List of shipwrecks in October 1862

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|ship=Barbara and Margaret

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on "Hastend Island". Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Redcar, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 October 1862 |issue=4570 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 October 1862 |issue=11901 |page=7 }} She was on a voyage from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Hartlepool, County Durham for repairs.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 October 1862 |issue=11902 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Ida

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore in the Bosphorus opposite Therapia, Ottoman Empire. She was on a voyage from Odesa to Smyrna, Ottoman Empire and London.

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|ship=Marice

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

|desc=The schooner was lost off "Wardoe". Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=13 November 1862 |issue=11936 |page=7 }}

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|ship=South Sea

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at the Sand Heads, India. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to London.

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|ship=Celontas

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked. She was on a voyage from Makassar, to Surabaya, Netherlands East Indies.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 December 1863 |issue=12270 |page=7 }}

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|ship={{PS|Iona|1855|2}}

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 325-Gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner, collided with the steamship {{SS|Chanticleer|1862|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Firth of Clyde.Gaines, p. 37.{{Cite news |title=Loss of the Iona |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=3 October 1862 |issue=7092 |edition=Afternoon }} Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Nassau, Bahamas.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=11 October 1862 |issue=11908 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Sandelma

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Paternoster Rocks, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Copenhagen.

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|ship=William Ingles

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Sines, Portugal to London. She had become a wreck by the next day.{{cite book |title=The Salvagers |first=Hervey |last=Benham |authorlink=Hervey Benham |pages=188–89 |publisher=Essex County Newspapers Ltd |location=Colchester |year=1980 |isbn=00-950944-2-3}}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 October 1862 |issue=11903 |page=7 }}{{Cite news |title=Harwich |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Colchester |date=10 October 1862 |issue=1660 |volume=39 }}

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|ship=Young Elizabeth

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.

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|ship=Annie Gibson

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Bamburgh, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Dunkirk, Nord, France. She was refloated and taken in to Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.

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|ship=Antigua

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in Lake Saint Pierre. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Province of Canada, British North America to the Clyde. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

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|ship=Brilliant

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, CSS Alabama{{'}}s New England Expeditionary Raid: The 839-ton ship, carrying a cargo of flour and grain from New York to London, United Kingdom was captured and burned on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland near {{coord|40|00|N|50|30|W|name=Brilliant}} by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ({{navy|Confederate States of America}}).[http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/MaraudersCivilWar/CSSAlabama.html Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Alabama. 1862-1864. Captain Raphael Semmes"][http://www.usnlp.org/navychronology/1862b.html usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1862]Gaines, p. 32.

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|ship=David Begg

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Indian Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the barque Countess of Yarborough ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). David Begg was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Liverpool. Her crew alleged that her captain deliberately scuttled the vessel.{{Cite news |title=The Cape of Good Hope |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=28 November 1862 |issue=27752 |page=5 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=1 December 1862 |issue=7142 }}

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|ship=James

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was refloated and resumed her voyage to London.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=7 October 1862 |issue=11904 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Jane and Elizabeth

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Vlie Banks, off the coast of Friesland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Hamburg. She was a total loss.

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|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The ship collided with Ada ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by Ada. Mary was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Le Tréport, Seine-Inférieure, France.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=7 October 1862 |page=12 |issue=24370 |column=C }}

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|ship=Mary and Alice

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.

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|ship=Nepaul

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued by Brothers ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Nepaul was on a voyage from Kurrachee, India to Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=29 November 1862 |issue=4619 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=29 November 1862 |issue=11950 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Spy

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Demerara, British Guiana to London. She was refloated and assisted in to Dover, Kent.

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Kentish Knock. She was refloated.

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|ship=Ann Augusta

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Belfast Lough. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Belfast, County Antrim.

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|ship=Aspasia

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

|desc=The ship struck a sunken rock and was run ashore at "Takli", Russia, where she was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Taganrog, Russia to a British port.

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|ship=Johan Morhr

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on "Leskr", Russia. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt to Liebau. She was refloated and put back to Kronstadt.

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|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The brig collided with the barque Ada ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by Ada. Mary was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Le Tréport, Seine-Inférieure, France.

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|ship=Mary Gillespie

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Cross Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

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|ship=Oscar

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Öland. She was on a voyage from Ystad to London, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Pacha

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on Morups Reef, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Kronstadt, Russia.

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|ship=Carl Stemorth

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore {{convert|3|nmi|km}} west of Roquetas, Spain. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Odesa to Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Dykes

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on Anticosti Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=25 November 1862 |page=12 |issue=24412 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 November 1862 |issue=4606 }}

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|ship=Magari Gezina

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Spikeway, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Groningen to London, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=12 December 1862 |page=9 |issue=24427 |column=F }}

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|ship=Tubal Cain

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Scroby Sands, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Deal, Kent. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

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|ship=Arthur Childs

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

|desc=The ship departed from New York, United States for the Clyde. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=16 January 1863 |issue=4662 }}

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|ship=Jane and Isabella

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground south west of Stroma, Orkney Islands. She was on a voyage from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire to Belfast, County Antrim. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=8 October 1862 |issue=5987 }}

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|ship=Mauritius

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. All on board were rescued. She was discovered on 7 October by the barque Orixa ({{flag|France}}) and Shakespeare ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Five crew from Orixa and four from Shakespear were put aboard Mauritius with the intention of taking her in to Saint Helena, but she subsequently foundered. Only one crew member originally from Orixa was rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=1 December 1862 |page=12 |issue=24417 |column=F }} Mauritius was on a voyage from Greenock, Renfrewshire to Kurrachee, India.{{Cite news |title=The Cape of Good Hope |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=28 November 1862 |issue=27752 |page=5 }}

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|ship=Spring

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Sheringham Shoal, in the North Sea of the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London. She was refloated and resumed her voyage, but consequently sank {{convert|6|nmi|km}} off the coast. her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Walker Lass

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Redcar, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Skinningrove, Yorkshire to South Shields.

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The smack foundered in the North Sea {{convert|20|nmi|km}} off the coast of Aberdeenshire. Her three crew took to a boat; they were rescued by the tug Britannia ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=(letter) |author=Amor Æquitatus |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Abredeen |date=8 October 1862 |issue=5987 }}

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|ship=David and John

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Gosforth, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Montrose, Forfarshire to Seaham, County Durham. She was refloated the next day and towed in to Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=10 October 1862 |issue=11907 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Dunkirk

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, CSS Alabama{{'}}s New England Expeditionary Raid: During a voyage from New York to Lisbon, Portugal, with a cargo of flour and Portuguese language bibles, the 293-ton brig was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean southeast of Nova Scotia, British North America by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ({{navy|Confederate States of America}}).

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|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, was run down and sunk in the North Sea off the Sunk Lightship (22px Trinity House) by a steamship with the loss of five of her crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=13 October 1862 |page=10 |issue=24375 |column=F }}

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|ship=Forrester, and
{{PS|Tynemouth|1862|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship Forrester was run into by the paddle steamer Tynemouth and sank in the River Tyne with the loss of six lives. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to South Shields, County Durham. Tynemouth was on a voyage from South Shields to Newcastle upon Tyne. She was severely damaged and was beached.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Fearful Steamboat Collision |date=9 October 1862 |page=9 |issue=24372 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Terrible Steamboat Disaster on the Tyne |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=9 October 1862 |issue=22857 }}{{Cite news |title=Collision on the River Tyne |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=10 October 1862 |issue=9798 }}

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|ship=Kate McLea

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

|desc=The brig was sighted off "Bic Island", Province of Canada, British North America whilst on a voyage from Montreal, Province of Canada to Exeter, Devon. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=25 December 1862 |issue=2925 }}

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|ship=Libra

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea {{convert|200|nmi|km}} from Alexandria, Egypt. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Alexandria to Falmouth, Cornwall.

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|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The ship foundered off the north coast of Norfolk.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 October 1862 |issue=11906 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Maryland

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The schooner was lost at Cape Mendocino, California, Confederate States of America.Gaines, p. 28.

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|ship=Primera de Torrevieja

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Holyhead, Anglesey, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to the River Plate. She was refloated with assistance from the tug Storm King ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=9 October 1862 |page=11 |issue=24372 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 October 1862 |issue=4574 }}

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|ship=Wave Crest

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, CSS Alabama{{'}}s New England Expeditionary Raid: During a voyage to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom with a cargo of grain, the 409-ton barque was captured, used for target practice, and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean southeast of Nova Scotia by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ({{navy|Confederate States of America}}).

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|ship=Blanche

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the screw steamer {{USS|Montgomery|1858|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}), the sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner, ran aground at Marianao, Cuba, and a boat crew from Montgomery boarded and seized her. Soon afterward, while the boat crew attempted to refloat her, a fire broke out which destroyed her and her cargo.[https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/confederate_ships/general-rusk.html Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: General Rusk][https://books.google.com/books?id=WwNHAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22General+Rusk%22+Cuba+1862&pg=PA867 Anonymous, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905, pp. 274-275.]Gaines, p. 33.

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|ship=Denmark

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The 283-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at Atlas Island below Keokuk, Iowa.Gaines, pp. 93, 106.

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|ship=Francis Elmor (or Francis Elmore)

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of hay, the schooner was captured and burned by Confederate forces in the Potomac River at Popes Creek, Virginia, Confederate States of America.Gaines, p. 180.

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|ship=Galatea

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

|desc=The ship departed from Dartmouth, Devon for Dundalk, County Louth. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercatile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=2 December 1862 |issue=11952 |page=2 }}

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|ship=Pace

|flag=22px Austrian Empire

|desc=The barque ran aground in the River Suir. She was on a voyage from Sulina, Ottoman Empire to Waterford, United Kingdom. She was refloated but found to be leaky.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=9 October 1862 |issue=4575 }}

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|ship=Ceres

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The 217-ton sidewheel paddle steamer exploded at St. Joseph Island, Louisiana.Gaines, p. 61.

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|ship=Countess, or
Countess of London

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Anticosti Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America to Plymouth, Devon. Her crew survived. Some of them took to a boat; they were rescued by the steamship Caledonia ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). The rest reached Anticosti Island.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=24 November 1862 |issue=7136 }}

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|ship=Eliza

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of sugar, the sloop was captured and destroyed at Calcasieu, Louisiana, on or about 9 October.Gaines, p. 64.

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|ship=Familien Store

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Essex or Suffolk, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg to Algiers, Algeria. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Harwich, Essex.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=13 October 1862 |issue=11909 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Lady Clarendon

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Ranka Folah, in the Hooghly River. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Colombo, Ceylon. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 November 1862 |issue=4608 }}

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|ship=Parana

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked in Simon's Bay.{{Cite news |title=The Cape of Good Hope |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=29 November 1862 |issue=4619 }}

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|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Kentish Knock. Her crew were rescued by Marco Polo ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

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|ship=City of Sydney

|flag={{flagcountry|New South Wales|1867}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Green Cape, New South Wales. All passengers and crew boarded lifeboats and made it ashore.{{cite web |url=https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/maritimeheritageapp/ViewSiteDetail.aspx?siteid=1969 |title=City of Sydney |website=Maritime Heritage |publisher=NSW Office of Environment & Heritage |accessdate=2020-11-08}}

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|ship=Argyll

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British Guiana

|desc=The brig departed from New York for Barbados. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Shipping Intelligence |date=15 January 1863 |page=10 |issue=24456 |column=D }}

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|ship=Gem

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

|desc=The smack struck a rock off Burravoe Shetland Islands and was beached. She was later refloated.

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|ship=Gezina

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was sighted off Skagen, Denmark whilst on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 January 1863 |issue=11984 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Manchester

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, CSS Alabama{{'}}s New England Expeditionary Raid: The 1,062-ton full-rigged ship, carrying a cargo of grain from New York to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean southeast of Nova Scotia, British North America ({{coord|44|08|55|N|55|26|00|W}}) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ({{navy|Confederate States of America}}).

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|ship=Foreman

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Newburgh, Fife. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship={{PS|Hamburg|1849|2}}

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

|desc=The paddle steamer was driven ashore at Scotstoun Head, Aberdeenshire. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Kirkwall, Orkney Islands to Aberdeen. She broke in two on 15 October.{{Cite news |title=Loss of Two Steamers |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 October 1862 |issue=4584 }}

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|ship=Hannah

|flag={{army|Confederate States of America}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The armed schooner ran aground {{convert|7|mi|km}} north of Corpus Christi, Texas. Her crew burned her soon thereafter when a boat party from a United States Navy warship that anchored {{convert|400|yd|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} away made preparations to approach and board Hannah.[https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/confederate_ships/hannah.html Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Hannah]

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|ship=Myrtle

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

|desc=The ship caught fire in the English Channel and was beached at Smallmouth, Dorset. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Weymouth, Dorset. She was refloated the next day and towed in to Weymouth.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=16 October 1862 |issue=11913 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Ann

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore in Carnarvon Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire to Liverpool, Lancashire.

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|ship=Elzear

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Ooster Bank, off the coast of Zeeland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=15 October 1862 |page=12 |issue=24377 |column=B }}

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|ship=Paul

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

|desc=The ship was sighted in the North Sea whilst on a voyage from Königsberg, Prussia to Dundee, Forfarshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=24 December 1862 |page=11 |issue=24437 |column=C }}

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|ship=Retriever

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lydstep Haven, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship={{ship||Waldensian|ship|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked near Cape Agulhas, Cape Colony. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Durban to Cape Town.

}}

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|ship=Alderman Thompson

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Cardigan.

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|ship=Dalemain

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wicklow. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Guatemala.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=17 October 1862 |page=9 |issue=24379 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 October 1862 |issue=4582 }}

}}

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|ship={{HMS|Hero|1858|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Agamemnon|ship of the line}} ran aground off Sambro Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service.{{Cite news |title=Naval Disasters Since 1860 |newspaper=Hampshire Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=10 May 1873 |issue=4250 }}

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{{shipwreck list end}}

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|ship=Emily C. Starr

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship departed from "Nazasck" for Shanghai, China. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=13 February 1863 |issue=12015 |page=7 }}

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|ship=G. L. Brockenborough

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop, an apparent blockade runner, was found scuttled in the Appalachicola River in Florida by the sidewheel paddle steamer {{USS|Fort Henry|1862|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}). She was refloated and repaired by Union forces and placed in United States Navy service as USS G. L. Brockenborough.Gaines, p. 40.

}}

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|ship={{SS|John Fenwick|1861|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground off Livorno, Italy. She was on a voyage from Genoa, Italy to London. She was refloated.

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|ship=Lamplighter

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War: The 365-ton barque or brig (sources differ), bound from New York to Gibraltar with a cargo of tobacco, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean southeast of Nova Scotia. British North America ({{coord|41|32|47|N|59|17|45|W|name=Lamplighter}}) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ({{navy|Confederate States of America}}).

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|ship=Lilias

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Red Island, Newfoundland, British North America. She was on a voyage from Port Madoc, Caernarfonshire to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America.

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|ship=Lone Star

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned at Taylor's Bayou, Texas, by boat crews from the gunboat {{USS|Rachel Seaman|1861|6}} and the armed steamer {{USS|Kensington|1862|6}} (both {{navy|United States|1861}}).Gaines, p. 170.

}}

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|ship=Margaret and Ann

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned off Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Somme, France.

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|ship=Orion

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Neath, Glamorgan.

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|ship=Pauline Cornelia

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Granskär, Grand Duchy of Finland. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to an English port. She was refloated on 18 October and taken in to Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=18 October 1862 |page=11 |issue=24380 |column=F }}

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|ship=Ramonita

|flag=22px Danzig

|desc=The brig ran aground on Smith's Knoll, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Alloa, Clackmannanshire, United Kingdom to New York, United States. She was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a leaky condition.{{cite journal |url=https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l0237571862/353/ |title=Brigs |journal=American Lloyd's Register of American and Foreign Shipping 1862 |year=1862 |publisher=American Lloyds |location=New York}}

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|ship=Stonewall

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned at Taylor's Bayou by boat crews from the gunboat {{USS|Rachel Seaman|1861|6}} and the armed steamer {{USS|Kensington|1862|6}} (both {{navy|United States|1861}}).Gaines, p. 172.

}}

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|ship=Yarmouth

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near "Warberg", Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Stettin.

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=16 October 1862 |sort=}}

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|ship=Europa

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Arkhangelsk, Russia to London. She was refloated on 20 October and towed in to Harwich, Essex.

}}

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|ship=Favourite

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

|desc=The smack was wrecked on "North Faro Island". Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 October 1862 |issue=4593 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 October 1862 |issue=11924 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Ida Albertina

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Middelgrund, off the Danish coast. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to the "Nieu Diep". She was refloated the next day and resumed her voyage.

}}

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|ship=Lecolme

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

|desc=The yacht was driven ashore in Lough Deary. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Louise

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

|desc=The ship collided with {{HMS|Eclipse|1860|6}} ({{navy|United Kingdom}}) in the English Channel off Beachy Head, Sussex and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by HMS Eclipse. Louise was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Hastings, Sussex. She was taken in to Ramsgate, Kent in a derelict condition the next day.

}}

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|ship=Oak

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked near Solva, Pembrokeshire. Her five crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Cardiff, Glamorgan.

}}

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|ship=Portland

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Whitby Rock. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

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|ship=Retriever

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near "Lydsteth".

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|ship=Triton

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Hoff, in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Prussia. She was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to London. She was refloated the next day.

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The smack was wrecked in Dundrum Bay with the loss of all eight crew.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=22 October 1862 |issue=2870 }}

}}

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{{shipwreck list begin |date=17 October 1862 |sort=}}

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|ship=Ann

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

|desc=The ship was run into by Falonica ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Torquay, Devon.

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|ship=Captain Cook

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground off Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from South Shields to London. She was refloated.

}}

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|ship=Cygnet

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

|desc=The sloop ran aground on the Woolsteners, in the English Channel and sank. Her three crew were rescued by the smack Ferret ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Royal National Lifeboat Institution |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=7 November 1862 |issue=5147 }}

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|ship=Economy

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc= The 197- or 200-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost on the Ohio River.Gaines, p. 135.

}}

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|ship=Francis

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk and sank. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Lisbon, Portugal.

}}

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|ship=Friendship

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

|desc=The ship ram aground off Pakefield, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to London. She was refloated and assisted in to Lowestoft.

}}

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|ship=Hamburg

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The steamship collided with the barque Juanita ({{flag|France}}) and sank in the English Channel with the loss of 26 lives. There were at least two survivors. Hamburg was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure to Brest, Finistère.{{Cite news |title=Wrecks and Great Loss of Life |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=20 October 1862 |issue=2868 }}

}}

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|ship=Jeune Albert

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore at Seaford, Sussex, United Kingdom. Her five crew were rescued by the Coastguard using rocket apparatus.{{cite book |title=Beachy Head Shipwrecks of the 19th Century |first=David |last=Renno |pages=213–15 |publisher=Amherst Publishing |location=Sevenoaks |year=2004 |isbn=1-903637-20-1}} The ship's pig swam ashore. Jeune Albert was on a voyage from Requejada, Spain to Antwerp, Belgium.

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|ship=Jeune Oscar

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Gunwalloe, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bône, Algeria to Dunkirk, Nord, France.

}}

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|ship=Lady Beatrice

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

|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Antwerp, Belgium.

}}

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|ship=Louise

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

|desc=The schooner was taken in to Ramsgate, Kent in a derelict condition, apparently having been in collision with another vessel.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 October 1862 |issue=11914 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Lurline

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in Lough Dearg and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Margaret and Ann

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned off Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Somme, France.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 October 1862 |issue=4583 }}

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|ship=Richard Reynolds

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Poole, Dorset.

}}

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|ship=Royalist

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool to Gravesend, Kent. She was refloated with assistance from Queen and assisted in to Harwich, Essex.

}}

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|ship=Salonica

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

|desc=The brig ran into Ann ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} and sank in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth with the presumed loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Torquay, Devon to South Shields, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=The Storm. - Great Loss of Life |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=Birmingham |date=22 October 1862 |issue=1323 }}

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|ship=Teign

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and damaged at Newton Noyse Point. SHe was refloated and taken in to Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.

}}

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|ship=Unity

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

|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the Newcombe Sand. Her crew took to a boat; they were rescued by Oak ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Unity was on a voyage from Gravesend to South Shields.

}}

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|ship=Wesleyan

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked near the mouth of the River Cuckmere. All ten people on board were rescued by the fishing smacks Harlequin and Wave (both {{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Wesleyan was on a voyage from Portland, Dorset to London.{{Cite news |title=Colchester |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=London |date=24 October 1862 |issue=1662 |volume=32 }}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The Yorkshire Billyboy foundered in the English Channel off the coast of Sussex. All ten people on board were rescued by the fishing smack Wave ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

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|ship=Anne E Hooper

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=File:Anne E. Hooper.jpgThe full-rigged ship was driven on to the Horse Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Lancashire, United Kingdom with the loss of six of the 23 people on board. Three survivors were rescued by the Lytham Lifeboat and fourteen by the Southport Lifeboat Jessie Knowles ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Anne E. Hooper was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Wrecks and Loss of Life |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=21 October 1862 |issue=2869 }}{{Cite news |title=Violent Storm |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=21 October 1862 |issue=4858 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=21 October 1862 |issue=27719 |page=7 }} She broke up the next day.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 October 1862 |issue=4586 }}{{Cite news |title=Violent Storm |newspaper=Preston Chronicle |location=London |date=25 October 1862 |issue=2677 }}

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|ship=Molocka

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground in the River Mersey. She was on a voyage from New York to Liverpool. She was refloated and taken in to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=The Gale and Its Effects |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=21 October 1862 |issue=27719 |page=6 }}

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|ship=Sarah Bragg

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore {{convert|2|nmi|km}} north of Whitehaven, Cumberland. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Wreck |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=20 October 1862 }}

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|ship=Sebastian Cabot

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Colombo, Ceylon.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 November 1862 |issue=4613 }} She was refloated on 21 October.

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|ship=Trio

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

|desc=The barque foundered in The Downs with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Safi, Morocco to London.{{Cite news |title=The Equinoctal Gales |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 October 1862 |issue=5132 }}

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|ship=Wisconsin

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship broke from her moorings and was driven into Carrier Dove ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the River Mersey and was damaged.{{Cite news |title=Fearful Storm at Liverpool |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=London |date=21 October 1862 |issue=1322 }}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Horse Bank.

}}

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|ship=Active

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

|desc=The ship collided with another vessel in the North Sea off Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to London.

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|ship={{SS|Addison Potter|1862|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship departed from the River Tyne for Hamburg. No further trace, presumed foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all 17 crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Loss of Life in the Late Gale |date=6 November 1862 |page=10 |issue=24396 |column=A }}

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|ship=Adelaide

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

|desc=American Civil War: The schooner was captured by a United States Navy cruiser near Wilmington, Delaware. She was run ashore and destroyed.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=News in Brief |date=7 November 1862 |page=8 |issue=24397 |column=F }}

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|ship=Adelphi

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, departed from North Shields, Northumberland for London. No further trace, presumed foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands, nine or ten lives.

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|ship=Ænas

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Flat Holm, Glamorgan with the loss of two lives.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=27 October 1862 |page=11 |issue=24387 |column=F }}

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|ship=Agnes

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

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex and was abandoned by her twelve crew, who were rescued by the smack Orwell ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Agnes was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London.

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|ship=Anne

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Orfordness, Suffolk, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Aarhus to London, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Bazelius

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

|desc=The collier, a brig departed North Shields for London. Presumed subsequently foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands; a name board from the ship washed up on the Dutch coast.

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|ship=Bolton

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

|desc=The brig ran around on Scroby Sands, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London. She was refloated and assisted in to Lowestoft, Suffolk in a leaky condition.

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|ship=Cupid

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

|desc=The schooner collided with City of Pekin off Folkestone, Kent. She was towed in to Folkestone in a derelict condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=21 October 1862 |issue=11619 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Gaspar Strait. She was on a voyage from Jeddah, Jeddah Eyalet to Calcutta, India.

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|ship=Ellen Horsfall

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked off the Isle of Wight.

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|ship=Fergus

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

|desc=The ship capsized in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued on 22 October by the brig Nuova Elisa ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Fergus was on a voyage from Hamburg to Perth. She was later driven ashore and wrecked at Lemvig, Norway.

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|ship=Genius

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk with the loss of all but one of her crew. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Exmouth, Devon. The wreck came ashore at Thorpeness.

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|ship=Glenbrook

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Corton Sand. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Jamaica. She was refloated.

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|ship=Hope

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore in Turnberry Bay, Ayrshire. Her six crew were rescued by a lifeboat.{{Cite news |title=Ayr |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=22 October 1862 |issue=7108 }}

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|ship=Locadia

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The ship took on board a pilot off Liverpool. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland to Liverpool.

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|ship=Lotus

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in Chale Bay, Isle of Wight with the loss of twelve of her fourteen crew. She was on a voyage from Demerara, British Guiana to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipwrecks and Loss of Life |newspaper=Bury and Norwich Post |location=Bury St. Edmunds |date=21 October 1862 |issue=4191 |page=8 }}{{Cite news |title=Total Loss of the Clyde Barque Lotus |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=23 October 1862 |issue=7109 }}

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|ship=The Glory of Hartlepool

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea en route to Hamburg. The Master, John Loynes, wrote a message in a bottle that washed up at Nordby Strand, Denmark giving the news.

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|ship=Margaret Knight

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

|desc=The snow was lost wrecked on Inishmurray, County Sligo with the loss of all but one or two of her eight crew. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

}}

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|ship=Rhein

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

|desc=The collier was driven ashore on Düne, Heligoland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.

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|ship=Thrifty

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Longsand in the North Sea off the coast of Essex with the loss of two of the six people on board.{{Cite news |title=Harwich |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Colchester |date=29 October 1862 |issue=1663 |volume=32 }} Survivors were rescued the next day by the smack Paragon ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Royal National Lifeboat Institution |newspaper=Belfast New-Letter |location=Belfast |date=5 December 1862 |issue=15453 }} Thrifty was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France.

}}

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|ship=Western Trader

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Peel, Isle of Man. Her crew were rescued. She had become a wreck by 21 October.

}}

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|ship=Wild Duck

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

|desc=The crewless smack was driven onto the Sunk Sand, in the Humber. She was refloated the next day and towed in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.{{Cite news |title=Destructive Gale |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=24 October 1862 |issue=4057 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Ballyandreen, County Cork. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore {{convert|10|nmi|km}} east of Calais. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Storm in France |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=25 October 1862 |issue=7111 }}

}}

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|ship=Ada

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

|desc=The barque was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alon

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Amsterdam

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven from her moorings and damaged at South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Angelicania,
Bellona,
Caroline Amelia,
Diligentia,
Helen,
Phœbe,
Queen, and
Sylph

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship Diligentia was driven into at least twelve other vessels, including Angelicania, the Bellona brig Caroline Amelia, Helen and Queen before crushing Sylph against the quayside at South Shields. All vessels were damaged - Helen and Queen severely, as were two Norwegian brigs, a Dutch barque, a Rostock barque and a French schooner.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ann and Isabella

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

|desc=The schooner was damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ann Curry,
Dorothy, and
Snowdon

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

|desc=The barque Snowdon broke from her moorings and drove into the brig Dorothy and Ann Curry. All three vessels were damaged.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ann E. Harper

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Horse Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Lancashire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the Lytham and Southport Lifeboats. She was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland to Liverpool, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ark

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

|desc=The sloop ran aground on the Newcombe Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk and sank.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Asteria

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Augusta

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

|desc=The barque capsized and sank at Wallsend, Northumberland with the loss of four of her five crew.{{Cite news |title=Fearful Storm on the Tyne |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=21 October 1862 |issue=7652 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Azores

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

|desc=The ship foundered off Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Baron

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

|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the Dogger Bank with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=31 October 1862 |issue=4058 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bellona

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

|desc=The brig was damaged at South Shields.

}}

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|ship=British Merchant

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Lymington, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from Callao, Peru to Cowes, Isle of Wight. She was refloated and taken in to Cowes.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=23 October 1862 |issue=11918 |page=7 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 October 1862 |issue=4588 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=British Tar

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

|desc=The ship was damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Brothers

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

|desc=The ship was severely damaged at South Shields by other vessels driving into her.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cambria

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on Scroby Sands, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the Gorleston Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from South Shields to Cartagena, Spain. She was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a severely damaged condition.{{Cite news |title=Violent Storm, Shipwrecks, and Loss of Life |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=21 October 1862 |issue=11916 |page=3 }}{{Cite news |title=Yarmouth |newspaper=Bury and Norwich Post |location=Bury St. Edmunds |date=11 November 1862 |issue=4194 |page=8 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Carrier Dove, and
City of Ottawa

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship Carrier Dove was driven into by City of Ottawa and severely damaged in the Sloyne. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Liverpool. City of Ottawa was also severely damaged.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Carrina

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Carstairs

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground off Osmussaar, Russia. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cassandra

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

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|ship={{HMS|Castor|1832|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The training ship was damaged at North Shields, Northumberland when a Dutch barque drove into her.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Chanticleer, and
Lorenzo

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
{{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship Lorenzo drove into the full-rigged ship Chanticleer at South Shields. Both vessels were damaged.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Christiana

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked "at Jadderen". Her crew were rescued. Shew as on a voyage from Åskard to Montrose, Forfarshire, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=25 October 1862 |issue=2873 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cœur de Lion

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

|desc=The ship was run into in the River Tyne by a brig and another vessel and was damaged.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Conquest

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Constantine

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Blackpool, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from New York to Liverpool. She was refloated on 25 October and towed in to Liverpool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cresswell

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cuba

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Cap Gris-Nez, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was on a voyage from Surinam to Amsterdam, North Holland. She was a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cubitt

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

|desc=The ship was run down and sunk in the English Channel between Dover and Folkestone, Kent by City of Peking ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Her crew were rescued. Cubitt was on a voyage from Dover to Portsmouth, Hampshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cumbria

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Barber Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the Gorleston Lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Duncan Dunbar

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Bawdsey, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Scarborough, Yorkshire to London. She was refloated the next day and assisted in to Harwich, Essex.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Edina

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

|desc=The ship was damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Electricity

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

|desc=The fishing smack ran aground off Lindisfarne, Northumberland. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elizabeth and Cecilia

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Experiment

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued by two smacks. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Teignmouth, Devon.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=27 October 1862 |issue=11912 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fideli

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Franciska Maria

|flag=22px Austrian Empire

|desc=The barque capsized in the North Sea off the Farne Islands, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to South Shields. She was later righted and towed in to South Shields by a steamship{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=24 October 1862 |page=9 |issue=24385 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=The Late Gale |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=24 October 1862 |issue=7655 }}{{Cite news |title=The Late Storms |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Colchester |date=7 November 1862 |issue=1664 |volume=32 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Free Briton

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

|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea off Cromer, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the fishing boat La Volonté de Dieu ({{flag|France}}).{{Cite news |title=Lowestoft |newspaper=Bury and Norwich Post |location=Bury St. Edmunds |date=28 October 1862 |issue=4192 |page=5 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Germania

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

|desc=The schooner was damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=George

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France to Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated and assisted in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 November 1862 |issue=11927 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Goliah

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

|desc=The ship was damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Good Intent

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

|desc=The colliar, a brig or brigantine, was driven ashore and wrecked at Aldeburgh, Suffolk with the loss of three of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by the Coastguard using rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Teignmouth, Devon.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=21 October 1862 |page=11 |issue=24382 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gustav

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was severely damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gustav Adolph

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hannah Booth

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the Caister Lifeboat. She was later refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Harry King

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Southwold, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Dunkirk, Nord, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hawthorne

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hebe

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helen Horsfall

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in Chale Bay, Isle of Wight. All on board were rescued by kite apparatus. She was on a voyage from Queenstown, County Cork to Alexandria, Egypt.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=23 October 1862 |page=10 |issue=24384 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hennette Kirstine

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Skagen, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Ängelholm to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Henry

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was damaged at North Shields.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=24 October 1862 |issue=9800 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Harry Everest

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

|desc=The sailing barge was driven ashore at Thorpeness, Suffolk. Her four crew were rescued by the Ipswich Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Rochester, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Terrific Gales at Sea |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Colchester |date=24 October 1862 |issue=1662 |volume=32 }}{{Cite news |title=Royal National Life-boat Institution |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=7 November 1862 |issue=27734 |page=2 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Herald

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off Osmussaar. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt to London. She subsequently became a wreck.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hercules

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

|desc=The ship was driven from her moorings in the River Tyne and ran aground. She sank two Tyne Keels.{{Cite news |title=Terrific Gale |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=24 October 1862 |issue=9800 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hippocampi

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

|desc=The brig was driven onto the Girdler Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent. She was on a voyage from Algiers, Algeria to London. She was later refloated and taken in to Margate, Kent in a derelict condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hornby

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. All on board were rescued by the brig Marie ({{flag|France}}). Hornby was on a voyage from Montreal, Province of Canada to Whitehaven, Cumberland and/or London.{{Cite news |title=Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=22 October 1862 |issue=15415 }}{{Cite news |title=The Bombay and Mediterranean Mails |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=27 October 1862 |issue=7112 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hugh, and
London

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

|desc=The collier, brig Hugh collided with the schooner London off the coast of Suffolk. Two of London{{'}}s four crew got on board Hugh. She was then driven ashore and wrecked at Sizewell with the loss of four lives (three crew and the captain of London). Survivors were rescued by a French vessel. London was on a voyage from South Shields to London. She was also driven ashore at Sizewell, where her remaining crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough to Rochester

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Humility

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

|desc=The brig was damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Integrity

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

|desc=The ship struck the Barber Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Portsmouth.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ivo

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jeanette

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner was damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jessie

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea {{convert|120|nmi|km}} east south east of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued by a Dutch fishing smack. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Aberdeen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Johanus Martinus

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on Scroby Sands. Her crew were rescued. She was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Joseph

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The lugger was driven ashore between Breaksea Point and Sully Island, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Juliet

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex.{{Cite news |title=Further Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=21 October 1862 |issue=7652 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lady Dundas

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Felixtowe, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool to London. She was refloated the next day and beached at Woodbridge, Suffolk, where she ran aground. She was again refloated.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 October 1862 |issue=11919 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Laura

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Leocadia

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

|desc=The ship foundered off Holyhead, Anglesey with the loss of all on board. She was on a voyage from Baltimore to Liverpool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Little Nell

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

|desc=The ship was damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Luna

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

|desc=The sloop sank in the Humber. Both crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Macedonia

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

|desc=The brig was driven from her moorings and damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig ran aground off Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Newcastle upon Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaret

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marsden

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

|desc=The ship was driven into by Astrea ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and Elizabeth and Cicely ({{Flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Guernsey) in the River Tyne and other vessels. She was driven ashore and severely damaged.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The brig drove against the quayside and sank at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Ann

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and damaged at Bridlington, Yorkshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Grace

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

|desc=The ship was severely damaged in the River Tyne when the barque Union ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} drove into her.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Sharp

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Kentish Knock. Her crew were rescued by Imperatrice ({{Flag|France}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mathilde

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=May

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

|desc=The ship sank in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Messenger

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

|desc=The tug was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Minho

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboat {{USS|Flambeau|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}) while attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of rifle muskets and swords, the 400-Gross register ton screw steamer struck a sunken vessel and was wrecked on Drunken Dick Shoal outside Charleston Harbor in Charleston, South Carolina, Confederate States of America.Gaines, pp. 151-152.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nelson

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

|desc=The brig was driven into the lock gates and damaged at North Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Northumberland

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore in the River Lune.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 October 1862 |issue=4585 }} She was on a voyage from a port in British North America to Glasson Dock, Lancashire. She was refloated on 22 October and towed in to Glasson Dock.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nymph

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore between Breaksea Point and Sully Island. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Nantes, Loire-Inférieure.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Othello

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Panope

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

|desc=The brig was damaged at North Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Penningham

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned on the Kentish Knock. All on board were rescued by the steamship Feyenoord ({{flag|Netherlands}}). Penningham was on a voyage from Jamaica to London.{{Cite news |title=The Great Gale. - More Calamitous Losses |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 October 1862 |issue=11917 |page=6 }} She was discovered derelict {{convert|15|nmi|km}} off North Foreland, Kent by Ocean ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), which put a skeleton crew aboard, as did a steamship. She subsequently foundered {{convert|1.5|nmi|km}} off the Galloper Lightship (22px Trinity House).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Perlew

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

|desc=The brig was damaged at South Shields.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pilot

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

|desc=The tug was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Port Glasgow

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Sizewell Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Warkworth, Northumberland to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Premier

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Ganges ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Premier was on a voyage from New York to Tralee, County Kerry.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 November 1862 |issue=11944 |page=7 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=25 November 1862 |issue=5994 }}

}}

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|ship=Pujeno

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore near Stettin. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Stralsund. She was refloated and towed in to Helsingør, Denmark in a leaky condition.

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|ship=Quiasa Rosa

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Formby, Lancashire with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=The Storm - Further Particulars |newspaper=Sheffield Independent |location=Sheffield |date=22 October 1862 |issue=2507 |page=3 |volume=43 }} She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire, United Kingdom to Genoa.

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|ship=Queen

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

|desc=The brig was severely damaged at South Shields.

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|ship={{PS|Robert and Anne|1843|2}}

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

|desc=The tug sank in the River Tyne.

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|ship=Robert and Mary

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

|desc=The steamship sank in the River Tyne.

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|ship={{HMS|Sandfly|1855|6}}

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

|desc=The {{sclass|Albacore|gunboat|||1855}} was severely damaged at North Shields when a Dutch barque drove into her.

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|ship=Sceptre

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

|desc=The ship was damaged at South Shields.

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|ship=Sea Nymph

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on Scroby Sands and sank. Her crew were rescued by Orion ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}.

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|ship=Sir Allen McNab

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on the French coast. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Emerald ({{flag|Belgium}}). Sir Allen Mcnab was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=22 October 1862 |page=10 |issue=24383 |column=E }}

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|ship=Sir Henry Parnell

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at South Shields.

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|ship=Sisters

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

|desc=The ship was severely damaged in the Pool of London when tow other vessels broke their moorings and ran into her.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=25 October 1862 |issue=7656 }}

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|ship=Spring

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

|desc=The ship was damaged at South Shields.

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|ship=Sumner

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

|desc=The barque was driven from her moorings and damaged at South Shields.

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|ship=Thetis

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

|desc=The ship capsized in the North Sea with the loss of seven of her eleven crew. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Norway to Exmouth, Devon.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=8 November 1862 |page=11 |issue=24398 |column=F }}

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|ship=Triton

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

|desc=The ship was severely damaged at South Shields.

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|ship=Tramp

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

|desc=The tug sank in the River Tyne.

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|ship=Two Brothers

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

|desc=The sloop foundered in the North Sea {{convert|8|nmi|km}} north of the Dudgeon Lightship (22px Trinity House). A crew member was rescued by a foreign schooner. Three people were rescued by the schooner Susannah ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to London.

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|ship=Urania

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

|desc=The schooner probably foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all four crew. A message in a bottle washed up on the Norwegian coast on 30 December. The message stated that it was feared she would sink. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Dundee.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=19 January 1863 |issue=2946 }}

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|ship=Useful

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

|desc=The brig capsized and sank at South Shields.

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|ship=Violet

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

|desc=The smack ran aground on the Pan Sand, off the north Kent coast. She was subsequently taken in to Margate in a derelict condition by the Margate Lifeboat.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 October 1862 |issue=11917 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Volusia

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields to Great Yarmouth.

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|ship=Water Kelpie

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

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|ship=Waterlily

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York to Leith.

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|ship=William and Ann

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

|desc=The steamship sank at South Shields.

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|ship=William Bradley

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

|desc=The brig was damaged in the River Tyne.

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|ship=William Tell

|flag=22px Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

|desc=The brig was damaged at South Shields.

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|ship=Willie Radley

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

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|ship=Woden

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

|desc=The ship was damaged in the River Tyne.

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The Whitehill Point ferryboat was severely damaged at South Shields by other vessels driving into her.

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The fireboat was run into by the full-rigged ship Lorenzo ({{flag|United States|1861}} and sank at South Shields.

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned off the north Kent coast. All 30 people on board were rescued by the steamship Emerald ({{flag|Belgium}}). The ship was on a voyage from Quebec City to London. She subsequently came ashore at the North Foreland.{{Cite news |title=The Late Gale |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=25 October 1862 |issue=15418 }}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The shrimp boat struck the wreck of Integrity ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered. Her three crew got aboard the wreck. They were rescued by a Caister yawl.{{Cite news |title=Incident During the Late Gale |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=25 October 1862 |issue=7656 }}

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|ship=Alma

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on "Werlinskar", Norway. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Helsingør, Denmark.

}}

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|ship=Amity

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, foundered off the mouth of the Humber. Her crew were rescued by the smack Tartar ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Amity was on a voyage from Whitby, Yorkshire to Rochester, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Continuation of the Gales |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=23 October 1862 |issue=1500 |page=4 |volume=29 }}

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|ship=Ann

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

|desc=The lugger sank in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Eleven of her crew were rescued by Etoile ({{flag|France}}).

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|ship=Ann Augusta

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Belfast Lough. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to New York, United States. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

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|ship=Bencoolen

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

|desc=The East Indiaman was wrecked at Bude, Cornwall with the loss of 27 of her 33 crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bombay, India.{{Cite news |title=The Gales |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=23 October 1862 |issue=5134 }}

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|ship=Deux Joachime

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at the mouth of the Adour. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Vannes, Morbihan to Bayonne, Basses-Pyrénées.

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|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Kentish Knock. Her crew got aboard the Knock Lightship (22px Trinity House). Elizabeth was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. She was towed in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on 23 October.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=25 October 1862 |issue=11920 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Experient

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and foundered off the coast of West Flanders, Belgium. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Feika Johanna

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The koff was driven ashore and wrecked on Normandshage. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Kappeln, Duchy of Holstein.

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|ship=Harmonie

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Rantrum, Duchy of Schleswig. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the Humber to Glückstadt, Duchy of Schleswig.

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|ship=Industry

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at "Ballycroness", County Cork. Five crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Queenstown, County Cork.

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|ship=Lark

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Baltic Sea off Osmussaar, Russia. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to London.

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|ship=Laura

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner collided with a Prussian brig and foundered off Jumfruland, Norway. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Rostock to London.

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|ship=Maria

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near "Velzen". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Groningen to Port Talbot, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. She subsequently broke up.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=28 October 1862 |page=11 |issue=24388 |column=B }}

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|ship=Ocean

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Thisted, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Christiania.

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|ship=Pilot

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was captured and burned off the coast of Florida by the sidewheel gunboat {{USS|E. B. Hale|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}).Gaines, p. 44.

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|ship=Providence

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore at Équihen, Pas-de-Calais, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France.

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|ship=Rena

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Hunseby, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Glückstadt, Duchy of Holstein to Hartlepool.

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|ship=Sovereign

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

|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea {{convert|50|nmi|km}} off the mouth of the Humber. Her eight crew were rescued by the fishing smack Intrepid ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Marine |newspaper=Southampton Herald |location=Southampton |date=1 November 1862 |issue=2044 |page=3 |volume=40 }}

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|ship=William and Jane

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, foundered in the North Sea {{convert|20|nmi|km}} east of the Dudgeon Lightship (22px Trinity House). Her crew were rescued by the barque Emily ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). William and Jane was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to the Nieuw Diep.

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|ship=Young

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

|desc=The brig foundered off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Lowestoft, Suffolk.

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea. Her six crew were rescued by a boat from the fishing smack Alarm or Lady ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) but the boat was swamped with the loss of all on board, including two crew from Alarm.

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|ship=Adelaide

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Bound from Wilmington, North Carolina, for Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America with a cargo of turpentine, cotton, and tobacco, the schooner was forced aground on the coast of North Carolina by the gunboat USS Ellis ({{navy|United States|1861}}). Her crew set her on fire and abandoned her, but crewmen from Ellis boarded her and extinguished the fire. Ellis took the captured schooner under tow, but Adelaide kept running aground, and Ellis finally destroyed her about {{convert|1|mi|km|spell=in}} north of New Topsail Inlet, North Carolina.Gaines, p. 112.

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|ship=Adolph

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Espoo, Grand Duchy of Finland. She was on a voyage from Königsberg to London, United Kingdom. She had been destroyed in a storm by 18 November.

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|ship=Bencoolen

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Bude, Cornwall with the loss of all but six of her crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bombay, India.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=23 October 1862 |page=10 |issue=24384 |column=F }}

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|ship=C. S. M.

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea, off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to London. She floated off but consequently foundered on the West Rocks. On 24 October, the wreck capsized, drowning ten of the thirteen men on board who were stripping the wreck. They formed part of the crews of the smacks Cyrene, Lord Howe, Koh-i-Noor and Ranger (all {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Melancholy Loss of Life |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=27 October 1862 |issue=11921 |page=2 }}

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|ship=Faithful

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to Maldon, Essex.

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|ship=George IV

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|120|nmi|km}} south west of Lindesnes, Norway. Her crew were rescued by Anna Maria Thomas ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). George IV was on a voyage from Rochester, Kent to West Hartlepool, County Durham. She was subsequently taken in to the Landerfjord in a derelict condition.

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|ship=Grace

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

|desc=The ketch was driven ashore in the Cattewater. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship={{SS|Hercules|1857|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship foundered in the Silver Pits. Her 23 crew were rescued by a Danish yacht. Hercules was on a voyage from Danzig to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=1 November 1862 |issue=4595 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland123.html |title=SHIPS BUILT AT SUNDERLAND IN THE 1850s |publisher=Searle |accessdate=18 March 2020}}

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|ship=Iteyn

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire and was scuttled.

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|ship=Jessie

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground at Swinemünde, Prussia.

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|ship=Laconic

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Black Pill, Glamorgan. She was refloated on 23 October and taken in to a port.

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|ship=Marian

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Berck, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Bridgwater, Somerset.

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|ship=Meika

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Waterloo, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Livorno to Liverpool. Although condemned, she was refloated on 22 December and towed in to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 December 1862 |issue=11971 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Olive

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

|desc=The snow foundered off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her eight crew were rescued by the fishing boat Renaissance ({{flag|France}}). Olive was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to London.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland121.html |title=SHIPS BUILT AT SUNDERLAND IN THE 1830s |publisher=Searle |accessdate=18 March 2020}}

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|ship=Pandora

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

|desc=The brig foundered off Calais, France. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.

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|ship=Place

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Queen Anne's Battery, Plymouth, Devon and sank. She was refloated and taken in to Sutton Pool.

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|ship=Queen

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea {{convert|25|nmi|km}} off the Dutch coast. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Portsmouth, Hampshire.

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|ship=Robert and Margaret

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, foundered off the mouth of the River Humber with the loss of six of her nine crew. Survivors were rescued by the smack Tartar ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

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|ship={{HMS|Vigilant|1856|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Vigilant|gunvessel}} ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand. She was on a voyage from Scotland to Sheerness, Kent. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Multiple News Items |newspaper=Southampton Herald |location=Southampton |date=25 October 1862 |issue=2043 |page=4 |volume=40 }}

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|ship=Windsor

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned off Cape Horn, Chile. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Panama City, Granadine Confederation.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 January 1863 |issue=4659 }}

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|ship=Atlantic

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Thisted, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Honfleur, Manche, France to Sunderland, County Durham.

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|ship=Black Eagle

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The barque foundered off the Calf of Man, Isle of Man with the loss of two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by the schooner James Gardner ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Black Eagle was on a voyage from New York to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.{{Cite news |title=Monday Morning, October 27 |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=27 October 1862 |issue=7112 }}{{Cite news |title=The Recent Heavy Gales. - More Fatal Losses |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=27 October 1862 |issue=11921 |page=2 }}

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|ship=Copia

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Troon, Ayrshire. She was on a voyage from Greenock, Renfrewshire to Demerara, British Guiana. She was refloated and taken in to Troon.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=25 October 1862 |issue=7111 }}

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|ship=Coquet

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

|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea between the Gelbsand and the Vogelsand. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Hamburg.

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|ship=Drake

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by a fishing smack. She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Great Yarmouth or vice versa.

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|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground in the Agger Canal. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Arbroath, Forfarshire to Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated on 21 January 1863 and taken in to Thisted, Denmark.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=30 January 1863 |issue=9814 }}

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|ship=Else

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The brigantine was wrecked on Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Matamoros, Mexico.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The West India and Mexican Mails |date=15 December 1862 |page=6 |issue=24429 |column=D-F }}

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|ship=Eva

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

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

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|ship=Fredericke

|flag={{flag|Sweden|1944}}

|desc=The ship ran aground and sank on "Maederaebod". She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Malmö.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=7 November 1862 |issue=9802 }}

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|ship=Henriette

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore near Hunseby, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Industry

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

|desc=The barque was damaged by fire at London.

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|ship=James Gardner

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Douglas, Isle of Man. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Aarhus, Denmark. She was refloated.

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|ship=Johanna

|flag=22px Danzig

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Gothenburg, Sweden. She was on a voyage from London to Danzig. She was refloated.

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|ship=Lafayette

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, CSS Alabama{{'}}s New England Expeditionary Raid: The 945-ton barque, carrying a cargo of corn, lard, pipe staves, and wheat from New York to Belfast, County Antrim, United Kingdom, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America, at {{coord|39|34|50|N|63|26|00|W|name=Lafayette}} by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ({{navy|Confederate States of America}}).

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|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. She was refloated.

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|ship=Mary O{{'}}Brien

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on Pluckington Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Bassein, India to Liverpool. Mary O{{'}}Brien was refloated and taken in to the River Mersey in a sinking condition. She was taken in to Liverpool on 24 October.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=24 October 1862 |page=9 |issue=24385 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship=Matthew

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near "Tolstrup", Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex.

}}

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|ship=Penton

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

|desc=The brig foundered off the Dutch coast with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=29 October 1862 |issue=11923 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Petrel

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was refloated and assisted in to Harwich, Essex in a severely leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pioneer

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Natal.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=29 December 1862 |issue=4644 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Princess Marie

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

|desc=The schooner capsized and was wrecked at Fleetwood, Lancashire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Dundalk, County Louth to Preston, Lancashire. She was refloated on 23 November with the assistance of three Mersey Flats and taken in to Fleetwood.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 November 1862 |issue=11917 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Queen

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

|desc=The collier, a brig foundered in the North Sea. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Portsmouth, Hampshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Refuge

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

|desc=The brig ran aground off Lowestoft, Suffolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Royal Saxon

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the coast of Newfoundland, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Province of Canada, British North America to an English port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sisters

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore near Glückstadt, Duchy of Schleswig.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tordenskjold

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked near Farsund. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Lemvig to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=24 October 1862 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Acme

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Waterloo, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=25 October 1862 |page=10 |issue=24386 |column=F }} She was refloated and put back to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=25 October 1862 |issue=4589 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Edwin and Lizzie

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick, British North America. She was on a voyage from Richibucto, New Brunswick to Liverpool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Enigheden

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Farsund.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fremont

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Kalkgrund, in the Baltic Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Narva, Russia to West Hartlepool, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hero

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground at Ekenäs, Grand Duchy of Finland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hindoo

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and caught fire at Waterloo with the loss of five of her crew and two seriously injured. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Province of Canada to Liverpool. She was a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Peter Senn

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|40|nmi|km}} off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by the smack Godbold ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was discovered by the smack Besdale and towed in to Hull, Yorkshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pinus

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Kristiansand. She was on a voyage from Risør to Hull.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sedgefield

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

|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Emmanuel ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Sedgefield was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Hamburg.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Susan G. Owens

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Krantsand. She later floated off and ran aground on the Medemsand. She was refloated with assistance from the steamship Assensadean ({{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}) and towed in to Glückstadt.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tremont

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Kalkgrund, in the Baltic Sea and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from "Nuova" to West Hartlepool, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=25 October 1862|sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Augusta

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Veracruz, Mexico.{{Cite news |title=Mexico |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 December 1862 |issue=4623 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Branch

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

|desc=The schooner struck rocks off Bognor, Sussex, capsized and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Southampton, Hampshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|French corvette|Chaptal|1845|2}}

|flag={{navy|France}}

|desc=The corvette was driven ashore and wrecked at Veracruz.{{Cite web |url=http://shipscribe.com/marvap/332a.html |title=Screw corvettes (2nd class, 220-260 nhp) |publisher=Shipscribe |accessdate=29 March 2019 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Concepcion

|flag={{flag|Mexico|1823}}

|desc=The pilot boat was driven ashore and wrecked at Veracruz.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Conqueror

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

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

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMS|Conqueror|1833|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Caledonia|ship of the line}} was driven ashore at "Sacraficios", Mexico.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dapeen

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off Cardiff, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Jersey, Channel Islands. She was refloated with the assistance of three tugs and towed in to Bristol in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Diddlesfold

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea {{Convert|25|nmi|km}} east north east of the mouth of the Humber. Her crew were rescued by Valiant ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Echo

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Veracruz.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Empressario

|flag={{flag|Mexico|1823}}

|desc=The pilot boat was driven ashore and wrecked at Veracruz.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Felicie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Veracruz.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Flash

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Veracruz.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gepkina

|flag=22px Duchy of Holstein

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lemvig. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Neustadt in Holstein to Macduff, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hanseatic

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Veracruz.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hoffnung

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The brig was towed in to Tønning, Duchy of Holstein in a waterlogged condition. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Varel, Kingdom of Hanover. She was declared a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hylton

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea with the loss of three of her nine crew. Survivors were rescued by the steamship Tiger ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Emma

|flag={{flag|United States|1844}}

|desc=The steam pilot boat was driven ashore and wrecked at Veracruz.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Waugh

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

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

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mathilde

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Veracruz.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nautille

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at "Sacraficio".

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Olive

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Germania|1856|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Olive was on a voyage from London to Sunderland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Oregon

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

|desc=The schooner was run into by Myrtle ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered off Harwich, Essex. Her crew were rescued by Myrtle. Oregon was on a voyage from Sunderland to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Richard

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

|desc=The ship was lost off Ny-Hellesund with the loss of eight of her thirteen crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=10 November 1862 |page=6 |issue=24399 |column=B }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sheridan

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Veracruz.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Spee

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the pilot boat No. 4 ({{flag|Netherlands}}). Spee was on a voyage from Hartlepool to Boulogne, France, or from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Malmö, Sweden.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=St. Louis

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. There were two survivors of the 29 people on board. She was on a voyage from Beyrout, Ottoman Syria to Falmouth, Cornwall, Plymouth, Devon, or Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Fearful Loss of Life at Sea |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=31 October 1862 |issue=22876 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=31 October 1862 |issue=11925 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vivid

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Veracruz.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=1 December 1862 |issue=4620 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=26 October 1862|sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ann Stainton

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

|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Bornholm, Denmark. She was on a voyage from "Wyburg" to Hartlepool, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Calisto

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The brig foundered off Norderney, Kingdom of Hanover. Her crew survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Crenshaw

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, CSS Alabama{{'}}s New England Expeditionary Raid: The 279-ton schooner, carrying a cargo of grain from New York to Glasgow, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|40|11|28|N|64|32|15|W}}) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ({{navy|Confederate States of America}}).Gaines, p. 13.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dolphin

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off Skagen, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Nibe, Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elizabeth Jane

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

|desc=The brig capsized in the North Sea off Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. Five of her eight crew were rescued by the smack Patience ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Elizabeth Jane was on a voyage from London to Memel, Prussia. Elizabeth Jane was discovered by the fishing smack Miranda and Fanny ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and towed in to Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 November 1862 |issue=11928 |page=3 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Emeline

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|11|nmi|km}} off Heligoland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fadrenes Inmoe

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Kristiansand. She was on a voyage from Sandefjord to Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mariner

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|25|nmi|km}} off Sylt, Duchy of Holstein. Her crew were rescued by Concordia ({{flag|Norway|1844}}). Mariner was on a voyage from Griefswald to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Residue

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Brake Sand. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was refloated with the assistance of a lifeboat and a tug and taken in to Ramsgate, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 October 1862 |issue=11922 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Wanderer

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Dogger Bank. Her crew were rescued by Isis ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Wanderer was on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to Hartlepool, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=27 October 1862|sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Augustus McDowell

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The 451-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River in a large wharf fire at St. Louis, Missouri.Gaines, p. 91.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Birgita Margrette

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was lost in the Eider with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden to London, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ceres

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Salthouse Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Lancashire and was damaged. She was refloated with assistance from the Lytham Lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Estrella

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The 414-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River in a large wharf fire at St. Louis, Missouri.Gaines, p. 94.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fanny

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

|desc=The brigantine foundered in the North Sea {{convert|15|nmi|km}} off Texel, North Holland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued by the smack Persian ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Fanny was on a voyage from Caen, Calvados, France to South Shields, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=H. D. Bacon

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The 370-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River in a large wharf fire at St. Louis, Missouri.Gaines, p. 96.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helene

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, was driven ashore and wrecked on Föhr, Duchy of Holstein. Her six crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Norfolk

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore near Brielle, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated on 29 October.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Padgona

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned off Holyhead, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued by at tug. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America to Lancaster, Lancashire. She subsequently drove ashore and was wrecked.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=28 October 1862 |issue=5138 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Shepherd

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was refloated but sank in the Wallet Channel. She was refloated with assistance from Volunteer ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} and assisted in to Harwich by four smacks and a tug. She was beached there.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=T. L. McGill

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The 598-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River in a large wharf fire at St. Louis, Missouri.Gaines, p. 103.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Union Canal

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Dartmouth, Devon. She was on a voyage from Plymouth, Devon to Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was refloated and taken in to Dartmouth in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William and James

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Mutton Island, County Galway. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Galway.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William H. Russell

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The 405-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River in a large wharf fire at St. Louis, Missouri.Gaines, p. 104.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=28 October 1862|sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alida

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Randzel, in the North Sea off the coast of the Kingdom of Hanover. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Swansea, Glamorgan.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Branchory

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea off the coast of the Duchy of Holstein. Her five crew survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Drie Gesusters

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The koff foundered in the North Sea {{convert|6|nmi|km}} north west of Heligoland. Her crew were rescued by Johan Geerdiuu ({{Flag|Netherlands}}). Drie Gesusters was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Groningen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lauretta

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, CSS Alabama{{'}}s New England Expeditionary Raid: The 284-ton bark, bound from New York to the Mediterranean with a cargo of flour, herring, nails, and pipe staves, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America ({{coord|39|18|47|N|67|35|00|W}}) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ({{navy|Confederate States of America}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaret

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Dorothea ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}. Some of her crew reboarded her the next day and she was towed in to Hartlepool, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=17 November 1862 |issue=11939 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Martha Sawyer

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Manicouagan, Province of Canada, British North America. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada to Conwy, Caernarfonshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=26 November 1862 |issue=4616 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Port Mulgrove|1860|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked at Souter Point, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ruby

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} British North America

|desc=The derelict sealer was driven ashore on Tiree, Inner Hebrides.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=29 October 1862 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helene

|flag=22px Stralsund

|desc=The brig capsized in Loch Foltark, Skye, Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 November 1862 |issue=11949 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Phantom

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

|desc=The ship sank in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by a Danish schooner.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=18 November 1862 |page=8 |issue=24406 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=30 October 1862 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dove

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

|desc=The ship departed from departed from Bristol, Gloucestershire for Newfoundland, British North America. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=23 March 1863 |page=11 |issue=24513 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Drontheim

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked in Loch Tarbert. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Free Trade

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the full-rigged ship Montebello ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Free Trade was on a voyage from London to New York, United States.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=11 November 1862 |page=10 |issue=24400 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jessie

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

|desc=The brigantine foundered in the North Sea {{convert|120|nmi|km}} north east of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued by a Dutch fishing smack. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Aberdeen.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 November 1862 |issue=11932 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Treumais

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship collided with a British steamship and sank off Padstow, Cornwall, United Kingdom with the loss of two of her six crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to La Rochelle, Charente-Inférieure.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Windrush

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the Mediterranean Sea off Oliva, Spain with the loss of four of her five crew. The survivor was rescued by San Antonio ({{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}).{{Cite news |title=General Intelligence |newspaper=Lancaster Gazetteer |location=Lancaster |date=22 November 1862 |issue=3947 |page=2 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Zitto

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

|desc=The ship was in collision with a barque and was then run ashore {{convert|12|nmi|km}} east of Almería, Spain. She was on a voyage from Messina, Sicily to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{shipwreck list begin |date=31 October 1862 |sort=}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bergman

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The ship departed from New York for London, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=16 February 1863 |page=12 |issue=24483 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Grace Evans

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

|desc=The schooner was run into by the frigate {{ship|Egyptian frigate|Feyz-i Cihat||2}} ({{flagicon|Ottoman Empire|naval-1844}} Egyptian Navy) in the River Mersey and was severely damaged. She was towed in to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 November 1862 |issue=4596 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rosina

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to London. She was refloated on 4 November and taken in to Baltic Port.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 November 1862 |issue=11937 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Seabor Brother

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea {{convert|75|nmi|km}} off Heligoland. Her eight crew were rescued by the schooner Peter and Jane ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

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|ship=Albertina

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The ship was lost either on the Fahludd Reef, in the Baltic Sea, or on Fehmarn, Duchy of Holstein. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Antwerp.

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|ship=Alderman Thompson

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Cardigan. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America, to Cardigan.{{cite web |url=http://www.glen-johnson.co.uk/cardigan-district-shipwrecks-and-lifeboat-service/ |title=Cardigan & District Shipwrecks and Lifeboat Service |publisher=Glen Johnson |accessdate=1 February 2015}}

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|ship=Alleghanian

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War: Bound from Baltimore, Maryland, to London, United Kingdom, with a cargo of guano, the 1,120 or 1,400-ton full-rigged ship was boarded and set afire sometime between 28 and 30 October by the crews of three Confederate States Navy small boats while at anchor in the Chesapeake Bay near Gwynn's Island, {{convert|5|to|12|mi|km}} off the mouth of Virginia′s Rappahannock River. After the Confederates fled, {{USS|T. A. Wood}} and the gunboat {{USS|Crusader|1858|6}} (both {{navy|United States|1861}}) extinguished the flames, but the Confederates returned and set another fire that destroyed the ship.Gaines, p. 175.

}}

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|ship=Alma

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Oyster Island, County Sligo.

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|ship=Ann and Elizabeth

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned before 28 October. She was on a voyage from Iceland to Barcelona, Spain.

}}

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|ship=Ann and Isabella

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at the mouth of the Chischa River, Russia before 11 October. Her crew survived.

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|ship=A. Smithers

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The schooner was abandoned off Bermuda with the loss of two of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by Pfeil ({{flag|Bremen}}). A. Smithers was on a voyage from New York, United States to Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=1 November 1862 |page=12 |issue=24392 |column=C }}

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|ship=Blue Rock

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Pacific Ocean {{convert|200|nmi|km}} south west of Iquique, Chile. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=The West India Mail |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=Birmingham |date=30 October 1862 |issue=1330 }}

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|ship=Braes o{{'}}Murray

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

|desc=The schooner was discovered derelict off the Farne Islands, Northumberland.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=16 January 1863 |issue=9812 }}

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|ship={{ship||Cadboro|1824 schooner|2}}

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner was lost near Port Angeles, Washington Territory.Gaines, p. 194.

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|ship=Cincinnatus

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean before 3 October. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom to Shanghai, China.

}}

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|ship=Comet

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

|desc=American Civil War: The schooner was destroyed by {{USS|Dacotah}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}). She was on a voyage from Matanzas to Havana, Cuba.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=1 November 1862 |issue=11926 }}

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|ship=Commerce

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, foundered in the North Sea {{convert|30|nmi|km}} off Spurn Point, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by a fishing lugger.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Collier Vessels, Shields, Oct. 26 |date=28 October 1862 |page=9 |issue=24388 |column=D }}

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|ship=Conchita

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was captured and burned off the coast of Louisiana or Texas near Calcasieu Pass and Sabine Pass.Gaines, pp. 167-168.

}}

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|ship=Cybele

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near "Marberg". She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to a Dutch port.

}}

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|ship=Corsair

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Baltic Sea before 25 October. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire.

}}

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|ship=Dark Arnold

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Yangtze before 5 October. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Shanghai, China.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=28 November 1862 |page=9 |issue=24415 |column=F }}

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|ship=Earl of Windsor

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Port Albert, Victoria.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 December 1863 |issue=4939 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 December 1863 |issue=12270 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Eliza Jane

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea before 24 October.

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|ship=Enigma

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Falsterbo Reef, in the Baltic Sea between 2 and 8 October. She was on a voyage from Danzig to Aberdovey, Merionethshire, United Kingdom. She was refloated and put in to Copenhagen, Denmark in a waterlogged condition.

}}

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|ship=Era

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Fahludd Reef, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Hull. She was refloated on 12 October and resumed her voyage.

}}

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|ship=Faden

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Thistle ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Faden was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Stockholm.

}}

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|ship=Fairy Queen

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned off Cape Finisterre, Spain. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Lowestoft, Suffolk to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.

}}

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|ship=Fortschart

|flag=22px Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

|desc=The ship foundered before 28 October. She was on a voyage from Wolgast to Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Frederick

|flag=22px Rostock

|desc=The ship was lost near Farsund, Norway.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=23 October 1862 |issue=2871 }}

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|ship=Garland

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Sombrero, Anguilla to Queenstown. She was driven ashore and severely damaged on the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire on 17 October. She became a wreck on 22 October.

}}

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|ship=General Hewitt

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Shanghai.

}}

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|ship=General Taylor

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The 462-ton screw steamer was stranded at Sleeping Bear Point on the Lake Michigan coast of Michigan.Gaines, p. 81.

}}

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|ship=George Robson

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea off Sylt, Duchy of Holstein before 26 October with loss of life.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=4 November 1862 |page=11 |issue=24394 |column=F }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Go-a-head

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

|desc=The ship was lost at "Curampe".

}}

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|ship=Gruber

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the west coast of Denmark. She was on a voyage from Papenburg to the River Tyne.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=31 October 1862 |issue=9801 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hudson

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 20 October.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 January 1863 |issue=4663 }}

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|ship=Jane Morell

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Domesnes, Russia.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jasper

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

|desc=The ship foundered before 29 October. She was on a voyage from Rostock to Dundee, Forfarshire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kate

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Maryport, Cumberland before 22 October.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Keepsake

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Maryport. She was refloated on 22 October and taken in to Maryport.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Laurel

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Brouwers Reef. She was on a voyage from Shanghai, China to London. She was refloated and taken in to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=2 January 1863 |issue=9108 }}

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|ship=Llagothland

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from South Shields to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mathew

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Latest News |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=London |date=25 October 1862 |issue=7111 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marion

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near "Larachaque", Nova Scotia, British North America before 8 October. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Miramichi, New Brunswick, British North America.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=20 October 1862 |page=9 |issue=24381 |column=D }}{{Cite news |title=Latest News |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=18 October 1862 |issue=15412 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 October 1862 |issue=7105 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Ann

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War: The schooner was captured and burned on the Calcasieu River in Louisiana in early October by the steamer {{USS|Kensington|1862|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}).Gaines, p. 70.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Meannais

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship collided with another vessel and sank. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to La Rochelle, Charente-Inférieure.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Messenger

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Saint Lucia

|desc=The drogher was lost at Saint Lucia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 October 1862 |issue=4580 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Meteor

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea before 23 October.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nana

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea before 25 October. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Swinemünde, Prussia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Neva

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, foundered in the North Sea before 28 October. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pacific

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

|desc=The ship departed from Hamburg in mid-October. Subsequently reported missing.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Perseverance

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

|desc=The sloop was crushed by ice and sank in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in late October with the loss of five of her six crew.{{Cite news |title=A Melancholy Story |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=24 October 1863 |issue=3185 }}

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|ship={{SS|Prince of Wales|1861|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked at Camden Haven.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Australia |date=16 January 1863 |page=4 |issue=24457 |column=A-D }}{{cite web |url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/asnc.shtml |title=Queensland Steam Shipping Co. / Australasian United S.N. Co |publisher=The Ships List |accessdate=23 March 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Santa Maria

|flag=Flag unknown

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

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Shepherd

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, foundered in the North Sea before 28 October. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Chatham, Kent.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The North Sea. - Shields, Oct. 28 |date=30 October 1862 |page=5 |issue=24390 |column=F }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sofia B

|flag=22px United States of the Ionian Islands

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Sulina, Ottoman Empire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Surinam

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Strait of Belle Isle before 15 October. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Quebec City.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sydney Jones

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Portmadoc, Caernarfonshire to Rostock. She was refloated and taken in to Helsingør, Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Telegraph

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Sulina.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Token

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 26 February. Thirteen crew were rescued by Speculant ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Token was on a voyage from Belize City, British Honduras to Queenstown, County Cork.{{Cite news |title=The Late Terrific Gales at Sea |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Colchester |date=31 October 1862 |issue=1663 |page=1 |volume=32 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tom Cochrane

|flag={{flag|United States|1860}}

|desc=The 14-ton screw steamer was stranded at Sturgeon Point on the Lake Huron coast of Michigan.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Whim

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Hartlepool, County Durham.

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|ship=William Henry

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

|desc=The schooner was run into by the full-rigged ship Reliance ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by Reliance. William Henry was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, United States to Liverpool. She had come ashore near Blackpool, Lancashire by 22 October.

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|ship=Yarmouth

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Varberg, Sweden.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

{{Reflist|20em}}

• [http://scubagonewild.com/documents/Encyclopedia%20of%20Civil%20War%20Shipwrecks%20-%20(Malestrom).pdf Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129144606/http://scubagonewild.com/documents/Encyclopedia%20of%20Civil%20War%20Shipwrecks%20-%20(Malestrom).pdf |date=29 November 2010 }}, {{ISBN|978-0-8071-3274-6}}.

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