List of shipwrecks in July 1869

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'.” ^{[24] [25][26]}