee, Forfarshire, United Kingdom. She put into Mandal, where she was condemned.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=St. Antonius

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 December 1869 |issue=6832 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ville de Bordeaux

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore north of Fredrikshavn, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Stettin. She was refloated and taken into Fredrikshavn.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Cushendun, County Antrim.{{Cite news |title=The Gale of Monday Night |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=15 December 1869 |issue=54584 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=14 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Annie Fisher

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

|desc=The barque collided with John Rennie ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned in the Irish Sea. Her crew were rescued by John Rennie, but were later put back on board and she was towed into Holyhead, Anglesey by the tug Kingfisher ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Annie Fisher was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Callao, Peru.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=15 December 1869 |page=6 |issue=26621 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Auguste

|flag={{Flag|France}}

|desc=The smack was wrecked. Her five crew were rescued by Neera ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Rewards for Saving Life at Sea |newspaper=Star |location=Saint Peter Port |date=14 June 1870 |issue=152 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bieblo

|flag={{flag|Chile}}

|desc=The barque foundered in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile. Her crew survived.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 February 1870 |issue=6872 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bretagne

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

|desc=The ship collided with Semiramis ({{flag|France}}) and sank. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Nantes, Loire-Inférieure, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Carl

|flag=22px Stralsund

|desc=The brig was wrecked at the mouth of the Gironde.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Carumia

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Agrigento, Sicily. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dudgeon

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Mostyn, Flintshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Port Dinorwic, Caernarfonshire to Liverpool, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ellen

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Agrigento. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ivanhoe

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked on Heligoland. Her crew were rescued. she was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Hamburg.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=16 December 1869 |issue=7372 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Leith Packet

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore and wrecked {{convert|4|nmi|km}}from Holyhead with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 December 1869 |issue=14155 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Northumberland Maid

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Campbeltown, Argyllshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Paragon

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Cairnbulg Point, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued by the Coastguard using rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Wick, Caithness to Sunderland, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Fraserburgh |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=17 December 1869 |issue=5110 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Shamrock

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

|desc=The schooner capsized and sank in the River Barrow. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=A Shipping Casualty |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=18 December 1869 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Silver Light

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 December 1869 |issue=6830 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sonerah

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Palavas-les-Flots, Hérault.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Stad Vlissingen

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The steamship sank off Vlissingen, Zeeland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sydney Lass

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Ballydonegan Bay.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=15 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Branch

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Penmon, Anglesey. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Aberdeen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Express

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from the Rio Congo to Caen, Calvados.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Grace

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Flemish Banks, in the North Sea off the coast of Belgium. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Gravelines, Nord, France. She was refloated and taken into Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Grecian|1867|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore during the night and wrecked in Jones Inlet, Long Island, New York State, United States, later breaking in two. All 23 passengers and 17 crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Palermo, Sicily, Italy to New York with fruit and marble.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Whampoa

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Newport, Monmouthshire. She was refloated the next day.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=16 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Echo

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Mary Ann ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Echo was on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Empress

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in St. Bride's Bay. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the coast of County Galway.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Langris

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Newhaven, Sussex, United Kingdom with the loss of one of her nine crew. Survivors were rescued by the Coastguard.{{Cite news |title=Chit-Chat |newspaper=Penny Illustrated Paper |location=London |date=8 January 1870 |issue=432 |page=31 |volume=XVIII }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mystery

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore {{convert|1|nmi|km}} east of Chichester, Sussex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nelly

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and severely damaged at Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Jersey, Channel Islands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rival

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from London to Blyth, Northumberland. She was refloated and taken into Lowestoft in a severely leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rover

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea by all but her captain. At least one crew member was rescued by the smack United Friends ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Rover was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Woolwich, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=29 December 1869 |issue=6842 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=29 December 1869 |issue=14167 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sea Adventure

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off Withernsea, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Seine et Tamise No. 2

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship struck the quayside and sank at Fécamp, Seine-Inférieure. She was on a voyage from Paris to London, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Seraphina

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Seaford, Sussex with the loss of one of her nine crew. She was on a voyage from Caen, Calvados, France to Swansea, Glamorgan.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Two Sisters

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

|desc=The collier, a dandy sank off Ryde, Isle of Wight. Her three crew survived.{{Cite news |title=Ryde |newspaper=Hampshire Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=22 December 1869 |issue=3897 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship sank at the entrance to Loch Ryan.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=17 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alaska

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

|desc=The ship departed from Shanghai, China for Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Conquistador

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

|desc=The ship caught fire in the Indian Ocean 100 leagues ({{convert|300|nmi|km}} off the Île Amsterdam. She was abandoned on 19 December. Her crew were rescued by Menam ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Conquistador was on a voyage from Dénia to Manila, Spanish East Indies.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=7 December 1870 |page=6 |issue=26927 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Echo

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Sea Palling, Norfolk with the loss of four of her six crew. Survivors were rescued by the Palling Lifeboat Parsee (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Echo was on a voyage from West Hartlepool, County Durham to London.{{Cite news |title=The Recent Gales |newspaper=Reynolds's Newspaper |location=London |date=19 December 1869 |issue=1010 }}{{Cite news |title=Fatal Shipwreck |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 December 1869 |issue=6834 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Erromanga

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship foundered in the Irish Sea off the coast of Cumberland, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=F. Rieck

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Giesse.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kitty

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=18 December 1869 |page=10 |issue=26624 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lizzie Tindle

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Cardiff, Glamorgan.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=20 December 1869 |issue=7375 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Oscar

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

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

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Orion

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Swash. She was on a voyage from Taganrog, Russia to Gloucester.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Patrician

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

|desc=The ship ran aground and was severely damaged at Cardiff, Glamorgan.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Peacock

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Ambleteuse, Pas-de-Calais, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Chichester, Sussex to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Philadelphia

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Bremen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Star of the East

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore near Filey, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Portsmouth, Hampshire to West Hartlepool.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 December 1869 |issue=6833 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Two Friends

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

|desc=The ship sank in Gurndey Pool.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 December 1869 |issue=6836 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Veritas

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Cockle Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Cowes, Isle of Wight. She was refloated and taken into Lowestoft, Suffolk in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=18 December 1869 |issue=7374 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=18 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bird

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the barque Presto ({{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada). Bird was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gortuna

|flag=22px Rostock

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|35|nmi|km}} off Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were resccued. She was on a voyage from Fowey, Cornwall to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kepler

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Sainte-Marie, Réunion. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=11 January 1870 |issue=9368 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Sparks

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore on the Dutch coast at the entrance to the Zuyder Zee with the loss of all but one of the seventeen people on board. The survivor was rescued by a pilot boat. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Hamburg.{{Cite news |title=Dundee |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=30 December 1869 |issue=9358 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 January 1870 |issue=6851 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Norwegian

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on a wreck in the Savannah River. She was on a voyage from Savannah, Georgia, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated the next day and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pandora

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Blacktail Sand, in the Thames Estuary. Her five crew were rescued by the smack Beatrice ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Heroic Conduct of Essex Smacksmen |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Colchester |date=24 December 1869 |issue=2036 |volume=39 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Victory

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

|desc=The schooner was run down by the schooner Priscilla ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 December 1869 |issue=7376 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=19 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Aphrodite

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Rug van Shortemelk Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of North Holland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Barcelona, Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ferdinand

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Minatitlán, Mexico.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 February 1870 |issue=6873 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|French corvette|Gorgon|1848|2}}

|flag={{navy|France}}

|desc=The paddle corvette was wrecked at Brest, Finistère with the loss of all 127 crew.{{Cite web |url=http://shipscribe.com/marvap/322c.html |title=Paddle corvettes (2nd class, 300 nhp) |publisher=Shipscribe |accessdate=19 May 2019 }} She was on a voyage from A Coruña, Spain, to Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure.Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 285.[https://www.plongee-infos.com/?p=1662 plongee-infos.com "Chaque jour, une épave : 18 décembre 1869, la Gorgone," 18 December 2017.] (French)

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gustav Kraeft

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground at Heligoland. She was on a voyage from Salo, Grand Duchy of Finland to Cuxhaven.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=21 December 1869 |issue=14160 |page=7}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=I. H. P.

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New South Wales

|desc=The steamship sank at Echuca, Australia. She was on a voyage from Echuca to Newcastle.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=28 February 1870 |page=6 |issue=26685 |column=B}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Messenger

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Pittsdeep, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Portsmouth, Hampshire to Newport, Isle of Wight. She was refloated and taken into Lymington, Hampshire for repairs.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 December 1869 |issue=7376 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mina

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Cork Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Arbroath, Forfarshire to London. She was refloated and assisted into Harwich, Essex.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Narva

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore on Borkum, Prussia and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Spirit of the Nith

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked at Parton, Cumberland. Her eight crew survived. She was on a voyage from Dumfries to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Whitehaven |date=22 December 1869 |page=9 |issue=26627 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Zouave

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Tuspani". Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 January 1870 |issue=6864 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The Thames barge collided with the steamship Columbine and sank in the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=24 December 1869 |issue=7379 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=20 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Amitie

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken into Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a severely leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Aphrodite

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Alle". She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Barcelona, Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Betty Suzanne

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Brandosand". She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Copenhagen, Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Caroline Louisa

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Audresselles, Pas-de-Calais, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Taranto, Italy to Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 December 1869 |issue=7376 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Christiana

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

|desc=The Thames barge sank off the Isle of Sheppey, Kent with the loss of all eight people on board.{{Cite news |title=Shocking Accident at Sea |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=22 December 1869 |issue=54590 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ellen Radford

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

|desc=The barque collided with the steamship Orion ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} and sank in the English Channel {{convert|6|nmi|km}} south east of Beachy Head, Sussex with the loss of ten of her eleven crew. The survivor was rescued by the lighter Falmouth ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}). Ellen Radford was on a voyage from "Mexillones" to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court of Admiralty, April 29 |date=30 April 1870 |page=11 |issue=26738 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Emmanuel

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Scheveningen, South Holland, Netherlands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=21 December 1869 |issue=6835 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fenne

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Weser. She was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to Bremen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fortuna

|flag=22px Rostock

|desc=The ship was abandoned. She was on a voyage from Fowey, Cornwall to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Suez

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned off New Quay, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the New Quay Lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=21 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Epaminondas

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea off Texel, North Holland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Odessa, Russia to Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jessie Banfield

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Africaine ({{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=J. Cummings

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Antwerp, Belgium.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vesta

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Rochester, Kent.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=22 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Celt

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

|desc=The ship departed from Birkenhead, Cheshire for Buenos Aires, Argentina. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 August 1870 |issue=14367 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Daisy

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

|desc=The schooner capsized off the mouth of the River Tees with the loss of all hands. She was towed into Middlesbrough, Yorkshire by the tug {{PS|Dauntless|1868|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fancy

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Buxey Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough to Lisbon, Portugal.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jessie

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Rhyl, Denbighshire. Her crew were rescued by the Rhyl Lifeboat Morgan (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Louisa Jane

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Drogheda, County Louth. She was on a voyage from Ayr to Drogheda. She was refloated on 29 December and taken into Drogheda.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Wexford. She was on a voyage from Bangor to Wexford.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Luigie

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

|desc=The ship departed from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom for Alexandria, Egypt. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=1 July 1870 |issue=9515 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Young

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the North Gar Sands, off the mouth of the River Tees. Her crew were rescued by the Seaton Carew Lifeboat Charlotte (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Mary Young was on a voyage from West Hartlepool, County Durham to Gävle. Sweden.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Messenger

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|300|nmi|km}} west of Ouessant, Finistère, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone to Liverpool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Opal

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Kentish Knock. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was refloated and assisted into Ramsgate, Kent in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Providentia

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent with the loss of one of her fifteen crew. Three of the survivors were rescued by the Ramsgate Lifeboat Bradford (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite news |title=Shipwreck and Loss of Life on the Goodwin Sands |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=24 December 1869 |issue=29967 |page=5 }}{{Cite news |title=The Missing Crew of the Late Wreck on the Goodwin |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=27 December 1869 |issue=7381 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=28 December 1869 |issue=9894 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vigilant

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Hayle, Cornwall. Her six crew were rescued by the Hayle Lifeboat Isis (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite news |title=Shipwrecks and Lifeboat Services |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=24 December 1869 |issue=7379 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Viking

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. She was on a voyage from Archangelsk, Russia to Dundee, Forfarshire. She was refloated and taken into Aberdeen.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=23 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Abbotsford

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore on Coquet Island, Northumberland.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=23 December 1869 |issue=14162 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Camelia

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at the White Cliffs, in the Dardanelles.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Carl Agrell

|flag=22px Rostock

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom with the loss of two of her crew. Her crew were rescued by the smacks Deerhound and Increase (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Carl Agrell was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom to Odessa, Russia.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=29 December 1869 |page=9 |issue=26633 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Multiple News Items |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Essex |date=12 January 1872 |issue=2143 |volume=42 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Caroline

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in Carnarvon Bay. Her crew were rescued by the steamship St. Oswin ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Caroline was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to South Shields. She was taken into Holyhead, Anglesey by a smack.{{Cite news |title=The Abandonment of the Caroline, of Sunderland |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 January 1870 |issue=6858 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Catherine

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Ostend. She subsequently broke up.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Channel Queen

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Adelaide, South Australia. She was refloated and put back to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Charles Tucker

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Portreath, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Neath, Glamorgan to Portreath. She was refloated and taken into Portreath in a waterlogged condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Clara

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

|desc=The ship collided with another vessel and sank off the Nore. She was on a voyage from London to Mossel Bay, Cape Colony.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 December 1869 |issue=6838 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cornucopia

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Holm Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from South Shields to Lisbon, Portugal. She was refloated and beached at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. Cornucopia was refloated on 1 January 1870 and towed into Lowestoft.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=5 January 1870 |issue=6365 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Good Tidings

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

|desc=The yawl was run into by the brigantine Majestic ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her three crew were rescued by the schooner Worsley ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Yarmouth |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=25 December 1869 |issue=6807 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Granville

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Cordonnan". She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure to Cádiz, Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ladyburn

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

|desc=The ship departed from Lamlash, Isle of Arran for Bombay, India. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=25 August 1870 |issue=9562 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=New Express

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

|desc=The brig sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Aid ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). New Express was on a voyage from South Shields to Alicante, Spain.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=29 December 1869 |issue=5120 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rheinfell

|flag={{flag|Bavaria|striped}}

|desc=The steamship suffered a boiler explosion and foundered in Lake Constance with the loss of seven lives. She was on a voyage from Schaffhausen, Switzerland to Konstanz.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=28 December 1869 |issue=6841 }}{{Cite news |title=Epitome of Foreign and General News |newspaper=Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper |location=London |date=2 January 1870 |issue=1415 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vesta

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony. She was refloated on 29 December and taken into Ramsgate, Kent.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=24 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Agathe

|flag=22px Stettin

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Holm Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Stettin to Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Her crew were rescued the next day by the Lowestoft Lifeboat Letitia (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Apollo

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Black Middens, in the North Sea off the coast of County Durham. She was refloated with assistance from the paddletug {{PS|Reliance|1869|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and taken into South Shields in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Constantia

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Bremen to New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. She was refloated with assistance from the tugs Aid and Palmerston (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and the Ramsgate Lifeboat Bradford (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and taken into Ramsgate, Kent in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=28 December 1869 |issue=6841 }}{{Cite news |title=Christmas Eve on the Goodwin Sands |newspaper=Penny Illustrated Paper |location=London |date=1 January 1870 |issue=431 |page=3 |volume=XVIII }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Englishman

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Drogheda, County Louth. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to Drogheda.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Genevieve

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The steamship foundered in the North Sea off Flamborouugh Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom with the loss of nine of her ten crew. The survivor was rescued by the steamship Marion ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Genevieve was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure.{{Cite news |title=Flamborough |newspaper=York Herald |location=York |date=8 January 1870 |issue=5065 |page=9 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helene

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

|desc=The steamship collided with the steamship Planet ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank at Blankenese. She was refloated and taken into Hamburg.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 December 1869 |issue=6843 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hendrik Cristensen

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Milo ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Hendrik Cristensen was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to Risør.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=31 December 1869 |issue=7385 }} She was discovered on 1 January 1870 by the fishing smacks Noord Star and Noord Zee (both {{flag|Netherlands}}) and taken into the River Tyne.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=22 January 1870 |issue=19 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=J. A. Grepenstadt

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Birkenhead, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=M. E. Clarke

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

|desc=The steamship was run ashore near Dover, Kent. Her crew were rescued. She was later refloated and taken into Dover.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ogir

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

|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Birkenhead.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rose Ann

|flag={{flagcountry|New Zealand}}

|desc=The 26-ton schooner stranded on a sandspit in the Whangapoua Harbour and became a wreck.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ulrica

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

|desc=The barque departed from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland for Havana, Captaincy General of Cuba. She was subsequently abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Wyvern ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Ulrica was discovered on 14 January 1870 by the steamship Brenda ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civio}}); she was taken into Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=15 January 1870 |issue=13 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 January 1870 |issue=6859 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 January 1870 |issue=14181 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=25 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hayle

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Scroby Sands, Norfolk. She was refloated with assistance and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maggie Ann Steward

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

|desc=The ship foundered off Lismore, Inner Hebrides. Her crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=8 January 1870 |page=11 |issue=26642 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Samuel Dixon

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Long Bank, off the coast of County Wexford. She was on a voyage from Port Madoc, Caernarfonshire to Wexford. She was refloated and taken into Wexford in a waterlogged condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=26 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Haidee

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Seaham, County Durham with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Montrose, Forfarshire to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lady Augusta

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat foundered in the Irish Sea off the North West Lightship (22px Trinity House). Her three crew were rescued by the steamship Prince of Wales ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Lady Augusta was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Beaumaris, Anglesey.{{Cite news |title=Foundering of a Vessel in the Channel |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 December 1869 |issue=6838 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=25 December 1869 |issue=6839 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Leeds

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

|desc=The steamship collided with the steamship Zephyr ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Voorne Canal at Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was refloated on 27 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ricards

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Bolt Tail, Devon, United Kingdom. She was refloated with assistance from the Coastguard and taken into Salcombe, Devon.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=28 December 1869 |issue=7382 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Viscount Macduff

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Black Middens, in the North Sea off the coast of County Durham with the loss of two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by the South Shields Lifeboats Goole and Pomfret (both File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=29 December 1869 |issue=6364 }} Viscount Macduff was on a voyage from Montrose, Forfarshire to Exeter, Devon. She was refloated on 30 December and taken into port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Warner

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Blyth, Northumberland. Her six crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Sunderland, County Durham.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=28 December 1869 |page=9 |issue=26632 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=27 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Amie, or
Anni

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Dragør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Härnösand, Sweden to London, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=29 December 1869 |issue=7383 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Azalea

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

|desc=The ship was sighted off Gibraltar whilst on a voyage from Constanţa, Ottoman Empire to an English port. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all eleven crew.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=7 May 1870 |issue=108 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bisoka

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fling

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Scheelhoek, off the Dutch coast. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands to Cardiff, Glamorgan. She was refloated and taken into Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland, Netherlands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=30 December 1869 |issue=7384 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kate Sophia

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

|desc=The ship was sighted in Mounts Bay whilst on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to Cork. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lady Washington

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Ballycastle, County Antrim. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Ballina, County Mayo.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=29 December 1869 |issue=7383 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Laurel

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Clyde upstream of Dumbarton. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Portrush, County Antrim. She was refloated the next day.{{Cite news |title=Greenock |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=30 December 1869 |issue=9358 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lutha

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Whitby, Yorkshire. Her six crew were rescued by the Whitby Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Bruges, East Flanders, Belgium.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=28 December 1869 |page=9 |issue=26632 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Queen of the Chase

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Newcombe Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from São Miguel Island, Azores to Hull, Yorkshire. She was refloated and taken into Lowestoft, Suffolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rockhampton

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship caught fire and sank in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|40|30|N|15|30|W}}). Her crew were rescued by White Adder ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Rockhampton was on a voyage from Oran, Algeria to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 January 1870 |issue=6853 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sarah Ann

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

|desc=The smack foundered off the Wolf Rock, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued by Raimondo ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Sarah Ann was on a voyage from Porthgain, Pembrokeshire to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thomasine

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|40|nmi|km}} north west of the Isles of Scilly. Her crew survived. she was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Kingston, Jamaica.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Times

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

|desc=The ship departed from Huelva, Spain for the River Tyne. 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 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Viscount

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Tynemouth, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Montrose, Forfarshire to Exmouth, Devon.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=28 December 1869 |issue=6841 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=28 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Anna

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Italy. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dao Manoel

|flag={{flagcountry|Empire of Brazil}}

|desc=The lighter sank at Pelotas.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 February 1870 |issue=6874 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marietta

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Porto Empedocle. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Marzamemi to Messina.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Queen-of-the-Chase

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Newcombe Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from São Miguel Island, Azores to Hull, Yorkshire. She was refloated and towed into Lowestoft, Suffolk by a tug.{{Cite news |title=Lowestoft |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=1 January 1870 |issue=6808 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Queen of the Lake

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

|desc=The steamship was holed by ice and sank in Loch Awe.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tweed

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Rhanplate, in the Elbe. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Aberdeen. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=3 January 1870 |issue=9361 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=29 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Adelaida

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Ballyhack, County Wexford, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=31 December 1869 |issue=14169 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ann

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Sandwich Flats and was wrecked. She was on a voyage from London to Sandwich, Kent.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Apollo

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

|desc=The ship was sighted off Gibraltar whilst on a voyage from Odessa, Russia to a British port. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Courier

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Aberdeen. She was refloated and beached.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Duke

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|300|nmi|km}} off Cape Finisterre, Spain. Her twelve crew took to a boat; they were rescued on 30 December by the schooner Edouard (22px Grand Duchy of Oldenburg). Duke was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Constantinople.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=8 January 1870 |page=11 |issue=26642 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=8 January 1870 |issue=9366 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 January 1870 |issue=6853 }} She was discovered the next day by the barque Wave ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), which put five of her crew on board. They took her into Falmouth, Cornwall, where she arrived on 14 January 1870.{{Cite news |title=Derelict Vessel Picked Up |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=15 January 1870 |issue=54610 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elizabeth Ann

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Penance, Cornwall Her crew were rescued by Lowfreda ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Elizabeth Ann was on a voyage from Par, Cornwall to Runcorn, Cheshire.{{Cite news |title=Severe Gale in the West |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=1 January 1870 |issue=29974 |page=5 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Faro de Vigo

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Cromer, Norfolk, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom to Vigo.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gleaner

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Strangford, County Antrim. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Bangor to Belfast, County Antrim.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=1 January 1870 |page=9 |issue=26636 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kate Sophia

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

|desc=The ship departed from King's Lynn, Norfolk for Cork. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 February 1870 |issue=6874 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Minnie Smith

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in the Bay of Salerno. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York to Naples, Italy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=31 December 1869 |page=4 |issue=26635 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Winfield Scott

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Middle Ground, in the Thames Estuary off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Callao, Peru to London. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=30 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Amelia, and
Ouse

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

|desc=The schooner Amelia and the schooner Ouse collided in the North Sea {{convert|4|nmi|km}} off Whitby, Yorkshire and were both abandoned in a sinking condition. Their crews were rescued by the tug Vigilant ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=1 January 1870 |issue=9898 }} Ouse was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Portsmouth, Hampshire.{{Cite news |title=Yarmouth |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=8 January 1870 |issue=6809 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Anne

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Tynemouth, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued by the South Shields Lifeboat Northumberland (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was refloated and towed into South Shields, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Auguste Lucie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Sierra Leone.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Aureliano

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Camariñas, Spain. She was on a voyage from Sulina, Ottoman Empire to Falmouth, Cornwall. She was a total loss.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=11 January 1870 |page=9 |issue=26644 |column=A }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ballah

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked in Dark Bay, County Cork, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Queenstown, County Cork.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Barcelona

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Santander. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 January 1870 |issue=6851 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Blücher

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The brigantine was wrecked on the Trefusis Rocks, on the coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Carniehill

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on a reef off the north coast of Saona Island, Dominican Republic. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Windsor, Nova Scotia to Mobile, Alabama, United States.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=21 February 1870 |page=6 |issue=26679 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Charente

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Goole, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from London to Goole.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=31 December 1869 |issue=6844 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dashing Wave

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the coast of Portugal with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Garrucha, Spain to Aberdeen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Delegate

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. Her nine crew were rescued by the Caister Lifeboat Boys (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Delegate was on a voyage from Ipswich, Suffolk to South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eduardino

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore in Ballycotton Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Taganrog, Russia to Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipwrecks and Loss of Life |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=1 January 1870 |issue=2192 |page=3 | volume=37 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Etna

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked in Barry's Cove with the loss of nine lives.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Flora

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom. Her eight crew were rescued by the Coastguard using rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure to Swansea.{{Cite news |title=Wrecks in the Channel |newspaper=Southampton Herald |location=Southampton |date=1 January 1870 |issue=2458 |page=4 |volume=47 }}{{Cite news |title=Heavy Gale |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=1 January 1870 |issue=14170 |page=6 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Girondin

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brigantine-rigged steamship was driven ashore at Par, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the Par Lifeboat South Warwickshire (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Girondin was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde to Belfast, County Antrim, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Disastrous Wrecks and Floods |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=3 January 1870 |issue=2193 |page=2 |volume=37 }} She was refloated on 3 January 1870 and taken into Par.{{Cite news |title=The Steamer Girondin |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=6 January 1870 |issue=54602 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Herald

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. Twelve of her 25 crew were rescued by the brig Samuel ({{flag|France}}). Thirteen crew in the pinnace were reported missing.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=A Strange Case of Abandonment |date=22 January 1870 |page=9 |issue=26654 |column=E }} She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hermes

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground and was wrecked on the Annat Bank, off Montrose, Forfarshire with the loss of all six crew.{{Cite news |title=Wreck of a Schooner off Montrose |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=31 December 1869 |issue=9359 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ida Maria

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged in the Isles of Scilly. She was on a voyage from Danzig to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=James Steward

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore west of Cabo de Santa Maria, Portugal. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Gibraltar to Pomaron, Portugal.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 January 1870 |issue=6857 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Königsberg

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked near Land's End, Cornwall with the loss of one of her eight crew. She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Königsberg.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=1 January 1870 |page=9 |issue=26636 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Western Mail |location=Cardiff |date=3 January 1870 |issue=212 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaret

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and severely damaged {{convert|2|nmi|km}} north of Ramsey, Isle of Man. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to Greenock, Renfrewshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Martha

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Newport, Isle of Wight to Southampton, Hampshire. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near the Mumbles, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Appledore, Devon to Swansea.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Novo Pluto, or
Nuavo Plato

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

|desc=The brig foundered on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel with loss of life. She was on a voyage from Constanţa, Ottoman Empire to Swansea.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Onward

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Buckhaven, Fife. She was on a voyage from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire to Sunderland, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Osprey

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Schull, County Cork. Her crew survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Produce

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at South Shields. She was refloated and taken into South Shields in a severely leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rapido

|flag={{flag|Portugal|civil}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sainte Fleur

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Charpentiers, at the mouth of the Loire. She was on a voyage from Nantes, Loire-Inférieure to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Santee

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Toe Head, County Cork with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Callao, Peru to Queenstown.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=3 March 1870 |page=7 |issue=26688 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Seazer

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Barlogue", County Cork with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Virginia

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Thomas Snowden ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=4 January 1870 |page=4 |issue=26638 |column=D }} She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Naples.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Young Louisa

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at the mouth of the River Cuckmere. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Jersey to Chatham, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 January 1870 |issue=6846 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner foundered off Holyhead, Anglesey with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea, witnessed by the crew of Herald ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Her crew took to the longboat, survival unknown.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The brig foundered in Ballycotton Bay with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=1 January 1870 |issue=9360 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Foe", County Cork with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=31 December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Australasian

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

|desc=The ship departed from Birkenhead, Cheshire for Aden. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Baltimore

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

|desc=The brigantine foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her twelve crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=American Ship News |date=1 February 1870 |page=9 |issue=26662 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bella

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Galley Head, County Cork, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Queenstown, County Cork.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Betsey

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

|desc=The ship struck the Muggling Rocks, off the coast of Cornwall and foundered. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Betsy

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on Dalkey Island, County Dublin. Her four crew survived. She was on a voyage from Falmouth, Cornwall to Waterford.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=3 January 1870 |issue=54599 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMS|Bruiser|1867|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Britomart|gunboat}} was driven ashore. Subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Caribbean

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

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at sea. Her crew survived.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=26 January 1870 |issue=5144 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Caroline

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Skagen, Denmark with the loss of five of her crew. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Stettin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Challenge

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

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was refloated with assistance and taken in tow for the River Thames.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=1 January 1870 |issue=14170 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Clio

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

|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea {{convert|40|nmi|km}} off Bridlington, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by Hope ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Clio was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=4 January 1870 |issue=3 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Edna

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in Barry's Cove, County Cork with the loss of nine of the 23 people on board. Survivors were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec to the Clyde.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ester

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Genoa, Italy.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Frithiof

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Flamanville, Manche, France. She was on a voyage from Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France to Trieste.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Garibaldi

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

|desc=The brig collided with a steamship and sank off Whitby, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by William and Anne ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Garibaldi was on a voyage from Sunderland to Littlehampton, Sussex.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 January 1870 |issue=14173 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gem

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

|desc=The barque capsized {{convert|6|nmi|km}} off Carmarthen with the loss of all hands, between nine and twelve lives. She was on a voyage from Marianople, Russia to Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Industry

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Licata, Sicily, Italy to Leith, Lothian.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=22 January 1870 |page=10 |issue=26654 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Johann Martin

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 January 1870 |issue=6858 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Leo

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Schulpenplaat, in the North Sea off the coast of South Holland, Netherlands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Louis and Eugenie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Bridport, Dorset, United Kingdom with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Luçon, Vendée to Dunkerque, Nord.{{Cite news |title=The Late Terrific Gales - Shipwrecks and Great Loss of Life |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=1 January 1870 |issue=1525 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaret Jane

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Ardrossan, Ayrshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=1 January 1870 |issue=6845 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Oneida

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

|desc=The ship ran aground. She was on a voyage from London to Briton Ferry, Glamorgan. She was refloated and taken into Swansea.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Operant

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Holy Isle, in the Firth of Clyde. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Irvine, Ayrshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rivoli

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Kingstown, County Dublin. She was on a voyage from Montreal to Dublin. She was refloated and taken into Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=Unknown date in December 1869 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alvilde

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Kalla, Öland. She was on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Stockholm.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Anna Henderson

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was on a voyage from Rangoon, Burma to Calcutta, India.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 January 1870 |issue=6847 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Baron von Heemstra

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off Probolinggo, Netherlands East Indies. She was on a voyage from Surabaya, Netherlands East Indies to Amoy, China. She was refloated and put back to Surabaya, where she arrived on 30 December.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=21 February 1870 |page=6 |issue=26679 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bonnie Belle

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Barnard Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk in late December. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to São Miguel Island, Azores. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bosworth

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

|desc=The ship foundered north of Pernambuco, Brazil. All on board were rescued; her passengers by Douro ({{Flag|Portugal|civil}}). Bosworth was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Casualties |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=14 December 1869 |issue=54583 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Brona Maria

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the Tendra Spit, Ottoman Empire before 2 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Brontes

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Robinson's Bay.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cannie Scot

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on "Bic Island". She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Queenstown, County Cork. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Circassian|1856|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Manasquan, New Jersey. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana to New York. She was refloated on 19 December and towed into New York.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=22 December 1869 |issue=9351 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{RMS|City of New York|1865|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada losing her propeller.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cobden

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore in the Danube before 22 December. She was refloated and taken into Sulina, Ottoman Empire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 January 1870 |issue=6850 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Constance

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Hartlepool, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=7 December 1869 |issue=7364 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Crofton

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

|desc=The ship was attacked by pirates and abandoned off Macao, China before 7 December. Some of her crew were murdered by the pirates and seven were taken prisoner. She was on a voyage from Saigon, French Indo-China to Yokohama, Japan.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 January 1870 |issue=6856 }}{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=14 January 1870 |issue=10177 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cuban

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground off Léogâne, Haiti. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She was refloated on 3 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Der Floiss

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship caught fire at New York. She was on a voyage from New York to Bilbao, Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=E. A. Parker

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

|desc=The ship collided with Golconda ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Atlantic Ocean.{{Cite news |title=Serious Collision between Two Liverpool Ships - Loss of the E. A. Parker |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=22 December 1869 |issue=9351 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Energy

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=18 December 1869 |issue=5111 }} She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Baltimore, Maryland, United States.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 December 1869 |issue=6833 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Florence

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Sardinia, Italy between 10 and 17 December. She was on a voyage from Taganrog, Russia to Dunkerque, Nord.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=23 December 1869 |page=7 |issue=26628 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Glenclune

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the South China Sea off Formosa. She was on a voyage from Saigon, French Indo-China to Yokohama, Japan.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gracioza Mary

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Wiza". She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France to Maracaibo, Venezuela.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Greek

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

|desc=The steamship was lost with all 23 hands. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde, France to Dublin.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 December 1869 |issue=6833 }}{{Cite news |title=Monday Morning, Jan. 24 |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=24 January 1870 |issue=9379 }} Also reported as having departed from the Clyde for Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands on 2 December. It was rumoured that some of her cargo had washed up on the Welsh coast.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=24 January 1870 |issue=5142 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Imperial

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked at "Syndestrand" or "Tydestrand", {{convert|8|nmi|km}} east of Arendal, Norway before 17 December. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ironsides

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

|desc=The steamship was lost at the mouth of the Loire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=James

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

|desc=The ship was lost off Tiree, Inner Hebrides before 25 December. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kendrick Fish

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire and sank at Callao, Peru after 8 December. The wreck was refloated in February 1870.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=12 February 1870 |issue=6881 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lady Flora

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

|desc=The steamship capsized off Heligoland with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Königsberg, Prussia to Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lady of the Lake

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Eleuthera, Bahamas.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=20 December 1869 |issue=9349 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Liverpool

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the South Atlantic before 28 December. Her crew were rescued by Mary Ann ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 January 1870 |issue=14174 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marcello Deamicius

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Capo Passero, Sicily.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Cacace

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

|desc=The ship was lost whilst on a voyage from Sulina, Ottoman Empire to a British port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mathilde Octavie

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Monte Louis". She was on a voyage from Montreal to Monte Video, Uruguay.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mist

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

|desc=The barque was destroyed by fire. She was on a voyage from Lota, Chile to San Francisco, California.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=13 January 1870 |issue=6855 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mutter Schultz

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Sugarloaf Reef. She was on a voyage from Pensacola, Florida to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nive

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

|desc=The schooner sank in Hubberston Pill. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Llanelly, Glamorgan to Queenstown, County Cork.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nora Creina

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

|desc=The steamship foundered in the South China Sea. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ocean Queen

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked at "Nilga", Japan in early December. Her crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=4 April 1870 |page=5 |issue=26715 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Onni

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

|desc=The ship wan aground off "Swanderisi", Ottoman Empire. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Onward

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Breaksea Point, Glamorgan.{{Cite news |title=Ship Disasters |newspaper=Western Mail |location=Cardiff |date=4 December 1869 |issue=187 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Paris Port-de-Mer

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship foundered off the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony. She was on a voyage from Paris to India.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Providenza

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the coast of Calabria.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rochford

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

|desc=The Thames barge was lost. Her crew were rescued by Emblem ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{cite book |title=The Salvagers |first=Hervey |last=Benham |authorlink=Hervey Benham |page=191 |publisher=Essex County Newspapers Ltd |location=Colchester |year=1980 |isbn=00-950944-2-3}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Star of the East

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

|desc=The ship was lost in Chinese waters before 14 December.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=5 January 1870 |page=5 |issue=26639 |column=F }} Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 January 1870 |issue=6848 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Teaser

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}

|desc=The lighter sank off Cape Clear Island, County Cork with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Loss of a Government Lighter |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=1 January 1870 |issue=54598 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Times

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

|desc=The scbooner departed from Huelva, Spain in late December for South Shields, County Durham. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=11 February 1870 |issue=36 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Triumph

|flag={{flag|Haiti|1859}}

|desc=The casemate ironclad disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean off the United States East Coast, probably off the Delaware Capes or Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, sometime after 19 December while en route from Chester, Pennsylvania to Port au Prince, Haiti, apparently sinking with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unity

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

|desc=The schooner foundered with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ulloa

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Port Kingold".

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Mehdia, Beylik of Tunis. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William Wilcox

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Delaware Bay. She was on a voyage from Alicante, Spain to Wilmington, Delaware.

}}

{{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.

{{shipevents|1869}}

{{1860s shipwrecks}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}

1869-12

Category:Maritime incidents in December 1869