List of shipwrecks in May 1871

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The list of shipwrecks in May 1871 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1871.

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Breeze  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Padstow, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Padstow to Plymouth, Devon.[1]
Ebenezer  United Kingdom The barque ran aground on the Cannon Rocks. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Dublin.[2]
Josephus Netherlands The steamship collided with the steamship Princess Royal ( United Kingdom) and sank at Antwerp, Belgium.[2]
Neptune  Germany The sloop foundered. Her crew were rescued by the barque Askur ( Norway). Neptune was on a voyage from Drammen to Kragerø, Norway.[3]
Octa  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked on Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Hamburg, Germany to London.[3]
Rover  United Kingdom The ship struck a sunken wreck. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to Dunkirk, Nord, France. Sh was assisted in to Harwich, Essex in a severely leaky condition.[1]
Unnamed Flag unknown The schooner ran aground on the Burbo Bank, in Liverpool Bay and sank. Her crew survived.[1]

2 May

List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Everhardus  United Kingdom The ship foundered 20 nautical miles (37 km) north of Montrose, Forfarshire. Her crew were rescued by the fishing boat St. Anna ( United Kingdom).[4][5]
Onward  United Kingdom The steamship sank off Domesnes, Russia. Her crew survived. she was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Riga, Russia.[3]

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Angelsea  United Kingdom The ship was holed by ice and sank. She was on a voyage from Greenock, Renfrewshire to Quebec City, Canada.[3]
Lucibelle  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Starbuck Island. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sydney, New South Wales to Starbuck Island.[6][7]
Mercury France The steamship ran aground in the Southwest Passage. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure.[8]
Rhein  Germany The steamship ran aground off "Tinsum". She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Bremen.[9]

4 May

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Charles Maureau France The ship was wrecked at Saint-Benoît, Réunion. Her crew were rescued.[10][11]
Inez United States The ship was wrecked on the "Isle de St. Carlos". She was on a voyage from Maracaibo, Venezuela to New York. The wreck was pillaged by the local inhabitants.[12]
Newcastle  United Kingdom The steamship collided with another vessel and sank. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to South Shields, County Durham. She was refloated on 6 May and taken in to South Shields.[13]
Surprise  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore near Crail, Fife. She was refloated and taken in to Crail in a severely damaged condition.[4][14][5]
Vale  United Kingdom The smack sank off the Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire. Her crew of three were rescued by the Isle of Whithorn Lifeboat Charlie Peek ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Vale was on a voyage from Port Dinorwic, Caernarfonshire to Irvine, Ayrshire.[4][14][5][15][16]

5 May

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Christian Denmark The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Copenhagen to Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom.[13][17]
Enfield  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on The Shingles, off the Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Eling, Hampshire to Swansea, Glamorgan.[4][9]
Mahmoudy  India The bugla foundered with the ultimate loss of 23 of the 45 people on board. Survivors were rescued by a steamship and a cotia. She was on a voyage from Mangalore to the Persian Gulf.[18]

6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Carrie United States The steamship was destroyed by fire south of Savannah, Georgia with the loss of two lives. She was on a voyage from Augusta, Jamaica to Savannah.[10]
David Burn  United Kingdom The steamship was run into by the steamship Earl Percy ( United Kingdom) and sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off South Shields, County Durham. All on board, more than 100 people, were rescued by Earl Percy.[19] David Burn broke in two on 10 June during efforts to raise her.[20]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The Thames barge collided with Cannon Street Railway Bridge, London and sank in the River Thames with the loss of one of her two crew.[17][21]

7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Curlew  United Kingdom The Mersey Flat sank at New Brighton, Cheshire.[13]
Gromhoi Flag unknown The ship ran aground. She was on a voyage from Cyprus to Saint Petersburg, Russia[17]
Prinz Adalbert  Germany The ship ran aground. She was on a voyage from Rhyl, Denbighshire, United Kingdom to Stettin. She was refloated.[13][17]
Tiber  United Kingdom The steamship was went ashore at Crosby, Lancashire in dense fog and broke in two.[13] She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Alexandria, Egypt.[17] The two parts were refloated in June 1871 and rebuilt as a barque.[22] She was again wrecked as Theodorus in May 1894.

8 May

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
City of Quebec  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked on "Dead Island", off Cape Ray, Newfoundland Colony with the loss of all seventeen crew. She was on a voyage from London to Quebec City, Canada.[23][24][25][26][27]
Margaret Trail  United Kingdom The ship ran aground at the mouth of the River Mersey. She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to the Orkney Islands. She was refloated and put back to Runcorn in a leaky condition.[13]
Nimrod  United Kingdom The sloop was wrecked on the Sow and Pig Rocks, on the coast of Northumberland. Both crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Kingston, Moray to Sunderland, County Durham.[28]

9 May

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Alert Norway The brig foundered in the Dogger Bank. Her crew were rescued by the smack Ann and Sarah ( United Kingdom). Alert was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom to Copenhagen, Denmark.[29][30][31][32]
Erminia  United Kingdom The yacht ran aground in the Loo Stream. She was being towed from Cowes, Isle of Wight to Brighton, Sussex. She was refloated the next day and beached at East Cowes, Isle of Wight.[33]
Pretty Jane  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground off Moeraki, New Zealand. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Otago, New Zealand. She was refloated and completed her voyage.[34][35]

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Aptrness  Greece The brig collided with the steamship Philade ( Russia) and sank 15 nautical miles (28 km) off the Yeni Kale Lighthouse, Russia with the loss of eight of her thirteen crew. Aptrness was on a voyage from Taganrog, Russia to a British port.[36]
Elizabeth  United Kingdom The brigantine collided with the barque Bertha ( Sweden) and sank off Morte Point, Devon. Her crew survived. Elizabeth was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to Newport, Monmouthshire.[37]
Isabella Atkinson  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on the Galloper Sand. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Alexandria, Egypt.[29][38][28]
Unnamed Flag unknown The ship ran aground on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wicklow, United Kingdom.[39]
Unnamed France The brigantine was driven ashore at Breaksea Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[37]

11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Fanny  United Kingdom The ship foundered off "Magercoil". Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Rangoon, Burma to Bombay, India.[40]
Fyenoord Netherlands The steamship was run into by C. M. Palmer ( United Kingdom) and was beached in the River Thames near the entrance to the West India Docks, London, United Kingdom. Fyenoord was on a voyage from London to Rotterdam, South Holland.[41]
Prince Adalbert  Germany The ship was driven ashore on the west coast of Denmark. She was on a voyage from Cyprus to Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was refloated and taken in to Fredrikshavn in a leaky condition.[23]
Sofia Norway The ship was driven ashore near Sundby. She was on a voyage from London to Holmsund.[42]

12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Agnes Campbell  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in the Sound of Mull. She was on a voyage from Thurso, Caithness to Paisley, Renfrewshire.[43]
Kedar  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at the entrance to the Sea of Marmara. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire.[44]
Weardale  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Jambe de Mouton, off Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure. She was refloated on 14 May and resumed her voyage.[45][46]

13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Ann  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and foundered off Barmouth, Merionethshire.[47] Her crew were rescued.[45]
Fleetwing United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Jersey The smack collided with the steamship Sun Foo ( United Kingdom) and sank in St Ives Bay with the loss of six lives. Fleetwing was on a voyage from Jersey to Runcorn, Cheshire.[10][48]
Mary Russell  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near "Hornbeck", Denmark. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Dundee, Forfarshire. She was refloated on 15 May and towed in to Helsingør, Denmark.[47][49]

14 May

List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Challenger  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean (48°00′N 15°30′W / 48.000°N 15.500°W / 48.000; -15.500). Her crew were rescued by Rapid ( United Kingdom). She was on a voyage from Malden Island to London.[50][51]
Star of the West  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked off Scatarie Island, Nova Scotia, Canada with the loss of her captain. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Quebec City, Canada.[52]

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Fauna  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Svenska Högarne, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from London to Sundsvall, Sweden. She was refloated and put in to Stockholm, Sweden in a leaky condition.[53]
Jinko Maru  Japan The disabled junk washed ashore on Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands with three survivors aboard. She had been adrift since November 1870, when a storm carried away her masts and rudder during a voyage along the coast of Japan from Ise to Kumano with a cargo of rice.[54]

16 May

List of shipwrecks: 16 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Gertruida Maira Netherlands The ship was wrecked on the coast of Patagonia, Argentina. She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina to the Falkland Islands.[55]
Karen Anne Sophie Denmark The ship was wrecked at Thyborøn. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom to the Sunnfjord.[10][11]
Mezerium  United Kingdom The brig departed from Valparaíso, Chile for the River Plate. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[56]
Sea Dog  United Kingdom The brig was sunk by ice. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cádiz, Spain to Saint John's, Newfoundland Colony.[8][57][58]
Sparkler  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked in the Sittaung River.[42] Her nineteen crew took to two boats. Six crew in the gig were reported missing.[59] She was on a voyage from Singapore, Straits Settlements to Moulmein, Burma.[27]

17 May

List of shipwrecks: May 1871
ShipStateDescription
No, 29  United Kingdom The pilot boat was driven ashore and wrecked at Curlew Point, Glamorgan.[8]

18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Alsace and Lorraine France The barque was wrecked on Bird's Spit, off the coast of Sierra Leone.[60] Her crew were rescued.[61] She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône to Bathurst, Gambia Colony and Protectorate.[44]
George Norway The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Langeoog, Germany.[46] Her crew were rescued.[62]
Lady Carleton  United Kingdom The steamship was destroyed by fire at Carleton.[36]
Royal Victoria  United Kingdom The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean (46°27′N 34°44′W / 46.450°N 34.733°W / 46.450; -34.733). Her crew were rescued by Wild Rose ( United Kingdom).[52][63] Royal Victoria was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Quebec City, Canada.[64]

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Idolique Canada Canada The ship sprang a leak and was beached at or near Livorno, Italy in a waterlogged condition. She was on a voyage from Livorno to Baltimore, Maryland, United States.[65][11]
Willem III Netherlands
Willem III
The passenger ship caught fire off the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. All on board, 220 passengers and her crew, about 350 people in total, were rescued by the steamship Scorpio and a number of fishing boats (all  United Kingdom). Willem III was on her maiden voyage, from Rotterdam, South Holland to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies. She was towed to Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom, where she was beached and scuttled.[8][57][66][48] Subsequently sold, repaired and returned to service.

20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Edith Owen  United Kingdom The steamship collided with the steamship Florence ( United Kingdom) in the River Thames and was beached at Gravesend, Kent. Edith Owen was on a voyage from London to Liverpool, Lancashire.[10]
Northumberland  United Kingdom The ship sank off Hanko, Grand Duchy of Finland. Her crew were rescued.[11][48]
T. S. Webb  United Kingdom The steamship collided with the steamship Paraguay and sank in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent.[10]
Ynez  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked at Maracaibo, Venezuela. Her seven crew were rescued by the schooner Columbian ( United Kingdom). Ynez was on a voyage from Maracaibo to New York.[67]

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Esther Eitzen Flag unknown The ship ran aground at Kalk Bay, Cape Colony. She was refloated.[68]
Friendship  United Kingdom The brig was sunk by ice off Kalana, Russia. Her crew were rescued by the pilot cutter Sandhavn ( Sweden). Friendship was on a voyage from Whitby, Yorkshire to Kronstadt, Russia.[10][48]
Mermaid  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on the Maplin Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was refloated with assistance from a tug and taken in to the River Thames.[10]
St. Nicolai  Russia The ship sank at Taganrog.[69]

22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Secret  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Amrum, Germany.[48][70]
Useful  United Kingdom The brig was run aground off Saltholm, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Memel, Germany to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.[44]

23 May

List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Dankbarkeit Flag unknown The ship sank off Osmussaar, Russia. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Reval, Russia.[65][71]
Gustave Pastor Netherlands The steamship was driven ashore at Dungeness, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France.[65]
Malaga  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground near the lightship Eendrag ( Belgium). She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Antwerp, Belgium.[65]
Minnie  United Kingdom The ship collided with Elizabeth A. Oliver ( United States) and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the Isles of Scilly. Her crew were rescued by Ida ( United Kingdom). Minnie was on a voyage from London to Boston, Massachusetts, United States.[36][72][73]
Saxon  United Kingdom The ship was destroyed by fire in the Bay of Luce.[65][71]
White Jacket  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Rodrigues. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bombay, India to Hull, Yorkshire.[74]

24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Ann Bradshaw  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Ballywalter, County Down. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Belfast, County Antrim. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Belfast.[36]
Foam  New Zealand The 40-ton ketch was driven onto Farewell Spit, New Zealand, in a sou'westerly gale and was wrecked.[75]
Minerva  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. She was on a voyage from Dunkirk, Nord, France to Glasgow, Renfrewshire. She was refloated on 7 June and towed in to Portpatrick.[76][72]
Probus  Germany The schooner sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her six crew took to a boat; they were rescued by the brig Julie ( United States). Probus was on a voyage from Puerto Rico to Falmouth, Cornwall or Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom.[34][77]
St. Nicolai  Russia The ship sank at Taganrog.[76]
Unnamed Flag unknown The brig was struck by lightning and foundered off Gonaïves, Haiti.[78]

25 May

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Alix  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the English Bank, in the River Plate. SHe was on a voyage from Montevideo, Uruguay to the Rio Grande. She was refloated and put back to Montevideo.[79]
Isabella  United Kingdom The barque was sunk by ice off the Packerort Lighthouse, Russia. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Kronstadt, Russia.[36]
Isabella  United Kingdom The ship was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean, according to a message in a bottle that was discovered on Cape Clear Island, County Cork on 9 September. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.[80]

26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Auckland New Zealand The steamship was wrecked at the mouth of the Snowy River, Victoria.[81] She was on a voyage from Melbourne, Victoria to Sydney, New South Wales.[82]
Fides Austria-Hungary The ship was driven ashore 6 nautical miles (11 km) west of Marbella, Spain. She was on a voyage from Sulina, Ottoman Empire to Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[51][63][83]

27 May

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Aunt Sally  United Kingdom The brigantine ran aground on the Whitby Rocks. She was on a voyage from Ramsgate, Kent to Sunderland, County Durham.[60] She was later refloated and put back to Ramsgate.[61]
Gambia  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked in Algoa Bay.[84]
Gannet  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall.[85] All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Antwerp, Belgium.[50] She broke in three in mid-June.[85]
Norseman  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked at Algoa Bay.[86]
Souvenance France The full-rigged ship was wrecked near Bredasdorp, Cape Colony with the loss of more than 450 coolies. She was on a voyage from the Antilles to Pondicherry, India.[87][88][89]
Suomi Flag unknown The ship was driven ashore at Holmpton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Hull, Yorkshire. She had become a wreck by 8 June.[90]
Tairoa  New Zealand The 51-ton paddle steamer became unresponsive while crossing the bar at Port Molyneux, at the mouth of the Clutha River and became a total loss.[75]
Two unnamed vessels  Russia The barques sank at Arkhangelsk.[91]

28 May

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Julia  New Zealand The 15-ton schooner was wrecked at Takatu Point in the Hauraki Gulf with the loss of one life.[75]
Scotia  United Kingdom The ship ran aground at Cartagena, Spain. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Cartagena. She was refloated.[60]
Souákin Ottoman Empire Egypt The steamship was run down and sunk in the Strait of Gubal by the steamship Africa ( United Kingdom). All on board, more than 90 people, were rescued by Africa and another steamship.[90][92]
Triumph  United Kingdom The dandy rigged fishing smack was wrecked on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Her crew took to a boat; they were rescued by a brig.[93] She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to London.[94]

30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1871
ShipStateDescription
Starling  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on Skallingen, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Königsberg, Germany.[76]

31 May

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