List of shipwrecks in January 1871
1 January
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|ship=Adrien
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore in a cyclone at Saint-Pierre, Réunion.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 February 1871 |issue=9714 }}
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|ship=Argonaute
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was damagedin a cyclone at Réunion.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=6 February 1871 |issue=9703 }}
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|ship=Auffredy
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was damaged in a cyclone at Réunion.
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|ship=Avenger
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship sank in the River Tyne.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=2 January 1871 |issue=14483 |page=6 }}
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|ship=Caledonia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Lamlash, Isle of Arran. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Port Dundas, Renfrewshire.
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|ship=Ceara
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The brig was holed by ice and sank at Pauillac, Gironde. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=4 January 1871 |issue=7701 }}
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|ship=Corommandel
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Poorhead, County Cork. Her seven crew were rescued by the Coastguard using rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.
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|ship=Czanan
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged in a cyclone at Réunion.
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|ship=Dean,
Grand Era,
John Howard,
Julia Rudolph,
Magenta, and
Thompson
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamboats were destroyed by fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 January 1871 |issue=7172 }}{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=19 January 1871 |issue=7714 }}
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|ship=Elizabeth
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Amble, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Perth.
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|ship=Etienne
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was damaged in a cyclone at Réunion.
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|ship=Laurence
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was damaged in a cyclone at Réunion.
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|ship=Maid of Foyers
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Boulmer, Northumberland. Her crew were reached shore in their boat. Maid of Foyers was on a voyage from Loch Ness to Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated on 7 January but capsized and was towed in to Amble.{{Cite news |title=Lifeboat Services |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=7 January 1871 |issue=7704 }}
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|ship=Mierendorff Wardow
|desc=The brig was severely damaged by fire at West Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom.
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|ship=Miss Douglas
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked {{convert|3|nmi|km}} west of Drigg, Cumberland with the loss of three of her four crew. She was on a voyage from Port Dinorwic, Caernarfonshire to Silloth, Cumberland.
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|ship=Misti
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was damaged in a cyclone at Réunion.
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|ship=Morning Star
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on Horse Isle, in the Firth of Clyde. Her crew of 6 were rescued by the Ardrossan Lifeboat Fair Maid of Perth (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Dublin to Ardrossan, Ayrshire.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=3 January 1871 |issue=7700 }}{{Cite news |title=Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=4 January 1871 |issue=2505 |page=4 |volume=37 }}{{cite journal |title=Additional Stations and New Life-Boats |journal=The Lifeboat |date=1 February 1871 |volume=VIII |issue=79 |pages=18–19 |url=https://lifeboatmagazinearchive.rnli.org/volume/08/79/additional-stations-and-new-life-boats |access-date=27 December 2024}}
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|ship=Nizam
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was damaged in a cyclone at Réunion.
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|ship=Oxalis
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Boulmer. Her four crew were rescued by the Boulmer Lifeboat Robin Hood of Nottingham (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Oxalis was on a voyage from Sunderland to Portsoy, Aberdeenshire. She subsequently sank.{{Cite news |title=Royal National Life-boat Institution |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=3 February 1871 |issue=30314 |page=3 }}
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|ship=Thomas and Joseph
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.
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|ship=Torninto
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Queenstown, County Cork.
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|ship=Undaunted
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore by ice at Brough Yorkshire. She was refloated the next day and towed by the tug James Watt ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) to Hull, Yorkshire, where she sank.
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|ship=Uranie
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore in a cyclone at Réunion. Her crew were rescued. She subsequently drove out to sea.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 February 1871 |issue=9714 }}
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|ship=Five unnamed vessels
|flag=Flags unknown
|desc=The ships were driven ashore and wrecked at Marathon, Greece.
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2 January
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|ship=Cockaleekie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Campbeltown, Argyllshire.
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|ship=Coila
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was beached in the River Lagan. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to the West Indies.{{Cite news |title=The Late Gale. - Shipping Casualties |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=3 January 1871 |issue=54910 }} She was refloated and towed in to Belfast, County Antrim.
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|ship=Colima
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque sank at Dundrum, County Down. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Libertad, Central America and/or Amapala, British Honduras.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 January 1871 |issue=7159 }}
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|ship=Daniel O{{'}}Connell
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at East Tarbert, Ayrshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Donaghadee, County Down.
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|ship=Fanny Gurrich
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was sighted in the Mediterranean Sea whilst on a voyage from Berdyanski, Russia to a British port. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=23 June 1871 |issue=7306 }}
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|ship=Rosa Grey
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at St. Stephen's Point, in the Sea of Marmara. She was on a voyage from Sulina, Ottoman Empire to a British port.
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|ship=Viola
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her nine crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from "St. Davids" to Matanzas, Cuba.
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship collided with Accra ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered off Holyhead, Anglesey, United Kingdom.
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3 January
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|ship=Britannia
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven onto the Schultz Ground, in the Kattegat, by ice and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from an English port to Stettin. She sank off Anholt, Denmark before 10 January.
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|ship=Britannia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|41|50|N|66|40|W}}). Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from London to Boston, Massachusetts, United States.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=25 January 1871 |issue=9693 }}
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|ship=Dunedin
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground in the Clyde. She was refloated the next day.
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|ship=Fleetwood
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground at Belfast, County Antrim. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.
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|ship=Flying Childers
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The tug collided with the steamship Llama ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Clyde. Her crew were rescued.
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|ship=H. J. Burton
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Bilbao, Spain. She was on a voyage from New York to Bilbao.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=13 January 1871 |issue=7709 }}
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|ship=Margaret Ann
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The yawl struck the Breast Rock, off Girvan, Ayrshire, caught fire and sank. She was on a voyage from Larne, County Antrim to the Clyde. She was refloated in late May and placed under repair.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=31 May 1871 |issue=9801 }}
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|ship=Pawnee
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Galveston, Texas, United States. She was on a voyage from Galveston to Liverpool. She was consequently condemned.{{Cite news |title=The Wreck of the Pawnee |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=26 January 1871 |issue=54930 }}
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|ship=Rebecca
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck rocks off Aspronisi, Greece and sank. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Syros, Greece.
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|ship=Runnymede
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Hobart, Tasmania. The fire was extinguished by the Hobart City Fire Brigade with assistance from {{HMS|Blanche|1867|6}} ({{navy|UK}}).
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|ship=Undaunted
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack was holed by ice and sank at Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=4 January 1871 |page=7 |issue=26951 |column=B }}
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|ship=Veranda
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Bilban and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall to Bilbao.
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|ship=Victoria
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned off the coast of Caithness, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the brig Queen Elizabeth ({{flag|Prussia|civil}}). Victoria was on a voyage from Sundsvall to Fleetwood, Lancashire, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=17 January 1871 |page=7 |issue=26962 |column=F }} She was taken in to Manssund, Norway in June.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping News |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=8 June 1871 |issue=9808 }}
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4 January
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|ship=Bilboa
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from London to Seaham, County Durham. She was refloated and taken in to Seaham in a leaky condition.
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|ship=Catherine Morrison
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked on the Rhins of Galloway, Wigtownshire with the loss of all eleven crew. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 January 1871 |issue=7165 }}
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|ship={{SS|Crusader|1857|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was lost at Cartagena, Spain. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Colón, United States of Colombia.{{Cite news |title=Disasters at Sea: Loss of Life |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=26 January 1871 |issue=2524 |page=8 |volume=38 }}{{cite web |url=http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=20001&vessel=CRUSADER |title=Crusader |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Heritage Trust |accessdate=16 January 2021 }}
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|ship=Harry Helbert
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the Wolf Rock, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Ardrossan. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.
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|ship=Max
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=Franco-Prussian War: The transport ship was captured off the mouth of the Gironde by {{SMS|Augusta}} ({{navy|Prussia}}) and was burnt.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=7 February 1871 |page=4 |issue=26980 |column=E-F }}
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|ship=New Dominion
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked in Dunraven Bay. She was on a voyage from Prince Edward Island, Canada to Cardiff, Glamorgan.
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|ship=Paquita
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The barque ran aground on the Doggerbank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wexford, United Kingdom. Her sixteen crew were rescued by the Wexford Lifeboat Civil Service (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Paquita was on a voyage from Santander to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom. She was later refloated with the assistance of Civil Service and a tug and taken in to Wexford.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=7 January 1871 |issue=9678 }}
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|ship=Sir William Wallace
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked at "Burnford", Kirkcudbrightshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dunkeld, Ontario, Canada to Liverpool.
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5 January
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|ship=Cincetti Zarlo
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The barque was damaged by fire at South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 January 1871 |issue=7162 }}
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|ship=Immacolata
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship ran aground and capsized at Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Odessa, Russian to Queenstonw. She was refloated.
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|ship=Kirtons
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Filey Brigg. Her six crew were rescued by the fishing yawl Refuge ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Kirtons was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex.
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|ship=Lark
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing boat ran aground on the Dogger Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wexford and capsized. Both crew were rescued by the Wexford Lifeboat Civil Service (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).
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|ship=Laura Maria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Tinicum Island", Pennsylvania, United States. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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|ship=Margaret and Ann, or
Margaret and Jamie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Pettycur, Fife. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Pettycur.
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|ship=Merchant
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Saltfleet, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
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|ship=Miron
|flag={{flagicon|France}} Saint Martin
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and severely damaged on Bermuda. She was on a voyage from Saint Domingo to New York, United States.
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|ship=Peggy
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Ross Point. Her crew were rescued.
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|ship=S. D. Thurston
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Nash Sands, in the Bristol Channel off the coast of Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York to Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Loss of an America Ship |date=6 January 1871 |page=3 |issue=26953 |column=B }}
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship sank {{convert|5|nmi|km}} west of Nash Point, Glamorgan.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=7 January 1871 |issue=14488 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked on the coast of Brazil.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=16 February 1871 |issue=7197 }}
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6 January
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|ship=Elwin Hawthorn
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground and sank at Knokke, West Flanders, Belgium. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium. She was later refloated and taken in to Blankenberge, West Flanders.
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|ship=General Havelock
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship collided with Euphemia ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=7 January 1871 |page=7 |issue=26954 |column=F }}
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|ship=James B. Duffus
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Paedermarkt. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York to Antwerp, Belgium. She was later refloated and towed in to Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands.
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|ship=Jessie Forrest
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was run ashore at Ouessant, Finistère, France and abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Africa to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was subsequently taken in tow for Weymouth, Dorset by a steamship, which then took her in to Brest, Finistère.
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|ship=Speed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Barnard Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rochefort, Charente-Inférieure, France. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a leaky condition.
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|ship=Thames
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Collie Rocks. She was on a voyage from Dunbar, Lothian to Culloden, Inverness-shire. She was refloated and taken in to Macduff, Aberdeenshire for repairs.
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7 January
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|ship=Belle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore in the River Thames near Gravesend, Kent. She was on a voyage from São Miguel Island, Azores to London.
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|ship=Belmont
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven out to sea from Sunderland, County Durham by ice.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 January 1871 |issue=14489 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Camilla
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven out to sea from Sunderland by ice.
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|ship=Cognac Packet
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven out to sea from Sunderland by ice and was severely damaged.
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|ship=Corsair
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven from her moorings by ice and ran aground at Sunderland.
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|ship=Dart
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven from her moorings by ice and ran aground at Sunderland. She was severely damaged.
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|ship=Draco
|flag={{flag|Austria-Hungary|civil}}
|desc=The barque ran aground on the Brake Sand and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Odessa, Russia to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=10 January 1871 |page=6 |issue=26956 |column=F }}
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|ship=Escort
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven from her moorings by ice and ran aground at Sunderland. She was severely damaged.
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|ship=Fancy
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven out to sea from Sunderland by ice. She was severely damaged.
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|ship=Forsoget
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Wingo". She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Helsingør.
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|ship=Fuzil Currin
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Straits Settlements
|desc=The barque sank {{convert|40|nmi|km}} south east of "Mooloopully". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Masulipatam to Madras, India.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=30 March 1871 |issue=7774 }}
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|ship=Jane
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven out to sea from Sunderland by ice.
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|ship=Jean
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven out to sea from Sunderland by ice.
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|ship=Joseph Fish
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from New York to London. She was refloated with assistance from the Ramsgate Lifeboat and two tugs, including Middlesex ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and taken in tow for London.
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|ship=Maria Emilie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The lugger was driven out to sea from Sunderland by ice.
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|ship=Mary Ann
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven out to sea from Sunderland by ice. She was severely damaged.
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|ship=Myrtle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven from her moorings by ice and ran aground at Sunderland. She was severely damaged.
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|ship=Ocean Queen
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands. She was refloated with the assistance of the tug Restless ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and taken in to Ramsgate, Kent.
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|ship=Pearl
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven from her moorings by ice and ran aground at Sunderland.
}}
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|ship=Sea
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque ran aground on the Goodwin Sands Her crew were rescued by the Ramsgate Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool to Cuba. She was refloated and assisted in to Ramsgate by a tug.{{Cite news |title=Gale on the East Coast |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=10 January 1871 |issue=7706 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Sori
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The brig ran aground on the Goodwin Sands and was abandoned by her crew, who were presumed to have subsequently perished. She was on a voyage from Feodosia, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She was refloated with assistance from the Deal and Ramsgate Lifeboats and towed in to Ramsgate.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Wrecks |date=9 January 1871 |page=8 |issue=26955 |column=C }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=10 January 1871 |issue=14490 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Vine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven out to sea from Sunderland by ice. She was severely damaged.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands and was abandoned by her crew, who got aboard the Gull Lightship (22px Trinity House). She was later reboarded by her crew and assisted in to Ramsgate by a tug.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The barque ran aground on the Brake Sand. She was refloated with assistance.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Five unnamed vessels
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=Four barques and a schooner was driven out to sea from Sunderland by ice.
}}
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8 January
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|ship=Minerva
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Licata, Sicily, Italy. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Licata.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
9 January
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|ship={{SV|Edith Wonson|| 2}}
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc= The fishing schooner sank on the Western Banks in a gale. Lost with all 12 crew.{{cite web |url=https://gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/404/LOST-AT-SEAAPR?bidId= |title=Lost at sea |publisher=gloucester-ma.gov |access-date=20 May 2021 |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506124722/https://gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/404/LOST-AT-SEAAPR?bidId= |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?214814 |title=Edith Wonson (+1871) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=20 May 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/ewonson.htm |title=The Edith Wonson |publisher=downtosea.com |access-date=20 May 2021}}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Magnolia
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked off Cape Charles, Virginia. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Norfolk, Virginia.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Zoe
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. Two crew were rescued by Prince ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).
}}
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|ship=Volunteer
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off Race Point, Massachusetts. Her crew were rescued. Volunteer was on a voyage from Málaga, Spain to Boston, Massachusetts. She was subsequently towed in to Provincetown, Massachusetts in a derelict condition.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
10 January
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|ship=Callie Allie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Rosario, Argentina to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=27 February 1871 |issue=7206 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Devonshire Lass
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Foreness Rock, Margate, Kent. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Exeter, Devon. She was refloated with assistance.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Handy
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Blackwater Bank, in the Irish Sea. Her five crew were rescued by the Cahore Lifeboat Sir George Bowles (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Ayr to Wexford. She was refloated and beached at Cahore, County Wexford.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Inkerman
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore at Moulmein, Burma.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=17 January 1871 |issue=9686 }} She was refloated on 14 January.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{SS|Navarre|1860|2}}
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The steamship was holed by ice and sank at the stern at Bordeaux, Gironde. She was placed under repair.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Sarah N. Smith
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque ran aground on the Shovelful Shoals. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Boston, Massachusetts, United States.{{Cite news |title=Serious Shipping Disasters. Burning of an Emigrant Ship and 425 People |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=Birmingham |date=24 January 1871 |issue=3906 }}
}}
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|ship={{HMS|Valourous|1861|6}}
|flag={{navy|UK}}
|desc=The {{sclass|Magicienne|frigate|||1849}} was driven from her moorings and ran aground at Plymouth, Devon.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=13 January 1871 |issue=10229 }}
}}
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11 January
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|ship=Calliope
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}
|desc=The brig ran aground and sank at Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the brig Royal Arch ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Calliope was on a voyage from Liverpool to Syra.{{Cite news |title=Wreck of Two Vessels near Liverpool |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=13 January 1871 |issue=7167 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Cherokee
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The full-rigged ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay. Her 28 crew took to the boats; they were rescued two days later by the schooner Julia ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Cherokee was on a voyage from Liverpool to Bombay, India.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 January 1871 |issue=7716 }}
}}
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|ship=Crescent
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque ran aground at Liverpool. All seventeen people on board survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Havana, Cuba.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 January 1871 |issue=14494 |page=7 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Dartmouth
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner struck a sunken wreck off Porthcurno, Cornwall and sank. Her crew were rescued She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Penzance, Cornwall.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Douro
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The galiot ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. She was refloated and beached at Deal, Kent. She was subsequently taken in to Ramsgate, Kent.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Dunbar Castle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Ryde, Isle of Wight and was scuttled. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Ryde.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Express
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked at Castellamare del Golfo, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy with the loss of her captain. She was on a voyage from the Black Sea to an English port.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=16 January 1871 |page=6 |issue=26961 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=16 January 1871 |issue=7170 }}
}}
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|ship=Harmony
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Lady Isle, in the Firth of Clyde. She was refloated and taken in to Troon, Ayrshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Royal Standard
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in the Isles of Scilly. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Kinsale, County Cork to Southampton, Hampshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Wrecks |date=17 January 1871 |page=7 |issue=26962 |column=E }} She was refloated on 15 January.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unico
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Filey Brigg with the loss of all but one of her thirteen crew. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Genoa.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked south of Royan, Charente-Inférieure.
}}
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12 January
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|ship=Betty
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Anholt, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Burntisland, Fife to Copenhagen, Denmark. She was refloated on 16 January and towed in to Helsingør, Denmark in a leaky condition.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Earl Russell
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was sighted in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|42|31|N|26|00|W}}) whilst on a voyage from Batavia, Netherlands East Indies to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=11 May 1871 |page=7 |issue=27060 |column=F }}
}}
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14 January
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|ship=Gazelle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Faro, Portugal. She was on a voyage from Burntisland, Fife to Lisbon and Faro. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=25 February 1871 |issue=9720 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Julianne Pauline
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Løkken-Vrå, Denmark with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom to Danzig.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Leocadia
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The brig ran aground on the Pennington Spit, off the coast of Hampshire, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Dunkirk, Nord to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Margaret McDonald
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Saltfleet, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Thetis
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Elbe. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Hamburg.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=20 January 1871 |page=6 |issue=26965 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=T. L. McGill
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamboat ran aground in the Mississippi River downstream of Memphis, Tennessee. She was on a voyage from Saint Louis, Missouri to New Orleans, Louisiana. She was destroyed by fire on 16 January with the loss of 58 lives.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The United States |date=4 February 1871 |page=12 |issue=26978 |column=A-C }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Tom Henry
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Kirkwall, Orkney Islands. She was on a voyage from Alloa, Clackmannanshire to Kirkwall. She was refloated on 16 January and taken in to Kirkwall.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Tornado
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea of the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Callao, Peru to Hull, Yorkshire. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
15 January
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Cleopatra
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque sprang a leak and sank at Saint-Marc, Haiti. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=17 February 1871 |issue=9713 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Cornhill
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at Dungarvan, County Antrim. Her three crew were rescued by the Dungarvan Lifeboat Christopher Ludlow (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Edward Boustead
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire to Barcelona, Spain.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Eliza
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked {{convert|2|nmi|km}} south of Garlieston, Wigtownshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Carmarthen to Greenock, Renfrewshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Foyle Packet
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was discovered in a derelict condition in the Irish Sea by the steamship Defence ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was towed in to Liverpool, Lancashire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Friendship
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The galiot ran aground on the Annat Bank, off the mouth of the River Tay. Her three crew were rescued by the Montrose Lifeboat Mincing Lane (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=James and Louisa
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing vessel ran aground at Redcar, Yorkshire. She was refloated and taken in to Hartlepool, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=20 January 1871 |issue=4486 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ruder
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque ran aground on the Crosby Spit, in Liverpool Bay. She was refloated and towed in to the River Mersey.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=St. Elwine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine was driven into the schooners Eldred and Jasper ({{both|Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} and then drove ashore at St. Ives, Cornwall.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Therese
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Guadeloupe. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=17 February 1871 |issue=7739 }} She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Guadeloupe.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 February 1871 |issue=9714 }}
}}
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16 January
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|ship=Anna Boot
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Pamso, off the Dutch coast. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated the next day and towed in to Rotterdam.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Billow
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Lamlash, Isle of Arran. She was on a voyage from Irvine, Ayrshire to Belfast, County Antrim.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=18 January 1871 |page=7 |issue=26963 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{SS|Cambrian|1860|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Lepe, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony to Southampton, Hampshire. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Southampton.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 January 1871 |issue=14497 |page=7 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{SS|Charlton|1869|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Newhaven, Sussex. Three of her crew were rescued by the Coastguard using rocket apparatus; the rest decided to remain on board. She was on a voyage from London to Saint-Nazaire, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.{{cite book |title=Beachy Head Shipwrecks of the 19th Century |first=David |last=Renno |pages=248–49|publisher=Amherst Publishing |location=Sevenoaks |year=2004 |isbn=1-903637-20-1}} Charlton was refloated on 20 January and taken in to Newhaven.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Driver
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near the Tarbat Ness Lighthouse, Ross-shire. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Tain, Ross-shire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Eleuthera
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship collided with the brig George and Richard ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) off the Eddystone Lighthouse and was beached at the mouth of the Yealm River, where she was wrecked with the loss of five of the eighteen people on board. Eleuthera was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Galle, Ceylon.{{Cite news |title=Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=17 January 1871 |issue=2516 |page=2 |volume=37 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Elizabeth and Cicely
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Guernsey
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Rye Harbour, Sussex. Her eight crew were rescued by the Rye Lifeboat Storm Sprite (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Elizabeth and Cicely was on a voyage from Guernsey to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 January 1871 |issue=9687 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Evenna
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on Seeder's Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Waterford. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Waterford.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Fatled
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Plymouth, Devon with the loss of five of her eighteen crew.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Fairy
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and sank on Islay, Inner Hebrides.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Flora
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the Great Yarmouth Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Poole, Dorset. She was refloated on 19 January and taken in to Great Yarmouth in a severely leaky condition.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Florence
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The galiot was driven ashore and wrecked at Lossiemouth, Lothian. Her four crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Littleferry, Sutherland. She was refloated on 26 January and taken in to Lossiemouth.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Friendship
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ketch was wrecked on the Annat Bank, off Montrose, Forfarshire. Her three crew were rescued by the Montrose Lifeboat Mincing Lane (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution)
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=General Outram
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship foundered off "Rutnagherry", India with the loss of 53 of the 88 people on board. Survivors were rescued by the steamship Philox ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). General Outram was on a voyage from Cochin to Bombay.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=13 February 1871 |page=6 |issue=26985 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Kalua, or
Kurus
|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
|desc=The schooner sank at Great Yarmouth with the loss of two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by the Gorleston Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=17 January 1871 |issue=7712 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Kenilworth Castle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was sighted in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|6|31|N|23|17|W}}) whilst on a voyage from Calcutta, India to London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lady Huntley
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and sank at Ramsey, Isle of Man. Her four crew were rescued by the Ramsey Lifeboat Manchester Two Sisters (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Lady Huntley was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Dublin.{{Cite news |title=General News |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=18 January 1871 |issue=315 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and sank at Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Ramsgate, Kent. Also reported to have sunk on the Felixtowe Ridge, off the coast of Suffolk.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mary Louisa
|flag={{flagcountry|New Zealand}}
|desc= The 19-ton ketch capsized in a sudden storm at the mouth of Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere, New Zealand.Ingram & Wheatley, p. 172.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mary Stewart
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore in Loch Ryan and was abandoned by her crew. She floated off, drove across the loch, came ashore and was wrecked.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Reform
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The lugger struck Deal Pier, Kent and foundered with the loss of eleven of her fourteen crew. She was answering a distress call.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Salmon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Tresco, Isles of Scilly. She was on a voyage from London to East London, Cape Colony.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 January 1871 |issue=7172 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=St. Philomene
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Bournemouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Isigny-sur-Mer, Calvados to Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Traveller
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Stoney Binks, off the mouth of the Humber. Her crew were rescued by the Spurn Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from London to Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=17 February 1871 |issue=4490 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Vertranen
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Roker Rock, North Shields, Northumberland, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Victory
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop was driven ashore at Scrabster, Caithness. She was refloated and assisted in to Scrabster in a severely leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=The Late Gales |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 January 1871 |issue=9687 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Wayford
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered at Ballyteague, County Wexford with the loss of all eighteen crew.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Deal, Kent.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the Shipledge, off the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. Her seven crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Four unnamed vessels
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The Thames barges sank in the River Thames upstream of London Bridge. One sank at St. Thomas's Hospital with the loss of both crew.{{Cite news |title=Severe Gale |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=17 January 1871 |issue=30299 |page=3 }}
}}
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17 January
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|ship=Alacrity
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Ramsgate, Kent. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Honfleur, Calvados, France. She was refloated and assisted in to Ramgsate in a leaky condition.
}}
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|ship=Anna
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The chasse-marée was driven ashore and wrecked at Grange Chine, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Mesquer, Loire-Inférieure to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure.
}}
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|ship=Atlas
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig sprang a leak and was beached at Grimsby, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to London.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 January 1871 |issue=14498 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Charles
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at West Hartlepool, County Durham. She was on a voyage from Littlehampton, Sussex to West Hartlepool.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=18 January 1871 |page=7 |issue=26963 |column=F }} She was refloated.
}}
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|ship=Guitar
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Warrenpoint, County Antrim. She was later refloated.
}}
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|ship=Justine
|flag={{flagicon|France}} Algeria
|desc=The brigantine was wrecked between Bône and Philippeville.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=28 January 1871 |issue=9696 }}
}}
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|ship=Prigitano
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Bône.
}}
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|ship=Skudesnaes
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Heligoland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Harburg.
}}
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|ship=Wayfarer
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Kilmore, County Wexford. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Liverpool, Lancashire.
}}
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|ship=William and Henry
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven onto the Friars Bank, off Beaumaris, Anglesey. She was on a voyage from Wicklow to Liverpool.
}}
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked between "Gigelly" and Phillippeville.
}}
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18 January
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|ship=Effort
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Guernsey
|desc=The brigantine departed from Guernsey for London. Presumed foundered with the loss of all eight crew. Wreckage discovered off Whitstable, Kent was thought to have come from the ship.{{Cite news |title=To the Humane and the Charitable |newspaper=Star |location=Saint Peter Port |date=9 March 1871 |issue=111 |volume=58 }}
}}
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|ship=Minerva
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground and was damaged at King's Lynn, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
}}
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|ship=Mystery
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Dundee, Forfarshire to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 January 1871 |issue=9688 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 January 1871 |issue=7173 }}
}}
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|ship=Rosa
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Vlissingen, Zeeland. She was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Vlissingen. She was refloated and towed in to Terneuzen, Zeeland.
}}
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19 January
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|ship=Algiers
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at St. Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping News |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=20 January 1871 |issue=54925 }}
}}
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|ship=Alma
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Livorno, Italy.
}}
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|ship=Bachelina
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at San Pier d'Arena. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=23 January 1871 |issue=7717 }}
}}
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|ship=Due Amici
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Vado Ligure.
}}
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|ship=Enterprise
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The paddle steamer ran aground on the West Hoyle Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Dublin.{{Cite news |title=Serious Disaster to a Dublin and Liverpool Steamer |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=Birmingham |date=20 January 1871 |issue=3903 }}
}}
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|ship=Eroe
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Livorno.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Evangelina
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and damaged at Livorno.
}}
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|ship=Maria Ferguson
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near the Loggerhead Lighthouse, in the Dry Tortugas, Florida. She was on a voyage from Mobile to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 February 1871 |issue=14515 |page=7 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=20 February 1871 |issue=9715 }}
}}
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|ship=Newsky
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground at Redcar, North Riding of Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Bilbao, Spain to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. She was refloated the next day and resumed her voyage.
}}
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|ship=Padre Mimbelli
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore at Livorno.
}}
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|ship=Rachelina
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at San Pier d'Arena. Her crew were rescued.
}}
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|ship=Rosa
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Livorno.
}}
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|ship=Springbok
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Coatham, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Middlesbrough.
}}
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20 January
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|ship=Caroline
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner collided with the ship Sea Star ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned {{convert|20|nmi|km}} east of Cape Bon, Beylik of Tunis. Her crew were rescued by Sea Star. Caroline was on a voyage from Agrigento, Sicily, Italy to Porto, Portugal.
}}
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|ship={{SS|City of Aberdeen|1865|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Portlethen, Aberdeenshire. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The City of Aberdeen Steamer |date=21 January 1871 |page=5 |issue=26966 |column=C }}
}}
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|ship=Halston
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Le Verdon-sur-Mer, Gironde.
}}
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|ship=Java
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The brigantine ran aground at Sierra Leone. She was consequently condemned.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 February 1871 |issue=7192 }}
}}
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|ship=Rosareo Antonino
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Santander with the loss of five of her crew.
}}
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|ship=Volante
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop was run into by the steamship Conservator ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} and sank off Scarborough, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by Conservator.
}}
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21 January
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|ship=Carolina
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The barque was sighted off the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork, United Kingdom whilst on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States to Cork. Presumed foundered off Galley Head, County Cork with the loss of all hands; wreckage thought to be from the ship was found by Goethe ({{flagcountry|German Empire}}).{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=11 February 1871 |issue=14518 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Consuelo
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Santa Martha.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=28 February 1871 |page=10 |issue=26998 |column=E }}
}}
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|ship=Equator
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig collided with a barque and sank in the English Channel {{convert|9|nmi|km}} south south west of Hastings, Sussex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cuba to Alloa, Clackmannanshire.{{Cite news |title=(Untitled) |newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post |location=Exeter |date=25 January 1871 |issue=5458 }}
}}
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|ship=Fashion
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on the Isle of Arran. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Killybegs, County Donegal.
}}
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|ship=Gannet
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Blankenberge, West Flanders, Belgium. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Antwerp, Belgium. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=23 January 1871 |issue=7176 }}
}}
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|ship=Isabella
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground and was wrecked at Whitehaven, Cumberland.
}}
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22 January
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|ship=Fantome
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig sprang a leak was abandoned {{convert|30|nmi|km}} off Terceira Island, Azores. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Margaret ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and a schooner. Fantome was on a voyage from Sombrero, Anguilla to Gloucester.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Plymouth, Feb. 4 |date=6 February 1871 |page=12 |issue=26978 |column=E }}
}}
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|ship=Industry
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Filey, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued.
}}
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|ship=Maria
|flag={{flag|New Zealand}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Bacton, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Her nineteen crew were rescued by the Bacton Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Norway to Dunedin.
}}
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23 January
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|ship=Callirrhoe
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground in the River Thames at Blackwall, Middlesex. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Chase
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned at off Penarth, Glamorgan.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 January 1871 |issue=7177 }}
}}
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|ship=Hero
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Belfast, County Antrim.
}}
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|ship=John and Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from London for Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=6 April 1871 |page=6 |issue=27030 |column=F }}
}}
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|ship=Lizzie and Annie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig ran aground on the Corton Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk and was abandoned with the loss of one of her nine crew. Survivors were rescued by a lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Alexandria, Egypt.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=25 January 1871 |issue=7719 }}{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Royal Cornwall Gazette |location=Truro |date=28 January 1871 |issue=3523 |page=5 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Maize
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near South Shields, County Durham. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France to South Shields. She broke up on 30 January.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Psyche
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck a rock and sank at Amoy, China. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=1 April 1871 |issue=7776 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Utility
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner collided with the Bull Lightship (22px Trinity House) and sank. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=William Ash
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Corton Sand. Her crew were rescued by the Gorleston Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Dunkirk, Nord, France.
}}
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24 January
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|ship=Barbara
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Roman River,{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=16 February 1871 |issue=7738 }} or in the Roma River.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=16 February 1871 |issue=9712 }}
}}
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|ship=Catherine and John
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the barque Agnes Campbell ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Catherine and John was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick to Matanzas, Cuba.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=14 February 1871 |page=10 |issue=26986 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Numerous Wrecks and Loss of Life |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=13 February 1871 |issue=30322 |page=6 }}
}}
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|ship=City of Auckland
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship caught fire at Auckland, New Zealand and was scuttled.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=21 February 1871 |page=9 |issue=26992 |column=F }} She was refloated on 7 February.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=4 April 1871 |page=11 |issue=27028 |column=B }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{SS|Irishman|1854|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship collided with the steamship {{SS|Kintyre|1868|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the Clyde and was beached.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=26 January 1871 |issue=7178 }}
}}
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|ship=Kate
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Tampico, Mexico. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=28 February 1871 |issue=9722 }}
}}
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|ship=Prins Carl
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Pearl Rock. She was on a voyage from Trieste to London, United Kingdom. She was refloated and towed in to Gibraltar by the steamship Evadne ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=25 January 1871 |page=6 |issue=26969 |column=F }}
}}
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|ship=Starling
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner struck the breakwater and sank at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=26 January 1871 |issue=9694 }}
}}
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|ship=Sydney
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Demerara, British Guiana to Queenstown, County Cork.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=22 February 1871 |issue=9717 }}
}}
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25 January
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|ship=Charles Gray
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Blacktail Sand, in the Thames Estuary.
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|ship=Fire King
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Tranmere, Cheshire. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and taken in to Liverpool for repairs.
}}
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|ship=Hannibal
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near "Eyjafjalla", Iceland.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=15 February 1871 |issue=9711 }} Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Iceland.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=John and Susannah
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop ran aground on the Barnard Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk and was wrecked with the loss of all three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Lowestoft, Suffolk to London.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=26 January 1871 |issue=2524 |page=4 |volume=38 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Louisa
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Old Harry Ledges. She was on a voyage from Newport to Southampton. She was refloated on 27 January{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Western Mail |location=Cardiff |date=31 January 1871 |issue=550 }}
}}
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|ship=Lydia
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked near Le Conquet, Finistère. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to L'Orient, Morbihan.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=1 February 1871 |issue=9699 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 February 1871 |issue=7185 }}
}}
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|ship=Ocean
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque ran aground on a reef off the Itacolomi Lighthouse, Brazil. She was on a voyage from Maranhão, Brazil to Pensacola, Florida, United States. She was refloated and put back to Maranhão in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=3 March 1871 |issue=7751 }}
}}
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|ship= Sarah
|flag={{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Margate Sands, off Margate, Kent in a storm. Her six crew were rescued by the Margate Lifeboat Quiver (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Sarah was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Southampton, Hampshire.{{cite book | first=Anthony | last=Lane | year=2009 | title=Shipwrecks of Kent | page=89 | publisher=The History Press | location=Stroud |isbn=978-0-7524-1720-2 }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Rescue of a Shipwrecked Crew |date=26 January 1871 |page=7 |issue=26970 |column=D }}{{Cite news |title=Gallant Rescue of a Shipwrecked Crew |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 January 1871 |issue=14504 |page=6}}
}}
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|ship=Sovereign
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Blacktail Sand.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=26 January 1871 |issue=7720 }} She was later refloated and taken in to Southend, Essex in a severely leaky condition.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ferryboat was run down and sunk in the River Ely by the steamship Johns ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).
}}
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26 January
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|ship=Erin
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was run into by the steamship Ybarra ({{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}) and sank in the River Wye at Newport, Monmouthshire. Her crew were rescued. Erin was on a voyage from Newport to Waterford.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=27 January 1871 |issue=9695 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 January 1871 |issue=14506 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Kate Smith
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked at Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey with the loss of ten of the fourteen people on board. She was on a voyage from the South Passages to New York.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=11 February 1871 |issue=2538 |page=4 |volume=38 }}
}}
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|ship=Mary Ann
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Jamaica
|desc=The ship capsized at Saint Vincent. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Pride
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque ran aground on the Nore. She was on a voyage from Erith, Kent to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Sheerness, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Yarmouth |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=4 February 1871 |issue=6875 }}
}}
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|ship=Queen
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at Ballyferris Point, County Down. She was on a voyage from Caernarfon to Londonderry. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Shamrock
|flag={{flagcountry|New Zealand}}
|desc= The 23-ton cutter grounded and was wrecked on the Whangapoua bar, New Zealand.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Vincent J. Wallace
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire off Môle-Saint-Nicolas, Haiti. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York to Jacmel, Haiti.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=28 February 1871 |issue=7748 }}
}}
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|ship=Wasp
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked east of Gibraltar.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=28 January 1871 |issue=7722 }}{{Cite news |title=Mail and Shipping News |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=6 February 1871 |issue=2533 |page=3 |volume=38 }}
}}
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27 January
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|ship=Forest King
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked in Barclay Sound. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Honolulu, Hawaii to Port Gamble, Washington Territory.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=9 March 1871 |issue=9730}}{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=10 March 1871 |issue=7757 }}
}}
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|ship={{USS|Kensington|1862|2}}
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamship collided with the barque Templar ({{flag|Argentina|civil}}) and sank in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|60|nmi|km}} north north east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All fifty people on board were rescued by the steamship {{SS|Georgia|1863|2}} ({{flag|United States|1867}}). Kensington was on a voyage from Savannah, Georgia to Boston, Massachusetts. Templar was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was towed into Hampton Roads and repaired.{{cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002683/18710217/081/0006 |access-date=20 February 2024 |work=North British Daily Mail |issue=7467 |date=17 February 1871 |location=Glasgow |page=6|via=British Newspaper Archive}}
}}
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|ship=Maggie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore near Weymouth, Dorset. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Southampton, Hampshire.
}}
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|ship=Samuel and Sarah
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was run into by the barque Johanna Engels ({{flag|Belgium}}) and sank in the North Sea {{convert|10|nmi|km}} off Cromer, Norfolk. Her five crew were rescued by the barque Robert Adamson ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Samuel and Sarah was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to a French port.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court of Admiralty, Nov. 27 |date=28 November 1871 |page=11 |issue=27232 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Aldeburgh |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=31 January 1871 |issue=6874 }}
}}
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28 January
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|ship=Beaver
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack collided with the steamship Rose ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Irish Sea off Morecambe, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued by Rose.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=3 February 1871 |page=4 |issue=26977 |column=F }}
}}
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|ship={{HMS|Torch|1859|6}}
|flag={{navy|UK}}
|desc=The {{sclass|Philomel|gunvessel}} was driven ashore. Subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service.{{Cite news |title=Naval Disasters Since 1860 |newspaper=Hampshire Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=10 May 1873 |issue=4250 }}
}}
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|ship=Violet
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Longships, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.
}}
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|ship=Wakefield
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner sprang a leak and sank in Conway Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bangor, Caernarfonshire to Chester, Cheshire.
}}
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|ship=W. R. Arthur
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamboat suffered a boiler explosion and fire in the Mississippi River {{convert|14|nmi|km}} upstream of Memphis, Tennessee with the loss of 87 lives. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana to Louisville, Kentucky.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Fearful Explosion on Board a Steamer |date=15 February 1871 |page=4 |issue=26987 |column=D }}
}}
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29 January
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|ship=Midsummer
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was damaged by fire at Swansea, Glamorgan.{{Cite news |title=Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper |location=London |date=5 February 1871 |issue=1472 }}
}}
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|ship=Morton Castle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Sunderland, County Durham.
}}
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|ship=Omaha
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Ossabaw Sound. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Savannah, Georgia. She was later refloated and completed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 February 1871 |issue=7200 }}
}}
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|ship=Susannah
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Ossabaw Sound. She was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Savannah. She broke up during efforts to refloat her.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
30 January
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|ship=Alfred Hall
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey. She was on a voyage from a port in Virginia to New York.
}}
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|ship=Batallion
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was wrecked on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued, but three people lost their lives effecting the rescue. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to São Miguel Island, Azores.{{cite book |title=The Salvagers |first=Hervey |last=Benham |author-link=Hervey Benham |page=192 |publisher=Essex County Newspapers Ltd |location=Colchester |year=1980 |isbn=00-950944-2-3}}
}}
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|ship=Camco
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steam large was driven ashore near Arbroath, Forfarshire. She was refloated on 16 February and taken in to Kirkcaldy, Fife.
}}
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|ship=Commodore
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore on Scharhörn, Germany. She was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire to Glückstadt, Germany.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 February 1871 |issue=14513 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Jane Hardman
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Grenada
|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Barbados.
}}
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|ship=John S. Wainwright
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The schooner was abandoned at sea. She subsequently came ashore at the mouth of the Inhambane River and was wrecked.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 June 1871 |issue=7835 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Kanagona
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was run down and sunk in the English Channel off Portland, Dorset by the steamship Mauritius ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Her crew were rescued. Kanangona was on a voyage from Saint Paul de Loanda, Portuguese East Africa to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lady Claremont
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew took to a boat; they were rescued on 9 February by Assunta ({{flag|Argentina|civil}}). Lady Claremont was on a voyage from the Cape Verde Islands to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=11 March 1871 |issue=9732 }}
}}
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|ship=Mary G. Hall
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Little Egg Harbor. Her crew were rescued by a lifeboat.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
31 January
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|ship=Dania
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The schooner was abandoned off Todhead, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom. Her five crew were rescued by the Montrose Lifeboat Mincing Lane (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Dania was on a voyage from Bergen, Norway to Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom. She was towed in to Montrose, Forfarshire, United Kingdom the next day.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=2 February 1871 |issue=14510 |page=7 }}{{Cite news |title=National Lifeboat Institution |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=4 March 1871 |issue=30338 |page=6 }}
}}
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|ship=E. R. J.
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked on St Martin's, Isles of Scilly. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Monte Video, Uruguay to Sunderland, County Durham.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Glenfeadon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner collided with I. R. Hea ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) {{convert|9|nmi|km}} south west of the Mumbles, Glamorgan and was abandoned by her crew. Glenfeadon was on a voyage from Truro, Cornwall to Neath, Glamorgan. She was subsequently towed in to Swansea, Glamorgan by the tug Piero Gomez ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).
}}
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|ship=Hallo
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked near Buddon, Forfarshire with the loss of all hands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ocean Ranger
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Petit Bois Island, Mississippi. She was on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Mobile, Alabama.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 February 1871 |issue=7190 }} She was later refloated and completed her voyage, arriving at Mobile on 8 February.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 February 1871 |issue=7204 }}
}}
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|ship=Scout
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground off Cap Gris Nez, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was refloated and towed in to Calais.
}}
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|ship=A. A. Drebert
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked off Cerro Molle, Peru.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ada
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Gut of Canso.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Adele
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore north of Porto, Portugal.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Adelaide
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was lost at Mayaguana, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from Maracaibo, Venezuela to Manila, Spanish East Indies.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Alert
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London. She was refloated and taken in to Lowestoft, Suffolk in a leaky condition.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Alexandre
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Marbella, Spain. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cartagena, Spain to an English port.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Amoor
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground. She was refloated and taken in to Plymouth, Devon for repairs.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Amykos
|desc=The barque ran aground at Ystad, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Danzig to Belfast, County Antrim, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken in to Rønne, Denmark.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Andrew Lovitt
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Spiekeroog, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Savannah, Georgia to Bremen.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=19 January 1871 |issue=7714 }} She was refloated on 18 January and taken in to Bremerhaven.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Anfrilrite
|flag={{flag|Ottoman Empire|red}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Mangalia before 13 January.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Anna
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 24 January. Her crew were rescued by Edgar ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=2 February 1871 |issue=7726 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Appin
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Shingle Spit. She was refloated and taken in to Zhoushan, China.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Apton
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned at sea. She came ashore at "Chekogin Point", United States.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ariel
|flag={{flag|New South Wales|1870}}
|desc=The steamship caught fire in the Murray River.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=August and Charlotte
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was abandoned in ice off Varberg, Sweden.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=12 January 1871 |page=7 |issue=26958 |column=E }}
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Avenir
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Gibraltar. She was on a voyage from Oran, Algeria to London. She was refloated.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Avoca
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship heeled over at Dundalk, County Louth. She filled when the tide rose.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Baron Heemstra
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The steamship was abandoned in ice in the "Meir".
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Black Brothers
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship sank whilst on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{SS|Bretagne|1866|2}}
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The steamship was wrecked at Cape Shablar, Ottoman Empire. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Cambria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Donaghadee, County Down. She was refloated.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Cameo
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Arbroath, Forfarshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Carobel
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked before 10 January. Her crew were rescued by the barque Catharine (Flag unknown) . Carobel was on a voyage from Manila, Spanish East Indies to New York.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Catherine and Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground near Kilrush, County Clare. She was on a voyage from Kilrush to Liverpool, Lancashire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Chedabucto
|flag={{flag|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at St. Peter's, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Chaleur Bay to Saint John's, Newfoundland Colony.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Chloe
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship collided with the steamship Jane Bacon ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank off St Bees Head, Cumberland with the loss of a crew member. Also reported as Jane Bacon being run down by Chloe.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{SS|City of Baltimore|1855|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States. She was on a voyage from New York to Liverpool. She was later refloated and resumed her voyage.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Clara
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at "Lianho", China. She was on a voyage from Shantou to Niuzhuang, China.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Clarendon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was lost in the South China Sea.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=23 January 1871 |page=11 |issue=26967 |column=B }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Clifford
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Jamaica
|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Ocho Rios. She was on a voyage from St. Jago de Cuba, Cuba to Jamaica.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Constantine
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Skagen, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Exmouth, Devon to Gothenburg.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Copse
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig caught fire at St. Ubes, Portugal and was scuttled. Her ten crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Almería, Spain to the River Tyne.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Cornwall
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner collided with Jacinta ({{flag|Portugal|civil}}) and sank in the Bristol Channel with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Plymouth to Newport, Monmouthshire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=23 January 1871 |issue=14501 |page=7 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Cornwall, or
Cromwell
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Minatitlán, Mexico.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Cornwallis
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Hartlepool, County Durham for Philadelphia. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 May 1871 |issue=7276 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=C. White
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick to Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{SS|Delaware|1862|2}}
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Fisherman's Flat, in the Hooghly River. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=31 January 1871 |issue=9698 }}
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Delphin
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in ice off Visby.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Duchess of Beaufort
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the English Channel off the coast of Devon between 12 and 20 January with the loss of all six crew. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Torquay, Devon.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 January 1871 |issue=7177 }}
}}
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|ship=Dunsmole
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Edith
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground off Huelva, Spain. She was on a voyage from Huelva to Liverpool. She was refloated and resumed her voyage, but consequently put in to Falmouth, Cornwall on 24 January in a severely leaky condition.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Edward
|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
|desc=The galiot was driven ashore at Espinho, Portugal. She was on a voyage from Bahia, Brazil to Porto.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=11 January 1871 |issue=7707 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Elangowan
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked near Strömstad. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Alloa, Clackmannanshire, United Kingdom to Christiania.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Eleanor
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig ran aground near Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from London to Rotterdam, South Holland. She was refloated and assisted in to Rotterdam.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Eliza Lee
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground. She was on a voyage from Jersey to Guernsey, Channel Islands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ellon Castle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was lost at "Lianho". She was on a voyage from Shantou to Niuzhuang.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Emilie
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore and wrecked near Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Emilie, or
Emillys
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on Watson's Shoal. She was refloated and taken in to Warrenpoint, County Antrim.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=13 January 1871 |issue=7167 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Evenus
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground off Waterford. She was on a voyage from Newport to Waterford.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Falkland
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Salt Keys. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Pensacola, Florida to Belfast.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=6 February 1871 |page=7 |issue=26978 |column=D }}{{Cite news |title=Violent Gale |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=17 February 1871 |issue=54949 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Fanny
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered on or before 9 January with the loss of six of her crew. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Stettin.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Fides
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship foundered off the mouth of the Weser with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Burntisland, Fife, United Kingdom to Geestemünde.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Francis
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was damaged by fire at Mobile, Alabama, United States.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=24 January 1871 |issue=9692 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Frank
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship collided with Leona (Flag unknown) and sank. She was on a voyage from Cienfuegos, Cuba to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=26 January 1871 |page=6 |issue=26970 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Fremad
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Kamperduin, North Holland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Leith to Philadelphia.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Gala Placida
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship sank at "Besharka". She was on a voyage from Berdyanski, Russia to Falmouth.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Garibaldi
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the coast of Greece.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=17 January 1871 |issue=9686 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Gem of the North
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Montrose, Forfarshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=George
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Giovanni
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Spiropoli.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Gleaner
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Cape St. Antonio".
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Grace
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Jersey
|desc=The smack ran aground on The Shingles, off the Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from London to Torquay. She was refloated and anchored at Hurst Castle, Hampshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Gustava Sophia
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship foundered on or before 9 January. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Copenhagen.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Haimlota
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Chinhae, Korea. She was refloated on 27 January but drove ashore again and was wrecked.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=20 March 1871 |page=5 |issue=27015 |column=E }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Harkaway
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was refloated and taken in to Troon, Ayrshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Hiram
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was lost in the Gut of Canso. She was on a voyage from Cow Bay, Nova Scotia to Halifax.
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Hume
|flag={{flag|New South Wales|1870}}
|desc=The barge capsized in the Murray River.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Innocente
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship collided with the steamship Austrian (Flag unknown) and sank in the Sea of Marmara.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Isabel
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The brig was abandoned at sea.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Isabella
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at North Berwick, Lothian. Her crew were rescued. She was refloated and towed in to Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.
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|ship=James
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The schooner foundered with the loss of all hands before 9 January. She was on a voyage from North Sydney, Nova Scotia to Halifax.
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|ship=Jane Harriet
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was lost whilst on a voyage from Halifax to Guysborough, Nova Scotia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Casualties |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=2 February 1871 |issue=9700 |page=5|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000060/18710202/022/0005 |access-date=20 February 2024 |via=British Newswpaper Archive}}
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|ship=Jessie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Southend, Essex. She was on a voyage from London to Barbados. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=26 January 1871 |issue=7178 }}
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|ship=Jeune Arthur
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near St. Ives Head, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Algiers, Algeria.
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|ship=Jeune Sainte
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Moliets-et-Maa, Landes before 28 January.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=4 February 1871 |issue=7728 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=4 February 1871 |issue=9702 }}
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|ship=Juanita
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was lost whilst on a voyage from San Blas to Mazatlan, Cuba.
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|ship=Jungfrau
|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Cuxhaven. She was on a voyage from Saint Lucia to Hamburg. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=10 January 1871 |issue=9680 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 January 1871 |issue=7165 }}
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|ship=Kate Cummings
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Cow Bay to Saint John's, Newfoundland Colony.
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|ship=Kathardin
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Edgartown, Massachusetts. She was on a voyage from the Rio Grande to Boston, Massachusetts.
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|ship=Levine
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The brig ran aground at the mouth of the Rio Grande do Sul. She was refloated and put back to the Rio Grande do Sul in a leaky condition.
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|ship=Libero
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Kingstown, County Dublin, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Troon to Naples. She was refloated.
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|ship=Ligure
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and sank near Egmond aan Zee, North Holland. She was on a voyage from Taganrog, Russia to Amsterdam, North Holland.
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|ship=Lindisfarne
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Whitburn, County Durham. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands to South Shields. She was refloated and taken in to South Shields.
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|ship=Lord Rollo
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Kilrush, County Clare She was on a voyage from Westport, County Mayo.to the Bristol Channel. She was later refloated.
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|ship=Magnet
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Bideford, Devon.
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|ship=Malvina
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=6 January 1871 |issue=9677 }}
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|ship=Maria Josefa
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on "Goeritz Island".
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|ship=Maria Kjier
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Hirsholmene. She was on a voyage from Aalborg to Korsør. She was later refloated and taken in to Fredrikshavn.
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Marie
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Gulf of Lyon.
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|ship=Marie Seraphine
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Anticosti Island, Nova Scotia to Quebec City.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=20 January 1871 |issue=9689 }}
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|ship=Marion Emerson
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Bremerhaven. She was on a voyage from Savannah to Bremen, Germany.
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|ship=Mary Field
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground and sank off Felixtowe, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields to Ramsgate, Kent.
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|ship=Mateo A.
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on "Cape Sciabla". Her crew were rescued.
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|ship=Merida
|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Texel, North Holland. She was on a voyage from Mexico to Hamburg. She was refloated.
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|ship=Montezuma
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground on Breskins Bank, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Infériure to Antwerp.
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|ship=Moselle
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Folly Island, South Carolina. She was on a voyage from Saint Vincent to Charleston, South Carolina. She was later refloated and towed in to Charleston.
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|ship=Nephine
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Boston, Massachusetts. She was on a voyage from Messina, Sicily to Boston.
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|ship=Netzine Bahri
|flag={{flag|Ottoman Empire|red}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Varna.
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|ship=Neva
|flag={{flagicon|Newfoundland}} Newfoundland Colony
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Gingerbread Grounds and was abandoned. She was on a voyage from Saint John's to Cárdenas, Cuba. She was refloated and towed in to Nassau, Bahamas.
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|ship=Nieves
|flag={{flag|Chile}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean. She was on a voyage from the Puget Sound to Valparaíso.
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|ship=Noova Vittoria
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was lost. She was on a voyage from Smyrna, Ottoman Empire to Trieste.
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Olaf
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Reedy Island, Delaware, United States. She was on a voyage from Belfast to Philadelphia.
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|ship=Orazio
|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She was on a voyage from Marianople to Marseille{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=3 January 1871 |issue=9674 }}
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|ship=Pacific
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship sank. She was on a voyage from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Eastport, Maine.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 January 1871 |issue=7161 }}
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|ship=Paolina
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Gulf of Burgas. She was on a voyage from the Danube to Marseille.
}}
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|ship=Peryable
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 January 1871 |issue=7169 }}
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Philomene
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Gulf of Lyon.
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|ship=Pontiac
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore {{convert|10|nmi|km}} north of Cape Lookout. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Boston, Massachusetts.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 February 1871 |issue=7196 }}
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|ship=Rimer, or Runer
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Crosby Spit, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to Liverpool. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 January 1871 |issue=7171 }}
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|ship=R. L. Alston
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Gironde. She was refloated and taken in to Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
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|ship=Rosalie Ahrens
|desc=The ship was discovered derelict in the Kattegat.
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|ship=Rosina
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Long Island, New York. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux to New York City.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=19 January 1871 |issue=7714 }}
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|ship=Roy
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Yangtze. She was on a voyage from Fuzhou to Shanghai, China. She was refloated.
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|ship=San Vicente
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Laceobat".{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=9 January 1871 |issue=9679 }}
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|ship=Secret
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was wrecked at the mouth of the "Sheen River", County Kerry.
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|ship=Senorita
|flag={{flagcountry|Empire of Brazil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore by ice at Sandy Point. She was on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro to Boston, Massachusetts. She was later refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 February 1871 |issue=7198 }}
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|ship=Shaporgee Hirgee
|flag={{flagcountry|British Raj}}
|desc=The barque was destroyed by fire at Cochin.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=11 January 1871 |issue=7707 }}
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|ship=Siela
|flag={{flag|Chile}}
|desc=The ship was lost. She was on a voyage from Cobija to "Copilla".{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=14 January 1871 |issue=9684 }}
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|ship=Sophia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire. She was on a voyage from New York to Constantinople. She was later refloated.
}}
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|ship=Spark
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the coast of the Newfoundland Colony. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Penarth, Glamorgan.
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|ship=St. Antonio
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Lussini".
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=St. Louis
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship foundered. She was on a voyage from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais to Marseille.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=4 January 1871 |issue=9675 }}
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|ship=St. Louis
|flag={{flag|Belgium}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Antwerp.
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|ship=St. Peters
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from the Newfoundland Colony to Sydney, Nova Scotia.
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|ship=Susana
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Oshawa Sound.
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|ship=Tekla
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Rörö, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom to Copenhagen.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=13 January 1871 |issue=9682 }}
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|ship=Thomas Snowden
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean before 25 January. She was on a voyage from São Miguel Island to New York.
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|ship=Times
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Scheldt.
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|ship=Timandra
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Digby, Nova Scotia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=5 January 1871 |issue=9676 }}
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|ship=Trinidad
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, United States. She was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Liverpool. She was refloated and taken in to Key West, Florida, where she arrived on 19 January.
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|ship={{SV|Two Forty||2}}
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The fishing schooner was lost on Seal Island, Nova Scotia while on her homeward passage from the Grand Banks. Crew saved.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/1871.htm |title=1871 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=5 July 2021}}
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|ship=Union
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Bermuda. She was on a voyage from Saint Domingo to New York.
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|ship=Ville de Dieppe
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The barque was in collision with Blenheim ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned by all but two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Cartagena to Liverpool. She was discovered by Fanny Kemble ({{flag|United States|1867}}), which put four crew on board. They took her in to Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=1 February 1871 |issue=7184 }}
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|ship=Virgilia
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the north point of Formosa. Her crew were rescued.
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|ship=Wasper
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Dry Tortugas, Florida. She was on a voyage from Mobile to Boston, Massachusetts.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=30 January 1871 |issue=9697 }}
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|ship=William Heinburg
|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Aveiro, Portugal with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Riga to Porto.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=21 January 1871 |page=12 |issue=26966 |column=A }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=21 January 1871 |issue=9690 }}
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|ship=Y. F. V.
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The ship was lost in the South China Sea. She was on a voyage from Saigon, French Indo-China to Hong Kong.
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References
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=Bibliography=
- Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.
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