List of shipwrecks in 1871

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

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1871
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

January

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Theodore Engels	Belgium	Driven ashore at Maurities during a gale, later refloated and returned to service.[1]

25 January

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Brig Sarah	United Kingdom	Wrecked off Margate, Kent in a storm.[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Glide	United States	Destroyed by a boiler explosion.

February

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1871

Ship	Country	Description
RNLB Robert Whitworth and 28 other ships	RNLI  United Kingdom	28 ships were wrecked in Bridlington Bay, Yorkshire during the Great Gale of 1871. Over 50 sailors were drowned in the calamity, despite rescue efforts by the townspeople. The local lifeboat, RNLB Robert Whitworth, was also lost with 6 of her 9 crew.[3]

March

9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Daring	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Pwlldu Bay, Glamorgan with the loss of all six crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea to Cardiff.[4]

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Collingwood	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme Regis, Dorset.[5]

April

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Cornish Diamond	United Kingdom	The schooner was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of two of her crew.[4]

June

13 June

List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Megaera	Royal Navy	Sprang a leak on a voyage from South Africa to Australia. Beached at Île Saint-Paul, French Southern and Antarctic Lands on 17 June and declared a total loss.

22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1871

Ship	Country	Description
		The ship-rigged Knight Errant was lost off Tierra del Fuego; after rescuing her crew the ship Sam Cearns was also wrecked.

September

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1871

Ship	Country	Description

November

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Robert Cottle	United Kingdom	The schooner ran aground off Southwold, Suffolk and was wrecked with the loss of three of her six crew.[6]

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Emperor	United Kingdom	The barque was wrecked upon St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia.

December

7 December

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1871

Ship	Country	Description
Friends	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore at Southwold, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to Southwold.[6]

References

1. "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
2. Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
3. Wilson, Mike (2002), The Great Gale of 1871, Harbour Heritage Museum
4. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
5. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
6. Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.

Ship events in 1871
Ship launches:	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876
Ship commissionings:	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876
Ship decommissionings:	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876
Shipwrecks:	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876