List of shipwrecks in November 1872
1 November
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|ship={{SV|Ada L. Harris||2}}
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The schooner was lost on Nantucket Shoals. crew saved.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/1872.htm |title=1872 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=5 July 2021}}
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|ship=Allegro
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on "Winga". She was on a voyage from a Baltic port to London. She was refloated and taken into Gothenburg, Sweden in a waterlogged condition.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=4 November 1872 |issue=8275 }}
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|ship=Anna
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Omoa, British Honduras for Glasgow, Renfrewshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 March 1873 |issue=15183 |page=3 }}
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|ship=Edmund
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked near Lysekil, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland to London.
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|ship=Emerald Isle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Whitefarland, Isle of Arran. She was on a voyage from Wexford to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=2 November 1872 |issue=8274 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 November 1872 |issue=15059 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Eudora
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Messina, Sicily, Italy. She was refloated with the assistance of five smacks but sank off the Shipwash Sand, off the coast of Suffolk. Two of her crew were rescued, the rest were reported missing.
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|ship=Fenella
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground and was wrecked at Newhaven, Sussex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ryde, Isle of Wight to Dover, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 November 1872 |issue=15059 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Flora
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on "Tilstarne". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from a Baltic port to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
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|ship=Fremad
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Jadder Reef. Her crew were rescued. she was on a voyage from Stettin, Germany to Newcastle upon Tyne.
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|ship=Janet
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner collided with Charity ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned in the Dogger Bank. Her crew were rescued. Janet was on a voyage from Lybster, Caithness to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=2 November 1872 |issue=27524 |page=6 |column=D }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=4 November 1872 |issue=27525 |page=11 |column=E }}
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|ship= {{SS|Moscou||2}}
|flag={{flag|Belgium}}
|desc=The steamship foundered off Skagen, Denmark with the loss of seven of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Wifsta Warf ({{flag|Denmark}}). Moscou was on a voyage from Antwerp to Danzig, Germany.{{csr|register=MSI|id=5619030|shipname=Moscou|accessdate=16 January 2020}}
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|ship=Queen
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Portsmouth, Hampshire.
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|ship=Stanislaus
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The smack sank off Harfleur, Seine-Inférieure. Her crew were rescued by the steamship William Bankes ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters in the Channel |newspaper=Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper |location=London |date=3 November 1872 |issue=1563 }}
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2 November
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|ship=Anglesea Lass
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked at Paranaguá, Brazil with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Lisbon, Portugal to Antonina, Brazil.
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|ship=Ariel
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig ran aground on the South Galloper Sand and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Newhaven, Sussex, or from Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex to Hartlepool.{{Cite news |title=Wreck on the Goodwin Sands |newspaper=Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper |location=London |date=3 November 1872 |issue=1563 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 November 1872 |issue=15060 |page=7 }}
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|ship=August
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Egerö, Norway. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Stettin. She was refloated and resumed her voyage but put into Huntingslands Bay in a waterlogged condition.
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|ship=Baltasara
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was run ashore near "Surup", Russia. She was on a voyage from Kramfors to a port on the east coast of England.
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|ship=Banff
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Bawdsey, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool to Folkestone, Kent.
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|ship=Caroline
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on "Hertzholm". She was on a voyage from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom to Stettin.
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|ship=Connivan
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Pwllgwaelod, Pembrokeshire and was severely damaged.
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|ship=Industry
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship collided with Kinloch ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank off Granton, Lothian. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Inverkeithing, Fife to Leith, Lothian.
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|ship=Isabella Northcote
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Ecrehos Rock, off Jersey, Channel Islands. Her eighteen crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to London, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Rewards for Saving Life |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds n|date=13 November 1873 |issue=11106 }}
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|ship=Jeune Pauline
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The lugger was driven ashore near Dunkirk, Nord with the loss of three of her crew.
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|ship=John Robinson
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore near Ronehamn, Gotland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=4 November 1872 |issue=10249 }}
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|ship=Lady Leighton
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Caen, Calvados, France for Goole, Yorkshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
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|ship=Oceanica
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The full-rigged ship collided with the barque Suzeraine ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank {{convert|50|nmi|km}} off Cape Wrath, Caithness. Her crew were rescued by Suzeraine. Oceanica was on a voyage from South Shields to Bombay, India.{{Cite news |title=The Collision Between the Suzeraine and Oceanica off Cape Wrath |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=15 November 1872 |issue=6022 }}
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|ship=Queen Victoria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground at Jedda, Hejaz Vilayet. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Calcutta, India. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.
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|ship=Srathavon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Montreal for the Clyde. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
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|ship=Teresina
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Santa Anna, Mexico. There were at least five survivors.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=3 January 1873 |issue=27577 |page=6 |column=F }}
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by a Ramsgate lugger.
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The steamship foundered {{convert|4|nmi|km}} north east of Skagen, Denmark.
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop was run down and sunk in the Firth of Forth by a steamship.
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3 November
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|ship=Chance
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Pensacola, Florida, United States to Sunderland, County Durham.
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|ship=Cyringey
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Le Conquet, Finistère, France. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Cardiff, Glamorgan.
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|ship=Hereford
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop collided with Mindora ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank at Cardiff.
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|ship=Johann Catherina
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship departed from Riga, Russia for London, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
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|ship=Mantilla Mignano
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine arrived at Civita Vecchia on fire and was scuttled. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France to Naples.
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|ship=Mary Ann Melville
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sank off Dunkirk, Nord, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France to Rochester, Kent.
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|ship=Nordcap
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked near Lysekil, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Härnösand, Sweden to Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
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|ship=Serica
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Paracel Islands with the loss of all but one of her 28 crew. She was on a voyage from Hong Kong to Montevideo, Uruguay.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=11 February 1873 |issue=10334 }}{{cite web |url=http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=21979&vessel=SERICA |title=Serica |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Heritage Trust |accessdate=9 April 2021}}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=24 March 1873 |issue=10369 }}
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|ship=South America
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned off Le Tréport, Seine-Inférieure by sixteen of the nineteen people on board. She was on a voyage from London to Savannah, Georgia.
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4 November
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|ship=Angia
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Jersey
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Saint Sampson, Guernsey, Channel Islands. Her crew were rescued.
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|ship=Azoff
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}
|desc=The ship was sighted in the Dardanelles whilst on a voyage from Mangalia, Ottoman Empire 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=9 May 1873 |issue=7894 }}
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|ship=Barbadoes
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was sighted off Bic, Nova Scotia, Canada whilst on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to the Clyde. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 February 1873 |issue=15159 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Christian August
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from "Norboden" to London, United Kingdom.
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|ship={{SS|Commander|1872|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship departed from "Brill", on the Saint Lawrence River for a British port. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands, about twenty lives.
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|ship=Havre
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship sprang a leak and put into Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom, where she sank. She was on a voyage from Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.
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|ship=Isabella
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Cape St. Marie, Uruguay with the loss of all but one of her crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Buenos Aires, Argentina.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Mails |date=18 December 1872 |issue=27563 |page=7 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=10 December 1872 |issue=8306 }}{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=19 December 1872 |issue=10825 }}
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|ship=Jessie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sank off Egmond aan Zee, North Holland, Netherlands. Four crew survived. She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to the Nieuwe Diep.
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|ship=Lawton
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Lindesfarne, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Arbroath, Forfarshire.
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|ship=Lily
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk.
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|ship=Princess of Wales
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on South Ronaldshay, Orkney Islands. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to Ayr. She was refloated.
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|ship=Rudolph
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship ran aground in the Cape Fear River. She was on a voyage from London to Wilmington, North Carolina, United States.
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|ship=Sovereign
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned off Skagen, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Söderhamn, Sweden to Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 November 1872 |issue=15061 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Thelxinoe
|flag={{flag|Belgium}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Le Touquet, Pas-de-Calais She was on a voyage from Antwerp to Cardiff, Glamorgan.
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5 November
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|ship=Belina
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore {{convert|1|nmi|km}} north of the mouth of the River Don. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Sunderland, County Durham.
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|ship=Cambrian
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. She was on a voyage from the Black River, Jamaica to London.
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|ship=David
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Marstrand, Sweden. She was on a voyage from New York,United States to Helsingør, Denmark.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=7 November 1872 |issue=27528 |page=6 |column=C }}
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|ship=De Novo Nieber
|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
|desc=The ship departed from Kronstadt for Helsingør. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Baltic Sea with the loss of all hands.
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|ship=Emperor
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus; her captain and mate remained aboard. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London. She was refloated on 8 November and taken into Lowestoft, Suffolk.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 November 1872 |issue=15064 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Good Advice
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was run down and sunk by a barque. Her crew were rescued by the barque and a Dutch fishing boat.
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|ship=Hero
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Svínoy, Faeroe Islands and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dram to London.
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|ship=Johan
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was sighted off Bic, Nova Scotia, Canada whilst on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Hull, Yorkshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
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|ship=John Cock
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Saltfleet, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Honfleur, Manche, France to Hull, Yorkshire. She was refloated.
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|ship=King John
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque ran aground on the Signal Scar, in the Gulf of Bothnia. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from a Swedish port to London.{{Cite news |title=Wreck of a Shields Ship |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=30 November 1872 |issue=6035 }}
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|ship=Leonora
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Schull, County Cork. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Wellington, New Zealand to Liverpool, Lancashire.
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|ship=Mary Grace
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Cross Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Rochester, Kent to South Shields. She was refloated with the assistance of the Caistor Lifeboat and found to be severely leaky.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=7 November 1872 |issue=15062 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Paula
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Marstrand. She was on a voyage from Moulmein, Burma to Flensburg.
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6 November
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|ship=Aid
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop was wrecked at the Ferry Toll Quarry, Fife. She was on a voyage from the Ferry Toll Quarry to Fisherrow, Lothian.
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|ship=Belina
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Murcar, Aberdeenshire. Her five crew survived. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Sunderland, County Durham.
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|ship=Boston
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off Hartlepool, County Durham. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Sunderland, County Durham.
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|ship=Dart
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Isle of Man
|desc=The fishing lugger foundered {{convert|5|nmi|km}} off the Calf of Man with the loss of all eight crew.
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|ship=Dispatch
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was discovered derelict in the North Sea by Wellesley ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was taken into the River Tyne.
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|ship=Henry
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven onto the Pollock Rocks, in Douglas Bay. Her four crew survived. She was on a voyage from Wicklow to Whitehaven, Cumberland.{{Cite news |title=Heavy Gale on the Manx Coast |newspaper=Isle of Man Times |location=Douglas |date=8 November 1872 |issue=602 |page=5 |volume=11 }}
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|ship=Lairton
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop was driven ashore at Lindisfarne, Northumberland and severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Arbroath, Forfarshire. She was refloated and taken into Lindishfarne.
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|ship=Lothair
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground off Foulney Island, Lancashire.
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|ship=Louise
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Loch Indaal. She was on a voyage from Port Dundas, Renfrewshire to Londonderry.
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|ship={{SS|Mauritius|1865|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship foundered in the Irish Sea off Portpatrick, Wigtownshire with the loss of all 22 crew. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde. France to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.{{Cite news |title=Apprehended Shipwreck |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=9 November 1872 }}
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|ship=Nanny and Betty
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The Mersey Flat was run into and sunk by the barque Clifford ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) at Barrow in Furness, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=8 November 1872 |issue=10790 }}
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|ship=Ocean
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Eyemouth, Berwickshire. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Eyemouth.
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|ship=Robert
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Portnahaven, Islay, Inner Hebrides.
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|ship=Veritas
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Foulney Island.
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|ship=William and Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Kettleness, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Rochester, Kent.
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7 November
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|ship=Argo
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|180|nmi|km}} off Spurn Point, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from a Swedish port to Ipswich, Suffolk.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=15 November 1872 |issue=27535 |page=6 |column=C }}
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|ship=Commandant Franchetti
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The steamship caught fire on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Dunkirk, Nord. She put back to Kronstadt.
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|ship=Countryman
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to an English port.
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|ship=Electric
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean in a sinking condition. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Hamburg.
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|ship=Hans
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom.
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|ship=Laura
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Farsund with the loss of four of her crew. She was on a voyage from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom to Dram.
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Leveret
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Carlingford Lough.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=15 November 1872 |issue=8285 }}
}}
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|ship=Maggie P. S. Lord
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The barque was destroyed by fire at Pictou, Nova Scotia.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mediator
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Quebec City, Canada for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=20 March 1873 |issue=27642 |page=6 |column=E }}
}}
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|ship=Mont Blanc
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The full-rigged ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Skjold ({{flag|Norway|1844}}). Mont Blanc was on a voyage from Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada to Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Odin
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Quiver
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner foundered off Skagen, Denmark. There were at least two survivors.
}}
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|ship=Sea King
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Cape St. Mary's, Nova Scotia with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from New York to Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Sir Robert Preston
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lindisfarne, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 November 1872 |issue=15064 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Spey
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at Cultra, County Down.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea with the loss of three of her twelve crew. Survivors were rescued by J. B. Rhodes ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
8 November
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|ship=Ailsa
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck Fullerton's Rocks, off the Isle of Arran. She was on a voyage from Saint John's, Newfoundland Colony to Ayr. She was refloated and found to be severely leaky.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Albanian
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at the south point of Öland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Kronstadt, Russia.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=11 November 1872 |issue=8281 }} She was refloated on 18 November.
}}
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|ship=Augusta
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Stenberg", Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Kiel.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=11 November 1872 |issue=27531 |page=11 |column=F }}
}}
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|ship=British Flag
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from New York, United States for Liverpool, Lancashire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=A Chapter of Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=10 March 1873 |issue=6121 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Dagmar
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the steamship {{SS|Idaho|1869|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Dagmar was on a voyage from New York, United States to Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Fidelity
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Great Cumbrae. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Silloth, Cumberland to Londonderry.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{SS|Gravina|1870|2}}
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The steamship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all but one of her crew. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Katie
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamboat struck a sunken wreck and sank in the Mississippi River upstream of Helena, Arkansas. All on board were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Libra
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Falkenburg, near Gothenburg, Sweden. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Louise Christine
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Ringkøbing. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Ribe.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Martina
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Lemon and Ower Sandbank, in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by a Trinity House boat. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Genoa.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=11 November 1872 |issue=27531 |page=11 |column=F }}
}}
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|ship=Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Sandford Point, Inverness-shire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Oder
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked at Gothenburg.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Osiris
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Gronhoj, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Malmö, Sweden to Papenburg.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Southern
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamship collided with the brig Æolus ({{flag|United States|1867}}) and sank. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to New York.
}}
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|ship=Sylph
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off Scarborough, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Warkworth, Northumberland to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=William
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Hvaløerne, Norway. Her eight crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
9 November
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|ship=Auguste
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Monte Video, Uruguay.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Bee
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in the Kattegat. She was on a voyage from Stettin, Germany to Newport, Monmouthshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Carl
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Strömstad. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from "Wifsta Warf" to Honfleur, Manche, France.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Chebucto
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Mixen Sand, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Bilbao, Spain.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Cosmopolis
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship caught fire at Liverpool, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Akyab, Burma to Liverpool.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Diamant
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Monte Video.
}}
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|ship=Elizabeth
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Lysekil, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Honfleur to Arendal, Norway.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Fata Morgana
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Lysekil. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg to "Palmes".
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Giovanni
|flag={{flag|Austria-Hungary|civil}}
|desc=The barque caught fire at Büyükdere, Ottoman Empire and was scuttled. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Galaţi, Ottoman Empire.
}}
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|ship=Hariet Dobing
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked near Marstrand, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Hilma
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Lysekil. She was on a voyage from Gamla Carleby to Hull.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Legatus
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in the Kattegat. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to an English port.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Margarethe
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Lemvig, Norway. She was on a voyage from Brake to a Norwegian port.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=12 November 1872 |issue=8282 }}
}}
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|ship=Maria Christina
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Marstrand. She was on a voyage from Burntisland, Fife, United Kingdom to "Sither".
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Prince Albert
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked at Rörö, Sweden. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=12 November 1872 |issue=27532 |page=6 |column=C }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Queen{{'}}s Own
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Lysekil. Her twelve crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Christiania.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
10 November
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|ship=Ankathor
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Rebus ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Ankathor was on a voyage from New York to a Channel port.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Brahan Castle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Harburg, Germany to Sunderland, County Durham.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=4 December 1872 |issue=27551 |page=6 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Don
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Jersey
|desc=The ship was abandoned off North Sunderland, County Durham. Her six crew were rescued by the North Sunderland Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France to Leith, Lothian. Don was reboarded the next day.{{Cite news |title=Gales and Loss of Life |newspaper=Reynolds's Newspaper |location=London |date=17 November 1872 |issue=1162 }} She was towed into Lindisfarne, Northumberland in a leaky condition on 13 November.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ellen Owen
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Goodwick, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued by the Goodwick Lifeboat Sir Edward Perrot (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Herald
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship collided with another vessel and foundered in the Baltic Sea with the loss of all but one of her eighteen.{{Cite news |title=Foundering of the Herald. 17 Men Lost |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=15 November 1872 |issue=6022 }} She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Danzig, Germany.{{Cite news |title=Foundering of a Steamer |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=13 November 1872 |issue=55486 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=14 November 1872 |issue=10795 }}{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=15 November 1872 |issue=10325 }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of the Herald and Seventeen Lives |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=2 December 1872 |issue=10810 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=John and Grace
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Goodwick. Her crew were rescued by the Fishguard Lifeboat Sir Edward Perrot (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite news |title=Royal National Lifeboat Institution |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=6 December 1872 |issue=31336 |page=8 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=John and Henry
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Cape Cove, Newfoundland Colony with the loss of all seven of her crew.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lion
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Goodwick. Her crew were rescued by the Fishguard Lifeboat Sir Edward Perrot (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution)
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Goodwick. Her crew were rescued by the Fishguard Lifeboat Sir Edward Perrot (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution)
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Pyrenees
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Cardigan with the loss of all hands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Queen Victoria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop was driven ashore at Grainthorpe, Lincolnshire. Both crew were rescued by the Cleethorpes Lifeboat Manchester Unity of Oddfellows (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=12 November 1872 |issue=15066 |page=7 }}{{Cite news |title=Independent Order of Oddfellows Lifeboat |newspaper=Cheshire Observer |location=Chester |date=16 November 1872 |issue=1058 |page=7 |volume=21 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Skjalmhvide
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was sighted off Fortress Monroe, Virginia, United States whilst on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to Penarth, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Villager
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Rigg Rud, off Lindisfarne, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Lossiemouth, Moray.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed vessels
|flag=Flags unknown
|desc=Great Boston Fire of 1872: A number of ships were destroyed by fire at Boston, Massachusetts, United States.{{Cite news |title=Great Fire in America. The City of Boston in Flames |newspaper=Derby Mercury |location=Derby |date=13 November 1872 |issue=8260 }}
}}
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11 November
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|ship=Affinitas
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Fjällbacka, Sweden with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Charlestown, Cornwall, United Kingdom to Christiania.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Duke of Abercorn
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on the Wolves.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ellen Clifford
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Huelva, Spain for Glasgow, Renfrewshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ellen Owens
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Goodwick, Pembrokeshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Gem
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Pendennis, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France to Newport, Monmouthshire. She was refloated.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Heroine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Old Harry Ledge, in the English Channel off the coast of Dorset. She was refloated and towed into Poole, Dorset.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Humility
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig sank off Borth, Cardiganshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to Runcorn, Cheshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=John and Grace
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Goodwick.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lake Constance
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered off St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lata
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Fjällbacka. She was on a voyage from Haugesund to Stockholm, Sweden.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Leon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Goodwick.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lindisfarne
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground in the River Foyle. She was on a voyage from Nicolaieff, Russia to Falmouth, Cornwall.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Livonia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Pärnu, Russia for Belfast, County Antrim. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mary James
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Goodwick.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Michael
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Fjällbacka. She was on a voyage from Stettin, Germany to Gloucester.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=13 November 1872 |issue=27533 |page=11 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ocean
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked on a reef off Lysekil, Sweden with the loss of five of her nine crew. She was on a voyage from Helsingborg, Sweden to London.{{Cite news |title=Local and General |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=14 November 1872 |issue=10795 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Palestine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Ramsdale Scar, off Scarborough, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by the Scarborough Lifeboat Lady Leigh (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Palestine was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Pyrenees
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Cardigan with the loss of all three of her crew.{{cite web |url=http://www.glen-johnson.co.uk/cardigan-district-shipwrecks-and-lifeboat-service/ |title=Cardigan & District Shipwrecks and Lifeboat Service |date=23 July 2013 |publisher=Glen Johnson |accessdate=1 February 2015}}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on a reef off Lysekil with the loss of all hands.
}}
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12 November
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|ship=Albion
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Strömstad, Sweden. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Alexandra
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Strömstad with the loss of five of her crew. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands to Kragerø.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Astrea
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Kristiansand.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Bato
|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
|desc=The ship was lost whilst on a voyage from Riga to Antwerp, Belgium.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=14 November 1872 |issue=27534 |page=9 |column=A }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=British Trident
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Quebec City, Canada for Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Borgund
|flag={{flagicon|Russian Empire}} Grand Duchy of Finland
|desc=The barque was wrecked at "Østergaard", Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Tornio to London, United Kingdom
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Cupid
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Saltfleet, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Curlew
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship collided with a Norwegian vessel and foundered. Her six crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Eliza Fraser
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Smithie Sand, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France to Leith, Lothian. She was refloated and taken into Bridlington, Yorkshire in a leaky condition.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=F. G. Arnold
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Westergrund, in the Baltic Sea off Swinemünde. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Flying Childers
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The paddle tug heeled over and sank at Belfast, County Antrim. She was refloated the next day with the assistance of two scows and was beached pending repairs.{{Cite news |title=Raising of the Sunken Tug |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=15 November 1872 |issue=55488 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Fred
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Brekkestø.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Isaber
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Montevideo, Uruguay.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Pacific |date=9 December 1872 |issue=27555 |page=5 |column=B }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Kaswu
|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked on Saaremaa with the loss of all but two of those on board. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom to Riga.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Kron Prins Ocar
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Strömstad with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from London to Fredrikshald.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Laura
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on Heligoland. Her crew were rescued. she was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Margarete
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was sighted off Helsingør, Denmark whilst on a voyage from Gävle to Hull, Yorkshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Margarethe Bankier
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Westergrund. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Thetis
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Westergrund.
}}
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13 November
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|ship=Alfred
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Gedser, Denmark. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=21 November 1872 |issue=10264 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Amaranth
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Køge, Denmark. Her nine crew survived.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ane Kjerstine
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The yacht was driven ashore at "Korvig". Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Bravo
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Catherine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship capsized in the River Bandon.
}}
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|ship=Christian
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship sank at Præstø.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ernestine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Anholt, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Stettin, Germany.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Hertha
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The steamship was run into by a British schooner at Stralsund and sank.{{Cite news |title=General Foreign News |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=20 November 1872 |issue=10800 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Hiawatha
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent with the loss of all but one of her fifteen crew. The survivor was rescued by {{SMS|Hertha|1864|6}} ({{Navy|German Empire}}).{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 November 1872 |issue=15068 |page=7 }} Hiawatha was on a voyage from Bremerhaven, Germany to Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=London, Thursday, Nov. 14 |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=14 November 1872 |issue=8284 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Industrie
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Fehmarn, Germany. She was on a voyage from Ljusne to Dover, Kent.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Isabella
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Loss of an Aberdeen Schooner |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=15 November 1872 |issue=6022 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Leon
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Somme with the loss of two of her crew.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lollard
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sailed on this date, no further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=20 November 1872 |issue=15073 |page=6 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Maria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Spurn Point, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Lyme Regis, Dorset to Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mary Kellow
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Poole, Dorset.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Medora
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Bornholm, Denmark with some loss of life. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to Dartmouth, Devon, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{SS|Shannon|1871|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was sighted off Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada whilst on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to a British port. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all 27 crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gales and Floods |date=21 December 1872 |issue=27566 |page=5 |column=E }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Sorruto
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned off Møn, Denmark by nine of her eleven crew, who were rescued by Indefatigable ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to London, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=St. Mary
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamboat struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River downstream of Cairo, Illinois. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Memphis, Tennessee to Cincinnati, Ohio.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The United States |date=3 December 1872 |issue=27550 |page=4 |column=E }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Victoria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Exmouth, Devon. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Exmouth. She was refloated and found to be leaky.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Wellington
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Seaton Delaval, County Durham. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hamburg, Germany to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Eighty unnamed vessels
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The fishing smacks sank at Stralsund.{{Cite news |title=The Great Storm in Germany |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=20 November 1872 |issue=55492 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
14 November
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Adolph
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked in Køge Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Swinemünde.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Albatross
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the east coast of Öland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Alexander
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Copenhagen, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to a Scottish port.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Alexandrine
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at "Briggirdle", Norfolk, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Caen, Calvados to Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Alma
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Stege, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Härnösand, Sweden to Oran, Algeria.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Anna
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Copenhagen. She was refloated on 16 November.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Anna
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Stege.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Arauna
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Copenhagen. She was on a voyage from "Skonkvik" to Alloc, Clackmannanshire, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Australië
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom and was abandoned. Her captain survived, the rest of her crew were reported missing. She was later refloated and towed into London, United Kingdom in a waterlogged condition.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Carolina
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|44|00|N|53|20|W}}) with some loss of life. Survivors were rescued by the barque Magnus Lagaboter ({{flag|Norway|1844}}). Carolina was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to Queenstown, County Cork.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Disasters at Sea |date=12 December 1872 |issue=27558 |page=7 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=Foundering of a Steamer on the American Coast, and Loss of Life |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=27 November 1872 |issue=737 |page=2 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ceres
|flag={{flag|Belgium}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Copenhagen. She was on a voyage from Haparanda, Grand Duchy of Finland to Antwerp.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship= City of Newcastle
|flag={{Flagcountry|New Zealand}}
|desc=The 538-ton barque was en route from Wellington to Newcastle, New South Wales and took shelterin Cloudy Bay from a heavy storm raging in Cook Strait. In a thick mist, she drifted close into the cliff-faced shore and became wedged between two rocks. Most of the 14 crew and nine passengers took to the ship's two boats, from which they were rescued by the schooner Canterbury and barque John Knox. Six men remained on board, of whom two drowned (one passenger and the ship's cook). The four survivors were rescued by the steamer Rangatira ({{flag|New Zealand}}).Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 182–184.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Criteria
|flag={{flagicon|Newfoundland}} Newfoundland Colony
|desc=The schooner departed from Figueira da Foz, Portugal for Saint John's. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=17 April 1873 |issue=27666 |page=11 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Danube
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground in the River Nene. She was on a voyage from Söderhamn, Sweden to Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. She was refloated and towed into Wisbech in a leaky condition.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Devon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship departed from Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada for a British port. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Dina Adrianna
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship was run into by the barque Sarah Metcalfe ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was driven ashore at Corton, Suffolk, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Wreck of a Barque |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=15 November 1872 |issue=6022 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Dritti Julli
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Groß Niendorf. She was on a voyage from London to Kolberg.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Eclipse
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Stege. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from "Siekauw" to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=E. J. D.
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Scarborough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Her eight crew were rescued by the Scarborough Lifeboat.{{Cite news |title=Shipwreck off Scarborough |newspaper=The Era |location=London |date=17 November 1872 |issue=1782 }} She broke up on 22 November.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Casualties |newspaper=York Herald |location=York |date=23 November 1872 |issue=5215 |page=5 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Elieser
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Stege. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Tønsberg.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Elise Louis Desirée
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship struck a sunken wreck and foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherland to Caen.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Equator
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig ran aground at Dragør, Denmark.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Evening Star
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Stege. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=27 November 1872 |issue=8295 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Expedit
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. Her nine crew were rescued by the Lowestoft Lifeboat Letitia (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Expedit was on a voyage from Gothenburg to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Factor
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Goole, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=A Schooner Ashore |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=15 November 1872 |issue=6022 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Frederick Staug
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Happisburgh, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Norway to Lisbon, Portugal.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=George Edward
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Kroge".
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Giulia
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The full-rigged ship foundered in Audierne Bay. She was on a voyage from London to New York, United States.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Haabet
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The schooner foundered in the Dogger Bank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Apenrade.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=5 December 1872 |issue=27552 |page=5 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Hertha
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked in Køge Bay. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ida
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Copenhagen. She was on a voyage from Trelleborg, Sweden to Hull, Yorkshire. She was refloated on 16 November.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Industry
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Copenhagen. She was later refloated.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Johann Smith
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Copenhagen. She was on a voyage from "Norbolton" to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Jonas Gabriel
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Copenhagen. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall to London.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=18 November 1872 |issue=8286 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Kjoge
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship sank at Præstø. She was on a voyage from Christiania, Norway to London.{{Cite news |title=The Gale in the Baltic |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=23 November 1872 |issue=10803 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Kuopio
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Copenhagen. She was on a voyage from an English port to Königsberg, Germany.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lizzy
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore in Køge Bay.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Marguerite
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The brig ran aground on the Kentish Knock. She was refloated with the assistance of the Ramsgate Lifeboat Bradford (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution), the tug Aid and a lugger (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and assisted into Margate, Kent in a waterlogged condition.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Minnet
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Stege.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=New York
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked at Stege with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Kalix, Sweden to Tunis, Beylik of Tunis.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Pollux
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Stege. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall to Dundee, Forfarshire, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Protector
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Copenhagen.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Retreiver
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Møn, Denmark. Her seven crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to Hartlepool, County Durham.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Sarah Metcalfe
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Gorleston, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by the Gorleston Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Schonderloo
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Stege. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Nyland, Sweden to Algiers, Algeria.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Sergey
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Præstø. She was on a voyage from Hudiksvall to Grangemouth.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Southern Belle
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Stege. Her cew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall to Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. She was later refloated and taken into Copenhagen, Denmark, where she arrived on 27 December.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 December 1872 |issue=15105 |page=7 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=To Venner
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Stege. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Gävle to Dublin, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Trois Freres
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship sank off Christiansoe, Germany.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Wilhelmine
|flag={{flagicon|Russian Empire}} Grand Duchy of Finland
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Præstø. She was on a voyage from Pori to West Hartlepool, County Durham.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Wupke Veltman
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The galiot was abandoned {{convert|60|nmi|km}} off Lowestoft with the loss of two of her five crew.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Fourteen unnamed vessels
|flag=Flags unknown
|desc=The ships were wrecked at Copenhagen.{{Cite news |title=Great Hurricane in Denmark - 24 Ships Wrecked - Great Inundations |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=18 November 1872 |issue=55490 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The yacht was driven from the Ryck and deposited in the street in Griefswald.{{Cite news |title=A Fearful Hurricane |newspaper=Derby Mercury |location=Derby |date=4 December 1872 |issue=8263 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Swinemünde, Germany with the loss of all fourteen crew.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
15 November
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Accommodation
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The Yorkshire Billyboy was driven ashore at Graveline, Nord, France. She was on a voyage from Calais, France to Boston, Lincolnshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Alexandrine
|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground in the Haff, off Pillau, Germany.{{Cite news |title=The Late Gales |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=16 November 1872 |issue=8286 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Alma
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore on Koserow, Germany.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Archipelago
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship collided with another vessel and was beached in the River Thames at Northfleet, Kent. She was on a voyage from Skutskär, Sweden to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Barbarossa
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque ran aground on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex and broke her back.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=16 November 1872 |issue=15070 |page=6 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 November 1872 |issue=10261 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Essex
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The steam lighter ran aground off Elbing and was wrecked.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Eucharis
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Swin Middle Sand, in the Thames Estuary. She was on a voyage from Christiania, Norway to London. She was refloated.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Henriette
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on "Abw Tiller". She was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Hermann
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was assisted into Ystad, Sweden in a sinking condition. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Stockholm, Sweden.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lizzie and Ada
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Blakeney, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Vlissingen, Zeeland to Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated on 29 November.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lutha
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Thornham, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Casablanca, Morocco to Goole, Yorkshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Marblehead
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship departed from Galveston, Texas for Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Presumed subsequently foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Local and General |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=10 March 1873 |issue=10896 }} A ship thought to be Marblehead was sighted in a capsized condition on 15 February 1873 by the barque Athlete ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=14 March 1873 |issue=4601 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Margaret Jane
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Rudbjerg, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mary
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Batteny Gat. Her crew were rescued by the smack Thrive ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Mary was on a voyage from Fredrikstad to Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Meggie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the barque Maria ({{flag|Austria-Hungary|civil}}). Meggie was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Memel Packet
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore on Koserow.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Norfolk
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground at "Stubben", Denmark. She was refloated.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Sesostris
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wreckeed on Smith's Knowl, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk with the loss of all but one of her fifteen crew. The survivor was rescued by the steamship Leeds ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Sesostris was on a voyage from Porsgrund to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Sylphiden
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Holkham, Norfolk.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Triton
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Corton Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, United Kingdom. Her crew survived. She wasd on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to London, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Two unnamed vessels
|flag=Flags unknown
|desc=The ships were driven ashore on Koserow.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
16 November
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Atlas
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Stevns Klint, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Cadzandria
|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
|desc=The galiot was driven ashore and wrecked at the Orfordness Lighthouse, Suffolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg to Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Christian
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sank at Præstø, Denmark.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=19 November 1872 |issue=27538 |page=4 |column=B }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Clarissa
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Goswick, Northumberland, United Kingdom. Her ten crew survived; five were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Uddevalla to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Weather and the Gale |date=18 November 1872 |issue=27537 |page=6 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Enfans Nantais
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked at "Ulloa", British Honduras.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=15 January 1873 |issue=8337 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Himalaya
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Stevns Klint.
}}
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|ship=Kjoge
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship sank at Præstø, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Christiania to an English port.
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|ship=Lulloe
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship sank in the Baltic Sea. Her crew were rescued.
}}
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|ship=Maartje Dornbos
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|160|nmi|km}} off Spurn Point, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Delfzijl, Groningen. Maartje Dornbos was towed into Hull, Yorkshire by two smacks.
}}
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|ship=Malta
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was abandoned in a sinking condition. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Fenham ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Malta was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to London.
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|ship=Marie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Køge, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Danzig, Germany to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
}}
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|ship={{SS|Memphis|1872|2}}
|flag=Unflagged
|desc=The steamship collided with the quayside on being launched at Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom and was damaged at the stern.{{Cite news |title=Local and General |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=18 November 1872 |issue=10798 }}
}}
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|ship=Quiver
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Lysekil, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Stettin, Germany to Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.
}}
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|ship=Raja and Emily
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Aldeburgh, Suffolk with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Memel, Germany to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=19 November 1872 |issue=27538 |page=4 |column=B }}
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|ship=Silphiden
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Holkham, Norfolk, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Susannah
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack collided with the steamship Algeria ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Sloyne. She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.
}}
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|ship=Vale of Nith
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque ran aground on the Burbo Bank, in Liverpool Bay. Her crew were rescued by the New Brighton Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Valparaíso, Chile. She was refloated with assistance from the tugs Knight Errant and Retreiver (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and towed back to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=19 November 1872 |issue=10799 }}
}}
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|ship=Vesta
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. Her eight crew were rescued by the steamship Biddick ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Vesta was on a voyage from Söderhamn to Lisbon, Portugal.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 November 1872 |issue=15071 |page=6 }} She was refloated and towed into Harwich, Essex in a waterlogged condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 November 1872 |issue=15072 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The Mersey Flat sanky off Rock Ferry, Cheshire.
}}
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17 November
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|ship=Aerve
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship foundered. Her crew were rescued by Arnon (Flag unknown). Aerve was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom to Gävle.
}}
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|ship=Elise
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Eckernförde. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Kiel.
}}
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|ship=E. S. Judkins
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was sighted off Gibraltar whilst on a voyage from Sulina, Ottoman Empire to Falmouth, Cornwall. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Glasgow |date=10 January 1873 |issue=7792 }}
}}
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|ship=Espoir
|flag={{flag|Belgium}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Læsø, Denmark with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Ghent, East Flanders.
}}
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|ship=Herbert
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Kerteminde, Denmark.
}}
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|ship=Leopold
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Gjedser Sand, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Memel to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken into Kiel.
}}
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|ship={{SS|Saxon|1872|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was wrecked on the Île de Groix, Morbihan, France. Her fourteen crew survived. She was on her maiden voyage, from the Clyde to Belle Île, Morbihan and/or Nantes, Loire-Inférieure, France.{{Cite news |title=The Loss of the S.S. Saxon |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=11 December 1872 |issue=10281 }}
}}
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|ship=Washington
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was towed into Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom the next day.
}}
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18 November
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|ship=Annechina Elsina
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Öland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire to Amsterdam, North Holland.
}}
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|ship=Baind Marid
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The smack was wrecked on the Cross Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Brunette
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Køge, Denmark. Her six crew survived.
}}
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|ship=Ceres
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Sfântu Gheorghe, Ottoman Empire. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Odessa, Russia. She was refloated the next day.
}}
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|ship=Infanta
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Swin Middle Sand, in the Thames Estuary. She was on a voyage from Dram to London, United Kingdom. She was refloated and towed into London in a waterlogged condition.
}}
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|ship=Maggie Woodburn
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner foundered off Skomer, Pembrokeshire with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Briton Ferry, Glamorgan to Whitehaven, Cumberland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=21 November 1872 |issue=27540 |page=10 |column=E }}
}}
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|ship=Maria Carolina
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Öland. She was on a voyage from Härnösand to Faaborg, Denmark.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=19 November 1872 |issue=8288 }}
}}
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|ship=Nelly
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was abandoned off Worms Head, Glamorgan. Her crew survived. SHe was on avoyage from Llanelly, Glamorgan to Bristol, Gloucestershire.
}}
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|ship=Nieuwe Schans
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea {{convert|150|nmi|km}} east of the Isle of May, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by Harold Haarfanger (Flag unknown). Nieuwe Schans was on a voyage from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom to Königsberg, Germany.
}}
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|ship=Norma
|flag={{flag|Belgium}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London, United Kingdom. Norma was subsequently taken into Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom by a number of smacks.
}}
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|ship=Oriental
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Sunderland. She was on a voyage from Hamburg, Germany to Sunderland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 November 1872 |issue=10261 }}
}}
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|ship=Patria
|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Portici, Italy. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Odessa.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 November 1872 |issue=8290 }}
}}
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|ship=Pelikaan
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The capsized and sank off Gotland, Sweden with the loss of all hands.
}}
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|ship=Princess
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Kjøge. Her eight crew survived.
}}
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|ship=Samuel
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Kjøge. At least one crew member survived.
}}
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|ship=St. Lawrence
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Kjøge.
}}
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|ship=Storm
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Kjøge.
}}
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|ship=Taptee
|flag={{flagcountry|British Raj}}
|desc=The steamship struck a sunken rock at Vingoria and sank. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Calcutta to Goa.
}}
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19 November
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|ship=Azoff
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the east coast of Zealand, Denmark. Her crew were rescued.
}}
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|ship=Blanche
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque ran aground off Gibraltar. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Trieste. She was refloated and assisted into Gibraltar in a leaky condition.
}}
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|ship=Blossom
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship wsprang a leak and was beached at Fort William, Inverness-shire. She was on a voyage from Ballachulish to Inverness.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=20 November 1872 |issue=10263 }}
}}
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|ship=Ceres
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner foundered in the Belfast Lough with the loss of all six crew. She was being towed from Belfast, County Antrim to Troon, Ayrshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=21 November 1872 |issue=27540 |page=10 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=21 November 1872 |issue=10800 }}{{Cite news |title=The Loss of the Ceres |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=22 November 1872 |issue=55494 }}
}}
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|ship=Charles Ward
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|49|16|N|41|27|W}}) with the loss of eleven of her twenty crew. Survivors were rescued by {{SS|Batavia|1870|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Charles Ward was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to a Scottish port.
}}
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|ship=Frenchman
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Darien ({{flag|United States|1867}}). Frenchman was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Greenock, Renfrewshire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 December 1872 |issue=15084 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Jeune Alphonsine
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near "Minizan". Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=29 November 1872 |issue=27547 |page=9 |column=A }}
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|ship=Johanna Maria
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Køge, Denmark with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Stockholm, Sweden to an English port.
}}
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|ship=Nell
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack sprang a leak and foundered {{convert|2|nmi|km}} off Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. She was on a voyage from Aberystwyth to Bristol, Gloucestershire.
}}
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|ship=Patriot
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Aberdeen, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Drammen to Aberdeen. She was refloated and taken into Aberdeen.{{Cite news |title=Aberdeen |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=21 November 1872 |issue=6027 }}
}}
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|ship=Liverpool
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Wreck of a Timber Ship |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=9 December 1872 |issue=55508 }}
}}
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|ship=Scotia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Borkum, Germany. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the east coast of Scotland to Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands.
}}
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20 November
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|ship=Adelaide Ray
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Portsmouth, Hampshire to Sunderland, County Durham.
}}
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|ship=Albatros
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Par, Cornwall for Ferrybridge, Yorkshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 February 1873 |issue=15142 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Assyria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the steamship {{SS|Baltic|1871|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}. Assyria was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Plymouth, Devon.
}}
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|ship=Aukathor
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Rebus ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Aukathor was on a voyage from New York, United States to Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Chillingham Castle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship departed from the River Tyne for Malta. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Missing North Country Steamers |date=16 January 1873 |issue=27588 |page=7 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=6 February 1873 |issue=8356 }}
}}
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|ship=Coral Queen
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Nidingen, Sweden. Her crew were rescued.
}}
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|ship=David Cannon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=14 December 1872 |issue=27560 |page=7 |column=D }}
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|ship=Hokitika
|flag={{flag|Victoria|1870}}
|desc=The ship struck the Rumbler Rock, off Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia and was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Melbourne to Mauritius.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=28 December 1872 |issue=27572 |page=9 |column=B }}
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|ship=Levgant
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship sprang a leak and was beached at Portland, Dorset. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Antwerp, Belgium.
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|ship=Louisa
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the West Bank, in the Solent. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Portsmouth. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=21 November 1872 |issue=15074 |page=6 }}
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|ship=Marcus
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship foundered in the Bay of Biscay. Her crew were rescued by Euphrosyne ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Marcus was on a voyage from Brăila, Ottoman Empire to Falmouth.
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|ship=Marlborough
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}
|desc=The lighter was sunk at Chatham Dockyard, Kent when a 35-ton gun was dropped whilst being unloaded and penetrated her bottom. All on board survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |date=22 November 1872 |issue=27541 |page=3 |column=F }} She was raised on 27 November and placed under repair.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |date=28 November 1872 |issue=27546 |page=5 |column=B }}
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|ship=Odin
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at "Faxoe", Denmark. She was refloated and taken into Helsingør in a leaky condition.
}}
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|ship=Pilot
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig collided with Hecamede ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the English Channel off the coast of Devon. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cherbourg, Cherbourg, Manche, France to Briton Ferry, Glamorgan.
}}
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|ship=Scotia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Rottum, Groningen, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire to Harburg, Germany.
}}
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|ship=Teaser
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore near Køge, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Copenhagen, Denmark.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 November 1872 |issue=8290 }}
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|ship=Urbine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground at Hull, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Hull to Alexandria, Egypt.
}}
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21 November
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|ship=Argueiles, and
Owen Wallis
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
{{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamships collided off Europa Point, Gibraltar. Argueiles sank. Owen Wallis was beached at Gibraltar in a waterlogged condition.
}}
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|ship=Cyrene
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to the West Indies.
}}
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|ship=Duo
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The schooner collided with a Norwegian brig and sank off Dragør, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Gävle to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=23 November 1872 |issue=27542 |page=6 |column=C }}
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|ship=Edward Hawkins
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was run ashore at Hamra, Gotland, Sweden.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=23 November 1872 |issue=10266 }}
}}
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|ship=Eliza Reed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner collided with the steamship Barton ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank off Valentia Island, County Cork. Her crew were rescued by Barton.{{Cite news |title=Latest News |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=17 December 1872 |issue=6049 }}
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|ship=George and Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was run into by the steamship Emily ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Humber. She was on a voyage from London to Goole, Yorkshire.
}}
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|ship=Henry Gilbert
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Garlieston, Wigtownshire.
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|ship=John and Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was run into by the steamship Emily ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank at Hull. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=23 November 1872 |issue=27542 |page=6 |column=C }}
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|ship=Maciota
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Pennington Spit, off the coast of Hampshire. Shew as on a voyage from Caen, Calvados, France to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 November 1872 |issue=15075 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Margaret Maria
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was run down by a steamship and sank in the River Thames at Grays Thurrock, Essex, United Kingdom.
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Merlin
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was run into by a steamship at London, United Kingdom and was beached.
}}
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22 November
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|ship=Creswell
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship departed from Falmouth, Cornwall for Cork. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=20 December 1872 |issue=15099 |page=6 }}
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|ship=Dee
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner foundered off the Copeland Islands, County Antrim. Her three crew were rescued by the steamship {{SS|Sanda|1866|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Dee was on a voyage from Wicklow to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Sinking of a Vessel at the Entrance to the Belfast Lough |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=25 November 1872 |issue=55496 }}
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|ship={{ship||Fanny Nicholson||2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque foundered near Albany, Western Australia.
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|ship=Leith
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Carnoustie, Forfarshire. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Arbroath, Forfarshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=26 November 1872 |issue=27544 |page=10 |column=F }}
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|ship=Levanter
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned at sea. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Havana, Cuba.
}}
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|ship=Père Lalande
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship foundered {{convert|15|nmi|km}} off the Île de Groix, Morbihan. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint-Nazaire, Ille-et-Vilaine to the Clyde.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=25 November 1872 |issue=27543 |page=11 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=25 November 1872 |issue=8293 }}
}}
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|ship=Two unnamed vessels
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloops sank off Plymouth, Devon. Their crews were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Destructive Hurricane and Great Loss of Life |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=26 November 1872 |issue=31327 |page=2 }}
}}
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23 November
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|ship=Albion
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Looe, Cornwall with the loss of three of the five people on board. She was on a voyage from Penzance, Cornwall to Runcorn, Cheshire.
}}
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|ship=Ann
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sank at Penarth, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Cardiff, Glamorgan.
}}
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|ship=Canada Belle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven onto the Whitburn Steel Rocks, on the coast of County Durham. All fifteen people on board were rescued by the Whitburn Lifeboat.{{Cite news |title=Severe Gales. - Great Loss of Life |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=25 November 1872 |issue=8293 }} She was on a voyage from Darien, Georgia, United States to Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated and towed into Sunderland.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 November 1872 |issue=15078 |page=6 }}
}}
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|ship=Doch Levins
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked a Plymouth, Devon with the loss of all eight crew.
}}
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|ship=Emma Jane
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Lowca, Cumberland. Her crew were rescued.
}}
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|ship=Fleur
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Gunwalloe, Cornwall with the loss of all hands.
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|ship=Frances and Ann
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked in Whitesand Bay. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=The Gale - Sad Loss of Life |newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post |location=Exeter |date=27 November 1872 |issue=5635 }}
}}
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|ship=Jane Catherine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on Chesil Beach between Fleet and Wyke, Dorset with the loss of all four of her crew,{{cite web |url=http://www.burtonbradstock.org.uk/History/Wrecks%20off%20Burton%20Bradstock/Historical%20list%20of%20wrecks.htm |title=Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis |publisher=Burton Bradstock Online |accessdate=27 December 2014}}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=28 November 1872 |issue=27546 |page=12 |column=D-E }}
}}
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|ship={{SS|Kinsale|1865|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Waterford with the loss of 26 of the 30 people on board. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Waterford.
}}
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|ship=La Fleur
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of all fifteen crew.{{Cite news |title=Destructive Gale in the South-West of England - Shipping Disasters and Great Loss of Life |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=25 November 1872 |issue=55496 }}
}}
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|ship=Les Trois Amis
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The lugger foundered off The Lizard, Cornwall with the loss of three of her crew.
}}
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|ship=Lochleven{{'}}s Flower
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Gunwalloe, Cornwall with the loss of all fourteen of her crew. She was on a voyage from Berdyanski, Russia to Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Heavy Gale |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=25 November 1872 |issue=10804 }}
}}
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|ship=Pera
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Tennant, Glamorgan. All seventeen people on board survived.{{cite web |url=http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |title=A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks |first=Ron |last=Tovey |publisher=Swansea Docks |accessdate=20 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222065415/http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |archivedate=22 December 2014 }} She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada to Swansea, Glamorgan.
}}
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|ship=Re di Spagne
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore near Tramore, County Waterford, United Kingdom with the loss of three of her seventeen crew. Survivors were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Barletta to Cork, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Fearful Casualties at Sea |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=26 November 1872 |issue= }}
}}
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|ship=Rossa Tacchini
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven onto a reef off Tresco, Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Antwerp, Belgium.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=26 November 1872 |issue=8294 }}{{Cite news |title=Severe Storm and Loss of Life |newspaper=Derby Mercury |location=Derby |date=27 November 1872 |issue=8262 }}
}}
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|ship=Samarang
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore near Lemvig, Norway. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to Danzig.
}}
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|ship=Saint Luc
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The lugger was driven ashore at Saint Michael's Mount, Cornwall. Her four crew were rescued.
}}
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|ship=Volante
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing trawler struck rocks and sank in the Cattewater.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship foundered off Lamorna, Cornwall with the loss of all hands, about twelve lives.
}}
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Plymouth. Her crew were rescued by the Plymouth Lifeboat.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Falmouth, Cornwall.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Porthleven, Cornwall with the loss of all hands.
}}
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24 November
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|ship=Courrier
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The chasse-marée was wrecked near Bridport, Dorset, United Kingdom with the loss of one of her four crew. She was on a voyage from Caen, Calvados to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Express
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Nevada ({{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada). Express was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to London.
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|ship=Germania
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The brig ran aground on the Refnaes Reef and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. she was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom to Lübeck.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=17 December 1872 |issue=8312 }}
}}
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|ship=Lady Peel
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Crocodile ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Lady Peel was on a voyage from Quebec City to London.
}}
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|ship=Laurel
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the Plymouth Lifeboat Prince Consort (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Weather and the Storm |date=26 November 1872 |issue=27544 |page=10 |column=C-D }} She was on a voyage from London to Bathurst, Gambia Colony and Protectorate.
}}
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|ship=Lestos
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The steamship ran aground north of the entrance to the Dardanelles.
}}
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|ship=Maria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Castell March, near Abersoch, Caernarfonshire. Her crew were rescued by the Abersoch Lifeboat Mabel Louisa (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).
}}
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|ship=Norden
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Collina ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Norden was on a voyage from Gaspé, Quebec, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Primus
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and sank at Hakin Point, Pembrokeshire. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Newry, County Antrim. She was refloated on 29 November.
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|ship=Royal Arch
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore south of the mouth of the Rio Grande. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the Rio Negro to Lisbon, Portugal.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=8 January 1873 |issue=27581 |page=11 |column=F }}
}}
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|ship=Valentine
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on an island off the coast of Africa. She was on a voyage from "Norei Ble" to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=13 June 1873 |issue=7924 }}
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|ship=Vorwarts
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at "Sothern", Gotland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Antwerp, Belgium.
}}
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25 November
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|ship=Antonio Luca
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Venice.
}}
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|ship=Broedertrouw
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Rønne, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Schiedam, South Holland.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=27 November 1872 |issue=8295 }}
}}
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|ship=Defiance
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex.
}}
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|ship=Elizabeth
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Spurn Point, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Teignmouth, Devon to Hull, Yorkshire. She subsequently became a wreck.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=28 November 1872 |issue=10270 }}
}}
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|ship=Giuletta
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Pendine, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom with the loss of one of her thirteen crew. She was on a voyage from Barletta to Gloucester, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Jules
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Pennington Spit, off the coast of Hampshire, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Caen Calvados to Cardiff, Glamorgan. She was refloated and taken into Cowes, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Margaret Ann
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Bullock Harbour, County Dublin.
}}
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|ship=Ocean Bride
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Horns Reef, in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Methil, Fife to Hamburg, Germany.
}}
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|ship=Paladino
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Swansea, Glamorgan. Her fourteen crew were rescued by the Swansea Lifeboat Wolverhampton (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Paladino was on a voyage from Sicily to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She broke up over the next few days.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=27 November 1872 |issue=15079 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Petit Arthur
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The barque struck the Long Rock, off Haulbowline, County Cork, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine to Dublin, United Kingdom. She was refloated and towed into Warrenpoint, County Down, United Kingdom in a leaky condition.
}}
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|ship= {{ship||Royal Adelaide|1865|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sailing ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset with the loss of six lives. Four wreckers were also killed by excessive consumption of her cargo of brandy and gin.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Sailor{{'}}s Home
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. All on board were rescued by the schooner Kitty Glidden ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Sailor{{'}}s Home was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to South Shields, County Durham.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=16 December 1872 |issue=27561 |page=10 |column=D-E }}
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|ship={{SS|Tyrian|1869|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Melonia Sandbank, off Livorno, Italy. She was refloated and taken into Livorno.
}}
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26 November
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|ship=Cassibellaunus
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the English Channel off the coast of Dorset. Her fourteen crew were rescued by the Lyme Regis Lifeboat William Woodcock (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Cassibelanus was on a voyage from North Shields, Northumberland to Genoa, Italy She drove ashore at Fleet, Dorset and was wrecked.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland042.html#cassibelaunus |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 3 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=24 March 2021 }}
}}
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|ship={{SS|Dalmatian|1861|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Irish Sea off Bardsey Island, Pembrokeshire with the loss of all 35 crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Trieste.{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=11 |title=Dalmatian |publisher=The Yard |accessdate=18 February 2017}}{{Cite news |title=Loss of the Steamer Dalmatian and Thirty-five Lives |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=2 December 1872 |issue=10810 }}
}}
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|ship=Iron Cross
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was severely damaged at North Shields, Northumberland when four railway wagons overshot the coal drops and landed on the vessel.
}}
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|ship=Juliana
|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Newcastle, County Down, United Kingdom. Her ten crew survived, eight of them being rescued by the Newcastle Lifeboat Reigate (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Juliana was on a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Antwerp, Belgium.{{Cite news |title=The Gales |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=27 November 1872 |issue=8295 }}
}}
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|ship=Paludino
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore in Swansea Bay. She was on a voyage from Sicily to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Sharpsburg
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Carl Georg ({{flagcountry|German Empire}}). Sharpsburg was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Boston, Lincolnshire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=17 December 1872 |issue=15096 |page=6 }}
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|ship=Streatlam
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was wrecked at Fredriksvern, Norway. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=28 November 1872 |issue=8296 }}
}}
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|ship=Thistle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The pilot cutter was driven ashore and wrecked in Cuskinney Bay, County Cork.
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|ship=Six unnamed vessels
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barges sank in the River Thames; two at Lambeth, Surrey and four at Deptford, Kent.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=28 November 1872 |issue=10807 }}
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27 November
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|ship=Antonio Luca
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Venice.
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|ship=Cathrina
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked at Thisted, Denmark with the loss of six of her crew. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Wismar.
}}
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|ship=Dinapore
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Mail and Ship News |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=28 November 1872 |issue=10807 }}
}}
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|ship=Eliza
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sailing barge was driven ashore and wrecked at the Cliff End Fort, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Plymouth, Devon to Chichester, Sussex.{{Cite news |title=Yarmouth, Dec. 4 |newspaper=Southampton Herald |location=Southampton |date=4 December 1872 |issue=2762 |page=3 |volume=50 }}
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|ship=Equity
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Isleornsay, Inner Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Thurso, Caithness to Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. She had been refloated by 4 December.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=5 December 1872 |issue=10276 }}
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|ship=Henry
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk with the loss of four lives. She was on a voyage from Southampton, Hampshire to Goole, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Local and District News |newspaper=Hampshire Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=8 November 1873 |issue=4305 }}
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|ship=Lady of the Lake
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Cardiff, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Cardiff.
}}
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|ship=Mary Leonard
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Jessore ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Mary Leonard was on a voyage from Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada to Belfast, County Antrim.{{Cite news |title=Water-logged |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=27 January 1873 |issue=55549 }}
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|ship=Nina
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered south east of Itapemirim, Brazil. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Buenos Aires, Argentina.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=5 December 1872 |issue=27552 |page=5 |column=F }}
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|ship=Pearl of Days
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Belfast: Thursday, Nov. 28, 1872 |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=28 November 1872 |issue=55499 }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of a Schooner and All Hands |newspaper=Sheffield Independent |location=Sheffield |date=28 November 1872 |issue=5160 |page=2 |volume=52 }}
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|ship=Quartus
|flag={{flag|Malta|1814}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Isles of Fleet, Wigtownshire, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Tripoli, Ottoman Tripolitania to Liverpool, Lancashire.
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|ship=Radnagore
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of seven of her crew. Survivors were rescued by County of Elgin ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 December 1872 |issue=15094 |page=6 }} Radnagore was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Highbridge, Somerset.
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|ship=Senno
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the English Bank, in the River Plate. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to Buenos Aires, Argentina.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 December 1872 |issue=15102 |page=7 }}
}}
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28 November
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|ship=August
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The galeas ran aground on the Hatterif. She was on a voyage from the Firth of Forth to Kiel.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=9 December 1872 |issue=27555 |page=7 |column=C }}
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|ship=Bridesmaid
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Jersey
|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore on Walney Island, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued by the Piel Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Trouville-sur-Mer, France to Preston, Lancashire. She was refloated the next day and beached.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 November 1872 |issue=15082 |page=7 }}
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|ship=City of Glasgow
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|49|18|N|6|54|W}}). Her crew were rescued by E. M. A. ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). City of Glasgow was on a voyage from Greenock, Renfrewshire to Pensacola, Florida, United States.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=30 November 1872 |issue=10272 }}
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|ship=Eagle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Old Harry Ledges, in the English Channel off the coast of Dorset. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France. She was refloated and towed into Poole, Dorset in a leaky condition.
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|ship=Elizabeth
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. She was refloated on 30 November and resumed her voyage.
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|ship=Fanny Palmer
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wicklow. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Kingstown, County Dublin to Cardiff, Glamorgan.
}}
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|ship=Glauckauf
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship collided with the steamship Timor ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Runswick ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Glauckauf was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom to Eckernforde.
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|ship=Gosforth
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=On a voyage from Sark to Guernsey the tug struck a rock between Herm and Jethou Channel Islands and sank. All crew and passengers got ashore on Herm.{{cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/docBrowser.aspx?2034?5?1 |title=Gosforth SS (+1872) |publisher=wrecksite.eu |accessdate=25 Aug 2015}}{{Cite news |title=(Untitled) |newspaper=Star |location=Saint Peter Port |date=4 March 1875 |issue=100 |volume=61 }}
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|ship=Granen
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Hurkaru
|flag={{flagcountry|British Raj}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked {{convert|50|nmi|km}} south of Madras.
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|ship=Kertch
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by the steamship {{SS|City of Bristol|1855|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Kertch was on a voyage from Quebec City to Greenock.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=13 December 1872 |issue=27559 |page=6 |column=C }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters in the Atlantic |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=17 December 1872 |issue=10286 }}
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|ship=Robina
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by E. M. A. ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Robina was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Thessaloniki, Greece.
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|ship=Sagitta
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The brigantine sank in Musclewick Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cartagena to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.
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|ship=Saint Servan
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Oran, Algeria to Dunkirk, Nord. She was refloated and taken into Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=30 November 1872 |issue=8298 }}
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|ship=Samuel
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The brigantine struck rocks and sank off "West Moady", Maine, United States. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick to Cárdenas, Cuba.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=30 December 1872 |issue=8323 }}
}}
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|ship=Solon
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Noehr", Gotland.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=29 November 1872 |issue=8297 }}
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|ship=Utinia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of eight of her 24 crew. Survivors were rescued by Marian ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Utinia was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Bristol, Gloucestershire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=7 December 1872 |issue=27554 |page=11 |column=D }}{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=7 December 1872 |issue=8304 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper |location=London |date=8 December 1872 |issue=1568 }}
}}
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Salvage Rocks, Patagonia, Argentina with the loss of eight of her crew.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 December 1872 |issue=15097 |page=6 }}
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29 November
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|ship=Annie Geldert
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Langness, Isle of Man. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Belfast, County Antrim.
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|ship=Avenir
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The sloop was run down and sunk in the River Thames by the steamship Frankland ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Her crew were rescued.
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|ship=Conductor
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the North Bull, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Dublin. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dublin to the Clyde.
}}
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|ship=Flora do Maria
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground at Redcar, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Bergen, Norway to Bilbao. She was refloated and taken into West Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom in a leaky condition.
}}
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|ship=Gluckauf
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The schooner collided with the steamship Timor ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the North Sea {{convert|6|nmi|km}} off Tynemouth, Northumberland, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Frightful Collision off Tynemouth |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=30 November 1872 |issue=6035 }} Her crew were rescued by Runswick ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=2 December 1872 |issue=8299 }} Gluckauf was on a voyage from the River Tyne to "Sundsberg".
}}
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|ship=G. N. Tucker
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Dimlington, Yorkshire. SHe was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire.
}}
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|ship=Hawk
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The Thames barge foundered in the English Channel {{convert|4|nmi|km}} off Newhaven, Sussex with the loss of one of her two crew. She was on a voyage from Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex to London.{{cite book |title=Beachy Head Shipwrecks of the 19th Century |first=David |last=Renno |page=254 |publisher=Amherst Publishing |location=Sevenoaks |year=2004 |isbn=1-903637-20-1}}
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|ship=Macedon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship collided with a British steamship and sank in the Estuary of Bilbao.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=7 December 1872 |issue=15088 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Margaret Pollock
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was largely abandoned in a waterlogged condition. Eighteen of her 22 crew were taken off by Pomona ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), the rest remained on board hoping to take her into a port. Margaret Pollock was on a voyage from Bathurst, Gambia Colony and Protectorate to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=11 December 1872 |issue=8307 }} The derelict was sunk by gunfire from {{HMS|Immortalité|1859|6}} ({{navy|UK}}) on 1 January 1873.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=10 January 1873 |issue=10307 }}
}}
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|ship=Mary Orr
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Trefusis Rocks, on the coast of Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Larache, Morocco. She was refloated with assistance from the tug Rosa ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).
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|ship=Ocean Gem
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Bic Island, in the Saint Lawrence River. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=2 December 1872 |issue=27549 |page=6 |column=F }}
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|ship=Palmer
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wicklow.
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|ship=Roe
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Peel Ridge, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Lancashire. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire to Belfast, County Antrim.
}}
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|ship=Sailor
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at "Welsoorde", Belgium. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to London.
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|ship=Summer
|flag={{flagicon|Newfoundland}} Newfoundland Colony
|desc=The ship was wrecked at West Quoddy, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was on a voyage from St. John's to Cárdenas, Cuba
}}
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|ship=Theresa
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Lingan, Nova Scotia for Boston, Massachusetts. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
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30 November
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|ship=Amoor
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Kentish Knock. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Granton, Lothian to Cárdenas, Cuba.
}}
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|ship=Bertha
|flag={{flagicon|Newfoundland}} Newfoundland Colony
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Ingonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was on a voyage from Saint John's to New York, United States.
}}
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|ship=Cassandra
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Huelva, Spain to Ipswich, Suffolk. She was refloated and resumed her voyage, but ran aground off the Cork Lightship (22px Trinity House) and sank. Her crew were rescued.
}}
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|ship=Celeste Marie
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Barnard Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the Southwold Lifeboat. She floated off the next day and came ashore at Covehithe, Suffolk, where she was wrecked. Celeste Marie was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom to Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure.{{cite web |url=http://walberswick.onesuffolk.net/assets/WLHG/ShipsShipwrecks1782-1845.pdf |title=Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874 |first=Alan Farquar |last=Bottomley |publisher=Suffolk Records Society |accessdate=26 December 2014}}
}}
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|ship=Clara
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Harry Furlon Rocks. She was on a voyage from Belfast to Newry, County Antrim.
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|ship=Florence
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was lost in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=6 December 1872 |issue=27553 |page=10 |column=F }}
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|ship=Lady Milton
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued by Albinus ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).
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|ship=Marbella
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Innellan Rocks, in the Firth of Clyde. She was on a voyage from Lisbon, Portugal to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.
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|ship=Mary Day
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Wexford.
}}
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|ship=Newsky
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship caught fire off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=2 December 1872 |issue=15083 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Wellesley
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sank in the Gasper Channel with the loss of a crew member.
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|ship=Alfrida, or
Elfreda
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Gaspé, Quebec, Canada before 9 November. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Gaspé.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=13 November 1872 |issue=10257 }}
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|ship=Algonguin
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned off Cape Horn, Chile. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Mollendo, Peru.
}}
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|ship=Amandus
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The ship was taken into Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland in a derelict condition.
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|ship=Amor
|flag={{flag|Belgium}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Kelly", near Visby, Sweden.
}}
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|ship=Arne
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked on Møn, Denmark. At least two of her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Hartlepool, County Durham.
}}
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|ship=Asteriana
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Rangoon, Burma. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Notes of the Week |newspaper=Cheshire Observer |location=Cheshire |date=12 April 1873 |issue=1079 |volume=22 }}
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|ship=Atlas
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Grand-Métis, Quebec before 13 November. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to London.
}}
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|ship=Australia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk and was abandoned by her crew.
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|ship=Auxilar
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Port Hood, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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|ship=Baltic
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Falkenberg, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Copenhagen to Uddevalla, Sweden.
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|ship=Bennington
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was lost whilst on a voyage from London to Coquimbo, Chile.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 December 1872 |issue=10288 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 December 1872 |issue=15098 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Careful
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sailing barge was driven onto piles and sank in the River Gipping at Bramford, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Ipswich to Needham Market.{{Cite news |title=Ipswich |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=26 November 1872 |issue=7063 }}
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|ship=Carolina
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Sandlewood Island. She was refloated and taken into Mauritius, where she arrived on 27 November in a leaky condition.
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|ship=Caronella
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Miscellaneous |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=5 December 1872 |issue=55505 }}
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|ship=City of Manchester
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Pilgrims. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to Greenock, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=11 December 1872 |issue=15091 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Clara Lamb
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was destroyed by fire at Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands before 3 November.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=5 November 1872 |issue=27526 |page=5 |column=F }}
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|ship=Coronella
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack foundered in the North Sea between 10 and 16 November.
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|ship=Crusader
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. She was on a voyage from Callao, Peru to Cork.
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|ship=David McIver
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean after 5 November with the loss of all twenty crew. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to Greenock.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=24 January 1873 |issue=10313 }}{{Cite news |title=Supposed Loss of Ten Ships with All Hands |newspaper=Lancaster Gazetter |location=Lancaster |date=8 March 1873 |issue=4480 }}
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|ship=Edmund
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked near Lysekil, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland to London.
}}
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|ship=E. E. Haws
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Bahia Honda, Cuba before 22 November. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana to Liverpool.
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|ship=Emmy
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was wrecked on the coast of Jutland before 12 November. At least ten of her crew survived.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=14 November 1872 |issue=10258 }}
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|ship=Empire Queen
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Valparaíso, Chile.
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|ship=Excelsior
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship foundered. She was on a voyage from Umeå, Sweden to London.
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|ship=Expedite
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Corton Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by the Lowestoft Lifeboat.{{Cite news |title=Miscellaneous News |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=28 January 1873 |issue=7080 }}
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|ship=Flora
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Tilstarne. She was on a voyage from a Baltic port to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
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|ship=Formosa
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Bic Island, in the Saint Lawrence River. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to a British port.
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|ship=Frederik
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked in mid-November. Her crew were rescued by To Brodre ({{flag|Norway|1844}}).
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|ship=Friendship
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. She was on a voyage from Newcastle to Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom.
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|ship=Frithiof
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked near Langesund.
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|ship=George Edward
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked at Køge, Denmark.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=18 November 1872 |issue=27537 |page=12 |column=F }}
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|ship=General Neill
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to Limerick.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=3 December 1872 |issue=27550 |page=11 |column=F }}
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|ship=Harriet
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Serena ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).
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|ship=Harrisburg
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Gut of Canso. She was on a voyage from Pictou, Nova Scotia to Havana, Cuba.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=28 November 1872 |issue=8296 }}
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|ship=Hannah G.
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was refloated on 13 November and towed into Belfast, County Antrim.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 November 1872 |issue=15068 |page=7 }}
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|ship=H. D. Brookman
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship caught fire at New Orleans and was scuttled. She was later refloated.
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|ship=Heart
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the coast of the Newfoundland Colony before 3 November. Her crew were rescued.
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Heinrich
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Stege, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall to Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.
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|ship=Hertha
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Køge Bay. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.
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|ship=Isabel
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked in Haiti. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to a port in Haiti.{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=4 December 1872 |issue=8301 }}
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|ship=Jane
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship put into Trinity Bay in a waterlogged condition. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to Hayle, Cornwall.
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|ship=Janet McDiarmid
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the coast of Norway. She was on a voyage from South Shields to Danzig, Germany.{{Cite news |title=Mail and Ship News |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=5 November 1872 |issue=10787 }}
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|ship=Jewess
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from London to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She was refloated and taken into Bermuda.
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|ship=John Henry
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Jersey
|desc=The schooner was wrecked near Gaspé with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Gaspé to Jersey.
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|ship=Lady Maxwell
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Troon, Ayrshire. She was refloated on 16 November and taken into Troon.
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lincoln
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Cacouna, Quebec before 9 November. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to London.
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|ship=Liverpool
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Trois-Pistoles, Quebec before 9 November. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to London.
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|ship=Magnet
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig sank at Aberdeen. She was refloated on 26 November.{{Cite news |title=Aberdeen |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=26 November 1872 |issue=6031 }}
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|ship=Margaret and Jane
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at "Lajeland".
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|ship=Matura
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Tennessee Reef. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to New Orleans. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.
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|ship=Mischief
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sank before 7 November. Her crew were rescued by a Norwegian yacht. Mischief was on a voyage from Königsberg, Germany to Londonderry.
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|ship=M. P. S. Lord
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire before 8 November. She was on a voyage from Pictou to Colón, United States of Colombia.
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|ship={{SS|Neptune|1864|2}}
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore in a hurricane at Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada before 8 November.
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|ship=Neptune
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque departed from the River Tyne for Iquique, Chile. Subsequently wrecked on "Kelp Island" with the loss of all fourteen crew; Wreckage from the ship washed up at Stanley, Falkland Islands.{{Cite news |title=Foundering of a Barque - All on Board Lost |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=2 July 1873 |issue=6218 }}{{Cite news |title=Notes of the Week |newspaper=Cheshire Observer |location=Chester |date=5 July 1873 |issue=1091 |page=4 |volume=22 }}
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|ship=Northumberland
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing yawl was driven ashore at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued.
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|ship=Ocklawaha
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamship collided with another vessel and sank off the mouth of the Ocklawaha River.
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|ship=Oliver Cromwell
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea {{convert|20|nmi|km}} off Spurn Point, Yorkshire. Both crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=20 November 1872 |issue=10800 }}
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|ship=Ontario
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine foundered at sea. She was on a voyage from New Orleans to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=2 December 1872 |issue=27549 |page=6 |column=F }}
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|ship=Patriot
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Lisbon, Portugal.
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|ship=Persa
|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked near "Strasde".
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|ship=Perseverane
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner sank at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.
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|ship=Prinz Oscar
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Strömstad, Sweden with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from London to Fredrikshald.
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|ship=Saxony
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was wrecked at Lorient, Morbihan, France. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Lorient.
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|ship=Southern
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The steamship collided with the brig Æolus ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to New York, United States.
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|ship=Stay
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked on Gotland, Sweden with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from London to "Elsingford".{{Cite news |title=The Recent Gales and Loss of Life |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=29 November 1872 |issue=55500 }}
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|ship=Pearl of Days
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Belfast: Thursday, Nov. 28, 1872 |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=28 November 1872 |issue=55499 }} Also reported to have come ashore in Gelliswick Bay, Pembrokeshire and to have been refloated on 29 November.
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|ship=S. T. Holbrook
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Saint Thomas before 3 November. She was on a voyage from New York to Antwerp, Belgium.
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|ship=Sylphiden
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The barque ran aground at Sandøsund and was damaged. She was on a voyage from a Swedish port to Boulogne. She was refloated and found to be leaky.
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|ship=Thomas
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.
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|ship=Thomas and Edward
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack foundered in the North Sea between 10 and 16 November.
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|ship=Tonbridge
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked between "Gutzlaff" and "Harper Island" with the loss of a crew member before 26 November. She was on a voyage from London to Shanghai, China.
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|ship=Triton
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Rivière du Loup, Quebec. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to Cardigan.
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|ship=Village Belle
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig departed from Schötzow, Germany for West Hartlepool, County Durham. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=12 December 1872 |issue=27558 |page=5 |column=D-E }}
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|ship=Watanga
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the north coast of Barbados. Her crew were rescued.
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. She was refloated with the aid of six smacks (all {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}.{{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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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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