List of shipwrecks in October 1868

The list of shipwrecks in October 1868 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1868.

1 October

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|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the William Bank, in the White Sea. She was abandoned the next day. Two of her seven crew subsequently died.{{Cite news |title=Wreck of a Shields Vessel |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=1 January 1869 |issue=4810 }}{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=1 January 1869 |issue=10123 }}{{Cite news |title=A Shipwrecked Crew |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 May 1869 |issue=9165 }}

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2 October

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|ship=Alin

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Skierenaffin, in the Sound of Islay. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Fort William, Inverness-shire.

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|ship=Diana

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=5 October 1868 |issue=6997 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 October 1868 |issue=13781 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Fremad

|flag=22px Dantzic

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Dantzic to Dublin, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 October 1868 |issue=6455 }}

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|ship=Gunso

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Galloper Sand. She was on a voyage from Piteå, Sweden to London, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken in to Dover, Kent, United Kingdom in a leaky condition.

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|ship=Harkaway

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Stettin to Leith, Lothian. She was refloated and towed in to Granton, Lothian.

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|ship=Heinrich

|flag=22px Rostock

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked on the west coast of Jutland. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom to Rostock.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 October 1868 |issue=13780 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Josephine

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Union ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Josephine was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire to Christiania, Norway.

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|ship=Komna

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

|desc=The ship caught fire at Navarino and was scuttled.

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|ship=Peace and Plenty

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Dunbar, Lothian in a capsized condition.

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|ship=Siff

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

|desc=The ship departed from Falmouth, Cornwall for Boston, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 January 1869 |issue=7090 }}

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|ship=Utility

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Galloper Sand. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Dunkerque, Nord. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Dover in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 October 1868 |issue=7001 }}

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3 October

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|ship=Ann

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Sound of Islay. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Fort William, Inverness-shire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 October 1868 |issue=6456 }}

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|ship=Blanche

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Cape Henry, Virginia, United States. She was on a voyage from Great Isaac Cay, Bahamas to Baltimore, Maryland, United States.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=20 October 1868 |issue=7010 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=20 October 1868 |issue=13794 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Orion

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

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Paraíba, Brazil.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 November 1868 |issue=6480 }}

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|ship=Zodiac

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Sunda Strait. She was on a voyage from Singapore, Straits Settlements to London. She was refloated and put in to Anjer, Netherlands East Indies.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=17 November 1868 |issue=7034 }}

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|ship=No. 43

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

|desc=The pilot boat was run down and sunk in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight by {{PS|Syria|1863|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) with the loss of all four people on board.{{Cite news |title=A Pilot Boat Run Down |newspaper=Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper |location=London |date=4 October 1868 |issue=1350 }}

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4 October

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|ship=Fame

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore near "Jakli", Russia. She was refloated.

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|ship=Vier Gebroeders

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Vertrouwen ({{flag|Belgium}}). Vier Gebroeders was on a voyage from the Meuse ({{langx|nl|Maas}}) to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=9 October 1868 |page=9 |issue=26251 |column=F }}

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5 October

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|ship=Dream

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on The Needles, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Southampton, Hampshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=8 October 1868 |issue=7000 }}

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|ship=Emily

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Taylor Reef, off "Lamley Island". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Dublin.

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|ship=Hero

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

|desc=The ship ran aground west of Point Molinos, Spain. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=12 October 1868 |issue=13787 |page=7 }} She was refloated on 7 October and towed in to Málaga, Spain.

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|ship=Isabella

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

|desc=The schooner sank in the North Sea {{convert|90|nmi|km}} off the coast of Norway. Her crew were rescued by the brig Anne Mariana ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Isabella was on a voyage from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire to Stettin.{{Cite news |title=Aberdeen |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=16 October 1868 |issue=4743 }}

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|ship=Mersey

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

|desc=The ship caught fire at Lindisfarne, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Arbroath, Forfarshire.

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|ship=Naomi

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

|desc=The ship struck a sunken wrecked {{convert|10|nmi|km}} south west of the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork.

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|ship=Perseverance

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

|desc=The steamship caught fire and sank in Lake Ontario with the loss of fourteen of her nineteen crew. She was on a voyage from Buffalo to Oswego, New York.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=America |date=21 October 1868 |page=10 |issue=26261 |column=D-E }}

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6 October

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|ship=Dream

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in The Needles, Isle of Wight. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Southampton, Hampshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=7 October 1868 |page=9 |issue=26249 |column=D }}

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|ship=Geertje Dykstra

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Løkken-Vrå, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Middelburg, Zeeland to Memel, Prussia.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 October 1868 |issue=13784 |page=7 }}{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=9 October 1868 |issue=10111 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=13 October 1868 |issue=7004 }}

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|ship=Sir James Duke

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

|desc=The steamship collided with another vessel and sank in the Girond at Pauillac, Gironde, France. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Bordeaux, Gironde.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=26 June 1869 |issue=7224 }}

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|ship=Victoria

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

|desc=The schooner struck a sunken pile at the mouth of the River Tees and sank. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Exeter, Devon. She was refloated on 18 October.{{Cite news |title=Law Cases |newspaper=York Herald |location=York |date=5 February 1870 |issue=5069 }}{{Cite news |title=Redway V. Tees Conservancy Commissioners |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=12 August 1870 |issue=201 }}

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7 October

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|ship=Diadem

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London.

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|ship=Gustav

|flag=file:Flagge Wismar.svg Wismar

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Hagen

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

|desc=The sloop was discovered off Buchan Ness, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom in a capsized condition. She was taken in to Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

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|ship=J. C. Dering

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

|desc=The schooner capsized off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States with the loss of seven of the ten people on board. She was on a voyage from Digby, Nova Scotia to Boston, Massachusetts.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 November 1868 |issue=6484 }}

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|ship=Mangalore

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

|desc=The ship caught fire in the River Mersey. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Calcutta, India. The fire was extinguished and she resumed her voyage.

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner capsized and sank off Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts with the loss of all hands.

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8 October

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|ship=Chimborazo

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked south of Tabasco. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=8 December 1868 |issue=7052 }}

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|ship=Forfar

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

|desc=The schooner sank in Lake Michigan with the loss of four lives.

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|ship=Swift

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

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak and foundered off Lundy Island, Devon. Her crew were rescued by the pilot boat No. 8 ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Swift was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Teignmouth, Devon.{{Cite news |title=Teignmouth |newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post |location=Exeter |date=14 October 1868 |issue=5341 }}

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|ship=Vim

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

|desc=The tug suffered a boiler explosion and sank at New York.

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9 October

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|ship=Mersey

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

|desc=En route from Sunderland, to Arbroath, Scotland, the schooner sprang a leak in the North Sea off Lindisfarne. Water came in contact with her cargo of quicklime, causing her to catch fire. She was beached, saving the crew, but the vessel was lost.Jermy, p. 43.

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|ship=Rover

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

|desc=The ship ran aground and sank off Silloth, Cumberland. The only person on board was rescued by the Silloth Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Skinburness, Cumberland to Annan, Dumfriesshire.

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10 October

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|ship=Alma

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Exeter, Devon.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 October 1868 |issue=13790 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Anna

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and sank in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Teignmouth, Devon.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=13 October 1868 |issue=13788 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Brill

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

|desc=The ship departed from the Clyde for Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Truro |date=12 March 1869 |issue=9108 }}

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|ship=Powerful

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

|desc=The steamship collided with the ferry Tynemouth ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the River Tyne. Her crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=14 October 1868 |page=10 |issue=26255 |column=A }}{{Cite news |title=General News |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=13 October 1868 |issue=1814 |page=4 |volume=35 }}

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|ship=Joachim

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The barque was destroyed by fire in the South Atlantic ({{coord|35|57|S|7|50|W}}). Her crew were rescued by China ({{flag|United States|1867}}) Joachim was on a voyage from Bremen to Rangoon, Burma.

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|ship=Repeal

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

|desc=The ship collided with the steamship Marion ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered in the North Sea off Whitby, Yorkshire with the loss of one of her three crew. Survivors were rescued by Marion. Repeal was on a voyage from Rochester, Kent to South Shields, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=14 October 1868 |issue=7005 }}

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|ship=Speedwell

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

|desc=The ship was assisted in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire in a sinking condition. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Ipswich, Suffolk.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=16 October 1868 |issue=10112 }}

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11 October

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|ship=Thomas Chalmers

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

|desc=The collier ran aground on the Oosterbank, in the North Sea off Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland.

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|ship=Urania

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Saint-Nazaire, Ille-et-Vilaine, France. She was on a voyage from Nantes, Loire-Inférieure, France to Gloucester. She was refloated and beached.

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12 October

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|ship=Fancy

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New Zealand

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Greville Harbour, D'Urville Island with the loss of three of her crew. The sole surviving crewman was rescued by the schooner Jane Anderson.Ingram & Wheatley, p. 159.

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|ship={{SS|Manhattan|1866|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Burbo Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from New York to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated with the assistance of two tugs and taken in to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Reuter's Telegrams |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=13 October 1868 |issue=29592 |page=5 }}

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|ship=Nelson

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New Zealand

|desc=The steamer was wrecked when it a heavy swell while trying to leave Whanganui Inlet. All those on board were saved.Ingram & Wheatley, p. 160.

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14 October

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|ship=George and Anne

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

|desc=The fishing lugger was run into by the fishing lugger Alma ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the North Sea {{convert|4|nmi|km}} off Corton, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by Alma.{{Cite news |title=Lowestoft |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=17 October 1868 |issue=6755 }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Admiralty Court, Westminster, Feb. 1 |date=2 February 1869 |page=9 |issue=26350 |column=B }}

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|ship=Hibernia

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Dardanelles. She was on a voyage from Taganrog, Russia to Plymouth, Devon. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug and resumed her voyage.

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|ship=Punjaub

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Miscou Island, New Brunswick, Canada. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bathurst, New Brunswick. She was consequently condemned.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=10 April 1869 |issue=7158 }} Punjaub was refloated on 27 April 1869 and taken in to Bathurst, where she arrived on 4 May.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 June 1869 |issue=13988 |page=7 }}

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15 October

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|ship=Elizabeth

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New Zealand

|desc=The cutter was wrecked after being driven ashore on the Otago coast during a gale.

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|ship=Festina Lente

|flag={{flag|Argentina|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the English Bank, in the River Plate.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=2 December 1868 |page=4 |issue=26297 |column=E }} She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Buenos Aires.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=2 December 1868 |issue=7047 }}

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|ship=Isabella

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New Zealand

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore near Hokitika during a gale.

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|ship=Woodman

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on a reef off Soa Island, Outer Hebrides with the loss of two lives. She was on a voyage from Easdale, Argyllshire to Leith, Lothian.

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16 October

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|ship=Clyde

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Loch Tarbert. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Londonderry.

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|ship=Defiance

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and severely damaged at Maryport, Cumberland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bangor to Maryport.

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|ship=Rapid

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

|desc=The tug caught fire at Greenock, Renfrewshire and was scuttled.

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|ship=Satellite

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New Zealand

|desc=The 27-ton cutter was wrecked on the South Island west coast during a gale.

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17 October

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|ship=C. A. Jones

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

|desc=The barque ran aground at Cape Canso, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Windsor, Nova Scotia to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence News |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=6 November 1868 |issue=7025 }}

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|ship=Countess of Selkirk

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and damaged in Buyhouse Bay. She was on a voyage from Buyhouse Bay to Maryport, Cumberland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=23 October 1868 |issue=7013 }}

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|ship=Echo

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Antina ({{flag|Netherlands}}). Echo was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands.

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|ship=Letitia

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

|desc=The ship capsized at Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Portsmouth. She was righted the next day.

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|ship=Mary Ann

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

|desc=The cutter was wrecked at Cap Fréhel, Côtes du Nord, France. Her crew were rescued by a pilot boat. She was on a voyage from Pontrieux, Côtes-du-Nord to Guernsey.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence News |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=5 November 1868 |issue=7024 }}

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|ship=Phantom

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

|desc=The schooner collided with a collier and sank off Whitby, Yorkshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Southampton, Hampshire.

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

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

|desc=The steamship foundered with the loss of all 40 crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to New York, United States.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool|date=4 January 1869 |issue=6534 }}

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18 October

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|ship=Almo

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship put in to Brest, Finistère, France on fire. She was on a voyage from Rangoon, Burma to Cork or Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Maggie Armstrong

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

|desc=The ship departed from Queenstown, County Cork for Boston, Massachusetts, United States. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=17 June 1869 |issue=7216 }}

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|ship=Margaret

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Ramsgate, Kent. She was on a voyage from Waterford to Hull, Yorkshire. She was refloated the next day.

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19 October

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|ship=Despatch

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Jeddo Bay.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 October 1868 |issue=6469 }}

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|ship=Louvre

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean and set afire. Her crew were rescued by Jane ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Louvre was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=25 November 1868 |issue=13825 |page=7 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 December 1868 |issue=6517 }}

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|ship=Orient

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Warnemünde, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Stralsund to Leith, Lothian. She was refloated and put in to Swinemünde, Prussia in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=22 October 1868 |issue=7012 }}

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20 October

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|ship=Ellen

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

|desc=The steamship was destroyed by fire off the coast of Loire-Inférieure, France. Her crew were rescued.

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21 October

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|ship=Amelia

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned off the Tongue Lightship (22px Trinity House). Her crew survived.

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|ship=Annie

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore "south of Black". She was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to Troon, Ayrshire. She was refloated and towed in to Troon.

}}

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|ship=Del Norte

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

|desc=File:Wreck of the steamer DEL NORTE, 1868 (TRANSPORT 647).jpg

The 601-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost. Sources disagree on the location of the incident. One claims that she was lost at Valdez, Department of Alaska. Another claims that Del Norte was wrecked in fog approximately {{convert|50|nmi}} north of Victoria, Colony of British Columbia, during a southbound voyage from Sitka, Territory of Alaska. Others place her wreck at Porlier Pass ({{coord|49|01|00|N|123|35|00|W|name=Porlier Pass}}) in British Columbia.{{cite web |url=https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-d/ |publisher=alaskashipwreck.com |title=Alaska Shipwrecks (D) |access-date=16 September 2020 }}

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|ship=Esther and Margaret

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

|desc=The ship collided with Ida ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by Ida. Esther and Margaret was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to Troon, Ayrshire. She came ashore near Whitehaven and sank.

}}

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|ship=Gladstone

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at L'Islet, Quebec, Canada. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Quebec City, Canada.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 October 1868 |issue=13796 |page=7 }} She was later refloated and taken in to Quebec City in a severely damaged condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=31 October 1868 |issue=6479 }}

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|ship=Henrietta

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner ran aground at the mouth of the Goatzacoalcos River. She was on a voyage from Minatitlán, Mexico to a British port.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=25 November 1868 |page=12 |issue=26291 |column=A }}

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|ship=Jacques Cartier

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the coast of Labrador, Newfoundland Colony.

}}

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|ship=Juligs

|flag=22px Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

|desc=The ship ran aground off Dragør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Mary Curley

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore in Vineyard Sound. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Saint John's, Newfoundland Colony. She was refloated.

}}

22 October

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|ship=Argos

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at "Vatergarn", Sweden. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Hartlepool, County Durham. She was consequently condemned.

}}

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|ship=Australian

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

|desc=The passenger ship ran ashore and was wrecked north of San Christorão, Brazil. All twenty people on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sydney, New South Wales to London.{{Cite news |title=Loss of the Australian Passenger Ship |newspaper=Bury and Norwich Post |location=Bury St. Edmunds |date=1 December 1868 |issue=4510 }}{{Cite news |title=Terrible Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=1 December 1868 |issue=6505 }}{{Cite news |title=The Brazilian Mails |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=3 December 1868 |issue=29636 }}

}}

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|ship=Christine

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

|desc=The ship collided with a British barque in the North Sea. She consequently foundered off the Dudgeon Sandbank the next day. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom to Messina, Sicily, Italy.{{Cite news |title=The Storm at Liverpool |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=27 October 1868 |issue=1826 |page=4 |volume=35 }}

}}

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|ship=Comet

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The ship was sighted off the South Foreland, Kent, United Kingdom whilst on a voyage from Bahia, Brazil to Bremen. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=31 December 1868 |issue=7072 }}

}}

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|ship=Congress

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

|desc=While bound for Chicago, Illinois, with a cargo of salt, apples, and railroad iron, the wooden steamer ran aground and burned in Lake Huron on the coast of Michigan near North Point. Her wreck lies in {{convert|17|ft|m}} of water at {{coord|45.014459|-83.259048|name=Congress}}.{{cite web|url=https://nmsthunderbay.blob.core.windows.net/thunderbay-prod/media/archive/pdfs/tb_deis_%20final_6-14-13.pdf|title=Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary-Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Boundary Expansion|work=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|access-date=November 14, 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://greatlakeships.org/2898688/data?n=1|title=Congress|work=Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library|access-date=November 14, 2019}}

}}

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|ship=Devon

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}

|desc=The steamship was wrecked on the Brisson Rock, off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of fourteen lives. A survivor was rescued by the Sennen Lifeboat Matthew Nicholas (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite news |title=Lifeboats |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 September 1869 |issue=7288 }}

}}

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|ship=Emma

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and damaged at Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=24 October 1868 |issue=7014 }}

}}

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|ship=Francisco Alvarez

|flag={{flag|Chile}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on "Musgora Island". She was on a voyage from Port Gamble, Washington Territory to Valparaíso.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=19 February 1869 |page=15 |issue=26365 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Jules

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

|desc=The ship collided with the steamship Buda and capsized. Her crew were rescued. She was towed in to Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.

}}

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|ship=Koophandel

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The barque ran aground at Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland, Netherlands.

}}

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|ship=Perkanos

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Eckerö, Grand Duchy of Finland. She was on a voyage from Nyhamn to Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=21 November 1868 |issue=13822 |page=7 }}

}}

23 October

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|ship=Christina

|flag=22px Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

|desc=The schooner collided with a barque in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom. She foundered the next day off the Dudgeon Lightship (22px Trinity House). Her crew were rescued by George ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

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|ship=Devon

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}

|desc=The lighter was wrecked on the Brisons, off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of seventeen of the eighteen people on board. The survivor was rescued by the Sennen Cove Lifeboat.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Preservation of Life from Shipwreck |date=10 November 1868 |page=8 |issue=26278 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship={{ship||F. T. Barney|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=File:Barney002.jpgThe wooden schooner was on a voyage from Cleveland, Ohio, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a cargo of coal when the schooner T. J. Bronson accidentally rammed her in Lake Huron, sinking her in {{convert|160|ft|m|0}} of water off the coast of Michigan at {{coord|45.485833|-83.8425|name=F. T. Barney}}. Her crew survived.

}}{{cite web | title = F.T. Barney | work = Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary | url = http://thunderbay.noaa.gov/shipwrecks/barney.html | accessdate = November 16, 2019}}{{cite web|title=F.T. Barney |publisher=Alpena Public Library Vessel Datadase |url=http://greatlakeships.org/2896358/data?n=3|accessdate=November 16, 2019}}

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|ship=Governor General

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Teignmouth, Devon. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Martinique. She was refloated with assistance from a fishing trawler.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=30 October 1868 |issue=10114 }}

}}

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|ship=Leichhardt

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship, anchored near the Girdler Sand, The Nore in the Thames estuary, preparing for her voyage to Wellington, New Zealand, was run into by the steamship North Star ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and cut to the waterline. All 49 people on board were transferred to North Star. She subsequently capsized and was wrecked.{{Cite news |title=A Passenger Ship Run Down by a Steamer |newspaper=Daily News |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000051/18681026/019/0005|page=5|location=London |date=26 October 1868 |issue=7015|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |title=The Collision at The Nore |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000285/18681029/030/0003 |access-date=15 February 2024 |work=North & South Shields Gazette |volume=XX|issue=4415 |date=29 October 1868 |page=3|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=29 October 1868 |page=11 |issue=26268 |column=B }}

}}

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|ship=Leo

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

|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and severely damaged on Walney Island, Lancashire. She had become a wreck by 29 October.

}}

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|ship=Martha Ann

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked east of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to the River Tyne.

}}

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|ship={{SS|North Hampton|1866|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was run into by the steamship {{SS|Continental|1862|2}} ({{flag|United States|1867}}) and sank off Newhaven, Connecticut. All on board were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The United States |date=9 November 1868 |page=10 |issue=262777 |column=A-B }}

}}

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|ship=Speedwell

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

|desc=The schooner was run down and sunk in the North Sea by the steamship {{SS|J. M. Strachan|1865|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) with the loss of two of her four crew. Speedwell was on a voyage from Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham to Swansea, Glamorgan.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Venus

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

|desc=The ship departed from Waterford for Swansea. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=14 January 1869 |issue=7084 }}

}}

24 October

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|ship=Augusta

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Doom Bar. Her thirteen crew were rescued by the Padstow Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Saint-Nazaire, Ille-et-Vilaine, France to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Padstow, Cornwall.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Betty and Louise

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in St Andrews Bay. Her nine crew were rescued by the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Burntisland, Fife, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Vessel Ashore in St Andrews Bay |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=26 October 1868 |issue=4752 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Carrie

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Johnshaven, Aberdeenshire with the loss of all five crew.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cora

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

|desc=The schooner foundered off Johnshaven with the loss of all nads. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Aberdeen.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 October 1868 |issue=13801 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Dahlia

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Annat Bank, off Montrose, Forfarshire and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the Montrose Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Demetrius, and
Trojan

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

|desc=The steamship Trojan collided with the steamship Demetrius and was beached at Seacombe, Cheshire. She was on a voyage from Patras, Greece to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated on 25 October and beached at Tranmere, Cheshire Demetrius was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Liverpool. She was taken in to Liverpool for repairs.{{Cite news |title=General News |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=26 October 1868 |issue=1825 |page=4 |volume=35 }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=27 October 1868 |page=9 |issue=26266 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eagle

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

|desc=The ship sank off the Tongue Sand. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Looe, Cornwall to Gravesend, Kent.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Frances

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

|desc=The brig sank off the Galloper Sandbank. Her crew were rescued by the steamship {{SS|Henry Morton|1860|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Frances was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Le Tréport, Seine-Inférieure, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ganges

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Alexandria, Egypt. She was refloated the next day with the assistance of a number of fishing smacks and tugs and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Malta

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned off Happisburgh, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by a fishing lugger. She subsequently came ashore at Happisburgh.{{Cite news |title=Yarmouth |newspaper=Bury and Norwich Post |location=Bury St. Edmunds |date=27 October 1868 |issue=4505 }} Malta was later run into and broke up.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maria Sophia

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

|desc=The ship foundered in Morecambe Bay with the loss of all twelve crew. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Supposed Catastrophe at Morecambe |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=29 October 1868 |issue=1828 |page=5 |volume=35 }}

}}

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|ship=Ocean Belle

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Aurora ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Ocean Belle was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Cardiff, Glamorgan.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=11 November 1868 |issue=13813 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Speedwell

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

|desc=The schooner was run down and sunk by the steamship James Strachan ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) with the loss of two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by James Strachan.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Vessel Run Down |date=27 October 1868 |page=9 |issue=26266 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship=Vulcan

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Johnshaven with the loss of thee of her eight crew. Survivors were rescued by rocket apparatus.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=27 October 1868 |issue=9529 }} She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Aberdeen.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Cairnryan, Wigtownshire. She was refloated on 4 November and taken in to Stranraer, Wigtownshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The sloop sank at the mouth of the River Trent. Her crew survived.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=30 October 1868 |issue=4370 }}

}}

25 October

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|ship=Active

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Lunner Platte, in the North Sea.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=A. H. Chitton

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

|desc=The barque was destroyed by fire off Cleveland, Ohio. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cleveland to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Colgrain

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

|desc=The ship was sighted in the Atlantic Ocean whilst on a voyage from London to Galle, Ceylon. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Croxdale

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

|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to Hamburg.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=13 November 1868 |issue=10116 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eclat

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off Bembridge, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated on 27 October and taken in to Portsmouth, Hampshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gesser

|flag=flag unknown

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Lunner Platte.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=27 October 1868 |issue=7016 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane

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

|desc=The schooner foundered off the mouth of the Humber. Her crew were rescued by the brig George Andrews ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=30 October 1868 |issue=4370 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John Roberts

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

|desc=The ship ran aground, capsized and sank at Waren Mill, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Newton, Northumberland to Glasgow, Renfrewshire. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lord Hartington

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

|desc=The brigantine was destroyed by fire at Hunter's Point, New York City, United States with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from New York City to Queenstown, County Cork.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=28 October 1868 |issue=6476 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=28 November 1868 |issue=6503 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Princess

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Wremen, Prussia She was on a voyage from Brement to Hartlepool, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Prosper

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Audierne, Finistère, France. She was on a voyage from Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire to Hull, Yorkshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rogate

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground between Glückstadt, Prussia and "the Stor". She was refloated on 6 November with the assistance of two steamships and towed in to Glückstadt.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Spitfire

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Imsum, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Bremen to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Trave

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The brig was driven ashore near Wremen. She was on a voyage from Bremen to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Warwick

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Nordergrunde, in the North Sea and was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Hamburg.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William

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

|desc=The ship caught fire at Dartmouth, Devon and was scuttled with assistance from {{HMS|Britannia|1869|6}} and {{HMS|Enchantress|1862|6}} (both {{navy|UK}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The collier, a brig, was driven ashore near Wremen.

}}

26 October

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|ship=Arrow

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Luner Platte, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Bremen to South Shields, County Durham. She was refloated on 3 November and taken in to the Geeste.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 November 1868 |issue=13811 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Blackness

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to the Nieuwe Diep.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=7 November 1868 |issue=13810 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Donor

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

|desc=The collier ran aground on the Zuidwal, in the Wadden Sea.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Empress

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

|desc=The hulk was driven ashore at Pwllcrochan, Pembrokeshire and became hogged.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Norma

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at "Larche", Denmark. She was on a voyage from London to Memel, Prussia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pilote

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Nantes, Loire-Inférieure to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken in to Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium in a severely leaky condition and was placed under repair.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sovereign

|flag={{flagcountry|British Raj}}

|desc=The ship struck rocks at "Kwing Island", China. She was on a voyage from Shanghai, China to London. She was refloated and taken in to Foo Chow Foo, China for repairs.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=11 January 1869 |issue=7081 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=10 March 1869 |issue=7131 }}

}}

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|ship=Speedwell

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

|desc=The sloop sprang a leak and foundered in the Irish Sea {{convert|2|nmi|km}} north east of Great Orme Head, Caernarfonshire. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Prince of Wales ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Speedwell was on a voyage from Port Dinorwic, Caernarfonshire to Runcorn, Cheshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=27 October 1868 |issue=6475 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Southport, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

}}

27 October

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|ship=Bismarck

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Tennyama".{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 January 1869 |issue=6535 }}

}}

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|ship=Borderer

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

|desc=The ship struck a sunken rock off Cape Agulhas, Cape Colony and foundered. Eight of her crew reached land, the boat with the other twelve crew was discovered in a capsized condition. She was on a voyage from Penang, Straits Settlements to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=8 December 1868 |page=5 |issue=26302 |column=F }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Foundering of the Ship Borderer |date=22 December 1868 |page=3 |issue=26314 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Constantia

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on Düne, Heligoland with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland to Hamburg.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Crest

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New Zealand

|desc=The ketch was wrecked near the mouth of Akaroa Harbour when it struck rocks, with the loss of two lives.Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 160–161.

}}

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|ship=Forest Queen

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

|desc=The ship departed from South Shields, County Durham for Guadeloupe. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hans.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 May 1869 |issue=6648 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Franklin

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Cairnryan, Wigtownshire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane

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

|desc=The ship foundered off the Outer Dowsing Sandbank, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from London to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

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|ship=John and Ann

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Lemvig, Norway with the loss of her captain. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Antwerp, Belgium.

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|ship=Nordpolen

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

|desc=The ship was towed in to Ulvesund in a waterlogged condition. She was on a voyage from a Baltic port to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Prosper

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Heligoland.

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|ship=No. 11

|flag=file:Flag of British Heligoland.svg Heligoland

|desc=The fishing sloop was driven ashore on Düne.

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|ship=Two unnamed vessels

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ships were driven ashore on Düne. One of them was wrecked.

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28 October

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|ship=Alexander

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

|desc=The schooner departed from the Rio Grande do Sul for a British port. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 May 1869 |issue=6646 }}

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|ship=Ellen and Mary

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

|desc=The schooner was scuttled at Garlieston, Wigtownshire. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to the Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire.

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|ship=Robert Anderson

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

|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the Blacktail Sand, in the Thames Estuary.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=29 October 1868 |issue=13802 |page=7 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat was wrecked on the West Hoyle Bank, in Liverpool Bay with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 October 1868 |issue=6478 }}

}}

29 October

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|ship=Champion

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Walney Island, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the Dutch coast in a wrecked condition.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Malvern

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

|desc=The ship, which had caught fire on 25 October, was abandoned off Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Valparaíso, Chile.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 December 1868 |issue=6523 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 December 1868 |issue=6523 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 December 1868 |issue=13848 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Newton

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

|desc=The ship ran aground near Porthcawl, Glamorgan. She was refloated on 2 November and towed to Appledore, Devon for repairs.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 November 1868 |issue=13807 |page=7 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The brig sank off the Hugo Bank, in the Bristol Channel.

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30 October

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|ship=RMS Grecian

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}

|desc=The steamship struck a rock and sank in the Saint Lawrence River. Her passengers were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=14 November 1868 |page=9 |issue=26282 |column=C }}

}}

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|ship=Karsinde

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Lowestoft, Suffolk to Groningen, Netherlands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Primus

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

|desc=The barque was sighted off Fortress Monroe, Virginia, United States whilst on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to London, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=11 March 1869 |issue=7132 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tempest

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

|desc=The ship departed from New York for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Theodorus

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Salthouse Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Lancashire. Her fifteen crew were rescued by the Blackpool and Lytham Lifeboats. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Edina, Liberia. She was refloated and taken in to Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Royal National Life-boat Institution |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=6 November 1868 |issue=29613 |page=3 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner foundered off Ameland, Friesland, Netherlands with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=6 November 1868 |page=10 |issue=26275 |column=F }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner foundered off Amrum, Prussia with the loss of all hands.

}}

31 October

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|ship=Ariadne

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

|desc=The schooner was run down and sunk in the North Sea {{convert|6|nmi|km}} south of Scarborough, Yorkshire by a French lugger. Her four crew survived.{{Cite news |title=An English Schooner Run Down and Abandoned by a French Lugger |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=4 November 1868 |issue=29611 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bonita

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the English Channel {{convert|10|nmi|km}} off the coast of Devon with the loss of her captain. The two survivors were each rescued by a fishing trawler.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 November 1868 |issue=6484 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Florence

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at "Eitzenloch". She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Cuxhaven. She was refloated and completed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jura

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

|desc=The schooner departed from South Shields, County Durham for Dublin. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

}}

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|ship=Lion

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

|desc=The steamship struck a sunken wreck and foundered off Dagerort, Russia. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Cronstadt, Russia.{{Cite news |title=The Storms |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=6 November 1868 |issue=4371 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMS|Pallas|1865|6}}

|flag={{navy|UK}}

|desc=The ironclad caught fire off Gibraltar. Seventeen crew were injured. The fire was extinguished with assistance from a United States Navy warship.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=12 November 1868 |issue=6489 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Paraguay

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore on Amrum, Friesland, Netherlands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 November 1868 |issue=6482 }} She was refloated and found to be leaky.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Persia

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

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at sea. Her crew were rescued by Black Watch ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Persia was on a voyage from Greenock, Renfrewshire to Bombay, India.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 January 1869 |issue=13872 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=St. Helier

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked at Wyk auf Föhr, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Lagos, Africa to Hamburg.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 November 1868 |issue=13809 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=T. F. Gates

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Dutch coast. She was on a voyage from Galaţi, Ottoman Empire to Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.

}}

Unknown date

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|ship=Daniel

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the coast of Brazil.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Enterprise

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

|desc=The ship sank near Fort Mahon, Mallorca, Spain. She was on a voyage from Livorno, Italy to a port in Dorset.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 October 1868 |issue=6471 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Falcon

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Swatow, China before 27 October.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fritz and Betsey

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Sweden.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helena

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The steamship was destroyed by fire off Capbreton, Landes.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Neptunus

|flag=22px Rostock

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Læsø, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Bergen, Norway to Rostock. She had been refloated by 8 October and taken in to Fredrikshavn, Denmark in a severely leaky condition.

}}

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|ship=Prince Consort

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Visby, Sweden.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=21 October 1868 |issue=6302 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Protector

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

|desc=The ship departed from Hull, Yorkshire for Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all 25 crew.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=5 August 1869 |issue=10154 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=R. Hines

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 12 October.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=29 October 1868 |issue=6477 }}

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|ship=Sulina

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

|desc=The ship foundered in Dingle Bay after 2 October with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Falmouth, Cornwall for Dingle, County Kerry.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=12 November 1868 |issue=7030 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=13 November 1868 |issue=6490 }}

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|ship=Souvenir

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

|desc=The galeas was abandoned in the North Sea ({{Coord|54|50|N|4|05|E}}) on or before 5 October. She was on a voyage from Burntisland, Fife to the Elbe.

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|ship=Spes

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

|desc=The ship was lost off "Platorf".{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 October 1868 |issue=6465 }}

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|ship=Stag

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

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Bombay, India.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Stockton

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Boston Bay.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vesta

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Saaremaa, Russia. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was refloated on 12 October and taken in to "Hafen Attel".

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Virgen de Solidad

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the English Bank, in the River Plate. She was on a voyage from Barcelona to Monte Video, Uruguay.

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References

=Bibliography=

Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.
{{cite book |last1=Jermy |first1=Roger C. |title=Lindisfarne's limestone past: Quarries, tramways and kilns |year=1992 |publisher=Northumberland County Library |location=Morpeth |isbn=1-874020-04-3 }}

1868-10

Category:Maritime incidents in October 1868