The screw steamer was wrecked at Egmont Key, Florida, and sank with the loss of all hands.
10 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Hannah Moore
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Rat Island, Devon, England, with the loss of nineteen of her 25 crew. She was on a voyage from Chile to Queenstown, County Cork.[1]
The passenger steamship sank in the Bay of Biscay. Of the 239 or 263 people on board (sources differ), only 19 survived.
14 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Ocean Bride
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Langton Matravers, Dorset, England.[2]
22 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Dinanais
France
Sailing from Dinan (Brittany), ran aground on the coast of St Ouen Jersey, Channel Islands [3]
February[]
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March[]
4 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Libelle
Bremen
The barque struck the reef at Wake Island and sunk. After three weeks, the crew and passengers departed the uninhabited and dry atoll in a longboat and a gig. The ship's buried and scattered treasure of mercury (quicksilver), coins and precious stones was recovered by various vessels over the next two years.[4]
20 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Eliza Jane
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the schoonerEquity (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland).[1]
23 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Elizabeth
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The smack sank at Cardigan, Wales. Her six crew were rescued by John Stuart (Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[5]
Vesta
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The brig foundered in Swansea Bay, Wales. Her seven crew were rescued by Martha and Anne (Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[1]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Queen
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The paddle steamer struck the Tings Rocks, in the Bristol Channel off Hartland Point, Devon, England, and was holed. She was beached at Clovelly, Devon, where she subsequently broke her back and was a total loss. All on board survived[1]
April[]
4 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Ebgante
UKGBI Canada
While en route to Liverpool from New York City with a cargo of oak, the vessel was abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean 100 miles west of the Isles of Scilly. The crew were picked up by the Ferdinand (Bremen) and later transferred to the pilot cutterAgnes (United Kingdom) and taken to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.[6]
12 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Gilmore
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The full-rigged ship was wrecked off St Martin's, Isles of Scilly. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Southampton, Hampshire to Quebec City, Canada.
25 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Cubana
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The Sunderland barque struck the Seven Stones reef while both her master and mate were asleep below. She was bound for St Jago, Cuba, with 16 crew, one passenger, and a cargo of coal, iron, and mining gear. Ten of the crew and the passenger took to one of the boats, rowed to the Sevenstones Lightship, and transferred to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, by pilot cutter.[6]
26 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Water Witch
United States
Overloaded with iron ore, the schooner sank in a storm on Lake Champlain. An infant on board was killed.
The submarine sank with the loss of her entire 11-man crew during a test run in the bay off Valparaiso, Chile.
Hornet
United States
The clipper ship burned at sea and sank in the Pacific Ocean during a voyage from New York City to San Francisco, California. The crew abandoned ship in three open lifeboats, two of which disappeared. Fourteen men survived for 43 days aboard the third boat before reaching Hawaii on 15 June 1866.
Illustration of the wreck of General Grant from Harper's Weekly, 16 May 1868.
The barque ran aground and sank off the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand. Sixty-eight of those aboard (55 passengers and 13 crew) were lost. Several attempts were made to salvage gold from the wreck.
June[]
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The paddle steamer was overwhelmed by large waves and sank bow first in the harbor at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, with the loss of 60 lives. Only one passenger survived.
14 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 July 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Netherby
United Kingdom
The full-rigged ship ran aground and sank off King Island in the Bass Strait. All 462 people on board survived both the sinking and being marooned on the island.
After several days under attack by Korean forces while stranded on Yanggak island in the Taedong River across from Pyongyang, Korea, the sidewheel paddle steamer was set ablaze by Korean fireboats. Those of her crew who survived to reach shore were massacred by the Koreans.[1]
10 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Chasseur
France
The brig was wrecked on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the tug Tweed (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland). Chasseur was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Barcelona, Spain.[1]
18 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Emilie
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The schooner sank in five minutes after hitting the Seven Stones reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall, England, in fog while bound from Poole for Runcorn, England. Her crew of five survived.[6]
October[]
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November[]
29 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1866
Ship
Country
Description
Adolphus
New South Wales
The brigantine was wrecked without loss of life on rocks west of Pier Head at the harbor at Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.[6]
December[]
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↑"Den Tod vor Augen: Die unglückliche Reise der Bremer Bark LIBELLE in den Jahren 1864 bis 1866", Bernd Drechsler, Thomas Begerow, Peter Michael Pawlik, Hauschild Verlag, Bremen, 2007
United States Navy
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
France
Bremen
Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[5]
UKGBI Canada
United States
Chilean Navy
New South Wales
Regia Marina
Imperial Austrian Navy) rammed her, dismasting her and setting her afire.
Brazilian Navy
France