List of shipwrecks in October 1869
1 October
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|ship={{SS|Braganza|1856|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship collided with Jerome ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered off Point Lynas, Anglesey. Seven crew were reported missing; the rest were rescued by Jerome. Braganza was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Lisbon, Portugal.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=2 October 1869 |page=9 |issue=26558 |column=D }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Collision |date=2 October 1869 |page=10 |issue=26558 |column=C }}
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|ship=Era
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was run into by a French schooner and sank off Berry Head, Devon. Her crew survived.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 October 1869 |issue=6767 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=2 October 1869 |issue=14092 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Exertion
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine foundered in the English Channel {{Convert|7|nmi|km}} south west of Folkestone, Kent. Her crew were rescued.
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|ship=Haddock
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sank at Galway. She was refloated on 11 December and taken in to Galway.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=16 December 1869 |issue=7372 }}
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|ship=Mary Campbell
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Lagos, Africa to London.
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|ship=Nicolo Seconda
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The barque collided with the brig Sea Spray ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the English Channel off Deadman Point, Cornwall, United Kingdom with the loss of eight of her fourteen crew. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom to Genoa.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=2 October 1869 |issue=44524 }}
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|ship=Rosebank
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked at St. Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom.
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|ship={{SS|Usworth|1869|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was damaged by an onboard explosion at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
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|ship={{SS|Viking|1869|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore north of Kinnaird Head, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued by the Fraserburgh Lifeboat Havelock (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Arkhangelsk, Russia to Dundee, Forfarshire.{{Cite news |title=Wreck on the Scotch Coast |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 October 1869 |issue=14094 |page=5 }} She was refloated on 10 October and taken in to Fraserburgh the next day.
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|ship=Zehandabhir
|flag={{flag|Ottoman Empire|red}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at "La Nouville".
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2 October
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|ship=Derwent
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore on Saaremaa, Russia. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Kronstadt, Russia.
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|ship=Fuchsia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner sprang a leak and was beached at Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
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|ship=Gallovidian
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque sprang a leak and capsized in the Clyde at Greenock, Renfrewshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=5 October 1869 |issue=7310 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 October 1869 |issue=6769 }} She was righted on 6 October.
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|ship=Harry Bluff
|flag={{flagcountry|New Zealand}}
|desc=The 11-ton cutter ran aground on a bar at Charleston, New Zealand, with the loss of two crew.Ingram & Wheatley, p. 167.
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|ship=William and Hannah
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Schulpenplaat. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands to Sunderland, County Durham.
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3 October
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|ship=Bella Maria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Holyhead, Anglesey for Bombay, India. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 April 1870 |issue=14261 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Ceres
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked near "Killehusen", Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Hartlepool, County Durham.
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|ship=Jubilee
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Guernsey
|desc=The brig struck the Hump Rocks, between Herm and Sark, Channel Islands and foundered. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Guernsey to South Shields, County Durham.
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4 October
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|ship=Inarime
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the London Reefs, in the South China Sea. Six of her crew were reported missing. She was on a voyage from Foo Chow Foo, China to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=14 December 1869 |page=10 |issue=26620 |column=F }}
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|ship=Susannah
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Mount Desert Island, Maine, United States. She was on a voyage from Bear River, Canada to King's Lynn, Norfolk.
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5 October
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|ship=Agamenmnon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Beaumont Shoal, in the Saint Lawrence River.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Shipping Disasters and Loss of Life |date=11 October 1869 |page=5 |issue=26565 |column=D }} She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated.
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|ship=Anna Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Beaumont Shoal. She was on a voyage from Amlwch, Anglesey to Quebec City.
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|ship=Juanine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the East London Reef, in the South China Sea. Her fourteen crew took to two boats; they were rescued by the full-rigged ship St. Yeves ({{flag|France}}) and the barque Bonito ({{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}) on 9 and 17 October respectively. Juanine was on a voyage from Foo Chow, China to London.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 April 1870 |issue=14258 |page=6 }}
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|ship=Maria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was run into by the schooner Frenetta ({{flag|Sweden|1844}}) and sank {{convert|20|nmi|km}} east of Bornholm, Denmark with the loss of five of her six crew. The survivor was rescued by Frenetta. Maria was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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|ship=William
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner struck the Blennick Rock. She was on a voyage from Gloucester to Sligo. She completed her voyage in a leaky condition.
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6 October
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|ship=Caroline
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner foundered off the Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly. One crew member was rescued by Sarah Ann Dickinson ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Caroline was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to Runcorn, Cheshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=11 October 1869 |page=11 |issue=26565 |column=C }}
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|ship=Hariett
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground at Whitby, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.
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|ship=Jeus Ruffen
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship departed from Christiania for an English port. Presumed subsequently foundered; a lifebuoy washed up at Büsum, Prussia on 15 November.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 November 1869 |issue=14135 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Norton
|flag=22px Newfoundland Colony
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Belfast, County Antrim, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 October 1869 |issue=6771 }}
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7 October
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|ship=Adele Stephanie
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Whitton Sand, in the Humber and capsized with the loss of four of the eight people on board. Survivors were rescued by the tug {{PS|Prudhoe|1865|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Adele Stephanie was on a voyage form L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, Vendée to Goole, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Foundering of a Vessel in the Humber |newspaper=Sheffield Independent |location=Sheffield |date=11 October 1869 |issue=5069 |page=4 |volume=50 }}
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|ship=Anna
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The schooner collided with a barque and sank in the Swin. Her crew were rescued by the barque and Lizzie Mordue ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Anna was on a voyage from Rostock to London, United Kingdom.{{cite book |title=The Salvagers |first=Hervey |last=Benham |author-link=Hervey Benham |page=191 |publisher=Essex County Newspapers Ltd |location=Colchester |year=1980 |isbn=00-950944-2-3 }}
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|ship={{SS|Capri|1869|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship foundered in the Black Sea {{convert|22|nmi|km}} off the entrance to the Bosphorus with the loss of sixteen of her 22 crew. She was on the return leg of her maiden voyage, from Odesa, Russia to North Shields, Northumberland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Loss of the Capri Steamship |date=11 October 1869 |page=9 |issue=26565 |column=F }}
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|ship=Economy
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig foundered off the Smalls Lighthouse, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued by the tug Resolute ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Economy was on a voyage from Llanelly, Glamorgan to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=9 October 1869 |page=5 |issue=26564 |column=E }}
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|ship=Louisa
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship caught fire off Exmouth, Devon. She was on a voyage from Exeter, Devon to London.
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|ship=Thomas W. Black
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Maryport, Cumberland.
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8 October
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|ship=Adèle Stephanie
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Wilton Sand, in the Humber and capsized with the loss of four lives. She was on a voyage from L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, Vendée to Goole, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
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|ship=Azof
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Montevideo, Uruguay. Her crew were rescued.
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|ship=Hannah
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at "Kylon". She was on a voyage form Hörnefors, Sweden to Leith, Lothian.
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|ship=La Mer
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship ran aground near "Snazebek". She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Bayonne, Basses-Pyrénées.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=9 October 1869 |issue=6773 }}
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|ship=Leipzic
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground and sank off "Seicroe Island", in the Great Belt. She was on a voyage from West Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom to Kiel.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 October 1869 |issue=7314 }}
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|ship=Marianople
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque ran aground near Oyster Island, County Sligo. She was on a voyage from Constanţa, Ottoman Empire to a British port. She was refloated and beached at Sligo, but capsized
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|ship=Sarah Elizabeth
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Fire Island, New York. She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina to New York City.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 October 1869 |issue=6781 }}
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|ship=Voltaic
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Calf of Man, Isle of Man. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Liverpool, Lancashire. She floated off and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Accident to a Liverpool and Belfast Steamer |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=13 October 1869 |issue=2124 |page=4|volume=36 }}
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9 October
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|ship=Arthur White
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship collided with the steamship {{SS|Denmark|1866|2}} ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned by her eleven crew, who were rescued by Denmark. Twelve crew of Denmark boarded Arthur White and took her in to Queenstown, County Cork in a waterlogged condition.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=16 October 1869 |page=11 |issue=26570 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=16 October 1869 |issue=7320 }}
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|ship=Brazilian
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Broadstairs, Kent. She was refloated and taken in to The Downs.
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|ship=Camilla
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from "Ambrizotti", on the Congo River for Liverpool, Lancashire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 March 1870 |issue=14240 |page=7 }}
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|ship={{SS|Capri|1869|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship foundered at the entrance to the Bosphorus with the loss of seventeen of her 24 crew. She was on a voyage from Odesa, Russia to an English port.{{Cite news |title=Reuter's Telegrams |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=9 October 1869 |issue=1454 }}
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|ship=Orient
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground, capsized and was wrecked at Nud Point, in the Hooghly River with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Liverpool.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=22 October 1869 |page=10 |issue=26575 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=The Overland Mail |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=6 November 1869 |issue=1478 }}
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10 October
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|ship=Fourth November
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig ran aground on the Hamburg Sands and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by the steamship Dagmar (22px Danzig). Fourth November was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom to Hamburg.
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|ship=Kinghorn
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire.
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|ship=Lillian
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship sank at Nassau, Bahamas.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=26 November 1869 |issue=9329 }}
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|ship=Maggie Maxwell
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked on St Clement's Isle, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Penzance, Cornwall.
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|ship={{SS|Royal Standard|1863|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked on a sandbank {{convert|20|to|25|nmi|km}} off Cape São Thomé, Brazil with the loss of eight of about 80 people on board. A raft containing twelve people on board reached the Brazilian coast. She was on a voyage from London to Melbourne, Victoria.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Loss of the Royal Standard |date=16 November 1869 |page=9 |issue=26596 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=The Wreck of the Royal Standard |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=16 November 1869 |issue=54559 }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of the Australian Passenger Ship Royal Standard |newspaper=Bury and Norwich Post |location=Bury St. Edmunds |date=16 November 1869 |issue=4560 |page=8 }}{{Cite news |title=Saved from the Sea |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=19 November 1869 |issue=2156 |page=4 |volume=36 }} Twenty-four people reached land in the ship's cutter, and a number of survivors were rescued by Amelia ({{flag|Portugal|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Loss of an Australian Ship |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=16 November 1869 |issue=7346 }}
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11 October
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|ship=Adonis
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Montevideo, Uruguay. Her crew were rescued.
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|ship=Andrea Belzone
|flag={{flag|Argentina|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Montevideo. She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires to Antwerp, Belgium .
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|ship=Azof
|flag={{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked at "Bucas", Uruguay.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=16 November 1869 |issue=6805 }}
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|ship=Hortense
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner was destroyed by fire in the Scheldt.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=13 October 1869 |issue=6776 }}
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|ship=Invierno
|flag={{flag|Uruguay}}
|desc=The lighter sank at Montevideo.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 November 1869 |issue=6806 }}
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|ship=Opal
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner departed from Cuxhaven for Stranraer, Wigtownshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=3 March 1870 |page=7 |issue=26688 |column=D }}
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|ship=Ottodini
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque capsized at Montevideo with the loss of a crew member.
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|ship=Petrus
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Montevideo. Her crew were rescued. she was on a voyage from Barcelona, Spain to Montevideo.
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|ship={{HMS|Rapid|1860|6}}
|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}
|desc=The {{sclass|Rosario|sloop}} was driven ashore in the Mediterranean Sea. Subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service.{{Cite news |title=Naval Disasters Since 1860 |newspaper=Hampshire Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=10 May 1873 |issue=4250 }}
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|ship=Stag
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck a submerged object and sprang a leak. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Inverness. She put in to Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked on the English Bank, in the River Plate with the loss of all hands.
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked on the English Bank with the loss of all hands.
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12 October
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|ship=Arica
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was condemned.
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|ship=Astrea
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Scarborough, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to London. She was refloated and taken in to Scarborough in a sinking condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 October 1869 |issue=14102 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Barcelo
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires.
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|ship=Caledonia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Whitehaven, Cumberland. She was on a voyage from Constanţa, Ottoman Empire to Whitehaven. She was refloated on 17 October and taken in to Whitehaven the next day.
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|ship=Clara M. Grodrich
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 November 1869 |issue=6809 }}
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|ship=Crimea
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at "Tigu", Argentina.
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|ship=Doranna
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Rosario, Argentina.
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|ship=Eloisa
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Bueno Aires.
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|ship=General Lee
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|12|nmi|km}} off the mouth of the River Plate. Her crew were rescued by a Danish brig. She was on a voyage from San Francisco, California, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.
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|ship=Giuseppe
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The polacca was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires. She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 December 1869 |issue=6830 }}
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|ship=Hanna
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Iceland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=1 December 1869 |issue=6818}}
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|ship=Heloise
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Buenos Aires.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 November 1869 |issue=6810 }}
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|ship=Henry
|flag={{flag|Austria-Hungary|civil}}
|desc=The polacca was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 November 1869 |issue=6808 }}
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|ship=Jaime Fairer, or
Jamie Ferrer
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires.
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|ship=Juanita
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and severely damaged at Rosario.
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|ship=Jupiter
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore on the coast of Banda Oriental, Uruguay.
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|ship=Margaretha
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Maria
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Buenos Aires. She was condemned.
}}
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|ship=Mary and Jane
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner collided with the barque Boas ({{flag|Norway|1844}}) and foundered off the Galloper Sand, in the English Channel. Her crew were rescued. Mary and Jane was on a voyage from Portmadoc, Caernarfonshire to Hamburg.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=15 October 1869 |page=9 |issue=26569 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=Reuter's Telegrams |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=15 October 1869 |issue=1459 }} She was taken in to Ramsgate, Kent on 15 October in a derelict condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=16 October 1869 |issue=14104 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Minerva
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Morse
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Buenos Aires.
}}
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|ship=Narbel
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Buenos Aires.
}}
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|ship=Otodine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship collided with Petrus (Flag unknown) and capsized at Buenos Aires.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=4 March 1870 |page=10 |issue=26689 |column=E }}
}}
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|ship=Rosario
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was damaged at Buenos Aires.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Rossilo
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires.
}}
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|ship=Ruffine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked on a reef off "Lampason Island". She was on a voyage from Shanghai, China to Hiogo, Japan.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=23 June 1870 |issue=9508 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 June 1870 |issue=14319 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=Shannon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked in the River Plate.
}}
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|ship=St. Joseph
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Buenos Aires.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Tullochgorum
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on Rattray Brig. She was refloated and put in to Sunderland, County Durham the next day.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unico
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The lugger was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Valborg
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the coast of Iceland.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Victoria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Vidar
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The French or Italian barque ran aground on the English Bank, in the River Plate and sank with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Latest River Plate Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 November 1869 |issue=9323 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Buenos Aires.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
13 October
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|ship=Caledonia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Whitehaven, Cumberland. She was on a voyage from Constanţa, Ottoman Empire to Whitehaven.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Elizabeth Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner collided with an Italian barque and foundered in the English Channel {{convert|5|nmi|km}} west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Plymouth, Devon to Cardiff, Glamorgan.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Eva
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was run into by another vessel and foundered in the English Channel {{convert|10|nmi|km}} off Exmouth, Devon. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Orient
|flag=22px Newfoundland Colony
|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Waterloo, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=18 October 1869 |page=4 |issue=26571 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 October 1869 |issue=6778 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Planet
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Redcar, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by a fishing coble. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands.{{Cite news |title= Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 October 1869 |issue=14103 |page=7 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ville de Nantes
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The steamship collided with another vessel and sank. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 October 1869 |issue=6777 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig foundered off Tönning, Prussia with the loss of all hands.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
14 October
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|ship=Eliza Ann
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sprang a leak off Ailsa Craig and was beached at Lamlash, Isle of Arran. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Glasgow, Renfrewshire. She was placed under repair.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Elizabeth and Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship collided with an Italian barque and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Plymouth, Devon to Cardiff, Glamorgan. She was towed in to Falmouth, Cornwall the next day.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=H. M. Elizabeth
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 October 1869 |issue=6778 }}
}}
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|ship=Jessies
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Inverness to Thurso, Caithness. She was refloated and put back to Inverness.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Johannes Kepler
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship caught fire and was scuttled in the Bosphorus.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Neptune{{'}}s Bride
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship put in to Port Beaufort, Cape Colony on fire. Her crew left the ship and she sank the next day.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Planet
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Redcar, Yorkshire.
}}
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15 October
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|ship=Diana
|flag={{flagcountry|New Zealand}}
|desc=The 25-ton ketch caught fire and was destroyed in the Whanganui Inlet in New Zealand's South Island.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Orion
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Glenarm, County Antrim.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ottoman
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Öland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to London. She had been refloated by 20 October and taken in to Kalmar, Sweden for repairs.
}}
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16 October
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|ship=Alexander
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore and severely damaged at Glenarm, County Antrim.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Austria
|flag=flag unknown
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at North Berwick, Lothian, United Kingdom. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Dysart, Aberdeenshire to Königsberg, Prussia.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Brenda
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Portmahomack, Ross-shire. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=The Gale - Numerous Shipwrecks and Loss of Life |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=20 October 1869 |issue=1463 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Eary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig foundered at the mouth of the River Plate with the loss of all but two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Montevideo. Uruguay.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Elwine
|flag=File:POL Kołobrzeg flag.svg Kolberg
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire. Her six crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Kolberg to Wick, Caithness.{{Cite news |title=The Great Storm on the Scotch Coast |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 October 1869 |issue=6782 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Friends
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at North Shields, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued by the North Shields Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=19 October 1869 |page=11 |issue=26572 |column=C }} She was refloated on 22 October and taken in to North Shields.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Glance
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was run into by a North German Federal Navy frigate in the River Thames and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by the frigate. Glance was on a voyage from London to Hull, Yorkshire. She was subsequently towed to Hull.{{Cite news |title=Local Intelligence |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=22 October 1869 |issue=4061 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Gleaner
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Porthdinllaen, Caernarfonshire. Her three crew were rescued by the Porthdinllaen Lifeboat Cotton Shepphard (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Gleaner was on a voyage from the River Duddon to Briton Ferry, Glamorgan.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Iduna
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Clee Ness, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Hull Yorkshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lucie and Marguerite
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The fishing lugger collided with a brig in The Downs and was abandoned by her 23 crew, her captain remaining on board. She was subsequently taken in to Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 October 1869 |issue=14106 |page=7 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mathilde
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked at Tantallon Castle, Lothian. Her eight crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Leith, Lothian.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Nymph
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and sank at Porthdinllaen. Her three crew were rescued by a gig. She was on a voyage from Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire to Port Talbot, Glamorgan.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Philadelphia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop was driven ashore at Cove Haven, Forfarshire. Her crew were rescued by the Coastguard. She was on a voyage from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire to Methil, Fife.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Sea Horse
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The collier, a brig, was wrecked at the mouth of the River Tyne. Her crew were rescued by lifeboats. She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to Aberdeen.{{Cite news |title=Severe Gale and Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=18 October 1869 |issue=7321 }}{{Cite news |title=Fearful Storm on the Northumberland Coast |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=18 October 1869 |issue=9834 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Summer Cloud
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing boat capsized in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire with the loss of all three crew.{{Cite news |title=The Recent Gales |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=29 October 1869 |issue=10164 }}
}}
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|ship=Swan
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The Yorkshire Billyboy was driven ashore at Huttoft, Lincolnshire. All six people on board were rescued by the Sutton Lifeboat Birmingham (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Swan was on a voyage from Boston, Lincolnshire to Goole, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=The Storm of Saturday |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=18 October 1869 |issue=1461 }}{{Cite news |title=Disastrous Gale |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=19 October 1869 |issue=29910 |page=2 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Tequendama
|flag={{Flagicon|Colombia}} United States of Colombia
|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Magdalena River.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 December 1869 |issue=6820 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Three Betseys
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered off the north Norfolk coast. She was on a voyage from Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk to East Stockwith, Lincolnshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Tribune
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked between Holmpton and Withernsea, Yorkshire with the loss of one of her seven crew. She was on a voyage from London to Sunderland, County Durham.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Union
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Sunderland. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale on the Northern Coast |date=19 October 1869 |page=7 |issue=26572 |column=F }} Her crew were rescued.Unionwas on a voyage from Arbroath, Forfarshire to Sunderland. She was refloated on 23 October and towed in to Sunderland.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Vicious
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack was driven ashore and wrecked on the Long Scar Rocks, on the coast of County Durham with the loss of one of her four crew.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Caernarfon.{{Cite news |title=A Steamer Ashore at Carnarvon |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 October 1869 |issue=6780 }}
}}
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17 October
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|ship=Æolus
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Stavanger. She was on a voyage from Haugesund to South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=De Groot
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The fishing smack was abandoned in the North Sea. Seven of her fifteen crew were rescued by the smack Confidence ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). A Dutch fishing vessel attempted to rescue the other eight, but it was unclear whether or not the attempt was successful.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Diana
|flag={{flag|Belgium}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Saaremaa, Russia.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Emilie
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned {{convert|12|nmi|km}} south south west of "Fingrundet". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from "Swartwick" to Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=5 November 1869 |page=9 |issue=26587 |column=F }}
}}
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|ship=Gipsey King
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Dulas Rocks, Anglesey with the loss of all but one of her crew. The survivor was rescued by the Moelfre Lifeboat London Sunday School (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Gipsey King was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Marys
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Black Middens, in the North Sea off the coast of County Durham. She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to Aberdeen. She was refloated and assisted in to South Shields, County Durham where she sank.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Pioneer
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Holy Isle, in the Firth of Clyde.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=23 October 1869 |issue=9300 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Rio
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Saaremaa. She was on a voyage from New York to Saint Petersburg, Russia.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{PS|Rock Light|1865|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The paddle tug was severely damaged by fire and was scuttled at South Shields, County Durham. Subsequently rebuilt and returned to service.{{cite web |url=http://www.tynetugs.co.uk/rocklight1865.html |title=Rock Light |publisher=Tyne Tugs |accessdate=4 November 2020}}
}}
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|ship=Sea Lark
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The yacht struck a submerged object and sank off Brighton, Sussex. All 40 people on board were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Narrow Escape from Drowning |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 October 1869 |issue=14105 |page=3 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Seymour
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Utö, Grand Duchy of Finland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to Bridgwater, Somerset.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=26 October 1869 |page=11 |issue=26578 |column=B }} She floated off and drifted out to sea.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{SS|Sierra Nevada|1851|2}}
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamship was wrecked on a reef {{convert|3|nmi|km}} north of "Pedro Blanco" (Piedras Blancas, California). All on board survived. She was on a voyage from San Francisco to San Luis Obispo, California with 45 passengers.{{cite web |title=MBNMS: Maritime Heritage: Historic Shipwreck Profile: Sierra Nevada |url=https://montereybay.noaa.gov/maritime/shipwrecks/sierranevada.html |website=montereybay.noaa.gov |access-date=20 February 2022}}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Thea Elpis
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Ballantrae, Ayrshire, United Kingdom. All eleven people on board were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 October 1869 |issue=9296 }}{{Cite news |title=The Late Gales |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=22 October 1869 |issue=54540 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Venice
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The brig capsized and sank at South Shields. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 October 1869 |issue=6782 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Vesta
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Gravelines, Nord, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Messina, Sicily, Italy.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Victoria Tower
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground and was wrecked at Barwon Heads, Victoria.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=23 December 1869 |issue=9352}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?282626 |title=SV Victoria Tower (+1869) |publisher=Wrecksite |accessdate=16 November 2020}} She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne, Victoria.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=23 December 1869 |issue=14162 }}
}}
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18 October
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|ship=Adela
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The barque was wrecked on the English Bank, in the River Plate with the loss of more than 40 lives. There were two survivors. She was on a voyage from Barcelona to Montevideo.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=20 November 1869 |page=11 |issue=26600 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=20 November 1869 |issue=7350 }}
}}
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|ship=Alabama
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The barque was in collision with the brig Captain ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was then driven ashore and wrecked at Dungeness, Kent, United Kingdom. All fourteen people on board were rescued by the tug Middlesex ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Alabama was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom to Genoa.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Alida Hendrika
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the English Channel off Dover, Kent. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Harlingen, Friesland.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Beulah
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was refloated with assistance from the smack Aurora{{'}}s Increase and beached at Harwich, Essex.{{Cite news |title=Petty Sessions Reports |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=20 November 1869 |issue=6802 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Electrofus
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea off Texel, North Holland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued by Alert ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Electrofus was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Southampton, Hampshire. United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=25 October 1869 |page=9 |issue=26577 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Matilda
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Porthdinllaen, Caernarfonshire. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Leith, Lothian.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ocianus
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack was wrecked on the Longscar Rocks with the loss of one of her four crew.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Petrel
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at "Ardow". She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Garston, Lancashire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Prince Albert
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack foundered off the Well Bank, in the North Sea with the loss of all six crew.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Sarah
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Brancaster, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Susan
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Dover, Kent. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Truro, Cornwall. She was refloated and taken in to Dover.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{HMS|Tamar|1863|6}}
|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}
|desc=The troopship ran aground off Paul's Island, Newfoundland Colony. She was refloated, repaired and returned to service.{{Cite news |title=Naval Disasters Since 1860 |newspaper=Hampshire Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=10 May 1873 |issue=4250 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Water Lily
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing boat was abandoned in the North Sea off Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. Her six crew were rescued by the paddle tug {{PS|Fiery Cross|1867|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), which towed Water Lily in to the River Tyne.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground and sank Taylor's Bank, in Liverpool Bay.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=20 October 1869 |page=9 |issue=26573 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
19 October
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|ship=Alice Richardson
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Holmpton, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from London to Sunderland, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=The Storms |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=22 October 1869 |issue=4061 }} She was refloated on 5 November and towed in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=8 November 1869 |issue=7339 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Amalie
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Grimsby. She was refloated on 21 October and towed in to Grimsby.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Belvidere
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=4 November 1869 |issue=7336 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Bradford
|flag=File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution
|desc=The lifeboat ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent whilst going to the assistance of Frank Shaw ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was refloated and completed her mission.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Carl von Truenfells
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Grimsby. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Grimsby to South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=20 October 1869 |issue=14107 |page=7 }} She was refloated on 20 October and taken in to Grimsby.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Dependent
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked near Withernsea, Yorkshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Dido
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sprang a leak and sank in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Harwich, Essex to Faversham, Kent.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=25 October 1869 |page=9 |issue=26577 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Elephant
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The Mersey Flat ran aground and sank off Crosby, Lancashire with the loss of one of her two crew. The survivor was rescued by the New Brighton Lifeboat.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 October 1869 |issue=6782 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Enchantress
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The Yorkshire Billyboy was driven ashore at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. All three people on board were rescued by the salvage boat Mariner{{'}}s Friend ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Enchantress was on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to Keadby, Lincolnshire.{{Cite news |title=District News |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=10 December 1869 |issue=4068 }} She was refloated on 22 October and taken in to Grimsby in a severely damaged condition.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Endeavour
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Brancaster, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ipswich, Suffolk to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Europa
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Grimsby. She was refloated on 21 October and towed in to Grimsby.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Frank Shaw
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The collier ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent and was wrecked with the loss of eight of the 28 people on board. Survivors were rescued by the Broadstairs Lifeboat Samuel Morrison Collins and the Ramsgate Lifeboat Bradford (both File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution) or reached shore in a boat. Frank Shaw was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Genoa, Italy.{{cite book |title=Kent Shipwrecks |first=Alan |last=Bignell |publisher=Countryside Books |location=Newbury |year=2001|edition=Second |pages=29–32 |isbn=1-85306-719-9}}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=21 October 1869 |page=9 |issue=26574 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=21 October 1869 |issue=14108 |page=3 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Frithjof
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Skellefteå, Sweden to Gloucester, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Gipsey King
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Formby Spit, in Liverpool Bay with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Summary |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=20 October 1869 |issue=2130 |page=2 |volume=36 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Glenalbyn
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=On a voyage from London to Newcastle-on-Tyne in ballast, the schooner was driven ashore on Garton Beach, north of Withernsea, in a gale and the crew landed.{{cite news |title=Hull |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000686/18691023/209/0011 |access-date=14 October 2022 |work=The Yorkshire Post|issue=6960 |date=23 October 1869 |location=Leeds |page=11|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |title=Board of Trade Inquiry at Hull |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001297/18691118/068/0006 |access-date=15 October 2022 |work=Hull and Eastern Counties Herald |issue=1537 |date=18 November 1869 |page=6|via=British Newspaper Archive}} She was later refloated, repaired and for sale.{{cite news |title=Ships for Sale |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001702/18700711/027/0002 |access-date=15 October 2022 |work=Shipping and Mercantile Gazette |issue=10258 |date=11 July 1870 |location=London |page=2|via=British Newspaper Archive}}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Hannah
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Hansa
|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}
|desc=The ship was crushed by ice and sank off the coast of Greenland. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=5 September 1870 |issue=9571 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Harmonie
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was damaged at Grimsby.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Havelock
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The collier, a barque, sank at Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued. She was refloated on 25 October and found to be severely damaged.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 October 1869 |issue=14112 |page=7 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Hero
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Independent
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Cowden, Yorkshire. Shew as on a voyage from London to Sunderland.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Industrie
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship foundered off Lisbon, Portugal. Her crew were rescued by Uoader do Mondego ({{Flag|Portugal|civil}}). Industrie was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Genoa, Italy.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Irma
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The chasse-marée collided with a Swedish brig off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and foundered with the loss of all but two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by the brig.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=22 October 1869 |issue=2132 |page=2 |volume=36 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Jane
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Deal, Kent. Her four crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Honfleur, Manche, France.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=21 October 1869 |issue=14108 |page=8 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=John
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Riding of Yorkshire with the loss of all hands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=John and Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Morston, Norfolk. Her nine crew were rescued by the Blakeney Lifeboat Brightwell (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). John and Mary was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France to South Shields.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 October 1869 |issue=14109 |page=6 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=John James
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Aberdovey, Merionethshire. Her crew were rescued by the Aberdovey Lifeboat Royal Berkshire (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). John James was on a voyage from Dublin to Aberdovey. She was subsequently taken in to Aberdovey by Royal Berkshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Josephine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Broxham, Lothian with the loss of four of her fifteen crew. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Lucie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was damaged at Grimsby.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Marathon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was beached at Tongue, Sutherland. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to Sunderland.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Black Middens, in the North Sea off the mouth of the River Tees. She was refloated with the assistance of the paddle tug {{PS|Robin Hood|October 1868|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} and taken in to South Shields in a leaky condition, where she sank.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=21 October 1869 |issue=2131 |page=2 |volume=36 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner sank in the River Tyne.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mauritz
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked at Manhaven, County Durham with the loss of nine of her ten crew. She was on a voyage from Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, United Kingdom to the River Tyne.{{Cite news |title=General News |newspaper=Bristol Mercury |location=Bristol |date=23 October 1869 |issue=4150 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Odin
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Grimsby.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Olive
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Grimsby.{{Cite news |title=Terrific Gales |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=20 October 1869 |issue=7323}}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Pet
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and damaged at Dymchurch, Kent.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Pioneer
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was damaged at Grimsby.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Rob Roy
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Grimsby. She was refloated on 21 October and towed in to Grimsby.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Samuel Morrison Collins
|flag=File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution
|desc=The lifeboat ran aground on the Goodwin Sands whilst going to the assistance of Frank Shaw ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was refloated and completed her mission.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Svalen
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to London.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Thomas and Henry
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack foundered off the Lemon Sand, in the North Sea with the loss of all six crew.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Trusty
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Runton, Norfolk. Her three crew were rescued by the Sheringham Lifeboat Duncan (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=20 October 1869 |page=9 |issue=26573 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Twins
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack was abandoned off the Outer Dowsing Sandbank, in the North Sea. Her five crew were rescued by the smack Criterion ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Vesper
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship driven ashore at the mouth of the River Tees with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Hartlepool, County Durham.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Viscaya
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore at North Killingholme, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Four unnamed vessels
|flag=Flags unknown
|desc=The ships were driven ashore at Grimsby.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Nine unnamed vessels
|flag=Flags unknown
|desc=The ships, a brig, three schooners and five smacks were driven ashore at Cleethorpes{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=21 October 1869 |page=5 |issue=26574 |column=F }} Their crews were rescued. The salvage boat Mariner{{'}}s Friend ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} rescued seven crew from one of the schooners.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Two unnamed vessels
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=Two pilot cobles were reported missing having departed from the River Tyne.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Stallingborough, Lincolnshire.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
20 October
{{shipwreck list begin |date=20 October 1869 |sort=}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Amphitrite, and
Hamsterley Hall
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig Amphitrite collided with the brig Hamsterley Hall at Grimsby, Lincolnshire. She was driven ashore at Donna Nook and wrecked. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields, County Durham. Hamsterley Hall was driven ashore and wrecked with the loss of her pilot. Survivors were rescued by the Donna Nook Lifeboat North Briton (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Late Gales |date=22 October 1869 |page=10 |issue=26575 |column=C }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=6 December 1869 |page=5 |issue=26613 |column=F }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Amphitrite
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by the Gorleston Lifeboat. Amphitrite was on a voyage from South Shields to London. She was subsequently taken in to Lowestoft, Suffolk{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=21 October 1869 |issue=9837 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{SS|Araxes|1855|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship foundered off the Lemon and Ower Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk with the loss of two of her 24 crew. Survivors were rescued by the fishing smack Lizzie ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Araxes was on a voyage from Kronstadt to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Loss of a Steamer |date=25 October 1869 |page=10 |issue=26577 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=29 October 1869 |issue=4062 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Argo
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The schooner foundered in the Dogger Bank with the loss of three of her six crew. She was on a voyage from a Baltic port to Harlingen, Friesland.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Blue Jacket
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore, capsized and was wrecked at Donna Nook with the loss of all eleven people on board.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=22 October 1869 |issue=9838 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{ship||Diana|1840 ship|2}}
|flag={{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}
|desc=The whaler was driven ashore and wrecked at Donna Nook. Her 26 crew were rescued by the lifeboat North Briton (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Emma
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, United Kingdom and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure to West Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=22 October 1869 |page=10 |issue=26575 |column=B }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Enchantress
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Holkham, Norfolk with the loss of all hands.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Envoy
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Saltfleet, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Euphemia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Le Tréport, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Eu, Seine-Inférieure.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Exampler
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from South Shields to Waterford. She was refloated and taken in to King's Lynn, Norfolk.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=26 October 1869 |issue=9302 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=George
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by the fishing yawl Princess Royal ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=22 October 1869 |issue=9838 }} George was on a voyage from Sunderland to the River Tyne. She was subsequently towed in to Grimsby the next day.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=23 October 1869 |issue=14110 |page=7 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Glaslyn
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was sighted off Bridlington, Yorkshire whilst on a voyage from "Champs", France to Leith, Lothian. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 January 1870 |issue=14174 |page=7 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Harlequin
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack collided with a steamship and was driven ashore at Grimsby with the loss of two of her crew. She subsequently became a wreck.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Jane Gray
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore {{convert|1|nmi|km}} east of Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=21 October 1869 |page=9 |issue=26574 |column=B }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Johanne Elizabeth
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Thisted, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Saint Petersburg, Russia.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=John
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Donna Nook. She was on a voyage from Exeter, Devon to Hartlepool, County Durham.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Mina
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship departed from Kronstadt for Helsingør, Denmark. Although subsequently sighted off Hogland having developed a list, she never arrived at her destination. Presumed foundered in the Baltic Sea with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=17 February 1870 |page=7 |issue=26676 |column=E }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Paix
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The lugger was driven ashore and wrecked at East Newton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Palladium
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by the Gorleston Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from South Shields to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. She was subsequently taken in to Lowestoft.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Paul Vietschow
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Grimsby. She was on a voyage from Rostock to Leith. She had sunk by 31 October.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=2 November 1869 |issue=7334 }} Paul Vietschow was refloated on 24 November and taken in to Grimsby.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=25 November 1869 |issue=7355 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Pearl
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Tetney Haven, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Salcombe, Devon to Hull.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Princess
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was abandoned in the North Sea off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Ravensworth
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Blakeney, Norfolk. Her six crew were rescued by the Blakeney Lifeboat Brightwell (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Ravensworth was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Hartlepool, County Durham, or from Hartlepool to Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Stella
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Happisburgh, Norfolk. her crew were rescued by the coastguard using rocket apparatus.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Svea
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Lemvig, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=21 October 1869 |issue=9837 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Sydney Jones
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Düne, Heligoland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Portmadoc, Caernarfonshire to Brake, Prussia.{{Cite news |title=The Gales |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=21 October 1869 |issue=9837 }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Vedra
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig ran aground and sank in the North Sea off Bawdsey, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Ludworth ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Vedra was on a voyage from Kronstadt to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=22 October 1869 |page=10 |issue=26575 |column=B }} She was later refloated but broke up.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Wingate Grange
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Salthouse, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=21 October 1869 |page=9 |issue=26574 |column=B }}
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner was driver ashore at Donna Nook with the loss of all hands, seven or eight lives.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Unnamed
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The koff was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by a British fishing cutter.
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}
21 October
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Æolus
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner struck a sunken wreck. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. She put in to Helsingør, Denmark in a leaky condition.
}}
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|ship=Anne Marie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Thisted, Denmark.
}}
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|ship=Bertha
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Naissaar, Russia. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Arbroath, Forfarshire. She had been refloated by 22 October.
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|ship=Clio
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Dagerort, Russia.
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|ship=Conrad
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was lost at Busum, Prussia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 October 1869 |issue=6784 }}
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|ship=Defendant
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Bowdon". She was on a voyage from London to Sunderland, County Durham.
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|ship=Erma
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk and sank. She was on a voyage from Benin City, Africa to West Hartlepool, County Durham.
}}
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|ship={{HMS|Forte|1858|6}}
|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}
|desc=The {{sclass|Imperieuse|frigate}} ran aground at Cape Guardafui, Majerteen Sultanate whist in pursuit of Arab dhows and was severely damaged.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=India |date=1 November 1869 |page=5 |issue=26583 |column=B }}
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|ship=Genova
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at "Cape Willano". She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Gibraltar.
}}
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|ship=Johannes
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on Skagen, Denmark and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ängelholm to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Josephine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Trieste.
}}
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|ship=Peep o{{'}} Day
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sprang a leak and foundered off Villareal, Spain. Her crew survived. she was on a voyage from Villareal to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=10 November 1869 |issue=7341 }}
}}
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|ship=Queen
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Dutch coast.
}}
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|ship=Severn
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Gibraltar for Genoa, Italy. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=28 January 1870 |issue=6868 }}
}}
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22 October
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|ship=Clifton
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground near Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Helsinki. She was refloated and taken in to Helsinki for repairs.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=30 October 1869 |issue=7332 }}
}}
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|ship=Faith
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Hurst Castle, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Poole, Dorset.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=25 October 1869 |issue=14111 |page=7 }} She was refloated the next day with the assistance of a tug.
}}
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|ship=Gustav Wallensius
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Northern Triangles Reef. She was on a voyage from Belize City, British Honduras to Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 December 1869 |issue=6822 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 December 1869 |issue=14147 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship={{PS|Ludwig Gadd|1869|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The paddle steamer departed from Malta for Taganrog, Russia. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=8 February 1870 |issue=33 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/L-Ships/ludwiggadd1869.html |title=Ludwig Gadd |publisher=Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust |accessdate=1 December 2020}})
}}
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|ship=Miss Victoria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner foundered in the Victoria Channel. Her crew got aboard the Formby Lightship (22px Trinity House).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=25 October 1869 |issue=6786 }}
}}
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|ship=Neptune
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was wrecked on Bornholm, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland to Ipswich, Suffolk.
}}
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|ship=Resolution
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Littlehampton, Sussex, United Kingdom. She was taken in to the Nieuw Diep in a derelict condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=25 October 1869 |issue=6786 }}
}}
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23 October
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|ship=Andalusia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship caught fire at Leith, Lothian and was scuttled.
}}
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|ship=Cas
|flag={{flag|Ottoman Empire|red}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the Dutch coast.
}}
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|ship=Columbine
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The derelict ship came ashore in a capsized condition at Bridlington, Yorkshire with a dead crewman on board. She was presumed to have capsized in the recent gale with the loss of all hands. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Bridlington.
}}
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|ship=Emerald
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was beached off Herne Bay, Kent. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Poole, Dorset. She was later refloated and taken in to Faversham, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=27 October 1869 |issue=7329 }}
}}
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|ship=Juno
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned at Lemvig, Denmark.
}}
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|ship=Leon Crespo
|flag={{flagcountry|Empire of Brazil}}
|desc=The ship put in to Rio de Janeiro on fire. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Cobija.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=16 November 1869 |issue=7346 }}
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|ship=Mystery
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The pilot cutter collided with the tug Ely ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued.
}}
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|ship=Rosebud
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Kyrkesund, Sweden with the loss of three of her four crew. She was on a voyage from Tayport, Fife to Königsberg, Prussia.{{Cite news |title=Latest News |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=26 October 1869 |issue=5065 }}{{Cite news |title=Wreck and Loss of Three Lives |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=5 November 1869 |issue=2144 |page=4 |volume=36 }}
}}
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|ship=Saxon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck the pier at Ramsgate, Kent, pushing her anchor through her bows. She was on a voyage from Härnösand, Sweden to Penzance, Cornwall. She was taken in to Ramsgate in a leaky condition.
}}
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|ship=Syringa
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was beached on Banen Island in a sinking condition. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, to Yokohama, Japan. She was refloated with assistance from a steamship and taken in to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 October 1869 |issue=6781 }}
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|ship=Twee Gebruder
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The smack was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by a smack. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom to Helsingborg, Sweden. She was taken in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom in a derelict condition.
}}
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24 October
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|ship=Echo
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was sighted off Skagen, Denmark whilst on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all eighteen crew.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=5 November 1869 |issue=4063 }}
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|ship=Emma
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire for Riga, Russia. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
}}
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|ship=Ossian
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship collided with the steamship Clairmont ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank with the loss of eleven of the 29 people on board. Ossian was on a voyage from Copenhagen, Denmark to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.{{Cite news |title=Denmark |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=26 October 1869 |issue=2135 |page=3 |volume=36 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=26 October 1869 |issue=2135 |page=3 |volume=36 }}{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=5 November 1869 |issue=10167 }}
}}
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|ship=Wim Griffiths
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The sloop was driven ashore at Eyemouth, Berwickshire. She was on a voyage from Eyemouth to Newton.
}}
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner sank on the Zebra Flats, in Liverpool Bay.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=26 October 1869 |issue=6787 }}
}}
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25 October
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|ship=Alexander
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The brig ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Norway to Brest, Finistère.
}}
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|ship=Andronica
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship sank near Tulcea, Ottoman Empire.
}}
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|ship=Anna
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was lost at Ciboure, Basses-Pyrénées.
}}
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|ship=Champion
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Lymington, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from A Coruña, Spain to Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was refloated.
}}
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|ship=Crawshaw Bailey
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship departed from Batavia, Netherlands East Indies for San Francisco, California. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=27 May 1870 |issue=14295 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Engelina
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea.
}}
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|ship=Fortune
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was lost at Ciboure.
}}
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|ship=Indefatigable
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Arendal to Dunkirk, Nord, France.
}}
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|ship=Industrie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered off Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Genoa, Italy.
}}
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|ship=Jessie Greig
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Presumed foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands; wreckage from the ship washed up on the Dutch coast.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=9 June 1870 |page=7 |issue=26772 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Supposed Loss of Two Dundee Vessels and their Crews |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=21 February 1870 |issue=5166 }}
}}
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|ship=Pauline and Julie
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship sank at Bayonne, Basses-Pyrénées.
}}
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|ship=Rose
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Odesa, Russia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=26 October 1869 |issue=6787 }}
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|ship=Strathspey
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered. She was on a voyage from San Francisco, California, United States to Queenstown, County Cork.
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|ship=Supply
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned off Thurso, Caithness. Her seven crew were rescued by the Thurso Lifeboat Polly (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Supply was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Barcelona, Spain.{{Cite news |title=Lifeboat Services |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=1 November 1869 |issue=7333 }}
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|ship=Vernon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Hantoon, County Wexford. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Hantoon. She was refloated.
}}
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven against the quayside at Oran, Algeria and was wrecked.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=13 November 1869 |issue=14128 |page=7 }}
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26 October
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|ship=Active
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Lemvig, Denmark.
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|ship=Christine
|desc=The ship was taken in to Cuxhaven in a derelict condition. She was on a voyage from Vindava, Courland Governorate to Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom. She was subsequently condemned.
}}
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|ship=David
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack foundered off Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. Her three crew were rescued by the Fishguard Lifeboat Sir Edward Perrott (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).
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|ship=Eden
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner put in to Troon, Ayrshire on fire. She capsized and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Larne, County Antrim to the Clyde.
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|ship=Ellen
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Scarborough, Yorkshire. Her six crew were rescued by rocket apparatus.
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|ship=Hecla, or
Heckler
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ketch ran aground and sank off Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued by the Fraserburgh Lifeboat Havelock (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). The ketch was on a voyage from Lossiemouth, Moray to Fraserburgh. She was on a voyage from Hopeman, Moray to Fraserburgh.
}}
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|ship={{SS|Horsa|1868|2}}
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The steamship foundered in the North Sea off Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage Aarhus to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Lector Voss
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ljusne to Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=30 October 1869 |page=11 |issue=26582 |column=F }}
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|ship=Newnham
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of both crew. She was on a voyage from Padstow, Cornwall to St Catherine's Island, Pembrokeshire.{{Cite news |title=Foundering of the Newnham. Loss of Two Lives |newspaper=Western Mail |location=Cardiff |date=6 November 1869 |issue=163 }}
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|ship=Pride of the Arun
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned off Cádiz, Spain. Her crew were rescued by an Ottoman steamship. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Alexandria, Egypt.
}}
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|ship=St. Tudwall
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Bodfean, Caernarfonshire.{{Cite news |title=Another Heavy Gale. Wrecks and Great Loss of Life |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=29 October 1869 |issue=9844 }}
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|ship=Two Sisters
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was abandoned off Fishguard. Her three crew were rescued by the Fishguard Lifeboat Sir Edward Perrott (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She sank the next day.
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|ship=Victory
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Larne, County Antrim. She was on a voyage from Caernarfon to Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
}}
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner foundered off Fishguard. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=29 October 1869 |issue=1471 }}
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship foundered in the North Sea {{convert|5|nmi|km}} off Cromer, Norfolk.
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27 October
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|ship=Bartolomeo Cerruti
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. Her nineteen crew were rescued by the Donna Nook Lifeboat North Briton (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Hull to South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Wreck on the Lincolnshire Coast |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=30 October 1869 |issue=7332 }}{{Cite news |title=Royal National Life-boat Institution |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=5 November 1869 |issue=29925 |page=2 }}
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|ship=Bonnie Lass
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all six crew.{{Cite news |title=The Weather |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Colchester |date=29 October 1869 |issue=2028 |volume=39 }}
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|ship=Breadalbane
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.
}}
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|ship=Charlotte
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near "Skarloi". She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Leith, Lothian.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 November 1869 |issue=14119 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Criterion
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was refloated.
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|ship=Diana
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore near Ayr. She was on a voyage from Londonderry to Troon, Ayrshire.
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|ship=Echo
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all six crew.
}}
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|ship=Elizabeth
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner foundered off Rhyl, Denbighshire with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=General News |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=29 October 1869 |issue=2138 |page=4 |volume=36 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=29 October 1869 |issue=6790 }}
}}
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|ship=Emilie
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The barque ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from London to Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated with assistance from the tug Aid ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and towed in to Ramsgate, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Heavy Gale |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=29 October 1869 |issue=14115 |page=6 }}
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|ship=Gipsey Queen
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship foundered in the North Sea off Heligoland. Her nine crew were rescued by a Dutch pilot cutter. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Hamburg.
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|ship=Helen
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Scarborough, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Alloa, Clackmannanshire to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.
}}
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|ship={{HMS|Heron|1860|6}}
|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}
|desc=The {{sclass|Albacore|gunboat|||1855}} collided with another vessel in the North Sea and was severely damaged. She put in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.{{Cite news |title=The Weather. - Great Loss of Life on the Eastern Coast |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=29 October 1869 |issue=14115 |page=6 }}
}}
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|ship=Ida
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Cow Bay.
}}
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|ship=Johannes
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Rosneath, Argyllshire. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Montevideo, Uruguay.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=28 October 1869 |issue= 9304 }}
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|ship=Louisa
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Cow Bay.
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|ship=Malcolm
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Lowestoft. She was on a voyage from Riga to London, She was refloated and anchored off Corton, Suffolk in a waterlogged condition before being taken in to Great Yarmouth.
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|ship=Marie Celestine
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from La Nouvelle to Goole, Yorkshire.
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|ship=Mary
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was reported to have been abandoned in the North Sea. She was subsequently driven ashore and wrecked near Gravelines, Nord, France with the loss of three of her six crew. Survivors were rescued by the Gravelines Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Dunkirk, Nord.
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|ship=Mercurius
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig sprang a leak and was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the barque Antoinette ({{flag|France}}). Mercurius was on a voyage from Kragerø to Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=3 November 1869 |issue=7335 }}
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|ship=Napier
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Cow Bay.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=17 November 1869 |issue=14131 |page=3 }} She was refloated in June 1870 and taken in to North Sydney, Nova Scotia.
}}
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|ship=Palmyra
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned {{convert|80|nmi|km}} west by south of "Holman". Her crew were rescued by the steamship Joseph Somes ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Palmyra was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to West Hartlepool, County Durham. She drove ashore at Ringkøbing, Denmark on 5 November.
}}
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|ship=Regalia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea off Heligoland. Her eight crew were rescued by a Dutch pilot cutter.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Shipwreck in the Late Gale |date=2 November 1869 |page=7 |issue=26584 |column=B }} She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Hamburg.
}}
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|ship={{SS|Rhone|1856|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Europa Point, Gibraltar.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Casualties |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=1 November 1869 |issue=54548 }} She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Genoa, Italy{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=1 November 1869 |issue=7333 }} She had been refloated by 1 November with assistance from {{HMS|Redpole|1855|6}} ({{navy|United Kingdom}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Casualties |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=8 November 1869 |issue=54553 }}
}}
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|ship=Statina
|flag={{flag|Belgium}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Westkapelle, West Flanders.
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|ship=Stonewall
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The steamboat was destroyed by fire at Neely's Landing, Missouri with the loss of 220 of the 258 people on board. She was on a voyage from Saint Louis, Missouri to New Orleans, Louisiana.{{cite web |last1=Bender |first1=Steven |title=Tragedy at Neely's Landing: The Burning of the Steamer Stonewall |url=http://www.semopress.com/tragedy-at-neelys-landing-the-burning-of-the-steamer-stonewall/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917030028/http://www.semopress.com/tragedy-at-neelys-landing-the-burning-of-the-steamer-stonewall/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=17 September 2016 |website=Southeast Missouri State University Press |access-date=19 January 2022}}
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|ship=Test
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship collided with Letitia ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered off the coast of Suffolk with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Southampton, Hampshire to Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.
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|ship=Triton
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Cow Bay.
}}
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|ship=Truro
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Cow Bay.
}}
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|ship=Vixen
|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Cow Bay/>
}}
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|ship=Zephyr
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned off Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued by a pilot boat.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 October 1869 |issue=14116 |page=7 }}
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack was driven ashore and wrecked near Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.{{Cite news |title=Severe Weather in Scotland |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=29 October 1869 |issue=7331}}
}}
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|ship=Two unnamed vessels
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smacks foundered in the North Sea, each with the loss of all six crew.
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28 October
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|ship=Aspern
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Barrows Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued by a smack. She was refloated with the assistance of two smacks and taken in to Harwich, Essex in a leaky condition.
}}
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|ship=Ayn
|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She was refloated with the assistance of two tugs and towed in to Grimsby.
}}
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|ship=Cambridge
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|60|nmi|km}} off Cape Race, Newfoundland Colony. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Dyalytria ({{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada and the barque Post ({{flag|Norway|1844}}). The derelict Cambridge was towed in to Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada on 13 November.
}}
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|ship=Durley
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was damaged by an onboard explosion and subsequent fire off Portland, Dorset. Six of her crew were injured. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Portland.
}}
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|ship=Gibraltar
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground in the River Thames at East Greenwich, Kent. She was on a voyage from Cádiz, Spain, to London. She was refloated and completed her voyage.
}}
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|ship=Giuseppina
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Cowden, Yorkshire with the loss of three of her ten crew. Survivors were rescued by a fishing boat. She was on a voyage from Naples to Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Hope
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Liverpool, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dundalk, County Louth to Troon, Ayrshire.
}}
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|ship=Janet Forbes
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Low Point, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was on a voyage from London to Pictou, Nova Scotia. She was consequently condemned. She was refloated in June 1870 and taken in to North Sydney, Nova Scotia.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 June 1870 |issue=14324 |page=7 }}
}}
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|ship=King John
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near "Singo". She was on a voyage from Umeå, Sweden to an English port. She was refloated on 1 December and taken in to Stockholm, Sweden.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 December 1869 |issue=7366 }}
}}
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|ship=Makrell
|flag={{flag|Bremen}}
|desc=The fishing cutter was abandoned off Borkum, Prussia. Her four crew were rescued by the barque Penelope ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=13 May 1870 |issue=113 }}
}}
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|ship=Napoleon
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship collided with Highlander ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned in the North Sea. Napoleon was on a voyage from Caernarfon to Hull.
}}
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|ship=Queen Victoria
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was run ashore at Bridlington. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to Hartlepool, County Durham. She was refloated on 3 November and taken in to Bridlington.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=5 November 1869 |issue=7337 }}
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|ship=Thomas
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Larne, County Antrim. She was on a voyage from Belfast to Larne.
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|ship=Victor
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The brig ran aground on the Smithy Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire. Her crew got on board the Humber Lightship (22px Trinity House), from where they were rescued by Sea Nymph ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=1 November 1869 |page=11 |issue=26583 |column=F }}
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|ship=William
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Rhyl, Denbighshire.
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|ship=William Frothingham
|flag={{flag|United States|civil}}
|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground in the North Sea off Cromer, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from a Baltic port to South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom and New York. She was refloated with assistance from the Cromer Lifeboat Benjamin Bond Cabbell (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
}}
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29 October
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|ship=Arvid
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom to a Swedish port.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 November 1869 |issue=7340 }}
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|ship=Constitution
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Eliza
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the Baltic Sea off the "Bruster Ort". Her crew were rescued by a Prussian vessel. She was on a voyage from Pillau, Prussia to Exeter, Devon.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=9 November 1869 |issue=6799 }}
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|ship=Emilie
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore on Amager, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Stettin to Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Excellent
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|5|nmi|km}} off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Teignmouth, Devon.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 October 1869 |issue=6791 }}
}}
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|ship=Fair Maid
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Filey, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire to Aberdeen.
}}
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|ship=Ravensbury
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground at Brielle, South Holland, Netherlands. She had been refloated by 1 November.
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|ship=Thilda
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Joseph Hayden ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).
}}
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|ship=Triover
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Söderhamn to Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom.
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|ship=Unnamed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Donna Nook.
}}
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30 October
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|ship=Commerce
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea off Heligoland. Her crew were rescued the steamship by Alexis (Flag unknown). Commerce was on a voyage from Porsgrund, Norway to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=1 November 1869 |page=11 |issue=26583 |column=F }} She was towed in to Cuxhaven.
}}
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|ship=Elizabeth Reed
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner sank in the North Sea off Orfordness, Suffolk. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Charlestown, Cornwall to Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=2 November 1869 |page=10 |issue=26584 |column=E }}
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|ship=Ellen
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=2 November 1869 |page=10 |issue=26584 |column=E }} She was refloated the next day and towed in to Havre de Grâce.
}}
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|ship=Emilie
|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Hendrika ({{Flag|Netherlands}}). Emilie was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Lübeck.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Henry Tinnoth
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at Maassluis, South Holland, Netherlands.
}}
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|ship=Lightning
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The clipper was scuttled in Corio Bay off Geelong, Victoria, Australia, after a fire aboard her went out of control.
}}
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|ship=Lotus
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked near Gävle, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Gävle.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=5 November 1869 |issue=2144 |page=3 |volume=36 }}
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|ship=Tern, and
{{SS|William Connal|1862|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamshipTern collided with the steamship William Connal in the Clyde at Greenock, Renfrewshire and was consequently beached at Bowling, Dunbartonshire. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Glasgow, Renfrewshire. William Connal sank. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Glasgow to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Steamboat Collision |date=1 November 1869 |page=6 |issue=26583 |column=B }} She was refloated on 21 January 1870 and beached.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Steamship William Connal |date=24 January 1870 |page=10 |issue=26655 |column=A }}
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|ship=Zebiah
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Messina, Sicily. She was on a voyage from Naples to Taranto. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=13 November 1869 |issue=6803 }}
}}
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31 October
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|ship=Florence Lee
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship, which had sprung a leak on 18 October, foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Hannah Morris ({{flag|United States|1867}}). Florence Lee was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 November 1869 |issue=6801 }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of the Sarah Garcia (S.S.) and Florence Lee, of Glasgow |newspaper=Glasgow Herald|location=Glasgow |date=20 November 1869 |issue=9324 }}
}}
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|ship=Sweden
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The barque was taken in to Sheerness, Kent, United Kingdom in a waterlogged condition. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall to Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.
}}
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|ship=Pilgrim
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Solertia ({{flag|Norway|1844}}) and Tippoo Saib ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 November 1869 |issue=14132 |page=7 }}
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Unknown date
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|ship=Ada or
Adam
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was lost on the Dutch coast before 22 October. Her crew were rescued by British fishing boats.
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|ship=Æolus
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|100|nmi|km}} off Spurn Point, Yorkshire with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to West Hartlepool, County Durham.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Shipping Disasters |date=27 October 1869 |page=10 |issue=26579 |column=E }} She was towed in to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands in a waterlogged condition on 30 October by William Coulman ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).
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|ship=Amanda
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Eastern Coast |date=1 November 1869 |page=11 |issue=26583 |column=F }}
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|ship=Ansonia
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Brindisi. he was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Venice.
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|ship=Appolonia
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Bergkvara, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Piteå, Sweden to London. She was refloated on 30 October and taken in to Kalmar, Sweden for repairs.
}}
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|ship=Ariel
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Öland. She was reported to be on a voyage from Lisbon, Portugal to Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated and taken in to Kalmar, Sweden.
}}
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|ship=Astrea
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was abandoned off North Berwick, Lothian, United Kingdom. Her six crew were rescued by the North Berwick Lifeboat Caroline (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).
}}
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|ship=Aurora
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.
}}
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|ship=Beloochee
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was wrecked at Cape Ray, Newfoundland Colony. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Appoline ({{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada). Beloochee was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Quebec City, Canada.{{Cite news |title=The Late Storm |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=21 October 1869 |issue=5061 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=21 October 1869 |issue=9298 }}{{Cite news |title=Reuter's Telegrams |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=2 November 1869 |issue=1474}}
}}
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|ship=Bonnie Lass
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.
}}
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|ship=Calabar
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground in the Sherbro River before 23 October. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to the Sherbor River. She was refloated a week later with assistance from {{RMS|Macgregor Laird|1862|6}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 November 1869 |issue=6808 }}
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|ship=Catherina Margaretha
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the north coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada after 23 October. She was on a voyage from Richibucto, New Brunswick, Canada to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=4 December 1869 |page=11 |issue=26612 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=4 December 1869 |issue=7362 }}
}}
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|ship=Charlotte
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Berguara", or on Öland. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Saint Petersburg, Russia.
}}
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|ship=Chieftain
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Skagen, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Uddevalla, Sweden.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Pall Mall Gazette |location=London |date=12 October 1869 |issue=1456 }} She was refloated on 12 October and towed in to Uddevalla.
}}
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|ship=Dreadnought
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was lost off "Point Penas", California. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to San Francisco, California.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 October 1869 |issue=6774 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 October 1869 |issue=6774 }}
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|ship=Emily
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque foundered with the loss of all eleven people on board. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Hamburg.{{Cite news |title=Loss of South Shields Vessels |newspaper=Sheffield Independent |location=Sheffield |date=10 November 1869 |issue=5095 |page=3 |volume=50 }}
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|ship=Emmery
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Altaba".{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 October 1869 |issue=9295 }}
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|ship=Etha Rickmers
|flag={{flag|Bremen}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom with the loss of all 23 crew.{{cite book |title=Goodwin Sands Shipwrecks |page=119 |first=Richard |last=Larn |publisher=David and Charles |location=Newton Abbott |year=1977 |isbn=0-7153-7202-5}}
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|ship=Eugene
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack foundered with in the North Sea the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=12 November 1869 |issue=4064 }}
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|ship=Fanny
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The fishing schooner collided with a British ship and foundered in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of two of her crew.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=14 October 1869 |issue=7318 }}
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|ship=Fear Not
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner capsized in the North Sea off the Farne Islands, Northumberland on or before 12 October.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=14 October 1869 |page=9 |issue=26568 |column=F }}
}}
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|ship=Forfarshire
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Calcutta, India before 20 October.
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Garland
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Hecla
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Inagua, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from Saint Domingo to Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Disasters at Sea |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=23 October 1869 |issue=5063 }}
}}
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|ship=John Wesley
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack was reported missing in the North Sea with eleven crew on board.
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Juno
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea.
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Kingdom of Belgium
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Delaware Bay. She was on a voyage from Singapore, Straits Settlements to New York.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=2 November 1869 |issue=9308 }} She was later refloated and completed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 November 1869 |issue=6794 }}
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|ship=Lancashire
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at Pernambuco, Brazil before 13 October.
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{{shipwreck list item
|ship=Leal
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship foundered in the North Sea {{convert|65|nmi|km}} north of the mouth of the Humber between 11 and 17 October with the loss of all eighteen people on board. She was on a voyage from Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland to Hull.
}}
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|ship=Liva
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea off the Dutch coast.{{Cite news |title=General News |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=5 October 1869 |issue=2117 |page=4 |volume=36 }}
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|ship=Lizzie
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack collided with another vessel and foundered in the Dogger Bank before 23 October with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=3 December 1869 |issue=4067 }}
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|ship=Lord Raglan
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.
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|ship=Lucetta
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|48|20|N|18|14|W}}) before 14 October. Her crew were rescued by Aurora ({{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada. Lucetta was on a voyage from Liverpool to Montreal, Quebec, Canada.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=18 October 1869 |issue=7321 }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of a Liverpool Barque |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 October 1869 |issue=6782 }}
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|ship=Margaret
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near Ballyshannon, County Donegal with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Ballyshannon to a port in North America.
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|ship=Marguerite
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was taken into Bermuda in a derelict condition.
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|ship=Mary O{{'}}Brien
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The barque caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by George Annie ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Mary O{{'}}Brien was on a voyage from South Shields to Callao, Peru.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=19 November 1869 |issue=7349}}
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|ship=Mary Stamford
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=20 October 1869 |issue=7323 }}
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|ship=Mirella
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire in the Guañape Islands, Peru.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=13 January 1870 |issue=6855 }}
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|ship=Nellie Chapin
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the barque Prinz Albert (Flag unknown). Nellie Chapin was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom to Genoa, Italy.
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|ship={{SV|Nor'Wester||2}}
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The fishing schooner sailed from New York City for Para and vanished. Lost with all 5 hands.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/1870.htm |title=1870 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=6 July 2021}}
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|ship=Parejero
|flag={{flag|Argentina|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck a reef in the Gaspar Strait. She was on a voyage from Whampoa Dock, China to Buenos Aires. She put in to Singapore.
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|ship=Peruvian
|flag={{flag|United States|1867}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on "Vries Island", near Yokohama, Japan.
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|ship=Pia
|flag={{flag|Austria-Hungary|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the North Sea after 12 October. She was on a voyage from Falmouth to Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=23 December 1869 |issue=14162 }}
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|ship=Princess Royal
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The brig collided with a barque in the North Sea and was abandoned by her crew before 4 October. Her crew were rescued by a Norwegian brig. She was taken in to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom on 9 October by John and Alice Brown ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=13 October 1869 |page=9 |issue=26567 |column=C }}
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|ship=Prodomoe
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship sank at Kerch, Russia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 November 1869 |issue=6793 }}
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|ship=Prosperity
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing vessel foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all eleven crew.
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|ship=Pursuit
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.
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|ship=Rambler
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The fishing vessel foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all ten crew.
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|ship=Robert Lowe
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship ran aground at the mouth of the Mississippi River before 18 October. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to New Orleans, Louisiana.
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|ship=Royal Diadem
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.
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|ship=Seura
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged on Heligoland. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Pori, Grand Duchy of Finland.
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|ship=Sylph
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near "Hourdel".
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|ship=Syringa
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Bangka Island, Netherlands East Indies.
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|ship=Sytendi Mai
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Wijk aan Zee, North Holland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Tvestrand, Norway to an English port.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=9 November 1869 |page=10 |issue=26590 |column=D }}
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|ship=Therese
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was lost on the Dutch coast. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Pillau, Prussia.
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|ship=Thilda
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea before 29 October. Her crew were rescued by Joseph Haydn ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).
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|ship=Thomas Rusbridger
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship departed from East Wemyss, Fife for Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipwrecks and Loss of Life |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=5 November 1869 |issue=10167 }}
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|ship=Victoria
|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}
|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Dogger Bank before 20 October. She was on a voyage from Gävle to Boston, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.
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|ship=Vincentius von Paolo
|flag={{flag|Uruguay}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the French Reef. She was on a voyage from Pensacola, Florida, United States to Montevideo.
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|ship={{SS|Zoe|1868|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The steamship was wrecked in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia after 18 October. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Savannah, Georgia, United States to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=General News |newspaper=Bradford Observer |location=Bradford |date=3 November 1869 |issue=2142 |page=4 |volume=36 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 November 1869 |issue=6794 }} She was refloated in August 1870 and taken in to Sydney, Nova Scotia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=26 August 1870 |issue=9563 }}
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References
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=Bibliography=
- Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.
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