List of shipwrecks in November 1878

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|ship=America

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

|desc=The schooner grounded near the entrance to Grand Haven, Michigan in a gale and heavy seas in Lake Michigan. Eight rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015076784076&view=1up&seq=24 |title=Annual report of the United States Life Saving Service, Year ending June 30, 1879 |publisher=University of Michigan |access-date=27 November 2019}}

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|ship=Australia

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

|desc=The schooner missed the entrance to Grand Haven hitting a pier in a gale and heavy seas in Lake Michigan. She grounded {{convert|20|ft}} from the pier and was wrecked. One killed, six rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.

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|ship=Brockley

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

|desc=The tug collided with the steamship Kildare ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the River Mersey and was severely damaged. She was taken in to Liverpool, Lancashire.

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|ship=David S.

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

|desc=The ship caught fire in the Aegean Sea and was beached. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Granton, Lothian, United Kingdom to Odessa, Russia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 November 1878 |issue=9618 }}

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|ship=Ino

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Heligoland. She was on a voyage from Bremen, Germany to Dunkerque, Nord, France. She was refloated and taken in to Cuxhaven, Germany in a leaky condition .{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=2 November 1878 |issue=29402 |page=6 |column=C }}

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|ship=J. H. Rutter

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in a storm near Ludington, Michigan. Though declared a total loss, she was raised, repaired and returned to service in 1879.{{cite web |url=http://www.boatnerd.com/swayze/shipwreck/r.htm |title=Great Lakes Shipwrecks R |publisher=Boat Nerd |access-date=24 September 2020}}

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|ship=L. C. Woodruff

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

|desc=The barque dragged anchor in a gale in Lake Michigan off White Lake into the breakers {{convert|150|yd}} offshore {{convert|1/2|nmi|km}} north of the lake entrance early in the morning, sinking in {{convert|13|ft}} of water. Broke up around sundown. Of her crew six killed, four rescued, or three killed and seven rescued, by the United States Life Saving Service.

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|ship=Marianne

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship departed from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom for Copenhagen, Denmark. No further trace, reported missing.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=20 February 1879 |issue=29496 |page=12 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=20 February 1879 |issue=10246 }}

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|ship=Montpelier

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

|desc=The schooner grounded on the wreck of the steamship Orion knocking a hole in her bottom and causing her to sink near the entrance to Grand Haven, Michigan in a gale and heavy seas in Lake Michigan. Eight rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.

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|ship=Ottercape

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated and taken in to Sunderland.

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|ship=Peruvian

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Leswalt, Wigtownshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ayr to Belfast, County Antrim.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 November 1878 |issue=9613 }}

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|ship=Providence

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

|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the Cross Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Penzance, Cornwall. She was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a waterlogged condition.

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|ship=Aline

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on a reef off Yori-shima, Loochoo Islands, Japan. She was on a voyage from Takao, Formosa to Hyogo, Japan.{{Cite news |title=Official Enquiry |newspaper=The Star |location=St. Peter Port |date=13 March 1879 |issue=118 |volume=65 }}

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|ship=Asphodel

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore {{convert|20|nmi|km}} east of East London, Cape Colony.

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|ship={{HMS|Malabar|1866|6}}

|flag={{Navy|UK}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Euphrates|troopship}} became disabled in the English Channel {{convert|17|nmi|km}} east south east of Prawle Point, Devon due to an engine breakdown. She was taken in tow by the steamship Benjamin Whitworth ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Two Admiralty tugs assisted Benjamin Whitworth in taking HMS Malabar in to Plymouth, Devon. The troopship was on a voyage from Portsmouth, Hampshire to India.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=4 November 1878 |issue=3552 |page=4 }}

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|ship=S. J. Bogart

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The barque ran aground {{convert|10|nmi|km}} west of Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was on a voyage from New York to Rouen.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=4 November 1878 |issue=29403 |page=6 |column=C }} She was refloated.

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|ship=Terese

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned off East London. She came ashore {{convert|20|nmi|km}} east of East London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 November 1878 |issue=9612 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Bristol Mercury |location=Bristol |date=12 November 1878 |issue=9514 }}

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|ship=Knud, and
Rostock

|flag=({{flag|Norway|1844}})
{{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The steamships collided in the Baltic Sea and were both severely damaged. Knud was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Antwerp, Belgium. She put in to "Lappegrunden". Rostock was on a voyage from Bergen, Norway to Copenhagen, Denmark. She put in to Helsingør, Denmark in a severely leaky condition.

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|ship=Penelope

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

|desc=The barque collided with the steamship Celeste ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|14|nmi|km}} south east of Tynemouth Castle, Northumberland. Her nine crew were taken on by a pilot coble. Penelope was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Hartlepool, County Durham. She was subsequently towed in to Hartlepool.

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|ship={{SS|Djemnah||2}}

|flag=({{flag|France}})

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at La Joliette, Bouches-du-Rhône. She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône to China. Her 141 passengers were taken off. She was refloated and put back to Marseille.{{Cite news |title=Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=8 November 1878 |issue=10637 }}

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|ship= Hercules

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

|desc=The steam barge collided with {{SS|City of Baltimore|1855|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the River Mersey at Birkenhead, Cheshire with the loss of five lives. Survivors were rescued by City of Baltimore and the tug Ranger ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{cite news |title=The City of Baltimore |newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=17 |date=14 November 1878 |page=7}}{{cite web|last1=Lettens|first1=Jan|title=Hercules [+1878]|url=http://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?67305|website=Wrecksite|access-date=13 November 2015}}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 November 1878 |issue=9613 }}

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|ship=Martin

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Chapman Sand, in the Thames Estuary. She was on a voyage from Hamburg, Germany to London. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

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|ship=Ocean Home

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

|desc=The barque was towed in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom in a derelict and waterlogged condition.

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|ship=Sicilian

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Stettin, Germany. She was refloated and put back to New York.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=6 November 1878 |issue=29405 |page=12 |column=A }}

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|ship=Stagshaw

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia to Gravesend, Kent. She was refloated and towed in to Gravesend.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 November 1878 |issue=16938 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Urania

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on Læsø, Denmark.

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

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked on the Staur Holmen Rigg, off Gotland, Sweden with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia to London.{{cite web |url=http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/W-Ships/widdrington1872.html |title=Widdrington |publisher=Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust |accessdate=1 December 2021 }}

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|ship=Cambodge

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Vizagapatam, India with some loss of life.

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|ship=Celt

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Carnsore, County Wexford. She was on a voyage from Dunkerque, Nord, France to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.

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|ship= Fifeshire

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Vizagapatam with the loss of seventeen of her 22 crew. She was on a voyage from Bimlipatam to Madras, India.{{cite news |title=Loss of a Glasgow Vessel and 17 hands |newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=17 |date=14 November 1878 |page=7 }}{{cite web |url=http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=5395&vessel=FIFESHIRE |title=Fifeshire |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Heritage Trust |accessdate=17 October 2021}}

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|ship=Forresian

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

|desc=The brig was run down and sunk off Málaga, Spain by the steamship Pasajes ({{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}) with the loss of all but two of those on board. Survivors were rescued by Pasajes.{{Cite news |title=Wreck of an English Vessel off Malaga |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=21 November 1878 |issue=4291}}

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|ship=Gazelle

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner grounded on Long Island, New York and broke up. Some equipment was salvaged. Her crew of three rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.

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|ship=Janet Forbes

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore west of Dunkerque, Nord, France. She was on a voyage from Dunkerque to Baltimore, Maryland, United States.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=8 November 1878 |issue=10637 }}

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|ship=John Hullet

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Lillegrunden. She was on a voyage from Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland to London. She was refloated with the assistance of a steamship and taken in to Copenhagen, Denmark.

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|ship=Metlania

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore in the Baie d'Authie. She was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Somme, France.

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|ship=Olive Branch

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Bimlipatam, India with some loss of life.

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner grounded {{convert|1|nmi|km}} north of the Two Rivers, Wisconsin Life Saving Station in heavy seas. Her crew of three rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.

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|ship= Fear Not

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Hayle, Cornwall whilst being towed by the tug North Star ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{cite news |title=Hayle |newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=18 |date=14 November 1878 |page=5}}

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|ship= Heligan

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

|desc=The schooner sprung a leak and sank off Lundy Island, Devon while on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Gweek, Cornwall. Two crew drowned and two were picked up by a passing steamship.{{cite news |title=Truro |newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=18 |date=14 November 1878 |page=5}}

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|ship=Lizzie Olson

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

|desc=The ship was sighted off The Lizard, Cornwall whilst on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. No further trace, reported missing.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=23 January 1879 |issue=29472 |page=12 |column=B }}

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|ship=Zenith

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground off "Pouliquen", Loire-Inférieure.

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner run into by the steamship {{SS|John O. Scott|1874|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the North Sea off Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Disasters at Sea |date=7 November 1878 |issue=29406 |page=5 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Latest General News |newspaper=Bristol Mercury |location=Bristol |date=7 November 1878 |issue=9510 }}

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|ship=Charlotte

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

|desc=The schooner sank in the Irish Sea {{convert|15|nmi|km}} off St. Ann's Head, Pembrokeshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to Runcorn, Cheshire.

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|ship=Darley

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground at Southwold, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Southwold.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=9 November 1878 |issue=29408 |page=6 |column=E }}

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|ship=Wacousta

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

|desc=The schooner grounded {{convert|1+1/2|nmi|km}} from the pier and {{convert|1|mi|spell=in}} offshore at Charlotte, New York in a gale and snowstorm and heavy seas in Lake Ontario. Her crew of six were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.

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|ship=Blue Jacket

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|50|nmi|km}} off the mouth of the Humber. Her crew were rescued by the barque Galilee ({{flag|Denmark}}). Blue Jacket was on a voyage from London to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Weather |date=11 November 1878 |issue=29409 |page=11 |column=C }} She was still afloat a week later.

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|ship=Caroline

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Dunkerque, Nord. She was on a voyage from Antofagasta, Chile to Dunkerque. She was refloated on 16 November.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 November 1878 |issue=9624 }}

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|ship=Helligan

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon with the loss of two of her four crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Gweek, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Western Mail |location=Cardiff |date=11 November 1878 |issue=2968 }}

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|ship=Isabella

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

|desc=The Thames barge was driven ashore and wrecked at Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Levant

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Danube {{convert|37|nmi|km}} from its mouth.

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|ship=Mary Ann

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

|desc=The fishing vessel was run down and sunk off the Eddystone Rocks, Cornwall by Woodlark ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Her crew were rescued by Woodlark.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=13 November 1878 |issue=29411 |page=12 |column=B }}

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|ship=Mathilde

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore {{convert|4|nmi|km}} north of Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. All ten people on board were rescued by the Donna Nook Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Larvik to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Nelson

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore at Dunkerque.

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|ship=Notre Dame

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

|desc=The ketch was driven ashore at Grimsby, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Hull to Buckie, Moray. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug and taken in to Grimsby.

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|ship=Raven

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore near Rhyl, Denbighshire. Her crew were rescued by the Rhyl Lifeboat.

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|ship=Speedwell

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

|desc=The schooner grounded {{convert|4|nmi|km}} west of Oswego, New York in a gale and snowstorm and heavy seas in Lake Ontario. Her crew of seven were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.

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|ship=Virgo

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

|desc=The brigantine was wrecked on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. All eight people on board got aboard the Sunk Lightship (22px Trinity House), from where were rescued by the smack Reindeer. Virgo was on a voyage from London to "Kidby".{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=13 November 1878 |issue=3560 |page=4 }}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=flag unknown

|desc=The steamship ran aground in Liverpool Bay.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=9 November 1878 |issue=9617 }}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat was driven ashore. Her crew were rescued by the Rhyl Lifeboat.

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|ship=Albion

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

|desc=The brigantine was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Eliza Ann Matilda ({{flag|Norway|1844}}). Albion was on a voyage from Annapolis, Maryland, United States to London, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=2 December 1878 |issue=12151 }}

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|ship=Alblasserdam

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Banjaard Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Zeeland with the loss of 40 crew. She was on a voyage from "Pangool", Java, Netherlands East Indies to Rotterdam, South Holland.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=12 November 1878 |issue=7405 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 November 1878 |issue=9622 }}

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|ship=Bellona

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore near Royan, Seine-Inférieure, France. Her four crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Falmouth, Cornwall to Arbroath, Forfarshire.

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|ship=Betty

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Terrific Gale on the English Coast |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=11 November 1878 |issue=7404 }}

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|ship=Bo-peep

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Mundesley, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex to Sunderland, County Durham.

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|ship= Carlotta

|flag={{flagcountry|New Zealand}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked near Wellington Harbour. All hands were saved.Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 229–230.

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|ship=Catherine

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

|desc=The sloop was wrecked on the coast of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to the Mull of Kintyre.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=6 December 1878 |issue=10641 }}

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|ship=Comet

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Milbay, Devon. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sligo to London.

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|ship=Devonshire

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the River Tyne at Sunderland.

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|ship=Fanchon

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off Domesnes, Russia and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Hartlepool, County Durham.

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|ship=Frederike

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Baltic Sea off "Hasan". Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=George

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Cross Sand. She was refloated and towed in to Dover, Kent.

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|ship=George

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

|desc=The fishing smack was driven ashore at Lowestoft.

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|ship=Helena

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

|desc=The schooner collided with the schooner Electryon ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the North Sea {{convert|12|nmi|km}} south of the Newarp Lightship (22px Trinity House) with the loss of one of her five crew. Survivors were rescued by Electryon. Helena was on a voyage from the River Duddon to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=12 November 1878 |issue=29410 |page=10 |column=A }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Weather |date=13 November 1878 |issue=29411 |page=11 |column=C }}

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|ship=Iris

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

|desc=The schooner struck the Sunk Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex and sank. Her crew were rescued by the smack Paul ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Iris was on a voyage from Northfleet, Kent to Newcastle upon Tyne.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=12 November 1878 |issue=16944 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Johanna

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea {{convert|20|nmi|km}} off the Noord Hinder Lightship ({{flag|Netherlands}}). Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom to Hamburg.

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|ship=John and Harriet

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Salthouse, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

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|ship=John Pardew

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Plymouth and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Charlestown, Cornwall to Runcorn, Cheshrie.

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|ship={{SS|Larch|1878|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the River Tyne at Sunderland. She was refloated.

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|ship=Lily

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

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

}}

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|ship=Lima

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

|desc=The steamship collided with the steamship Westminster ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was beached at Tilbury, Essex. Lima was on a voyage from the River Thames to the River Tyne.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=11 November 1878 |issue=29409 |page=7 |column=F }}

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|ship=Peace

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked in Ballinskelligs Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Limerick.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mystery

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

|desc=The samck was abandoned of the coast of Norfolk. She ran aground on the Scroby Sands, floated off and ran aground on the Middle Sand. She was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a derelict condition .

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Neptun

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore. She was refloated and taken in to Helsingborg.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=11 November 1878 |issue=12133 }}

}}

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|ship=Old Goody

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off Great Yarmouth. She was refloated with assistance from the Gorleston Lifeboat Leicester (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and taken in to Great Yarmouth.{{Cite news |title=Gallant Lifeboat Services. Many Persons Rescued |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=12 November 1878 |issue=7405 }}

}}

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|ship=Ono

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

|desc=The brigantine was abandoned off The Lizard, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued by Alma ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Ono was towed in to Portland, Dorset by Lionel ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) on 12 November.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=13 November 1878 |issue=29411 |page=12 |column=B }}

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|ship=Phœbus

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Sunk Sand. She was on a voyage from Helsingborg, Sweden to London. Her nine crew were rescued by the smack Volunteer ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Phoebus was refloated the next day and taken in to Harwich, Essex in a severely damaged and waterlogged condition.

}}

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|ship=Phoenix

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

|desc=The ketch was wrecked on the coast of Nord, France. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Abbeville, Somme, France.

}}

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|ship=Primula

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

|desc=The brigantine was beached at Holyhead, Anglesey, United Kingdom and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Garston, Lancashire to Norway.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=R. C. Bulgin

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship departed from Galveston, Texas, United States for Liverpool. No further trace, reported missing.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=27 March 1879 |issue=17060 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sarah Ann

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

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

}}

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|ship=Twelve Apostles

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground at Amager, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Stettin, Germany to Penzance, Cornwall. She was refloated on 11 November with the assistance of a steamship and taken in to Copenhagen, Denmark, for repairs.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Urania

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off the Mumbles, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Le Tréport, Seine-Inférieure, France to Liverpool. She was refloated and taken in to Swansea, Glamorgan.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William Jones

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

|desc=The schooner departed from Youghal, County Cork for Bridgwater, Somerset. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all six crew.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 November 1878 |issue=9624 }}

}}

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|ship=Zephyr

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on Scroby Sands, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from London to Leven, Fife. She was refloated and found to be severely leaky. She was assisted in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk by a tug.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

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|ship=Dryad

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

|desc=The steam lighter was driven ashore and wrecked at Anstruther, Fife. Her crew were rescued by the Anstruther Lifeboat Admiral Fitzroy (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Dryad was on a voyage from Montrose, Forfarshire to Campbeltown, Argyllshire. She was refloated on 14 November.{{Cite news |title=Anstruther |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=15 November 1878 |issue=7901 }}{{Cite news |title=Anstruther |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=16 January 1879 |issue=7953 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ebenezer

|flag={{Flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The barque foundered in the English Channel off Hastings, Sussex, United Kingdom. Her ten crew were rescued by the steamship Ferndale ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Ebenezer was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Edward and Emma

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

|desc=The schooner collided with the steamship Rydal Hall and was abandoned by her crew, who got aboard the steamship. Edward and Emma was on a voyage from Bangor, Caernarfonshire to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was towed in to Liverpool by the tug Kingfisher ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Enterprise

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Kingsdown, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Cardiff, Glamorgan. She was refloated and put back to Gravesend, Kent

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Francis

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Mandal to a port in North Carolina, United States.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gustav

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Dogger Bank. Her crew were rescued by Argus ({{flagcountry|German Empire}}).

}}

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|ship=Il Tipo

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the coast of Haiti.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=12 November 1878 |issue=12134 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Industry

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

|desc=The lugger ran aground on the Shingle Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent. She was refloated with assistance from the Margate Lifeboat Friend to all Nations (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and taken in to Margate, Kent.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jacob Johann

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Nexø, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Dantsic to "Aahines".

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|ship=Rebecca

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The barque ran aground at Dragør, Denmark. She was refloated and taken in to Copenhagen, Denmark.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=12 November 1878 |issue=9619 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Yorin

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Holm Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her 21 crew were rescued by the Lowestoft Lifeboat Samuel Plimsoll (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Yorin was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to London. She was refloated.

}}

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|ship=A. A. Wignall

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

|desc=The ship collided with another vessel and ran aground. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to the River Tyne. She was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a severely damaged and severely leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ann

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned off Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by the Lowestoft Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from London to the River Tyne. She was subsequently taken in to Lowestoft in a leaky condition.

}}

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|ship=Attila

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Aracati, Brazil. She was on a voyage from Ceará to Aracati. She was a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Comet

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

|desc=The wherry was driven ashore and severely damaged at Maryport, Cumberland. She was on a voyage from "Benne" to Maryport. She was refloated and towed in to Maryport.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elisha

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

|desc=The smack was run down and sunk in the North Sea by a German vessel with the loss of a crew member.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Falcon

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground at Wick, Caithness. She was on a voyage from Wick to the Orkney Islands. She was refloated and put back to Wick.{{Cite news |title=Snowstorm and Wrecks |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=12 November 1878 |issue=12134 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Germania

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship departed from Cuxhaven for New York, United States. No further trace, posted missing.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gilpin

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Neath, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Pernambuco, Brazil She was refloated the next day and towed in to Neath.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gorm

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Holm Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. All 21 people on board were rescued by the Lowestoft Lifeboat Samuel Plimsoll (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Gorm was on a voyage from Copenhagen to London. She was refloated and taken in to Lowestoft in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Penny Illustrated Paper |location=london |date=16 November 1878 |issue=902 |page=315 |volume=35 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kate

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her nine crew were rescued by a smack. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Landwood

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and severely damaged at Maryport. She was on a voyage from Londonderry to Maryport.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaret

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground and was wrecked off Thorpeness, Sufolk. Her five crew were rescued by the Thorpeness Lifeboat Ipswich (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Margaret was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to London. She came ashore at Sizewell, Suffolk.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Meteore

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque struck a rock and sank at Lormont, Gironde. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Bordeaux, Gironde.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Piako

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

|desc=The ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean. Of her passengers, the women and children were put into boats and were rescued by Loch Doon ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Piako was on a voyage from London to New Zealand. She was scuttled on 16 November. Her crew and the male passengers reached "Cocoa Nut Island", from where they were rescued six weeks later.{{Cite news |title=The Burning of the Emigrant Ship Piako |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=15 May 1879 |issue=7561 }}

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|ship=Prosperous

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Swansea. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Llanelly, Glamorgan.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Star

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on Carn Marvel, in the Isles of Scilly. She was on a voyage from the Isles of Scilly to Cardiff, Glamorgan. She was refloated with the assistance of a steamship and taken in to St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Utopia

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Maryport. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Maryport. She was refloated and taken in to Maryport.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Youn

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Holm Sand. Her 21 crew were rescued by the Lowestoft Lifeboat Samuel Plimsoll (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Youn was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to London. She was refloated and taken in to Lowestoft.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Three unnamed vessels

|flag=Flags unknown

|desc=The ships were wrecked off Pakefield, Suffolk. Their crews were rescued.

}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ann Eliza

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

|desc=The cutter was driven ashore at Whitstable, Kent.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Annie White

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and severely damaged at Whitstable.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Antelope

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Scrabster, Caithnes. Her crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=14 November 1878 |issue=29412 |page=12 |column=B }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=City of Tanjore

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore at Dungeness, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Adelaide, South Australia. She was refloated with the assistance of two tugs and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gemma Parodi

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

|desc=The barque ran aground and sank at the mouth of the River Tees. Her eighteen crew were rescued by the paddle tug {{PS|Nunthorpe|1876|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Gemma Parodi was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom to Genoa.{{Cite news |title=Severe Gale and Snowstorm |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=12 November 1878 |issue=3559 |page=4 }}

}}

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|ship=Glenearn

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Hong Kong. She was on a voyage from London to Hong Kong. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Haabet

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea off Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom. Her crew survived.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=13 November 1878 |issue=16945 |page=6 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John and Edwin

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and severely damaged at Whitstable.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Londesborough

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Whitstable.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Jabez

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

|desc=The fishing boat drifted onto rocks at Clodgy Point, Cornwall in a gale with the loss of three of her five cew.{{cite news |title=Three Lives Lost |newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=18 |date=14 November 1878 |page=5}}

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|ship=Mary Ann Mackay

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and severely damaged at Whitstable.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Stephen and Sarah

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Whitstable.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The fishing boat was driven ashore and wrecked at St. Ives, Cornwall with the loss of three of her five crew.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Adele

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship foundered off Belle Île, Morbihan. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bilbao, Spain to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 November 1878 |issue=9621 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Atlantic

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Swin Middle Bank, in the Thames Estuary. She was on a voyage from London to Tønsberg, Germany. She was refloated and put back to Gravesend, Kent.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Baynes

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on Heligoland. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Ystad, Sweden to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Carcand

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner ran aground off Isle Madame, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was on a voyage from Cape Canso, Nova Scotia to Saint Pierre and Miquelon.{{cite web|last1=Lettens|first1=Jan|title=Carcand (+1878)|url=http://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?32288|website=Wrecksite|access-date=13 November 2015}}

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|ship=Emily Jane

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Herne Bay, Kent. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dover, Kent to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maria

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the English Channel {{convert|20|nmi|km}} west of Guernsey, Channel Islands. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Newport, Monmouthshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Oni

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Christiania, Norway.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ridesdale

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

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Southampton, Hampshire. She was refloated with assistance from the tug Aid and the Ramsgate Lifeboat and taken in to Ramsgate, Kent.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vorobey

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The transport ship foundered in the Black Sea off Sukhumi with the loss of fourteen of her sixteen crew. She was on a voyage from Nicholaieff to Poti.{{Cite news |title=Loss of a Russian Transport and Fourteen Lives |newspaper=Bristol Mercury |location=Bristol |date=20 November 1878 |issue=9521 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore and severely damaged at Leith, Lothian. She was refloated and taken in to Granton, Lothian.

}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alice

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

|desc=The schooner departed from Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland for Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all four crew.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=30 November 1878 |issue=12150 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Bessie

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

|desc=The collier hit the western side of the Hayle Estuary and floated off and was carried by the wind and tide to the eastern side of the river.{{cite news |title=Steam-Collier Bessie |newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=19 |date=21 November 1878 |page=4}} Bessie later became high and dry on Hayle Bar and her cargo and rigging were removed in an attempt to refloat her.{{cite news |title=Steam-Collier Bessie |newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=19 |date=21 November 1878 |page=7}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elise

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Westkapelle, Zeeland, Netherlands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=F. Edward

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

|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the Cross Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk and sank. Her crew were rescued by the Caister Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire to Gravesend, Kent.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Heinrich

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore in Aalbek Bay. She was on a voyage from Königsberg to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maria Augusta

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at San Ferdinando, Italy. Her crew were rescued She was on a voyage from Gioia Tauro, Italy to Glasgow, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Anna Victoria

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship ran aground near Ystad, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Pärnu to Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Armstrong

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

|desc=The steamship foundered in the North Sea {{convert|20|nmi|km}} east south east of the mouth of the Humber with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=21 November 1878 |issue=3567 |page=4 }}

}}

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|ship=Artemis

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Sandhamn, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Sandhamn to London. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Davide S

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship caught fire at sea. She was towed in to "Ergasteria", Greece by a British steamship.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jansjen

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Hellebæk, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Dantzic. She was later refloated and taken into port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Smaragd

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

|desc=The brig ran aground in the Dardanelles and was wrecked. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Odessa, Russia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tricolor

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Falsterbo, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Stockholm, Sweden to Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=W. H. Tucker

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued by the barque Magnum ({{flag|Norway|1844}}). W. H. Tucker was on a voyage from Beaufort, South Carolina, United States to Belfast, County Antrim.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Items |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=20 November 1878 |issue=7412 }}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The felucca sank at Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

}}

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|ship=Eliza

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Grainthorpe, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued by Deerhound ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was refloated on 26 November and taken in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eunomia

|flag={{Flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Honfleur, Manche, France to Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom. She was refloated on 25 November and towed in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

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|ship=Hoppett

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Farsund, Norway. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Kalmar, Sweden.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=22 November 1878 |issue=9613 }} She was refloated and taken in to Farsund. The wreck was advertised to be sold.

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|ship=Ida Sofia

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Clee Ness, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.{{Cite news |title=Disastrous Storm |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=19 November 1878 |issue=7405 }}

}}

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|ship=Isabel

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Randsund, Norway. She was on a voyage from Härnösand, Sweden to Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. She was refloated with assistance and taken in to Kristiansand, Norway.

}}

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|ship=Marcasite

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent.

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|ship=Oscar

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Phœnix ({{Flag|Denmark}}). Oscar was on a voyage from Hartlepool to Brevig.

}}

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|ship=Patriot

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Barmston, Yorkshire. Her seven crew were rescued by the Bridlington Lifeboat John Abbott (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Patriot was on a voyage from Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands to Newcastle upon Tyne.

}}

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|ship=Sea Flower

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Clee Ness. Her crew were rescued by the Cleethorpes Lifeboat. She subsequently caught fire and was a total loss.

}}

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|ship= Star

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

|desc=The schooner struck Carn Morval, while leaving the Isles of Scilly for Cardiff, Glamorgan. Lady of the Isles ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) towed her off and brought her into Hugh Town.{{cite news |title=Islands of Scilly |newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=19 |date=21 November 1878 |page=7}}

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The steamship foundered off the mouth of the River Tyne.

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The brig was driven ashore near Grainthorpe.

}}

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|ship=Anne

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at North Somercotes, Lincolnshire with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=19 November 1878 |issue=29416 |page=12 |column=B }} She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Arbroath, Forfarshire.

}}

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|ship=Caroline Kystar

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The brig ran aground and sank at "Sevelskoer", Denmark. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Deerfoot

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

|desc=The barque was run down and sunk in the Hawk Roads, off Spurn Point, Yorkshire by the steamship {{SS|Angelo|1874|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) with the loss of one of the fifteen people on board. Survivors were rescued by Angelo. Deerfoot was on a voyage from London to South Shields, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=19 November 1878 |issue=3565 |page=4 }}

}}

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|ship=Emanuel

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Thisted, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Helsingborg to Hythe, Kent, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Enio

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Lagos, Portugal. Her crew were rescued. She was a total loss.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 November 1878 |issue=16951 |page=6 }}

}}

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|ship=Jalawar

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued by Mangalore ({{flagcountry|British Raj}}). Jalawar was on a voyage from Madras to Anjer, Netherlands East Indies.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=7 December 1878 |issue=12156 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=9 December 1878 |issue=9642 }}

}}

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|ship=Johannes Koster

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Segelskaret". She was on a voyage from Porvoo, Grand Duchy of Finland to an English port.

}}

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|ship=Memphis

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Copenhagen, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire. She was refloated with the assistance of a steamship and resumed her voyage.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=18 November 1878 |issue=29415 |page=12 |column=B }}

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|ship=Rio

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Sagres, Portugal. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom to the Antilles.

}}

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|ship=Sunderland

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by a steamship.

}}

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|ship=Thalla

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

|desc=The barque was damaged by ice and sank in the Southern Ocean. Her ten crew were rescued by the barque Mushka ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Thalla was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=30 January 1879 |issue=29478 |page=12 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=30 January 1879 |issue=10228 }}

}}

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|ship=Walker

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Sunderland. She was on a voyage from Stettin, Germany to Sunderland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Willem

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Middelgrund, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Memel, Germany to Dordrecht, South Holland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The barque ran aground at "Holmetunge", Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all seven people on board.

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Donna Nook. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Jomala, Grand Duchy of Finland to Hull.{{Cite news |title=The Gale and Floods |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 November 1878 |issue=16950 }}

}}

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|ship=Cronstadt

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at the Porkkala Lighthouse, Grand Duchy of Finland.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Hooghly|1868|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Castillos, Uruguay. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde to the River Plate.

}}

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|ship=Johanna Bengemann

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The barque was abandoned by nine of her crew, who were rescued by the Donna Nook Lifeboat. Her captain and mate refused to leave. She was subsequently driven ashore at Saltfleet, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. Both crew survived. Johanna Bengemann was on a voyage from Memel to Hull, Yorkshire and/or London, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=The Gales - Loss of Life |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=19 November 1878 |issue=4289 |edition=First }}{{Cite news |title=Multiple News Items |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 November 1878 |issue=16953 |page=3 }} She was refloated on 20 November and taken in to Hull.

}}

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|ship=Lynet

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Bahía Honda, Cuba. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to Havana, Cuba.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=19 November 1878 |issue=29416 |page=12 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 November 1878 |issue=16950 }}

}}

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|ship=Macnear

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Columbia River. She was on a voyage from Hong Kong to Portland, Maine.

}}

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|ship=Neva

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship steamship was driven ashore at Thiessow, Germany. She was on a voyage from Riga to Wolgast, Germany. She was refloated on 26 November and towed in to Griefswald, Germany.

}}

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|ship=Oxford

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at "Surrup", Russia. She was on a voyage from London to Reval, Russia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{navy|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The barge was destroyed by the explosion of torpedoes on board with the loss of between twelve and twenty lives.{{Cite news |title=Terrible Torpedo Explosion and Loss of Life in Russia |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=30 November 1878 |issue=7914 }}

}}

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|ship=Allicance

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

|desc=The steamship collided with the steamship Weardale ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the Bute Channel and was beached. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Inférieure, France.

}}

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|ship=Anna

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea {{convert|40|nmi|km}} off St Abb's Head, Berwickshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Elena ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=The Late Gale |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=20 November 1878 |issue=7412 }}

}}

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|ship=Argelio

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

|desc=The brig struck rocks and put in to Lorient, Morbihan, France. She was on a voyage from Trieste to Gloucester.

}}

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|ship=Cornwall

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Longships, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was refloated and put in to Penzance, Cornwall.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fram

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States. Her crew rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. She was on a voyage from Stockholm, Sweden to Boston, Massachusetts.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Heathpool

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

|desc=The steamship struck the pier and was beached at Sunderland, County Durham.

}}

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|ship=Margaret Banks

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Sulina branch of the Danube {{convert|38|nmi|km}} from its mouth.

}}

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|ship=Norma

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the River Tees.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=20 November 1878 |issue=3566 |page=4 }} She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Naples, Italy. She was refloated and put back to Middlesbrough.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 November 1878 |issue=9628 }}

}}

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|ship=Sigurd

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Orfordness, Suffolk, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. She was refloated the next day and towed in to Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Tullochgorum

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

|desc=The ship arrived at Mauritius on fire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=21 November 1878 |issue=9627 }}

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Saltsckar Rocks, off Redcar, Yorkshire. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=20 November 1878 |issue=2761 }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Ascupart|1875|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Typet Ledge, off Atherfield, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Odessa, Russia to Antwerp, Belgium. She was refloated with assistance from the Coastguard and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Christiane

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. She was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Guara

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

|desc=The steamship collided with the steamship Cearense ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank at Pará. All on board survived.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Royal Cornwall Gazette |location=Truro |date=20 December 1878 |issue=3934 |page=2 }}

}}

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|ship=Melanie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Bordeaux, Gironde with the loss of a crew member.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{PS|War Eagle|1857|2}}

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

|desc=The paddle tug sank at South Shields, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

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|ship=Alice Davies

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

|desc=The barque was run down and sunk in the River Mersey by the steamship {{SS|Cherbourg|1875|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) with the loss of five of the fifteen people on board. Survivors were rescued by Cherbourg and the tugs Sailor King and Warrior (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Collision on the Mersey |date=22 November 1878 |issue=29419 |page=4 |column=C }} The wreck was dispersed by explosives in December.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 December 1878 |issue=9655 }}

}}

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|ship=Glenorchy

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore in the River Thames. She was on a voyage from London to Singapore, Straits Settlements.

}}

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|ship=Gustav

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore {{convert|6|nmi|km}} north of Aberdeen, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Dantsic to Antwerp, Belgium.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thor

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Montrose, Forfarshire. She was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to Montrose. She was refloated and taken in to Montrose.

}}

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|ship=Caroline Knight

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

|desc=The schooner stranded on Straw's Point, New Hampshire {{convert|1/4|nmi|km}} east of Life Saving Station No. 7, 1st District in a strong wind. Her crew of five rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.

}}

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|ship=Clyde

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

|desc=The ship departed from Liverpool, Lancashire for Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. No further trace, reported missing.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=10 July 1879 |issue=10366 }}

}}

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|ship=Northcote

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Lillegrunden, in the Baltic Sea.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=23 November 1878 |issue=16954 |page=7 }} She was refloated on 24 November and taken in to Copenhagen, Denmark.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=26 November 1878 |issue=9631 }}

}}

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|ship=Partisan

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at "Raabea", Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom to Malmö.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Western Eilan

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Beaufort, United States.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=23 November 1878 |issue=12144 }}

}}

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|ship=William H. Hopkins

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner stranded on Long Island, New York {{convert|1/2|nmi|km}} west of Life Saving Station No. 34, 3rd District in a strong wind. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The steamship ran aground on Taylor's Bank, in Liverpool Bay.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=23 November 1878 |issue=12144 }}

}}

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|ship=Diana

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Tamsui, Formosa. She was refloated.

}}

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|ship=Ida B. Silsbee

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner stranded on the Fire Island Bar in a gale and high seas where she pounded her bottom out. Her crew of three were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.

}}

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|ship=Mary A. Rowland

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner stranded on the rocks Rackliff Island, Maine in a gale and high seas. Refloated a week later and beached on flats. Her crew of three were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.

}}

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

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the River Mersey. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

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|ship=Riverdale

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The Schooner was run into and sunk off Thacher Island, Massachusetts. Her crew were rescued.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1878.htm |title=1878 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=1 July 2021}}

}}

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|ship=Dora

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

|desc=The steamship struck rocks in the River Shannon and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Nicolaieff, Russia to Limerick. She completed her voyage in a severely leaky condition.

}}

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|ship=Louisa Jane

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

|desc=The cutter struck rocks off Portishead, Somerset and sank. Her four crew survived. She was on a voyage from Roscoff, Finistère, France to Bristol, Gloucestershire.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=26 November 1878 }}

}}

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|ship=Maggie Townsend

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

|desc=The schooner collided with the steamship Tuller or Seniers (Flag unknown) and sank in the River Mersey.{{Cite news |title=General News |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=29 November 1878 |issue=4866 }}

}}

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|ship=Mercia

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

|desc=The barque collided with the steamship Camoens ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank at São Vicente, Cape Verde Islands. Her crew were rescued. Mercia was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Banana, Congo Free State.

}}

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|ship=Parthenon

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Danube {{Convert|20|nmi|km}} from its mouth.

}}

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

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

|desc=The steamship sprang a leak and foundered off Cape Finisterre, Spain. All on board were rescued by the steamship {{SS|Nellie Wise|1873|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{cite news |title=A Board of Trade enquiry |newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=24 |date=26 December 1878 |page=8}}

}}

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|ship= Royal Standard

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

|desc=The schooner collided with the barque Ezio ({{flag|Austria-Hungary|civil}}) approximately {{convert|7|nmi|km}} north-east of Lundy Island, Devon with the loss of one of her five crew. Survivors were rescued by Ezio. Royal Standard was severely damaged. She was towed into Ilfracombe, Devon.{{cite news |title=Collision |newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=20 |date=28 November 1878 |page=4 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=29 November 1878 |issue=10640 }}

}}

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|ship=Sandsend

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Hartlepool, County Durham. She was on a voyage from London to Hartlepool. She was refloated on 6 December and taken in to Hartlepool.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 December 1878 |issue=9641 }}

}}

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|ship=Scottish Maid

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

|desc=The brigantine was run down and sunk off Whitby, Yorkshire by the brigantine Ann ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Her crew were rescued by Ann. Scottish Maid was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Lowestoft, Suffolk.{{Cite news |title=News of the Day |newspaper=Bristol Mercury |location=Bristol |date=26 November 1878 |issue=9526 }}{{Cite news |title=A Local Collision Case |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=26 May 1880 |issue=4034 |page=3}}

}}

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|ship=Sophia

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

|desc=The Thames barge was run down and sunk in the River Thames by the steamship Aberfeldy ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=26 November 1878 |issue=12146 }}

}}

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|ship=Three unnamed vessels

|flag=Flags unknown

|desc=The ships sank in the Tagus with the loss of eighteen lives.

}}

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|ship=Ariel

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground at Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cassiopia

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at the mouth of the Llobregat. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Barcelona, Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Constance

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Texel, North Holland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia to Amsterdam, North Holland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dora

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

|desc=The steamship struck rocks in the River Shannon and was severely damaged.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Henrietta

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Olinda, Brazil. She was on a voyage from Santa Catharina to Ceará, Brazil.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Moel Eilain, and
{{SS|Pommerania|1873|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The steamship Pommerania was in collision with the barque Moel Eilain ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the English Channel off Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom with the loss of 48 of the 220 people on board. Survivors were rescued by the steamship Glengary ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Pommerania was on a voyage from New York, United States to Hamburg. Moel Eilian was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands to Cardiff, Glamorgan. She put in to Dover, Kent in a severely damaged condition.{{cite news |title=Terrible Collision in the English Channel |newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=20 |date=28 November 1878 |page=5 }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=(untitled) |date=27 November 1878 |issue=29423 |page=9 |column=B-C }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Collision at Sea |date=27 November 1878 |issue=29423 |page=10 |column=A-D }}{{cite web |url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/hamburg.shtml |title=Hamburg-American Packet Company / Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfarhrt Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) / Hamburg-American Line / Hamburg-Amerika Linie |publisher=The Ships List |accessdate=25 October 2021 }}

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|ship=Carmela

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

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

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|ship=Emmy

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Frederick Snowden ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Emmy was on a voyage from Ystad, Sweden to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=27 November 1878 |issue=9632 }}

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|ship=Fleetwing

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Audresselles, Pas-de-Calais, France.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=27 November 1878 |issue=9632 }}

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|ship=Gem

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

|desc=The Mersey Ferry collided with Bowfell ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was severely damaged.{{Cite news |title=Disastrous Collision on the Mersey between a Ferryboat and a Sailing ship|newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=27 November 1878 |issue=9632 }} Five people were killed, thirteen were reported missing.{{Cite news |title=The Liverpool Ferryboat Disaster. 13 Persons Missing |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=28 November 1878 |issue=3573 |page=4 }}

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|ship=Hertha

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyngør with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Christiania.{{Cite news |title=Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=13 December 1878 |issue=10642 }}

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|ship=Pallas

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Öland. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=28 November 1878 |issue=9633 }}

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|ship=Zosteria

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned off Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by the Lowestoft Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. Zosteria was subsequently taken in to Lowestoft.

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|ship=George Fox

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Ambleteuse, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was on a voyage from Cowes, Isle of Wight to Sunderland, County Durham.

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|ship=Klemore

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Aldeburgh Knapes Shoal, in the North Sea off Aldeburgh, Suffolk and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to London. She was later refloated and taken into the River Thames, where she arrived on 14 December.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 December 1878 |issue=9646 }}{{Cite news |title=Aldeburgh-on-Sea |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=17 December 1878 |issue=7693 }}

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|ship=Magdalena

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Læsø. She was on a voyage from Norrköping, Sweden to Dover, Kent, United Kingdom. She was refloated and resumed her voyage{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=29 November 1878 |issue=29424 |page=11 |column=A }}

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|ship=Annie

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner ran aground and was wrecked on the Barrow Sand, in the Thames Estuary. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to London, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Annie Vernon

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

|desc=The steamship struck the pier at Sunderland, County Durham and was beached. She was on a voyage from London to Sunderland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=29 November 1878 |issue=3574 |page=4 }}

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|ship=Constance Mary

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Villareal, Spain. She was on a voyage from Villareal to Plymouth, Devon. She was refloated with assistance.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=9 December 1878 |issue=9642 }}

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|ship=Escape

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Middleton, County Durham. Her crew were rescued by the Hartlepool Lifeboat John Clay Barlow (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Escape was on a voyuage from Montrose, Forfarshire to London.

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|ship=Jacob Rotheburg

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at South Shields, County Durham. All on board were rescued by rocket apparatus.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=29 November 1878 |issue=3574 |page=3 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=29 November 1878 |issue=9634 }} She was refloated on 9 December.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 December 1878 |issue=9643 }}

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|ship=Meaburn

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and severely damaged at West Hartlepool, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Severe Gale |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=28 November 1878 |issue=3573 |page=4 }}

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|ship=Richard and George

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

|desc=The schooner was severely damaged by fire in the River Tyne.

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|ship=St. Mark

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Middle Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham to London. She was refloated and completed her voyage.

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|ship=William Carroll

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner stranded on North Island, Massachusetts in high surf.

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|ship=Abeona

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

|desc=The fishing lugger was driven ashore and wrecked at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Alfgar

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Hammeren, Denmark. She was later refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 December 1878 |issue=9640 }}

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|ship=Charles and John

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Lemon and Ower Sand, in the North Sea with the loss of seven of her nine crew. Survivors were rescued by the barque Soli Deo Gloria ({{flagcountry|German Empire}}). Charles and John was on a voyage from Gothenburg to Calais, France.{{Cite news |title=Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=6 December 1878 |issue=10641 }}

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|ship=Charlotte

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

|desc=The brigantine was run down and sunk in the Irish Sea by Sea Flower ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=30 November 1878 |issue=29426 |page=12 |column=C }}

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|ship=Fanny

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Calais. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Giacomo

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

|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the Meloria Shoal, in the Mediterranean Sea and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Livorno.

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|ship=Heinrich

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on Vlieland, Friesland, Netherlands. A crew member was reported missing.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News|newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 November 1878 |issue=16960 }}

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|ship=Marie Honore

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship departed from Swansea, Glamorgan for Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône. No further trace, posted missing.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=1 April 1880 |issue=29844 |page=10 |column=F }}

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|ship=Ostfolk

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Östergarn, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Reval, Russia to London, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Prince Oscar

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Karnaphuli River. She was refloated the next day.{{Cite news |title=Multiple News Items |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=3 December 1878 |issue=7915 }}

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|ship=Rosamond

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Cherbourg, Manche, France. She was on a voyage from Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

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|ship= San Juan

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

|desc=The ship was run into by a steamship near The Lizard, Cornwall with the loss of fifteen of her sixteen crew. The survivor was rescued by the steamship.{{cite news |title=Reported Sinking of a Vessel, and Loss of Fifteen Lives |newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=22 |date=12 December 1878 |page=6}}

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|ship= Southminster

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

|desc=The 1,223-ton ship went aground and was holed on Kelp Reef, near Cape Campbell, New Zealand, in thick fog. Her passengers, crew and mail were saved.Ingram & Wheatley, p. 231.{{cite news |title=Loss of a British Ship|newspaper=The Cornishman |location=Penzance |issue=21 |date=5 December 1878 |page=5 }}

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|ship=Spray

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Alloa, Clackmannanshire. She was on a voyage from Alloa to Pillau, Germany. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

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|ship=Sweet Home

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

|desc=The schooner lost her tow in heavy seas and hit a pier at Oswego, New York, then stranded {{convert|300|ft|m}} east of the harbor where she went to pieces. Four crewmen jumped onto the pier when she hit it, a woman was left on board and was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service before the schooner broke up.

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|ship={{SS|Taranaki|1865|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|New Zealand}}

|desc=The passenger steamship was wrecked on Karewa Island near Tauranga in thick fog. All 107 passengers and crew safely made landfall.Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 230–231.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=23 January 1879 |issue=29472 |page=12 |column=B }}{{cite web |url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/unionnz.shtml |title=Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand |publisher=The Ships List |accessdate=8 December 2021 }}{{Cite web|date=30 Nov 1878|title=Latest Particulars. THAMES STAR|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THS18781130.2.14|access-date=2021-11-13|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}}

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|ship=Alne Holme

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Bokkegat, off the coast of Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.

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

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

|desc=The steamship collided with the steamship Lady Havelock ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and ran aground in the River Avon. Arragon was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to New York, United States.

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|ship=Thyria

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The brig ran aground at the entrance of the Nieuwe Waterweg and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by a lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Vindava, Courland Governorate to Schiedam, South Holland.

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|ship=Wilhelm

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore on Öland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Copenhagen, Denmark to Reval, Russia. She was refloated on 2 December and taken in to Oskarshamn the next day.

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|ship=Two unnamed vessels

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

|desc=The fishing boats were driven ashore at Aberdeen. Their crews were rescued. One boat was severely damaged, the other was wrecked.

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|ship=Albion

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

|desc=The barquentine was abandoned at sea before 16 November. She was on a voyage from Paspébiac, Quebec to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=22 November 1878 |issue=29419 |page=4 |column=C }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=16 December 1878 |issue=29439 |page=7 |column=F }}

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|ship=Anna

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The brigantine foundered after 25 November. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to London, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=9 December 1878 |issue=29433 |page=6 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=9 December 1878 |issue=12157 }}

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|ship=ARend

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Blauwe Slenk. She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire, United Kingdom to Harlingen, Friesland. She was refloated on 15 November and taken in to Harlingen.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 November 1878 |issue=9628 }}

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|ship=Aura

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Gaspé, Quebec. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Brazil to Gaspé.

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|ship=Becker

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Mexican coast. Her crew survived.

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|ship=Brechin Castle

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

|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at sea. She was on a voyage from Trinidad to Calcutta, India. She put in to São Vicente Island, Cape Verde Islands on 15 November.

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|ship=Bride

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Hayle, Cornwall. She was refloated on 29 November.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 December 1878 |issue=9638 }}

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|ship=Chrysolite

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off Vlieland, Friesland, Netherlands before 12 November.

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|ship=Comrade

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to Jamaica.

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|ship=Crimea

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico with the loss of three of her crew.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 November 1878 |issue=9625 }}

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|ship=Ella B.

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea before 20 November. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

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|ship=Eskbank

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Diamond", New Zealand. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=25 November 1878 |issue=29421 |page=12 |column=A }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=25 November 1878 |issue=12145 }}

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|ship=Farnley Hall

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

|desc=The steamship was run into by the steamship Morna and sank in the River Thames at the entrance to the Surrey Docks.

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|ship=Felixe

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 28 November.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=20 January 1879 |issue=12193 }}

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|ship=Freddie C. Evett

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was discovered on 7 November off Tybee Island, Georgia, United States by a pilot boat, which put some of her crew aboard.

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|ship=George E. Thatcher

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean before 15 November. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts to Africa.

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|ship=Gluck Auf

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off the coast of Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from London to Helsingør, Denmark.

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|ship=Guglielmo Tomasino

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Beyrout, Ottoman Syria.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 November 1878 |issue=9612 }}

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|ship=Il Tipo

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the coast of Haiti before 10 November.

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|ship=J. E. Woodworth

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

|desc=The barque was destroyed by fire at sea before 23 November. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Julio and Vicgtoria

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States to the Cape Verde Islands.

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|ship=Kron Prinz Ernst August

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the fishing smack Express ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Kron Prinz Ernst August was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom to Lübeck.{{Cite news |title=Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=22 November 1878 |issue=9613 }}

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|ship=L. de V. Chipman

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Charlottetown. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Charlottetown.

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|ship=Leon

|flag={{flag|Cape Colony}}

|desc=The cutter was wrecked at Port Nolloth.{{Cite news |title=News from the Cape |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=25 November 1878 |issue=7416 }}

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|ship=Linwood

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Maryport, Cumberland. She was refloated with assistance on 23 November.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=28 November 1878 |issue=9633 }}

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|ship=Luisita

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea before 13 November. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from San Domingo to Genoa.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=15 November 1878 |issue=29413 |page=10 |column=C }}

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|ship=Manilus

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Bulls Bay, South Carolina. She was on a voyage from Cárdenas, Cuba to New York.

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|ship=Marie Becker

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the coast of Mexico. Her crew survived.

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|ship=Marie Sophie

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The barque was beached at Salinas, Brazil.

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|ship=Margaret

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

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

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|ship=Martha S. Harding

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Easington, Yorkshire.

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|ship=Moss Glen

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 4 November.

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|ship=Nelson

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned at sea.

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|ship=Ollivier

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire.

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|ship=Paragon

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Tetney, Lincolnshire She was on a voyage from London to South Shields. County Durham. She was refloated on 26 November and taken in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

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|ship=Peder Anker

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean before 13 November. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom and/or Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=22 November 1878 |issue=29419 |page=4 |column=C }}

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

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

|desc=The steamship collided with {{SS|Moravian|1864|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) at Cape La Roche in the Saint Lawrence River and was beached. Phoenicia was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to the Clyde.

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|ship=Quito

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Kertch, Russia before 13 November. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Taganrog, Russia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=16 November 1878 |issue=12138 }} She was refloated.

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|ship=Rachel

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Villanova, near Lisbon, Portugal. She was on a voyage from Villanova to Cardiff.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=21 November 1878 |issue=9627 }}

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|ship=Sarah

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

|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Villanova to Copenhagen, Denmark.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=26 November 1878 |issue=29422 |page=10 |column=A }}

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|ship=Sweet Home

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Brindisi, Italy. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Brindisi. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 November 1878 |issue=12140 }}

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|ship=The Little Minnie

|flag={{flag|Jamaica|1875}}

|desc=The schooner capsized and sank with the loss of all but one of those on board. The survivor was rescued three days later by the steamship Warrior ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). The Little Minnie was on a voyage from Jamaica to Colón, United States of Colombia.{{Cite news |title=Singular Escape at Sea |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=3 December 1878 |issue=4301 }}

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|ship=Ulysse

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Torres Strait. She was on a voyage from New Zealand to Cape Town, Cape Colony. She was refloated and put in to Mauritius, where she arrived on 8 November.

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|ship={{SS|Zeeland|1865|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The steamship caught fire at sea. She put back to New York and the fire was extinguished.

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{{reflist|20em}}

• Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.

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Category:Maritime incidents in November 1878