The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Llanelli with the loss of all hands.[1]
Mary Fanny
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The ketch was driven ashore and damaged in Rhosilli Bay. She was later repaired and returned to service. Mary Fanny was shelled and sunk by a German Submarine on 15 September 1918.[1][2]
Onward
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Llanelli with the loss of all hands.[1]
The ship was wrecked at Bridport, Dorset, England.[3]
February[]
15 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1868
Ship
Country
Description
Abbey
New South Wales
The wooden brigantine was wrecked on the coast of New South Wales, Australia, three miles north of Crowdy Head, in a gale.
May[]
8 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1868
Ship
Country
Description
Gleaner
United States
The 135-ton Newport, Rhode Island,, brig was thought to have hit the Seven Stones reef and sank 30 miles (48 km) northwest by west of Land's End, Cornwall, England.[4]
20 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1868
Ship
Country
Description
Alicia
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The barque was wrecked at Kurrachee, India. Her crew were rescued.[5]
The wooden barque foundered in a storm and went ashore in Cook Inlet, Alaska.[6]
31 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1868
Ship
Country
Description
Curlew
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Carrying a cargo of lime she had taken on at the jetties of the Nessend Quarry to Castle Point tramway on Lindisfarne, the vessel was in the North Sea off the May Light on the coast of England when water came into contact with the cargo and the heat generated set fire to her. She sank, but her two-man crew was saved.[7]
While the sidewheelgunboat was in port at Arica (then part of Peru), an earthquake struck which generated several tsunamis that hit Wateree. The last tsunami broke Wateree's anchor chains and drove her ashore almost 500 yards (457 metres) inland from the normal high-water mark.[8]
While the storeship, a bark, was in port at Arica (then part of Peru), an earthquake struck which generated several tsunamis that hit Fredonia. The last tsunami broke Fredonia apart, killing 27 of her 32-man crew.[9]
The screw frigate was wrecked on a sandbar in the North Sea off Thyborøn, Jutland, Denmark, with the loss of five lives. Grand Duke Alexei, son of Tsar Alexander II, was on board and survived.
October[]
9 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1868
Ship
Country
Description
Mersey
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
En route from Sunderland, to Arbroath, Scotland, the schooner sprang a leak in the North Sea off Lindisfarne. Water came in contact with her cargo of quicklime, causing her to catch fire. She was beached, saving the crew, but the vessel was lost.[7]
The steam frigate was wrecked off Esashi, Hokkaido, Japan, during a storm.
29 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1868
Ship
Country
Description
Northerner
United States
The wreck of Northerner on 6 May 2010.
The schooner capsized and sank without loss of life in Lake Michigan five miles southeast of Port Washington, Wisconsin, while under tow by Cuyahoga (flag unknown). Her crew was rescued by Cuyahoga.
December[]
4 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1868
Ship
Country
Description
Andrew Jackson
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The clipper was wrecked on a reef in the Gaspar Strait in the Netherlands East Indies.
6 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1868
Ship
Country
Description
North Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The barque was driven ashore at Long Rock, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England.[10]
21 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1868
Ship
Country
Description
Kinloss
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The schooner was wrecked in the North Sea near Muchalls, Kincardineshire, Scotland, with the loss of one of her five crew.[11]
28 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1868
Ship
Country
Description
Leopard
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The ship was driven ashore at Westward Ho!, Devon. Her crew were rescued by Hope (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) with the loss of a crewman from the lifeboat. Leopard was on a voyage from the West Indies to Gloucester.[1]
The ship was wrecked in Bideford Bay with the loss of two of her fourteen crew. Survivors were rescued by Hope (Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Pace was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom to Fiume.[1]
↑ 7.07.1Jermy, Roger C. (1992). Lindisfarne's Limestone Past: Quarries, Tramways and Kilns. Morpeth: Northumberland County Library. ISBN 1 874020 04 3. Page 43.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
New South Wales
United States
United States
United States Navy
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Imperial Russian Navy
Republic of Ezo
Royal National Lifeboat Institution) with the loss of a crewman from the lifeboat. Leopard was on a voyage from the West Indies to Gloucester.[1]
Austrian Empire