The ship ran aground on a reef off "Kera Island". She was on a voyage from "Zebu" to Sydney, New South Wales. She was refloated and put in to Coepang, Netherlands East Indies in a leaky condition. It was found that two holes had been bored in her bottom with an auger.[3]
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A message in a bottle washed up near Boscastle, Cornwall on 28 October. A message written in German claimed the ship had foundered with the loss of all 346 people on board.[4] LLoyd's stated that no such vessel was known to them, nor was any German emigrant ship missing.[5]
The fishing smack ran aground on the Noorden Haaks Bank, in the North Sea off the Dutch coast and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ramsgate, Kent to the Nieuw Diep.[7]
On Monday July 5th 1869, the ship Harmonia (a 43m, 643 tonne barque, built in 1847 and registered in Aberdeen) left Quebec with 15 crew and a cargo of timber, bound for Aberdeen.
Later that same day, some 200 miles off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, a strong wind & heavy seas caused the ship to spring a leak and break a mast. At 11:30pm on July 6th the ship “fell over on her beam-ends, the masts being underwater” and the cabin and everything on deck was washed overboard. Eight crew, (the Captain Peter Ross, the mate, carpenter, sailmaker and four hands) were drowned.
The seven remaining crew clung to the side of the boat until the masts gave way and the boat righted itself. They remained in the waterlogged and incapacitated ship until Thursday July 8th when they spotted the Renfrewshire out of Greenock approaching from the west and hoisted the house flag as a symbol of distress, They were rescued and taken back to Greenock, from where they returned to Aberdeen.
The derelict ship remained afloat and was spotted by the ship ‘Nova Scotian’, which was heading from Liverpool to Quebec, on the 6th September, some two months after its loss “with loss of foremast, jibboom and three topmastheads” approx. 200 miles NW of Carrickfinn and 230 miles SW of Barra, approx. 1,500 miles from where it had been abandoned.
On or around the 25th September 1869, the Harmonia wrecked on the west coast of Wiay off the coast of Skye. A Lloyd's of London report dated Saturday, October 2, 1869 stated:
“In the night of the 25th Sept., a large timber-laden ship came ashore on the island of Vinay [Wiay], off Loch Bracadale, on the West coast of this island, and is a total wreck: the cargo, which is strewed about the coast, consists of oak logs, deals and staves, the logs marked C & JS & Co., the planks TJ, and the staves L & E. The vessel appears to have been abandoned at sea some time ago, her decks being covered with slime: one of the winches is marked 'HARMONIA, of Aberdeen, No. 2'.”
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The brig collided with another vessel and was severely damaged at Archangelsk, Russia. She was on a voyage from Archangelsk to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire. She put back to Archangelsk for repairs.[25]
The steamship struck a sunken rock and sank 20 nautical miles (37 km) south of Cape Curvoeira, Portugal. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Genoa, Italy.[40][41][34]
The ship ran aground in the Jellingham Channel. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.[45]
The ship was sighted in the Atlantic Ocean whilst on a voyage from Accra, Gold Coast to London. Presumed subsequently foundered with the loss of all hands;[62] a chest belonging to her second mate washed ashore at Weymouth, Dorset in March 1870.[63]
The schooner was driven ashore on Scharhörn, Hamburg. She was on a voyage from an English port to Cuxhaven. She was refloated with assistance from the steamshipHercules and towed in to Cuxhaven.[58]
The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all but two of her crew, according to a message in a bottle which washed up at Westward Ho!, Devon on 9 August.[69]
The steamship ran aground on the Haaks Bank, in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. Her sixteen crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dantsic to Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.[67][59][70]Severn was refloated on 31 July, but then ran aground in the Nieuw Gat.[71]
The barque was wrecked at "Porth Trecastel", Anglesey with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Chile to Liverpool, Lancashire.[70] She was taken in to Holyhead, Anglesey on 15 August with the assistance of a tug.[72]
The 194-ton brig foundered in a gale southwest of West Cape, New Zealand, while en route to Timaru. All ten on board survived, travelling by longboat to Bluff.[74]
The ship was driven ashore on Fortun Island, Spanish East Indies before 18 July. She was on a voyage from Manila to Cebu. She was refloated and put back to Manila, where she was condemned.[78]
The ship caught fire and sank in the North Sea 180 nautical miles (330 km) north of Dunkerque, Nord, France before 29 July. All on board were rescued by Danzig (United Kingdom). Mabsden was on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia to Dunkerque.[42]
The ship ran aground in at "Bialasawick", in the Sea of Azov. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Taganrog, Russia. She was refloated and taken in to Taganrog, where she arrived on 19 July.[59]
