List of shipwrecks in December 1874

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|ship=Emma

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the West Hoyle Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 December 1874 |issue=8384 }}

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|ship=Fairlie

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Glass Gorman Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Demerara, British Guiana. She was refloated and put back to Liverpool in a leaky condition.

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|ship=Gresham

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

|desc=The trow was wrecked in Walton Bay.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 December 1874 |issue=8384 }}

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|ship=Hinrich

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship departed from Liverpool for Lagos, Lagos Colony. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=1 July 1875 |issue=28356 |page=14 |column=A }}

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|ship=John Lightfoot

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Cette, Hérault, France with the loss of three of her crew.

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|ship=Royal Crown

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Büyükçekmece, Ottoman Empire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow|date=3 December 1874 |issue=10900 }} She was refloated with the assistance of four tugs and assisted in to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire.

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|ship=Symba

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

|desc=The lugger was driven ashore at "Macammon". Her cre were rescued. She was on a voyage from Strangford, County Down to Belfast, County Antrim.

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|ship=A. M. Roberts

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked at "Tonala".{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=4 December 1874 |issue=8927 }}

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|ship=Belmont

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at "Lule". She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Hamburg, Germany. She was refloated on 4 December and completed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 December 1874 |issue=8391 }}

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|ship=City of Oxford

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Birkenhead, Cheshire. She was on a voyage from Birkenhead to Calcutta, India. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 December 1874 |issue=8385 }}

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|ship=Despatch

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Northam, Devon.

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|ship=Manx Minx

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

|desc=The schooner struck a sunken wrecked in the Sound of Sanda. She was on a voyage from the Shetland Islands to Glasgow, Renfrewshire. She put in tp Campbeltown, Argyllshire in a leaky condition and was placed under repair.

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|ship=Marie

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

|desc=The schooner foundered off Falster, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. Sue was on a voyage from Uusikaupunki, Grand Duchy of Finland to Copenhagen, Denmark.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=7 December 1874 |issue=28179 |page=11 |column=F }}

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|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Salthouse Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow|date=3 December 1874 |issue=10900 }}

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|ship=Peter

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Salthouse, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=4 December 1874 |issue=28177 |page=7 |column=E }}

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|ship=Consett

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

|desc=The ship .{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=4 December 1874 |issue=8927 }}

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|ship=Dextrous

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

|desc=The schooner was struck by the brig Alfred ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by Aneroid ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{cite web |url=http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |title=A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks |first=Ron |last=Tovey |publisher=Swansea Docks |access-date=20 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222065415/http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |archive-date=22 December 2014 }}

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|ship=Emma David

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The steamship was abandoned in the Mediterranean Sea {{convert|180|nmi|km}} off Malta. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Dudley ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Emma David was on a voyage from Kertch, Russia to Antwerp.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=11 December 1874 |issue=31965 |page=8 }}

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|ship=George Marchand

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The barque collided with the steamship {{SS|Consett|1872|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Gironde. Her crew were rescued by Consett.

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|ship=Jane Owen

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Hastings, Sussex. She was on a voyage from Chatham, Kent to Dublin. She was refloated and put in to Portsmouth, Hampshire in a leaky condition.

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|ship=Kingfisher

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

|desc=The barque struck the Goodwin Sands, Kent and was abandoned in a severely leaky condition. Her crew were rescued by the Ramsgate Lifeboat Bradford (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Kingfisher was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=7 December 1874 |issue=6667 }}

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|ship=Luigi

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship ran aground at Berdianski, Russia. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Taganrog, Russia. She was refloated and found to be leaky.

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|ship=Parodi C.

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

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Meloria Bank, in the Mediterranean Sea off Livorno.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 December 1874 |issue=8387 }} She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Livorno. She was later refloated with assistance from the steamship Laguna ({{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}) and towed in to Livorno.

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|ship=Rolling Wave

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

|desc=The ship struck the Minguieps Rocks and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France to London. She put back to Saint-Malo in a leaky condition.

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|ship=Catherina

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship collided with the steamship Germany (Flag unknown) and sank at Hamburg.

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|ship=Chevington

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Banjaard Bank, in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Antwerp, Belgium. She was refloated and taken in to Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Netherlands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=7 December 1874 |issue=8929 }}

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|ship=Jason

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

|desc=The ship caught fire in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Sydney, New South Wales. She put back to London, where she again caught fire on 8 December.

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|ship=Phoenix

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat was holed by an anchor and sank at Hoylake, Cheshire. She was refloated on 6 December.

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|ship=Princess Royal

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

|desc=The cutter was run into by the steamship Lady Ambrosine ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) off the coast of Argyllshire and was severely damaged. Princess Royal was on a voyage from Loch Ewe to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was taken in to Oban.

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|ship=Zwerver

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Dragør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Danzig to London. She was refloated and taken in to Copenhagen, Denmark for reparis.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 December 1874 |issue=8387 }}

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|ship=Conqueror

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

|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Shanghai, China.

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|ship=Dextrous

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

|desc=The schooner collided with the brig Alfred ({{flag|France}}) and sank off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. Her five crew were rescued by Alfred.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Disaster at Sea |date=7 December 1874 |issue=28179 |page=6 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=8 December 1874 |issue=6668 }}{{Cite news |title=General News |newspaper=York Herald |location=York |date=8 December 1874 |issue=5564 |page=3}}

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|ship=Gustavo

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The schooner was run down and sunk by the barque Jupiter ({{flagicon|Russian Empire}} Grand Duchy of Finland) with the loss of three of her crew. Gustavo was on a voyage from Liepāja, Russia to Antwerp, Belgium.

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|ship=Planter

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

|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at the West India Docks, London.

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|ship=Annie

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Sanday, Orkney. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=8 December 1874 |issue=6668 }}

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|ship={{SS|Bride|1871|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was sighted off Gibraltar whilst on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Hull, Yorkshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Supposed Loss of Another Steamer |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=15 January 1875 |issue=3759 |page=4 |volume=42 }}

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|ship=Fürst Bismarck

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on "Green Island", Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony. She was on a voyage from Yantai (Chefoo), China to Liverpool, Lancashire.

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|ship=Gruno

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The brigantine was abandoned in the North Sea ({{coord|56|27|N|6|32|E}}). Her crew were rescued by the steamship Rollo ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Gruno was on a voyage from Pärnu, Russia to Schiedam, South Holland.

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|ship=Helene

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Langesund, Norway.

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|ship=Highland Maid

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Stradbally, County Waterford with loss of life. She was on a voyage from Verdun, Meuse, France to Hamburg, Germany.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=8 December 1874 |issue=28180 |page=6 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Wreck of a Schooner |newspaper=Huddersfield Chronicle |location=Huddersfield |date=8 December 1874 |issue=2290 |page=3 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 December 1874 |issue=8389 }}

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|ship=Jasper

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at "Timara". She was on a voyage from Cette, Hérault, France to Glasgow, Renfrewshire. She was refloated and taken in to Gibraltar.

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|ship=Nuova Abele

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at East London, Cape Colony. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from "Passoerang" to London, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 January 1875 |issue=8435 }}

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|ship=Osprey

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Dungeness, Kent. She was on a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to Woolwich, Kent. She was refloated and taken in to Dover, Kent in a severely leaky condition and was beached there Subsequently refloated and completed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipwreck on the Kentish Coast |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=7 December 1874 |issue=31961 |page=6 }}

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|ship=Avon

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the River Thames at Blackwall, Middlesex. She was on a voyage from Tuticorin, India to London. She was refloated.

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|ship=Charlotte

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore and wrecked in Widemouth Bay. Her crew were rescued by the Coastguard. She was on a voyage from "Ballinamara" to the Mumbles, Glamorgan.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=8 December 1874 |issue=8930 }}{{Cite news |title=Royal National Lifeboat Institution |newspaper=The Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=8 January 1875 |issue=3853 |page=4 |volume=42 }}

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|ship=Citizen

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

|desc=The steamship struck the pier and sank at Dunkirk, Nord, France. She was on a voyage from London to Dunkirk. Citizen was refloated on 15 December and beached.

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|ship=Cyprian Queen

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

|desc=The brig departed from Burntisland, Fife for Dover, Kent. Subsequently foundered with the loss of all seven crew. Wreckage washed up on at Whitby, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Supposed Loss of a Vessel and all Hands |newspaper=Preston Chronicle |location=Preston |date=26 December 1874 |issue=3233}}

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|ship=Eleanor

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat was run into by the steamship Polynesian ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was severely damaged at Birkenhead, Cheshire.

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|ship=Fairy Queen

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

|desc=The schooner departed from Drogheda, County Louth for Preston, Lancashire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Serious Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=Birmingham |date=15 December 1874 |issue=5124 }}

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|ship=Holland

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

|desc=The steamship struck the quayside at Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was on a voyage from London to New York, United States.

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|ship=Island Belle

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

|desc=The schooner was towed in to the Nieuwe Diep in a sinking condition. She was on a voyage from Java, Netherlands East Indies to Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated on 24 December and towed in to Amsterdam.

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|ship=Martha

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Dogger Bank. Her crew were rescued by the smack Gloriana ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Martha was on a voyage from Odesa, Russia to Caernarfon.

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|ship=Orconera

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Bokkegat. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands to Königsberg. She was refloated and taken in to Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Netherlands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=7 December 1874 |issue=15713 |page=6 }}

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|ship=Spartan

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Cape Helles, Ottoman Empire. She was refloated on 10 December and towed in to the Dardanelles in a leaky condition. She was subsequently towed to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire for repairs.

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|ship=Tiara

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

|desc=The brigantine departed from Santander, Spain for Newport, Monmouthshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=18 March 1875 |issue=28266 |page=7 |column=E }} Presumed subsequently foundered with the loss of all seven crew. A boat from the ship was discovered by Maria Stella ({{flag|France}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=26 January 1875 |issue=8431 }}

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|ship=Albert

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Granton, Lothian. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire.

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

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

|desc=The steamship was sighted off Lundy Island, Devon whilst on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all nineteen crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Maritime Court of Enquiry |date=6 May 1875 |issue=28308 |page=12 |column=B }} She may have been sighted off Ouessant, Finistère, France on 11 December.

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|ship=Anne

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

|desc=The ship was lost at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. It was found that two holes had been bored in her hull and that she was insured for more than she was worth. Her captain had his certificate suspended for two years.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Loss of the Anne |date=27 April 1875 |issue=28300 |page=5 |column=F }}

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|ship=Caledonia

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore as Saltburn, Yorkshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=10 December 1874 |issue=28182 |page=10 |column=B }} Her six crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Rochester, Kent to South Shields, County Durham.

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|ship=Diana

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore between Gunwalloe and Mullion, Cornwall, United Kingdom. All on board were rescued by the Coastguard using rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Taganrog, Russia to Falmouth, Cornwall and Dublin, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=10 December 1874 |issue=28182 |page=10 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=London, Wednesday, Dec. 8 |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 December 1874 |issue=8931 }}{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=10 December 1874 |issue=31964 |page=3 }}

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|ship=Elert

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Cramond Island, in the Firth of Forth.

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|ship=Elm

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat sank at Liverpool, Lancashire. Both crew were rescued by the tug Gladiator ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=9 December 1874 |issue=8390 }}

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|ship=Jason

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

|desc=The ship caught fire at London and was severely damaged.

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|ship=Niord

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lemvig, Denmark.

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|ship=Queen

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Granton. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Granton. She was refloated and beached.

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|ship={{SS|Scorpio|1869|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship foundered off the north Devon coast with the loss of all 26 crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to the Charente.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Vessels lost at Sea |date=31 December 1874 |issue=28200 |page=5 |column=E }}

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|ship=Vinteren

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The derelict barque was towed in to Fredrikshavn in a waterlogged condition.

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|ship=Zenith

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

|desc=The fishing boat departed from South Shields. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all five crew.

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|ship=Alfred Charles

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Egmond aan Zee, North Holland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Plymouth, Devon to Harburg, Germany.

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|ship=Alabama

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire. Her four crew were rescued.

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|ship=Alice

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Clee Ness, Lincolnshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=10 December 1874 |issue=28182 |page=10 |column=B }} She was on a voyage from Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

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|ship=Amity

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at West Appledore, Devon.

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|ship=Anna and Marie

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and damaged at Anderby, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from London to Goole, Yorkshire.

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|ship=Beeswing

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at West Hartlepool, County Durham. Her six crew were rescued.

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|ship=Blakeney and Hull Packet

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

|desc=The Yorkshire Billyboy was wrecked a Collier Hope, Yorkshire with the loss of all hands, five or six lives.

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|ship=Blythe

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in Collier Hope. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Branch

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Hartlepool. Her seven crew survived.

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|ship=Bride

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Whitby, Yorkshire with the loss of her captain. Two survivors were rescued by the Whitby Lifeboat.

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|ship=Britannia

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Whitby. Her eight crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newhaven, Sussex to South Shields, County Durham.

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|ship=British Queen

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Donna Nook with the loss of all five crew.

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|ship=Brothers

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked on Rathlin Island, County Antrim. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Llanelly, Glamorgan to Sligo.

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|ship=Carolina

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner was driven and wrecked at Looe, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the Looe Lifeboat Oxfordshire (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite news |title=Another Severe Gale |newspaper=Royal Cornwall Gazette |location=Truro |date=12 December 1874 |issue=3721 |page=4}}

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|ship=Castle

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Filey, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields, or vice versa.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=10 December 1874 |issue=10906 }}

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|ship={{ship||Centaur|1849 ship|2}}

|flag={{Flag|Victoria|civil}}

|desc=The brig struck the southern section of Marmion Reef north of Perth, Western Australia, and sank. All 13 people on board, including noted politician and lawyer Septimus Burt, survived.

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|ship=Chance

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

|desc=The brig foundered off West Hartlepool with the loss of all hands.

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|ship=Chance

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Hartlepool. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Charles

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was discovered in a waterlogged condition in the Atlantic Ocean by {{SS|America|1863|2}} ({{flagcountry|German Empire}}), which was unable to take her crew off.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=12 December 1874 |issue=28184 |page=12 |column=B }}

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|ship=Clara Richmond

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and severely damaged at West Hartlepool. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Clare

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

|desc=The sloop sank at Ferriby Sluice, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=10 December 1874 |issue=28182 |page=10 |column=B }}

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|ship=Conqueror

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Seaham, County Durham. Her seven crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Ramsgate, Kent to Sunderland, County Durham.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=10 December 1874 |issue=28182 |page=10 |column=B }}

}}

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|ship=Corsair

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at West Hartlepool. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Corrymbus

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Coatham, Yorkshire, having been driven through Coatham Pier. Her five crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France to South Shields.

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|ship=Cossack

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at West Hartlepool. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Dabit

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and severely damaged at Whitby. She was on a voyage from Gravelines, Nord to West Hartlepool.{{Cite news |title=The Recent Disastrous Gale |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=11 December 1874 |issue=1538 }}

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|ship=Danube

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Whitby. Her crew were rescued. She was refloated on 26 January 1875 and taken in to Whitby for repairs.

}}

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|ship=Dea

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Donna Nook. Her six crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Emily Constance

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Ramsey, Isle of Man with the loss of a crew member.

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|ship=Excelsior

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Whitby. Her six crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Whitstable, Kent to Sunderland.

}}

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|ship=Express

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at Redcar, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Boulogne to Blyth, Northumberland.

}}

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|ship=Fortuna

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

|desc=The barque sank at Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=10 December 1874 |issue=28182 |page=10 |column=A-B }}

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|ship=Fry

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Whitby with the loss of her captain.

}}

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|ship=Garibaldi

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Coatham. Her seven crew were rescued by rocket apparatus.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=10 December 1874 |issue=28182 |page=10 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=The Storm of Tuesday Night |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=10 December 1874 }}

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|ship=Gray

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

|desc=The sloop sank at Ferriby Sluice. She was on a voyage from Hull to Gainsborough.

}}

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|ship=Griffin

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Coatham, having been driven through Coatham Pier. Her seven crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Whitby to Sunderland.{{Cite news |title=Redcar and Saltburn |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=9 December 1874 |issue=2166 |page=3 }}

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|ship=Grinkle

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Saltburn, Yorkshire. Her ten crew were rescued by the Saltburn Lifeboat Appleyard (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Grinkle was on a voyage from the River Tyne to La Rochelle, Charente-Inférieure, France. She was refloated on 24 December and taken in to the River Tyne.

}}

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|ship=Guernsey

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

|desc=The ship departed from Jersey, Channel Islands for a French port. Presumed foundered with the loss of all hands, wreckage washed up on Jersey.{{Cite news |title=Local and General |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=15 December 1874 |issue=11445 }}

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|ship=Haitienne

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Selsey Bill, Sussex with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure to Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hebe

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

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

}}

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|ship=Hematite

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and severely damaged at Glenariff, County Antrim.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=10 December 1874 |issue=8932 }}

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|ship=Henry Cooke

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at South Shields with the loss of all sixteen crew. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Sunderland.{{Cite news |title=Storm and Loss of Life |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=10 December 1874 |issue=11441 }}

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|ship=Herald

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Saltholm, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Liepāja, Russia to London. She was refloated and taken in to Copenhagen, Denmark.

}}

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|ship=Hey Dick

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Goole to London, or London to Boston, Lincolnshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Indian Chief, or
Indian Queen

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Whitby with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Beaulieu, Hampshire to Sunderland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Isabella

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Whitby.

}}

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|ship=Isabella Miller

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at West Hartlepool. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Jalawar

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Dunkirk, Nord. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Dunkirk.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Donna Nook. Her six crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=J. G. Frecker

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at South Shields. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from London to Buckhaven, Fife.{{Cite news |title=Destructive Gale |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=10 December 1874 |issue=3729 |page=5 |volume=41 }}

}}

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|ship=John George

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland. Her eleven crew were rescued by the North Sunderland Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Leith, Lothian and/or Antwerp, Belgium.

}}

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|ship=John Sharpe

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Brake Sand. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. She was refloated and assisted in to Ramsgate in a leaky condition.

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|ship={{SS|Joseph Straker|1863|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore in gale at West Hartlepool. She subsequently broke up.

}}

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|ship=J. P. Trigger

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Herd Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of County Durham. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Wreck and Loss of 16 Lives at Shields |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=9 December 1874 |issue=2166 |page=3 }}

}}

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|ship=Kate

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Whitby with the loss of her captain. Two survivors were rescued by the Whitby Lifeboat Harriet Forteath (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kathleen

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

|desc=The Yorkshire Billyboy was driven ashore at Donna Nook. Her three crew were rescued by the Donna Nook Lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Katie

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

|desc=The brigantine collided with the steamship {{SS|American|1865|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|200|nmi|km}} off the coast of the Newfoundland Colony. Her crew were rescued by American. Katie was on a voyage from Dublin to the Newfoundland Colony.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 December 1874 |issue=8397 }}

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|ship=Kingfisher

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned off Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. Her ten crew were rescued by the Caister Lifeboat The Boys (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Kingfisher was on a voyage from London to South Shields. She was taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a waterlogged condition with the assistance of a tug.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Laurae

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

|desc=The barque ran aground at "Samphires", County Kerry, United Kingdom.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=La Belle

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

|desc=The lighter sank at Greenock, Renfrewshire. Her three crew survived.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=10 December 1874 |issue=10906 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Laurel

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Donna Nook. Her six crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lord Summers

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Whitby. Her six crew were rescued by the Coastguard using rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields.{{Cite news |title=Terrific Gale on the Northeast Coast |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=10 December 1874 |issue=1537 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=L{{'}}Orient

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

|desc=The Humber Keel was driven ashore and sank at Winteringham, Lincolnshire. Her crew survived.{{Cite news |title=Another Severe Gale |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=10 December 1874 |issue=15716 |page=2 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maiden Queen

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Whitby. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marie Felix

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Brake Sand. Her crew were reported missing, presumed lost.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Ann

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

|desc=The trawling dandy was driven ashore and wrecked at Scarborough, Yorkshire with the loss of two of her five crew. Survivors were rescued by the Coastguard.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Ann

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Southampton, Hampshire with the loss of two of her crew.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Massereene

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Lewaigue, in Ramsey Bay, Isle of Man. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Newark Castle

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

|desc=The Humber Keel was driven ashore and sank at Winteringham with the loss of one life. She was on a voyage from Hull to Newark, Nottinghamshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ocean

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

|desc=The Humber Keel was driven ashore and sank at Winteringham. She was on a voyage from Hull to North Muskham, Nottinghamshire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Patchett

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

|desc=The ship foundered off the coast of Yorkshire with the loss of all hands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Peace

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

|desc=The Yorkshire Billyboy was driven ashore at Huttoft, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Goole.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pioneer

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Donna Nook. Her four crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pride

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

|desc=The ketch was driven ashore at Whitby with the loss of her captain. Her crew were rescued by the Whitby Lifeboat Robert Whitworth or Harriet Forteath (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Pride was on a voyage from London to Dundee, Forfarshire. Eight salvors had to be rescued from the ship by the Whitby Lifeboat on 16 December. Pride was refloated on 19 December and taken in to Whitby.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Providence

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and severely damaged at West Hartlepool. Her crew were rescued by the Hartlepool Lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Queen of the Isles

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

|desc=The barquentine was driven ashore and wrecked at Seaham. Her nine crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France to South Shields.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=9 December 1874 |issue=3062 |edition=Second }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Queen Victoria

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Whitby with the loss of a crew member. Five or six survivors were rescued by rocket apparatus.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Robert and Mary

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and severely damaged at West Hartlepool. Her crew were rescued by a lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Robert and William

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at Redcar. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aldeburgh, Suffolk to Sunderland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rosamund

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and capsized at Whitby.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rose

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at West Hartlepool. Her crew were rescued by the Hartlepool Lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rose

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the River Foyle. She was on a voyage from Londonderry to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sarah

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

|desc=The Humber Keel was driven ashore and sank at Winteringham. She was on a voyage from Hull to Gunthorpe, Nottinghamshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sibal

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Point Lynas, Anglesey, United Kingdom with the loss of her pilot. Her nine crew were rescued by the keepers of the Point Lynas Lighthouse.{{Cite news |title=Another Violent Storm |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 December 1874 |issue=8391 }} She was on a voyage from Wilmington, Delaware, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Spy

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Ramsey. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Killough, County Louth to Douglas, Isle of Man.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Syria

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Noordwijk, South Holland, Netherlands with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Skellefteå, Sweden to Antwerp.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thomas

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked between the Isles of Scilly and the Smalls Lighthouse. Her eight crew were rescued by the steamship Luxor ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Thomas was on a voyage from Huelva, Spain to Silloth, Cumberland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=18 December 1874 |issue=28189 |page=9 |column=F }}

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{{shipwreck list item

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

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

|desc=The steamship departed from Cardiff, Glamorgan for Bombay, India. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all 28 crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Overloading |date=10 May 1875 |issue=28311 |page=12 |column=E }}{{cite web |url=http://www.teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=169555&vessel=THORNABY |title=Thornaby |publisher=Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust |access-date=8 June 2021 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Triumph

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

|desc=The ship sank at Lowestoft.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tuscan

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Filey with the loss of a crew member.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vulcan

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

|desc=The sloop was wrecked at Hull.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Welsh

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

|desc=The sloop sank at Ferriby Sluice. She was on a voyage from Hull to Gainsborough.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William Leavitt

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Pluckington Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Rangoon, Burma to Liverpool.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=North Sunderland Lifeboat

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

|desc=The lifeboat was severely damaged rescuing the crew of John George ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

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|ship=Redcar Lifeboat

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

|desc=The lifeboat was holed on being launched.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore north of Collier Hope.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore north of Sandsend, Yorkshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Two unnamed vessels

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ships were driven ashore and wrecked {{convert|3|nmi|km}} north of Whitby. A crew member from one of the ships was lost.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The Yorkshire Billyboy was driven ashore at Whitby in a capsized condition with the loss of all hands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Two unnamed vessels

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

|desc=The trows were driven ashore at Portishead, Somerset.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The fishing smack was wrecked at Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk with the loss of all five crew.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=15 December 1874 |issue=6674 }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Breeze|1874|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Black Middens, in the North Sea off the coast of County Durham All 30 people on board were rescued by the South Shields Lifeboat Constance, the North Shields Lifeboat Northumberland (both file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution) or by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Constance

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

|desc=The lifeboat was severely damaged at South Shields by a large baulk of timber.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Domingo

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Earl Gower

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Bettystown, County Meath. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Balbriggan, County Dublin.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=12 December 1874 |issue=6672 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eleanor

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

|desc=The brig caught fire at Bagvig, Sweden and was scuttled.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Falcon

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

|desc=The ship foundered near Newport, Monmouthshire. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=12 December 1874 |issue=15718 |page=6 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hero

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Humber. She was refloated and taken in to Hull, Yorkshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Island Belle

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Schouwen, Zeeland, Netherlands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kingsdown

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

|desc=The barque collided with the brig Loyal Standard ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} and was abandoned off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the Caister Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields. She was assisted in to Great Yarmouth by a tug.{{Cite news |title=More Shipping Disasters |newspaper=The Star |location=Saint Peter Port |date=15 December 1874 |issue=66 |volume=61 }}

}}

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|ship=Norman

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Le Crotoy, Somme, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Malmö, Sweden to Brazil.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Princess Helena

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Ayr. Her five crew were rescued by the Ayr Lifeboat.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=12 December 1874 |issue=28184 |page=6 |column=B-C }} She was on a voyage from Fowey, Cornwall to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.

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|ship=Radama

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Gaspar Strait. She was on a voyage from Hong Kong to Callao, Peru. She was refloated and taken in to Singapore, Straits Settlements in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=12 December 1874 |issue=8934 }}

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|ship=Rescourie, or
Resource

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Suzanne ({{flag|France}}). The barque was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=24 December 1874 |issue=3741 |page=5 |volume=41 }}{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=24 December 1874 |issue=31976 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Satellite

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

|desc=The tender collided with the Mersey Ferry Cheshire ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) at Liverpool, Lancashire and was severely damaged.

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|ship=Shamrock

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

|desc=The steamship collided with a Russian barque and sank in the Humber. The wreck was dispersed by explosives in September 1875.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Exchequer Division |date=26 November 1878 |issue=29422 |page=9 |column=A }}

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|ship=Shelbourne

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the steamship {{RMS|Africa|1872|6}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}). Shelbourne was on a voyage from Jamaica to Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom. Shelbourne was discovered on 15 December by the steamship West Stanley ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), which put four hands aboard and took her in tow. The tow rope subsequently broke; the four crew on board were to try to take her in to Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping News |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=8 January 1875 |issue=10931 }}

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|ship=Soeblomsten

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore near Egmond aan Zee, North Holland and was abandoned by her crew.

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|ship=Southern Empire

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of eleven of her of her 25 crew. Survivors were rescued by the steamship Toscoff ({{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}).

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|ship=Thomas and Rebecca

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Jaffa, Ottoman Syria.

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|ship=Walter Scott

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Flekkefjord, Norway.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=11 December 1874 |issue=8933 }}

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|ship=Walker

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Lindisfarne, Northumberland in a capsized condition with the loss of all four crew. She was on a voyage from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire to Newcastle upon Tyne.

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|ship=Warkworth

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

|desc=The steamship was driven onto the pier at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Boulogne.{{Cite news |title=Destructive Gale |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=11 December 1874 |issue=3730 |page=3 |volume=41 }}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the West Hoyle Bank, in Liverpool Bay.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 December 1874 |issue=8392 }}

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|ship=Arcadia

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

|desc=The brigantine was wrecked at South Shields, County Durham with the loss of two of her six crew. Survivors were rescued by breeches buoy. She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.{{Cite news |title=The Disastrous Heavy Gale |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=12 December 1874 |issue=2168 |page=3 |edition=Second }}

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|ship=Argo

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

|desc=The ketch was driven ashore and wrecked at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her four crew were rescued by rocket apparats. She was on a voyage from Maldon, Essex to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

}}

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|ship=Brighton

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Cowden, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to London.

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|ship=Cantry

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Seacliff, Lothian.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=12 December 1874 |issue=8393 }}

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|ship=Carl

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Newton, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=12 December 1874 |issue=10908 }}

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|ship=Ceylon

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked in the Bay of Authie with the loss of three of her seventeen crew. She was on a voyage from Iquique, Peru to London.

}}

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|ship=Cito

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked near Camaret-sur-Mer, Finistère, France. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Savannah, Georgia, United States.

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|ship=Delight

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked between East Blatchington and Seaford, Sussex. Her five crew were rescued by the Seaford Lifeboat Elizabeth Boys (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Delight was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Southampton, Hampshire.{{cite book |title=Beachy Head Shipwrecks of the 19th Century |first=David |last=Renno |pages=262–63 |publisher=Amherst Publishing |location=Sevenoaks |year=2004 |isbn=1-903637-20-1}}

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|ship=Heinrich Bjorn

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Warrenpoint, County Antrim, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Hibernia

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

|desc=The Thames barge collided with Marco Polo ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the River Thames at Blackwall, Middlesex.

}}

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|ship=James

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Ballyquinton, County Down. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Drogheda, County Louth to Swansea, Glamorgan.

}}

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|ship=Johannes Duyyens Tonsect

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore east of Ambleteuse, Pas-de-Calais, France. Her nine crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newhaven, Sussex to Christiania.

}}

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|ship=John George

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore near Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland with the loss of one of the twelve people on board. Survivors were rescued by the North Sunderland Lifeboat.

}}

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|ship=Joseph

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cutter was wrecked off La Collette Point, Jersey, Channel Islands with the loss of three lives.

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|ship=Lady Basset

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Lowestoft. Her five crew were rescued by beachmen and the Lowestoft Lifeboat George (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Lady Bassett was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Newcastle upon Tyne.{{Cite news |title=Lowestoft |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=15 December 1874 |issue=7277 }}

}}

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|ship=Louise of Lorne

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore between Tunstall and Withernsea, Yorkshire.

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|ship=Marco Polo

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Blackwall. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to London.

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|ship=Mario Boggiano

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom with the loss of two lives.

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|ship=Mary A. Way

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Dunegness, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland to the Bonny River, Africa. She was refloated and taken in tow for Dover, Kent but capsized off Dover. Her crew were rescued by three lifeboats but a lifeboatman was lost. She broke up on 16 December.

}}

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|ship=Orion

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Bodø. She was on a voyage from a port in Nordland to Bergen.

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|ship=Radiant

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Ipswich, Suffolk to Burghead, Moray.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=16 December 1874 |issue=6623 }}

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|ship=Richard Brown

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and severely damaged in the Bay of Luce. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to Portrush, County Antrim.

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|ship=Rimac

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Saltfleet, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=22 January 1875 |issue=4694 }}

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|ship=Tyne

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked in Robin Hoods Bay. Her seventeen crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields.{{Cite news |title=Another Gale on the Coast |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=12 December 1874 |issue=1539 }}

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|ship=Venus

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

|desc=The smack foundered in the Irish Sea. Her crew were rescued by a steamship Penguin ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Venus was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Douglas.{{Cite news |title=Local |newspaper=Isle of Man Times |location=Douglas |date=12 December 1874 |issue=711 |page=5 |volume=14 }}{{Cite news |title=Renewal of the Gale: Further Loss of Life |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=14 December 1874 |issue=3732 |page=2 |volume=41 }}

}}

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|ship=Woods

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

|desc=The brigantine sank at Greenore, County Wexford. She was on a voyage from Newry, County Antrim to Drogheda, County Louth.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Bettystown, County Meath. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The smack sank in the River Thames at Woolwich, Kent with the loss of all on board.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Foundering of a Vessel |date=14 December 1874 |issue=28185 |page=5 |column=F }}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The Humber Keel was run down and sunk by a steamship at South Shields with the loss of a crew member.{{Cite news |title=Another Gale |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=11 December 1874 |issue=2167 |page=2 |edition=Second }}

}}

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|ship=Accra

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

|desc=The brigantine foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|45|nmi|km}} west of Ouessant, Finistère. Her six crew were rescued by the steamship Pickwick ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Accra was on a voyage from Sierra Leone to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Mails |date=31 December 1874 |issue=28200 |page=5 |column=F }}

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|ship=Avena

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|50|10|N|17|00|W}}). Her ten crew were rescued by {{SS|Indiana|1874|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Avena was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada to Sligo. She was towed in to Waterford on 30 January 1875 by the steamship South of Ireland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=1 February 1875 |issue=10951 }}

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|ship=Briarley

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

|desc=The barque foundered at sea. All nineteen people on board were rescued by the steamship {{SS|Silesia|1869|2}} ({{flagcountry|German Empire}}). Briarley was on a voyage from Demerara, British Guiana to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale Intelligence |date=14 December 1874 |issue=28185 |page=7 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=14 December 1874 |issue=56131 }}

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|ship=Corsair

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Seatown, Dorset.{{cite web |url=http://www.burtonbradstock.org.uk/History/Wrecks%20off%20Burton%20Bradstock/Historical%20list%20of%20wrecks.htm |title=Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis |publisher=Burton Bradstock Online |access-date=27 December 2014}}

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|ship=Deux Celine, and
Raphael

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

|desc=The schooner Deux Celine collided with the brig Raphael and sank off Penarth, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Raphael was severely damaged.{{Cite news |title=Tuesday, December 15, 1874 |newspaper=Western Mail |location=Cardiff |date=15 December 1874 |issue=1756 }}

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|ship=Emily

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Seine and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Fifeshire|1873|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Dunbar, Lothian. She was on a voyage from London to Kirkcaldy, Fife. She was refloated and completed her voyage for repairs.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=14 December 1874 |issue=10909 }}

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|ship=J. M. Strachan

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

|desc=The steamship was holed by the propeller of the steamship Jubilee ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the River Thames at Charlton, Kent. She was refloated on 18 December.

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|ship=La Pace

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Santander, Spain with some loss of life. She was on a voyage from Santander to Savona.

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|ship=Lawsons

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked at Hollesley, Suffolk. Her eight crew were rescued by breeches buoy. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields, County Durham.

}}

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|ship=Maria Borzone

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore in Hollesley Bay with the loss of her pilot. Her eleven crew were rescued, as were the ship's cat and dog. She was on a voyage from Marianople, Russia to Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 December 1874 |issue=8394 }}{{Cite news |title=Aldeburgh |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=15 December 1874 |issue=7277 }}

}}

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|ship=Pace

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Santander, Spain with the loss of seven of her eleven crew. Survivors were rescued by {{SMS|Albatross|1871|6}}, {{SMS|Nautilus|1871|6}} (both {{navy|German Empire}}) and {{SS|Ville de Brest|1871|2}} ({{flag|France}}).{{Cite news |title=The Recent Gale |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=15 December 1874 |issue=6674 }}

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|ship=Sophie Emshagen

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Skagen, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Helsinki. She was refloated and taken in to Fredrikshavn, Denmark.

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|ship=Swan

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Santander with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by {{SMS|Albatross|1871|6}}, {{SMS|Nautilus|1871|6}} (both {{navy|German Empire}}) and {{SS|Ville de Brest|1871|2}} ({{flag|France}}).

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The smack capsized sank in the River Thames at Woolwich, Kent, United Kingdom with the loss of both crew. She was raised on 14 December.{{Cite news |title=Naval and Military |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=14 December 1874 |issue=8935 }}{{Cite news |title=The Shiping Disaster on the Thames |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=15 December 1874 |issue=31968 |page=2 }}

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|ship={{SS|Alpha|1871|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship foundered in the Bay of Biscay. Her 24 crew were rescued by the full-rigged ship County of Sutherland ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Alpha was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=19 December 1874 |issue=11449 }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of the S.S. Alpha |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=15 January 1875 |issue=4693 }}

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|ship=Atlantic

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by a French vessel. She was on a voyage from Belize City, British Honduras to London.

}}

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|ship=Beautiful Star

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

|desc=The smack was run down and sunk in the Humber by the steamship Annie ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Her crew survived.{{Cite news |title=Further Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=18 December 1874 |issue=4689 }}

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|ship=Bonny Lass

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

|desc=The fishing smack capsized in the North Sea off the coast of Essex with the loss of three of her five crew.

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|ship=Edwin Fox

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

|desc=The barque ran aground off Deal, Kent. She was on a voyage from Deal to Wellington, New Zealand. She was refloated and taken in tow for the River Thames.

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|ship=Français

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Middleton, County Durham, United Kingdom with the loss of all but one of her nine or thirteen crew.

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|ship=Laurel

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Nidingen, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Turku, Grand Duchy of Finland to Dover, Kent. She was later refloated.

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|ship=Marie Hélène

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The barque ran aground in the Elbe near Cuxhaven. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to San Francisco, California, United States. She was refloated and towed in to Cuxhaven.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Mongol|1873|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked on a reef {{convert|14|nmi|km}} off Hong Kong with the loss of sixteen lives.{{Cite news |title=Wreck and Loss of Fifteen Lives |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=14 December 1874 |issue=3732 |page=2 |volume=41 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 December 1874 |issue=8395 }} She was on a voyage from Hong Kong to Yokohama, Japan{{Cite news |title=The Loss of a Glasgow Steamer and Sixteen Lives |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=17 December 1874 |issue=11447 }}

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|ship=Pomaron

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|46|08|N|7|50|W}}). Her thirteen crew were rescued by the steamship Toscoff ({{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=22 December 1874 |issue=28192 |page=8 |column=B }} Pomaron was on a voyage from Pomaron, Portugal to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Losses at Sea |date=29 January 1875 |issue=28225 |page=7 |column=F }}

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|ship=Risano

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked near Roscoff, Finistère, France. She was on a voyage from Berdianski, Russia to Antwerp, Belgium.

}}

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|ship=Thomas and Mary

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked at Hartlepool, County Durham with the loss of several lives.{{Cite news |title=More Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Penny Illustrated Paper |location=London |date=19 December 1874 |issue=693 & 694 |page=387 |volume=XXVII }}

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|ship={{SS|Violet|1871|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship foundered in the English Channel {{convert|5|nmi|km}} off The Lizard, Cornwall. Her 27 crew were rescued by the barque Prince Llewellyn ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Violet was on a voyage from Nicholaieff, Russia to Bergen, Norway.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=15 December 1874 |issue=56132 }}{{Cite news |title=Rescue of the Crew of the Violet |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 December 1874 |issue=10913 }}

}}

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|ship=Alliance

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked near Dungeness, Kent. Her ten crew were rescued by the New Romney Lifeboat Dr. Hatton (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Alliance was on a voyage from London to Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, France.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=15 December 1874 |issue=1541 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 December 1874 |issue=15720 |page=3 }}

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|ship=Américane

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned at "Denzec", Finistère.

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|ship=Balder

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire.

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|ship=Black Diamond

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

|desc=The steamship caught fire at Belfast, County Antrim and was scuttled.

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|ship=Duna

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked near Dungeness. Her thirteen crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga to Dunkirk, Nord, France.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 December 1874 |issue=15720 |page=6 }}

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|ship=Frances

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Middleton, County Durham, United Kingdom with the loss of eight lives.{{Cite news |title=The Late Gale |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=15 December 1874 }}

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|ship=Hecla

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

|desc=The barque foundered off Ouessant, Finistère. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Huma

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

|desc=The barque ran aground off Deal, Kent. She was on a voyage from North Shields, Northumberland to Carloforte, Sardinia, Italy. She was refloated and taken in to The Downs.

}}

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|ship=Mary Ann

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

|desc=The schooner collided with the sloop Only Son ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was driven ashore at Pakefield, Suffolk, where she was wrecked. Her six crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. Mary Ann was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=15 December 1874 |issue=28186 |page=7 |column=E }}

}}

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|ship=Niger

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked south of "Aracton". Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=15 December 1874 |issue=10910 }}

}}

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|ship=Precursor

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

|desc=The steamship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea {{convert|40|nmi|km}} north west by west of Gozo, Malta. Her seventeen crew were rescued by the barque A. C. Meyer ({{flagcountry|German Empire}}). Precursor was on a voyage from Marianople, Russia to Plymouth, Devon.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Wreck of the Steamer Precursor |date=17 December 1874 |issue=28188 |page=6 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=Foundering of a Steamer |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=17 December 1874 |issue=56134 }}

}}

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|ship=Victoria

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

|desc=The schooner was towed in to Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire by the steamship Ant ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Hubberston Pill. Victoria was on a voyage from Drogheda, County Louth to Swansea, Glamorgan.

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship sank at Dungeness.

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Audierne, Finistère{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=15 December 1874 |issue=31968 |page=2 }}

}}

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|ship=Anna Bello

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at East London, Cape Colony. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Argosy

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

|desc=The ship was sighted in the Atlantic Ocean whilst on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Mauritius. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all on board.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=4 August 1875 |issue=11110 }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of a South Shields Barque with All Hands |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=23 August 1875 |issue=2342 }}

}}

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|ship=Brilliante Giulana

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked near Arcachon, Finistère, France with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Palermo, Sicily.

}}

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|ship=Compage

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at East London. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=5 January 1875 |issue=28204 |page=6 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Coquette

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at East London. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Emile Marie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked at East London. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Wrecks |date=6 January 1875 |issue=28205 |page=5 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship=Fenwick

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned {{convert|5|nmi|km}} off St. Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by a pilot boat. She was on a voyage from London to Newport, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Floria

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at East London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Late Storm |date=11 January 1875 |issue=28207 |page=9 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=The Storms at the Cape |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=9 January 1875 |issue=3088 |edition=Second }}

}}

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|ship=Genova

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Stag Bank, at the mouth of the River Tees and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from the River Tees to Dunkirk, Nord, France.

}}

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|ship=Ithuriel

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

|desc=The barque was severely damaged at East London. She was on a voyage from London to East London.

}}

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|ship=James Gibson

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at East London. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Penang, Straits Settlements to London.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Kepler|1863|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Gibraltar.

}}

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|ship=Margaret

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

|desc=The smack in Loch Leven near Ballachulish, Argyllshire with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 December 1874 |issue=891 }}

}}

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|ship=Mosquito

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Gambles And Others v. The Ocean Marine Insurance Company Of Bombay |date=18 November 1875 |issue=28476 |page=10 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship=Nova Bella

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at East London with the loss of a crew member.

}}

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|ship=Queen

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Lamlash, Isle of Arran.

}}

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|ship=Rethymo

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

|desc=The steamship collided with the steamship Beta ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the Bosphorus and was severely damaged. She was beached.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Wreck in the Bosphorus |date=17 December 1874 |issue=28188 |page=6 |column=A-B }}

}}

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|ship=Star of Wales

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of the Natal Colony with the loss of all but two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Australia to a British port.

}}

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|ship=Syren

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

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

}}

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|ship=Tiger

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Lamlash. She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Dublin.

}}

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|ship=Transvaal

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the coast of the Natal Colony with the loss of all but her captain, who was ashore at the time.

}}

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|ship=Verulam

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at East London. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Penang, Straits Settlements to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=5 January 1875 |issue=28204 |page=6 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Western Star

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at East London. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Amalia

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Lickershamn, Gotland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Skutskär, Sweden.

}}

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|ship=Annie Arby

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in Morte Bay. Her seven crew were rescued by the Ilfracombe Lifeboat.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Royal National Lifeboat Institution |date=8 January 1875 |issue=28207 |page=6 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Brothers

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

|desc=The pilot cutter was run into and sunk by the tug Vanguard ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) at Cardiff, Glamorgan.

}}

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|ship=Charles Tottie

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

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Hoburg Shoal, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to London. She was later refloated and found to be leaky. She was towed in to Visby, Sweden for repairs, but was driven ashore and damaged on 22 December.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=23 December 1874 |issue=8402 }} Charles Tottie was refloated on 18 June 1875 and towed to either Oskarshamn or Stockholm, Sweden for repairs.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=28 June 1875 |issue=8562 }}

}}

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|ship=Cortes

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

|desc=The steamship foundered in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of 25 of her 29 crew. Survivors were rescued by the barque Osceo ({{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada). Cortes was on a voyage from Cardiff to Aden.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Disasters at Sea |date=12 January 1875 |issue=28210 |page=6 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship=Crimea

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Wicklow. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Strangford, County Antrim.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=18 December 1874 |issue=28189 |page=9 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Eleanor and Mary

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

|desc=The smack foundered off Maughold Head, Isle of Man. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Donaghadee, County Down.{{Cite news |title=Ramsey and the North |newspaper=Isle of Man Times |location=Douglas |date=18 December 1874 |issue=712 |page=5 |volume=14 }}

}}

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|ship=Fanny

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Exmouth, Devon. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=17 December 1874 |issue=10912 }}

}}

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|ship=Favourite

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Wexford. Her crew were rescued by the Wexford Lifeboat Ethel Eveline (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=18 December 1874 |issue=28189 |page=9 |column=F }} Favourite was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Wexford.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 December 1874 |issue=10913 }}

}}

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|ship=Freden

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

|desc=The brig collided with a barque, was driven ashore and wrecked at Dungeness, Kent, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Horatio

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

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Shanghai, China. She was on a voyage from New York to Shanghai.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 December 1874 |issue=8398 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jasper

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at St. Ives, Cornwall. Her six crew were rescued by the St. Ives Lifeboat Covent Garden (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Jasper was on a voyage from Hayle, Cornwall to Cardiff.{{Cite news |title=Wreck and Loss of Fifteen Lives |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=18 December 1874 |issue=3736 |page=4 |volume=41 }}

}}

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|ship=Mechanic{{'}}s Own

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at Sandgate, Kent.

}}

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|ship=Nellie

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

|desc=The steamship struck the pier at West Hartlepool, County Durham and was beached. She was on a voyage from Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands to West Hartlepool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sofia

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Penarth, Glamorgan.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 December 1874 |issue=8397 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Utility

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in Morte Bay. Her five crew were rescued by the Ilfracombe Lifeboat Broadwater (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Weather |date=17 December 1874 |issue=28188 |page=10 |column=C }}

}}

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|ship=Vesper

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

|desc=The fishing smack was wrecked on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk with the loss of eleven of her twelve crew. Her captain was rescued by the fishing smack Industry ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

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|ship=Waverley

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Hoek van Holland, South Holland. She was on a voyage from Riga to Schiedam. She was refloated and taken in to Maassluis, South Holland in a severely damaged condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The smack ran aground on the Lavan Sands, off Beaumaris, Anglesey. The sole crewman on board was rescued.

}}

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|ship=Canova

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Bay of Biscay. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Acadia|1866|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Canova was on a voyage from Bergen to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=23 December 1874 |issue=8402 }}

}}

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|ship=Galatz

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Dover, Kent. She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France to King's Lynn, Norfolk. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug. Towed to London on 19 December for repairs.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=21 December 1874 |issue=8400 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Iris

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Cuxhaven. She was on a voyage from Cuxhaven to Stockholm, Sweden.

}}

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

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

|desc=The steamship was destroyed by fire {{convert|60|nmi|km}} off Hong Kong. More than 280 people were reported missing. More than 120 survivors were rescued by two United States Navy gunboats. Japan was on a voyage from Yokohama, Japan to Hong Kong.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 December 1874 |issue=8401 }}{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=25 December 1874 |issue=6683}}

}}

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|ship=Manila

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship foundered. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Rover ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Manila was on a voyage from Birkenhead, Cheshire to Bombay, India.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Casualties |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=22 December 1874 |issue=6680 }}

}}

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|ship=Marys

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

|desc=The ship sank off Teulada, Sardinia, Italy. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=22 December 1874 |issue=10916 }}

}}

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|ship=Normandie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The steamship sank at Dunkirk, Nord. She was on a voyage from Dunkirk to Rouen, Seine-Infèrieure.

}}

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|ship=Perigny

|flag={{flagcountry|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Fort La Hougue, Manche. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure to Puerto Rico.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Utility

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Baggy Rocks, in Barnstaple Bay. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=18 December 1874 |issue=6677 }}

}}

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|ship=Alfred Charles

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Orfordness, Suffolk with the loss of two of her five crew.{{Cite news |title=Terrible Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper |location=London |date=20 December 1874 |issue=1674 }}

}}

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|ship=Apolline Emilée

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque ran aground in the Gironde. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Japan||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo liner burned off Shantou (Swatow) during her San Francisco-Yokohama-Hong Kong journey with the loss of 395 lives. Most of the victims were Chinese labourers returning from California. Owned by Pacific Mail Steamship Company.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?224898 |title=Japan (+1874) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=25 November 2019}}

}}

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|ship=Vesper

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Bay of Biscay ({{coord|46|27|N|8|51|W}}). Her crew were rescued by the steamship Foochow ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Vesper was on a voyage from Hull to Corfu, Greece.

}}

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|ship=Victoria

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at "Iversted", Denmark. She was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to Gothenburg.

}}

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|ship=William and John

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Cairnbulg, Aberdeenshire. She was on a voyage from Burghead, Moray to West Hartlepool, County Durham. She was refloated and taken in to Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire in a leaky condition.

}}

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|ship=Alfred

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Horse Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Lancashire and was abandoned by her six crew, who were rescued by a fishing boat. Alfred was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. She floated off and came ashore at Southport, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=21 December 1874 |issue=8400 }}

}}

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|ship=Alma

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked on the west coast of Gotland, Sweden with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from an English port to Skutskär, Sweden.

}}

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|ship=Belle

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

|desc=The smack capsized in the English Channel off Bolt Tail, Devon. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Earl of Dufferin

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

|desc=The ship was sighted whilst on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Yokohama, Japan. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all 31 crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=9 September 1875 |issue=28416 |page=11 |column=D }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Missing Ships |date=13 September 1875 |issue=28419 |page=7 |column=E }}

}}

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|ship=Flora

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Sæby, Denmark.

}}

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|ship=Hilda

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Kåseberga, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire to Stockholm, Sweden.

}}

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|ship=Brenda

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

|desc=The brig sprang a leak and sank in the North Sea {{convert|20|nmi|km}} off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Wynward ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Brenda was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.

}}

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|ship=Flandre

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Dunkirk, Nord. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure to Dunkirk.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 December 1874 |issue=8401 }} She was refloated on 24 December and towed in to Dunkirk.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=25 December 1874 |issue=8404 }}

}}

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|ship=James and Elizabeth

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the West Shoebury Sand, in the Thames Estuary. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to London. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug.

}}

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|ship=Minerva

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and foundered. Her crew were rescued by Heinrich ({{flag|Norway|1844}}. Minerva was on a voyage from Porto, Portugal to Swansea, glamorgan.

}}

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|ship=Sarah

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Holm Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Her six crew were rescued by the Caister Lifeboat The Boys (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=22 December 1874 |issue=28192 |page=8 |column=B }} Sarah was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to London.

}}

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|ship=St. Nicholas

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

|desc=The ship put in to Callao, Peru on fire and was scuttled. She was on a voyage from Valparaíso, Chile to San Francisco, California, United States.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=27 January 1875 |issue=8432 }}

}}

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|ship=Victoria

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Barber Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk and was wrecked. Her five crew were rescued by the Caister Lifeboat The Boys (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Victoria was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Maldon, Essex.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=22 December 1874 |issue=28192 |page=8 |column=B }}

}}

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|ship=Victoria

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Barber Sand. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Blyth to Trouville-sur-Mer, Calvados, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Yarrow

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Dunkirk.

}}

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|ship=Aghios Spiridone

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked between Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire and Cape Bon, Beylik of Tunis. She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France to Algiers, Algeria.

}}

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|ship=Antonio

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

|desc=The barque was holed by ice and sank at Altona, Germany.

}}

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|ship=Canondah

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Salerno, Kingdom of Italy. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bo'ness, Lothian to Salerno.

}}

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|ship=Pauline Constance Eleonore

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was refloated and taken in to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies.

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|ship=Rose of Denmark

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, France with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Dieppe. She was a total loss.

}}

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|ship=Schwan

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Ameland, Friesland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bremerhaven to Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands.

}}

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|ship=Victoria

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Barber Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the Caister Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to "Sovil".

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=22 December 1874 |sort=}}

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|ship=County of Sutherland

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Schaar. She was on a voyage from Batavia, Netherlands East Indies to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

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|ship=Amici

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

|desc=The schooner collided with the barque Edwin Fox ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the River Thames at Woolwich, Kent with the loss of a crew member.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=25 December 1874 |issue=28195 |page=9 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship=Barlochan

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire to Smyrna, Ottoman Empire. She was refloated and taken in to Sheerness, Kent in a leaky condition.

}}

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|ship=Clifton

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

|desc=The steamship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Burgos ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Clifton was on a voyage from Philippeville, Algeria to Dunkirk, Nord, France.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Disasters at Sea |date=2 February 1875 |issue=28226 |page=7 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship=Dio Adelphi

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Mazagan, Morocco.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 January 1875 |issue=8413 }}

}}

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|ship=Fitz James

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Adra, Spain. All on board were rescued.

}}

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|ship=John B. Carleton

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

|desc=The barque caught fire at Kingstown, County Dublin and was scuttled by gunfire from {{HMS|Vanguard|1870|6}} ({{navy|UK}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=24 December 1874 |issue=10918 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 December 1874 |issue=8403 }}{{Cite news |title=Scuttling of a Ship on Fire |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=25 December 1874 |issue=15721 |page=6 }} She was refloated on 29 December.

}}

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|ship=Jonkheer Evan Keemskerck van Beest

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The fishing lugger was run down and sunk in the North Sea by the full-rigged ship Marie Elise ({{flag|Netherlands}}). Her crew were rescued by Marie Elise.{{Cite news |title=A Shipwrecked Crew Landed at Portsmouth |newspaper=Isle of Wight Observer |location=Ryde |date=26 December 1874 |issue=1154 }}

}}

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|ship=Maranon

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

|desc=The barque caught fire at Antofagasta, Chile.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=16 February 1875 |issue=8449 }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Nile|1869|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship caught fire at sea. She was on a voyage from Southampton, Hampshire to Barbados. The fire was extinguished by flooding the hold it was in and she completed her voyage.

}}

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|ship=Vandalia

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Clee Ness, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Grimsby, Lincolnshire. She was refloated with the assistance of four tugs and taken in to Grimsby.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=25 December 1874 |issue=8945 }}

}}

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|ship=Ystavat

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Nash Sands, in the Bristol Channel. She was refloated and taken in to Penarth, Glamorgan.

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The barque was driven ashore near Newhaven, Sussex.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=24 December 1874 |sort=}}

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|ship=Dunbar Castle

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

|desc=The ship was driven into the Ryde Pier, Isle of Wight and was severely damaged.

}}

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|ship=Gardyan

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Porth Neigwl, Caernarfonshire.

}}

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|ship=Georges

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was refloated and taken in to Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Talisman

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Hoek van Holland, South Holland.

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=25 December 1874 |sort=}}

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|ship=Viola

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

|desc=The ship caught fire in the River Mersey.

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=26 December 1874 |sort=}}

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|ship=Esperance

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was sighted off Camaret-sur-Mer, Finistère whilst on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde to Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=8 April 1875 |issue=11008 }}

}}

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|ship=Janet

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Union ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Janet was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom to Bornholm.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=8 January 1875 |issue=28207 |page=11 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship={{PS|Payta|1864|2}}

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

|desc=The paddle steamer was driven ashore at Santa, Peru. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=6 January 1875 |issue=10929 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 January 1875 |issue=8414 }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Russell|1871|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship struck a sunken wreck foundered {{convert|9|nmi|km}} off Cape Finisterre, Spain. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Nicolaieff, Russia to Cork.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=1 January 1875 |issue=28201 |page=11 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of a Steamer in the Bay of Biscay |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=11 January 1875 |issue=8959 }}

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=27 December 1874 |sort=}}

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|ship=England{{'}}s Glory

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Torrens River. She was on a voyage from London to Adelaide, South Australia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 February 1875 |issue=8450 }}

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=28 December 1874 |sort=}}

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|ship=Anne Maria

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the West Shoebury Sand, in the Thames Estuary off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from London to Helsingør. She was refloated.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=30 December 1874 |issue=28199 |page=11 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Donati

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Elbe. She was on a voyage from Brazil to Cuxhaven. She was refloated.

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=29 December 1874 |sort=}}

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|ship=Agnes Campbell

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

|desc=The schooner struck a sunken rock in Loch Inchard and was beached. She was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to Thurso, Caithness. She was severely damaged.{{Cite news |title=Shipping News |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=11 January 1875 |issue=6697 }}

}}

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|ship=Asuncion

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

|desc=The ship was lost near Santander.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 December 1874 |issue=8408 }}

}}

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|ship=Daniel Morris

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground and sank at Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden to Aberystwyth.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=30 December 1874 |issue=28199 |page=11 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=30 December 1874 |issue=8949 }}

}}

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|ship=Emily

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near "Vego", Norway. She was refloated and beached at Røn in a severely leaky condition.

}}

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|ship=Juana

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore near Santander, Spain. Her twenty crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Lucy Compton

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Cabonello Rock, off Porto, Portugal. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=31 December 1874 |issue=10924 }} She was on a voyage from London to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

}}

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|ship=Princess

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore on Inchkeith, Fife, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=30 December 1874 |issue=10923 }} She was on a voyage from Marstal to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=31 December 1874 |issue=8950 }} Princess was refloated on 31 January.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 January 1875 |issue=8412 }}

}}

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|ship=Rox

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Bahama Banks. She was on a voyage from Pensacola, Florida, United States to an English port.

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=30 December 1874 |sort=}}

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|ship=Christian

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on "Maleen", near Arendal. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Comet

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

|desc=The schooner was holed by ice and sank at Antwerp, Belgium. She as on a voyage from Vilvoorde, Flemish Brabant, Belgium to Liverpool, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Consul Platen

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The barque collided with the barque Satsuma ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) off the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to London, United Kingdom. She was towed in to Gravesend, Kent in a waterlogged condition.

}}

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|ship=Culmore

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Porto, Portugal. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Porto. She was refloated.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=1 January 1875 |issue=28201 |page=11 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Farnley Hall

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Bokkegat. She was on a voyage from Elba, Italy to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=1 January 1875 |issue=8951 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=1 January 1875 |issue=8410 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Invicta

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned off Wexford, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Havana, Cuba. She was subsequently taken in to Kingstown, County Dublin, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Osterlide

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

|desc=The barque grounded off the east end of Galveston Island, Texas, United States. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Galveston. She refloated and arrived in Galveston the following day.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=2 January 1875 |issue=15736 |page=7 }}{{cite news |title=Casualties |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000861/18750113/071/0009 |access-date=16 December 2021 |work=Lloyd's List |issue=18,947 |date=13 January 1875 |location=London |page=9 |via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |title=Additional Reports |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001702/18750118/049/0004 |access-date=16 December 2021 |work=Shipping and Mercantile Gazette |issue=11,674 |date=18 January 1875 |location=London |page=4|via=British Newspaper Archive}}

}}

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|ship=Savant

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Waterloo, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Charlestown, Cornwall to Runcorn, Cheshire. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

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|ship=Symmetry

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on "Buskjar". Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=16 January 1875 |issue=8423 }}

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=31 December 1874 |sort=}}

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|ship=Alvine

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Jessengrund. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Dragør.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 January 1875 |issue=8418 }}

}}

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|ship=Athlete, and
Kestrel

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

|desc=The schooner Kestrel was run into by the steamship Athlete and sank in the River Avon.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Law Report |date=13 May 1875 |issue=28314 |page=6 |column=A }} Kestrel was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Barbados. Athlete was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bristol. She was beached.

}}

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

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Glückstadt. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Glückstadt.

}}

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|ship=England{{'}}s Beauty

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

|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Dartmouth, Devon.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jehu

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

|desc=The barque ran aground at the mouth of the River Tees. She was on a voyage from the River Tees to Aberdeen. She was refloated and resumed her voyage, but put in to Leith, Lothian in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marie

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Varberg, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Rønne.

}}

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|ship=Nil Desperandum

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

|desc=The sloop was wrecked at Spittal Point, Northumberland with the loss of both crew.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=1 January 1875 |issue=10925 }}

}}

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|ship=P. J. F. Burchard

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

|desc=The ship arrived at Montevideo, Uruguay from Leith, Lothian on fire. She was beached and scuttled.

}}

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|ship=William Coulman

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Maassluis, South Holland, Netherlands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 January 1875 |issue=8413 }}

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=Unknown date in December 1874 |sort=}}

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|ship=Almiral

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked near Arcachon, Gironde, France with the loss of all but one of her crew. Shew as on a voyage from Gloucester, United Kingdom to Bilbao.

}}

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|ship=Amity

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned at sea with the loss of eighteen of her twenty crew. Survivors were rescued by the barque Norge ({{flag|Norway|1844}}). Amity was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Antwerp, Belgium.{{Cite news |title=Belfast, Thursday, Dec. 24, 1874 |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=24 December 1874 |issue=56140 }}

}}

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|ship=A. M. Roberts

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Santo Domingo Tonalá, Mexico before 2 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Arabella

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

|desc=The ship caught fire at Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands before 17 December and was scuttled. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=August André

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The steamship was deiven ashore near New York, United States. She was on a voyage from Antwerp to New York. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Calista Haws

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

|desc=The ship ran aground. She was on a voyage from Savannah, Georgia to Pensacola, Florida, United States.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=14 December 1874 |issue=31967 |page=8 }}

}}

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|ship=Carmela

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

|desc=The ship foundered off the Kent coast before 17 December.

}}

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|ship=Clairellen

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

|desc=The barque was damaged by fire at Mauritius on or before 23 December.

}}

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|ship=Dolly Varden

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Dalhousie, New Brunswick, Canada. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Campbeltown, Argyllshire.

}}

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|ship=Edwin

|flag={{flagicon|United States|1867}} Washington Territory

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada before 28 December. She was on a voyage from Utsalady to Adelaide, Queensland.{{Cite news |title=Latest News |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=30 December 1874 |issue=6625 }}

}}

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|ship=Eigen

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Molde.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 December 1874 |issue=8386 }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Essequibo|1871|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Colón, United States of Colombia. She was refloated and taken in to Colón.{{Cite news |title=A Royal Mail Steamer Aground |newspaper=Southampton Herald |location=Southampton |date=16 December 1874 |issue=2974 |page=2 |volume=52 }}

}}

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|ship=Eugenie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked on Drummond Island, Michigan, United States before 23 December.

}}

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|ship=Evergreen

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in Kepher Bay. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. She was refloated and taken in to the Dardanelles.

}}

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|ship=Gesu Bambino Giuseppe

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned {{convert|60|nmi|km}} off Cape Palos, Spain before 24 December. Her crew were rescued by a Greek, brig. She was on a voyage from Bône, Algeria to Philadelphia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 February 1875 |issue=8444 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gustav

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Zarautz, Spain. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York City to Pasaia, Spain.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 December 1874 |issue=8403 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SMS|Helgoland|1867|6}}

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

|desc=The corvette became disabled in the Atlantic Ocean. {{convert|300|nmi|km}} off the Azores. She was towed in to São Miguel Island, Azores by the steamship {{SS|Trinacria|1871|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=19 December 1874 |issue=28190 |page=12 |column=B }}

}}

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|ship=Hattie M. Card

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec to Callao, Peru. She was refloated and put in to Halifax, Nova Scotia in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 December 1874 |issue=8931 }}

}}

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|ship=Huron

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay before 17 December. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Reubens ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

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|ship=Jens Ruffen

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Langsund. She was on a voyage from Christiania to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

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|ship=John Bright

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked off Cabo Sãn Roque, Brazil. She was on a voyage from New York to San Francisco, California.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 December 1874 |issue=8408 }}

}}

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|ship=Juanita

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was lost at Bilbao with the loss of eight of her crew.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=21 December 1874 |issue=10915 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 December 1874 |issue=8401 }}

}}

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|ship=Juventa

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Mediterranean Sea. Her crew were rescued by Charles ({{flag|France}}).

}}

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|ship=Louis and Mary

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

|desc=The ship departed from Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands for Glasgow, Renfrewshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=List of Vessels Supposed to have Foundered |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=20 February 1875 |issue=6732 }}

}}

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|ship=Marequina

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Noordwijk, North Holland, Netherlands.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=22 December 1874 |issue=31974 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Martha and Lizzie

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

|desc=The fishing smack was run down and sunk in Morecambe Bay by Ironsides ({{flag|United States|1867}}) with the loss of two of her four crew. Survivors were rescued by Ironsides.

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|ship=Midge

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Cape Colony

|desc=The ship was wrecked in Plattenburg Bay. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Momina Zeno, or
Moneno Zeno

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked in Struys Bay with the loss of three lives.{{Cite news |title=The Cape Mails |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=16 December 1874 |issue=15721 |page=5 }} She was on a voyage from Bassein, India to Falmouth, Cornwall.

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|ship=Montejo

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship wrecked off the mouth of the "Sona River". She was on a voyage from Panama City, United States of Colombia to "New Granada".

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|ship=New Lampedo

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

|desc=The ship caught fire at sea and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by Star of the West({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). New Lampedo was on a voyage from Liverpool to Panama City, United States of Colombia.

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|ship=Ottolina

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship caught fire at Batavia, Netherlands East Indies.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=9 December 1874 |issue=8390 }}

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|ship=Petronella

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Douarnenez, Finistère, France. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Africa. She was refloated on 13 December and taken in to Douarnenez in a leaky condition.

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|ship=Reform

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea before 10 December.

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|ship=Reina de los Angeles

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the South China Sea. Her crew were rescued by a British steamship.

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|ship=Rex

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Bahama Banks. She was on a voyage from Pensacola to an English port{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=1 January 1875 |issue=4691 }}

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|ship=Rica Barica

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 18 December.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=24 February 1875 |issue=28247 |page=10 |column=C }}

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|ship=Rjsariden

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Great Yarmouth. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 December 1874 |issue=8394 }}

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|ship=Sarah King

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

|desc=The ship departed from Portsmouth, Hampshire for Sunderland, County Durham in early December. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=16 December 1874 |issue=2171 |page=3 |edition=Second }}

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|ship=Thetis

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Campbeltown. She was refloated on 18 December and towed in to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 December 1874 |issue=891 }}

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|ship=Trementere

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

|desc=The schooner departed from Neath, Glamorgan for Hayle, Cornwall. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Terrible Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Western Mail |location=Cardiff |date=12 January 1875 |issue=1779 }}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked {{convert|40|nmi|km}} south of Arcachon with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=16 December 1874 |issue=31969 |page=3 }}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The collier was driven ashore and wrecked {{convert|40|nmi|km}} south of Arcachon with the loss of eight lives.

}}

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Category:Maritime incidents in December 1874