# List of shipwrecks in 1869

The list of shipwrecks in 1869 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1869.
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## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1869 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| A. S. Ruthven | United States | The screw steamer was lost during 1869. |
| Ann | United Kingdom | The ship was abandoned in the South Atlantic before 2 November. She was on a voyage from "Burbosand" to London. |
| Ann Corbett | Unknown | The schooner was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet. |
| Avonmore | United Kingdom | Anchored off Sharp's Nose in the parish of Morwenstow, Cornwall, England, where the captain ordered the three masts to be cut down. She drifted on to the rocks below Hawker's Hut, close to Higher Sharpnose Point. Seven out of twenty-two crew died. She was en route from Cardiff to Montevideo with coal. |
| Early Morn | United Kingdom | The ship departed from Dundee, Forfarshire for Singapore, Straits Settlements. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. |
| Elizabeth | Newfoundland Colony | The sealer was sunk by ice off the coast of Labrador. |
| Emerald | Newfoundland Colony | The sealer was sunk by ice off the coast of Labrador. |
| Falstaff | France | The brig ran aground off the coast of Africa She was on a voyage from Old Calabar to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom. She was refloated a month later. |
| Glendower | United Kingdom | The ship foundered between 14 April and 17 June. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bassein, India to a British port. |
| Ines | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Carrizal Bajo, Chile. She was on a voyage from Carrizal Bajo to Swansea, Glamorgan. |
| Italian | United Kingdom | The cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked at Cape Finisterre, Spain. |
| Jabez Howes | United States | The sloop was lost sometime prior to 10 July 1869 in the waters of the Department of Alaska at a location identified as the "Black Fox Islands" – possibly a reference to the Fox Islands group in the eastern Aleutian Islands. |
| Miss Preston | United Kingdom | The barque was wrecked in the Sunda Strait between 17 February and 4 July. She was on her maiden voyage, from Sunderland, County Durham to Singapore. |
| M. M. Merriman | Unknown | The schooner was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet. |
| Packet | Newfoundland Colony | The sealer was wrecked at Twillingate. |
| Peruvia | United States | The ship was wrecked on "Vries Island", Japan. |
| Primrose Bank | Newfoundland Colony | The sealer was sunk by ice off the coast of Labrador. |
| Propontis | United Kingdom | The steamship was severely damaged by an onboard explosion in the Bay of Biscay between 29 July and 4 August. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. she put back to the River Mersey. |
| R. C. Waldron | Unknown | The schooner was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet. |
| Selah Hutton | Newfoundland Colony | The sealer, a brigantine, was wrecked on the coast of Labrador. |
| Volunteer | Newfoundland Colony | The sealer, a brig, was wrecked on the coast of Labrador. |