List of shipwrecks in 1879
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The list of shipwrecks in 1879 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1879.
1879 | |||
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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
January
3 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nederland | ![]() |
Stranded off Cherry Island, Maryland. Later refloated and returned to service.[1] |
6 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gerhardine | ![]() |
The brigantine was abandoned by her crew approximately 30 miles south of St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. She was towed into St Mary's by Gladiator. The crew were landed at Le Havre on the 16 January.[2] |
7 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Speedy | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset.[3] |
8 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Riverside | ![]() |
The Belfast brigantine was abandoned in the Atlantic while carrying pitch pine from St. Marys, Georgia to Montevideo.[4] |
Sarah Ann | ![]() |
The barque foundered in Swansea Bay. Her crew were rescued by Wolverhampton (![]() |
9 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Le Mignon | ![]() |
The Dunkerque dandy went onshore on the Little Bezeath ridge of rocks at Marazion beach, Mount's Bay, Cornwall in a south-east gale. She was en route from Swansea to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme with coal. All the crew survived.[6][7] |
William and Mary | ![]() |
The Workington brig was driven on to rocks at Cloughey Bay, County Down. The fate of the crew is unknown.[8] |
11 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hellespont | ![]() |
The steamer, out of Swansea with coal, floundered in the Bay of Biscay during a gale. The first and second officers were swept off the ship and the rest of the crew were rescued by the Madonna and landed at Gibraltar.[9] |
12 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hugenot | ![]() |
While entering Carrick Roads without a pilot the guano carrying ship drifted in to the brigantine Cassandra and went ashore in St Mawes Creek. She was refloated with the help of two tugs. Cassandra lost her headgear and jibboom.[10] |
Luigiolivari | ![]() |
The barque, From Philadelphia, via Falmouth, Cornwall for Silloth, was lost on the Cumberland coast between Netherton and St Bees. A number of bodies have been found and it is thought that all fourteen on board are lost.[11][12] |
16 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Constitution | ![]() |
The American training-frigate went aground at Bolland Point, Swanage, United Kingdom.[13] |
21 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Besie Grenfell | ![]() |
The St Ives schooner went ashore at Saffi in a heavy gale and broke up on rocks. Three of the crew were drowned.[14] |
Mercur | ![]() |
The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Slade, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, United States to Penarth, Glamorgan.[5] |
Unnamed fishing boat | ![]() |
Left Aberdeen harbour on Tuesday morning (possibly 14 January) and attempted to return to port in the afternoon. Later found upturned and no sign of the four crew.[15] |
23 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Assistant | Capsized while attempting to enter the harbour at Antwerp, Belgium. All eight on board drowned.[16] |
24 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Active | ![]() |
The Volage-class corvette grounded on an unmapped shoal north of the Tugela River, South Africa. Active refloated almost immediately.[17] |
Expert | ![]() |
The steamship Countess of Durham struck the fishing-boat off Kincardineshire drowning three men.[18][19] |
Tenedos | ![]() |
The corvette grounded on an unmapped shoal north of the Tugela River, South Africa and on the next high tide was hauled off by HMS Active.[17] |
27 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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(First report) Diadem | ![]() |
The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic after a collision with the United States man-of-war Supply. All the crew were landed at Madeira.[20] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bertha | ![]() |
The Liverpool barque was abandoned off the Isles of Scilly after a collision with J Brown which headed for Queenstown with the crew of the abandoned ship. Bertha foundered shortly after.[21] |
Frederick | ![]() |
The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean while carrying pitch pine from Doboy to Falmouth, Cornwall. The crew and ship's dog (except the Captain) were rescued by an Italian barque, Gaetano.[22] |
Marie Louise | ![]() |
The Tønsberg barque, out of Calais with deals]wrecked at Dymchurch. All the crew saved, bar one who died of exposure.[8] |
Mayard | ![]() |
Two survivors from the steamer were landed at Ferrol by a Spanish vessel.[23] |
Sofia | ![]() |
The brigantine was driven ashore in the Longhole Gut, Glamorgan, United Kingdom after 21 January. All ten people on board survived. She was on a voyage from Naples to Swansea, Glamorgan.[5] |
Unnamed smack | Wrecked on Puffin Island, Anglesey while bound for Bangor, North Wales. All the crew were saved.[8] | |
Unnamed smack | Wrecked on Puffin Island, Anglesey while bound for Bangor, North Wales. The crew are reported to have drowned.[8] |
February
1 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Angé | ![]() |
The lugger went ashore in a strong SSE at Porthcurno, Cornwall. The crew of four were saved by employees of the Eastern Telegraph Company.[24] |
11 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Stenhouse | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore at Rhosilli, Glamorgan. Ten of the twenty-two people on board were lost trying to reach land. She was refloated the next day,.[5] |
12 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Faulconnier | ![]() |
The steamship sank after running into the schooner Beta off Nash Point, South Wales. Beta docked at Cardiff with the crew of the French steamship.[25] |
20 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ralph Creyke | ![]() |
The ship was lost in a storm 16 miles south-west of Lundy Island while on a voyage from Cardiff to Dieppe. |
21 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Jura | first report | A steamers boat and medicine chest was brought into Yarmouth by the steamtug Pilot. Jura was out of Hull for Smyrna, one body was seen, and it is assumed that the crew of sixteen are drowned.[26] |
23 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary | ![]() |
The steamship was driven ashore on rocks at North Shields while trying to enter harbour with iron-ore from Huelva. The nineteen crew were rescued by the lifeboat.[26] |
24 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Dolphin | ![]() |
The fishing lugger went ashore on the coast of Wexford. The crew were saved by the local lifeboat.[27] |
Mary Cook | The barque was wrecked on the coast of Aberdeenshire. Eleven of the fourteen on board drowned.[26] |
26 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Rosaire | ![]() |
The Nantes brig sank when she hit the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall while carrying coal from Newport to Brest. Three men drowned and four of her crew were picked up by the pilot cutter Queen, off Crow Sound in the Isles of Scilly.[28][29] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Adriatic | ![]() |
The three-masted sailing ship, carrying guano from Callao stranded in the English Channel, approximately 5 miles west of Dunkirk. Only seven of the forty-nine on board saved.[30] |
Augusta | The steamer went ashore on Tory Island, County Donegal while being towed by Flying Hurricane from Sligo to Glasgow; they are likely to become total wrecks. Both crews survived.[26] | |
Flying Hurricane | The steamtug went ashore on Tory Island while towing Augusta from Sligo to Glasgow; they are likely to become total wrecks. Both crews survived.[26] | |
Unnamed vessel | Two men were saved from a steamer which foundered in the Bristol Channel.[31] |
March
13 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Edinburgh | ![]() |
The 62 ton pilot cutter was struck by the iron-screw steamer Severn (![]() |
15 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unnamed vessel | Derelict barque reported by Eboe at latitude 48N, longitude 8.50W.[33] |
19 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Happy Return | ![]() |
The sloop was wrecked at Port Eynon Point, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Carmarthen.[5] |
24 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Tabasco | ![]() |
The schooner carrying coal from Greenock to Bordeaux struck White Island, St Martin's, Isles of Scilly. Her master mistook the Sevenstones Lightshp for Trevose Head on the north Cornish shore. She was on her maiden voyage and the vessel and cargo are a total loss. All the crew survived.[34] |
26 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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EJ M'Kinnon | The schooner became waterlogged, six days out from San Francisco and the crew drowned during the next few days. One survivor was rescued by the Otago from the waterlogged ship at lat 42.14N, long 29.3710.[35] |
27 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unidentified vessel | A brig was seen to keel over and sink on Hasborough Sands by a Yarmouth fishing-boat.[36] |
April
3 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Clyde | ![]() |
The transport steamer was wrecked on Dyer's Island while carrying troops of the 24th Regiment to Natal for the Anglo-Zulu War. The troops were transferred to HMS Tamar.[37] |
14 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Robert and Agnes | ![]() |
The fishing boat went ashore on the western side of the Hayle Estuary, Cornwall while attempting to enter the harbour.[38] |
Saint Michel | ![]() |
The warship collided with the steamer Bolivar (![]() |
15 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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North Star | ![]() |
The tug was driven ashore on the western side of the Hayle estuary when her screw was fouled by a rope while attempting to refloat the stranded fishing boat Robert and Agnes.[38] |
18 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Great Republic | ![]() |
Wrecked on Sand Island, Columbia River with the loss of ten lives.[41] |
22 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Maria | ![]() |
The Plymouth trawler ran on to the Gear Rock, in Mount's Bay, Cornwall and began to break up.[42] |
29 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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SS Nile | ![]() |
The Sunderland steamer sank off Cape Finisterre while en route to Newport. The three surviving crew out of twenty-three were landed at St Mary's, Isles of Scilly by the steamer Recovery.[43][44] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gladiolus | The timber-laden ship enroute from Doboy for Shields became waterlogged and all the crew bar one washed overboard.[45] |
May
17 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ponthieu | ![]() |
The brig drifted in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, after losing a mast and her sails. She eventually grounded at Perranuthnoe and all the crew were saved by the coastguard. She was carrying iron-ore from Pomaron to Liverpool.[46] |
18 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Christina | ![]() |
The barque changed course and ran in front of the Sydney bound passenger vessel Dunbar Castle (![]() |
19 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Firebrick | ![]() |
The Caernarfon sloop sank off the Pembrokeshire coast. The crew survived for three days on a rock eating gulls' eggs.[48] |
21 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Esmeralda | ![]() |
The wooden-hulled steam corvette of the Chilean Navy, was sunk by Huáscar (![]() |
Independencia | ![]() |
The armored corvette of the Peruvian Navy ran aground after the Battle of Iquique, while chasing the Covadonga (![]() ![]() |
24 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ava | ![]() |
The British-India Steam Navigation Company steamer was hit amidships by the Brenhilda while en route from Calcutta for Madras, Colombo and London. Aga sank, in less than twenty minutes, 70 miles from the Sandheads drowning sixty-seven. Estimates of seventy to one-hundred lives were lost.[51][52] |
June
15 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Scot's Craig | ![]() |
Ran aground, in thick fog, under the Lizard Lighthouse, despite the foghorn sounding. Scot's Craig refloated on a rising tide and proceeded to Greenock.[53] |
July
1 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Foam | ![]() |
The Plymouth schooner ran agound on Luburcur Beach, near St Anthony's Lighthouse, Cornwall with the loss of two crew. Foam was carrying sugar from her home port to Marseilles.[54] |
10 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Vittorio Emannele | ![]() |
The Regia Marina frigate was stranded on a shoal off Ischia and refloated on 22 July.[55] |
12 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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State of Virginia | The steamship went ashore on the eastern end of Sable Island while en route from New York to Glasgow. Three women and two children lost their lives.[56][57] |
20 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Naiad | ![]() |
The Falmouth schooner was wrecked on The Manacles, Cornwall during a south-west gale and poor visibility. Naiad was carrying coal to Falmouth and Truro from Port Talbot and was the second wreck on the rocks in three weeks.[58] |
21 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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S A Hawthorne | ![]() |
The barge, with a cargo of shingle, foundered near Margate sands. Two crew were saved.[59] |
27 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Maipu | ![]() |
The barque was wrecked in Hell Bay on Bryher, Isles of Scilly. She was bound for Hamburg from Iquique with a cargo of saltpetre. All seventeen crew saved.[60][28] |
River Lune | ![]() |
The iron-barque in ballast from Lorient to Ardrossan was lost on Brothers Rock in Muncoy Neck, the channel between Annet and Melledgan, after a faulty chronometer put her off course. She sank in ten minutes, but the crew escaped to the nearby island of St Agnes, Isles of Scilly in the ship's boats..[60][28] |
30 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alcaser | ![]() |
The steamer collided with Flamingo and sank off Ushant. Flamingo took the crew to Dartmouth, Devon.[61] |
31 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pericles | ![]() |
The passenger ship grounded on Penere Point, on the shore-side of The Manacles, The Lizard and refloated on a rising tide two hours later. The ship continued on her journey to Sydney with 496 emigrants, and on the following day headed for Plymouth for repairs to a leak in the fore peak.[62] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fanny | ![]() |
The Rochester ship was wrecked on the French coast while en route for Dieppe.[63] |
Lady Belhaven | ![]() |
Stranded on the Argo flat at the mouth of the Mutlah. Some of the crew were taken to Calcutta.[59] |
Samacood | ![]() |
The government steamer sank near Réunion with the loss of twenty-four lives.[64] |
August
1 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Angela | ![]() |
The Dundee London Shipping Company steamer ran aground on Ladybank, six miles south of Dundee during fog.[57] |
Hannah Louisa | ![]() |
The ketch beached at Perranporth after the captain mistook Perran for Padstow. The crew were taken off by the rocket apparatus and the ship was refloated on 4 August.[65] |
4 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hannah Louisa | ![]() |
The Chepstow ketch foundered off Trevose Head, Cornwall while being towed to Padstow by the steam-tug Amazon. Two of the eight on board lost their lives.[65] |
Unnamed ship | ![]() |
The lugger went ashore near Hartland Quay, Devon.[66] |
7 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Marie Louise | ![]() |
Wrecked on the Penarvan rocks, off Quessant while bound for Alicante. Seven of the thirty-four on board were saved.[67] |
11 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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SS Nankin | ![]() |
The ship in ballast ran ashore at Mear's Point, Coverack, Cornwall in thick fog while out of London for Cardiff.[68][69] Refloated and towed to Falmouth in September.[70] |
13 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of London | ![]() |
The passenger steam-boat sank on Barking beach following a collision with the Hamburg steamer Vesta (![]() |
20 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Manilla | ![]() |
The Rubattino Line steamer grounded in the Suez Canal, stopping traffic.[72] |
21 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Peace | ![]() |
The steamship capsized in Whitby harbour.[73] |
27 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Queen of Britain | ![]() |
The brig was abandoned in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by Wolverhampton (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Barry | ![]() |
Sank off North Foreland.[74] |
Louis David | The steamer en route for Naples was lost off Ushant sometime between 1 – 5 August. Seven of the twenty-seven on board survived.[75] |
September
3 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Salamander | ![]() |
The Padstow schooner was hit by the 2,000 ton screw-collier Lycham, 10 miles (16 km) off Hartland Point, and sank almost immediately.[76] |
4 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Columbia | ![]() |
The barque, from London for Quebec, was holed following a collision with either a fish or "some other sea monster". Columbia sank within thirty minutes of the crew taking to two boats and were picked up by the Dutch steamer Plealand, on 9 September.[77] |
6 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Brest | ![]() |
The Cunard Line steamship with sails went ashore at Polbarrow near Lizard Point, Cornwall at full speed in thick fog. All the crew and migrants were saved by the RNLI lifeboat, Joseph Armstrong and local fishing boats.[78][79][80] |
Marion | ![]() |
The Carnarvon owned iron ship ran aground on Rickham Sands, east of Salcombe harbour, Devon while carrying rice from Rangoon to London. The crew were saved.[81] |
9 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Favourite | ![]() |
The Bute fishing boat was lost near Loch Fyne. All three crew drowned.[82] |
11 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Corrina | ![]() |
The barque, carrying coffee, plumbago and cocoa-nut oil for London, was hit by the steamer Zeeland (![]() |
18 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Malakoff | ![]() |
The Newlyn lugger sank off Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, after being struck by the Erith of London. Three lives lost.[84] |
20 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sylvanus Blanchard | ![]() |
Abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean while en route from Liverpool to Rio de Janeiro. The captain and nine men were picked up by the Vale of Nith.[85] |
22 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Erith | ![]() |
The London collier collided with Orwell and sank in the Lower Hope Reach off Gravesend, Kent. All the crew were landed at Gravesend.[86] Erith was in collision with a fishing boat off Scarborough four days previous. |
Orwell | ![]() |
The London collier collided with Erith and sank in the Lower Hope Reach off Gravesend, Kent. All the crew were landed at Gravesend.[86] |
23 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unnamed herring craft | ![]() |
The Flamborough herring craft sank after being struck by the fishing boat Mary of Fowey.[87] |
24 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Primitive | ![]() |
The Mousehole smack sank off Scarborough, Yorkshire, after a collision with the Newcastle steamer Talisman which was bound for Rotterdam. All the crew were landed at Scarborough.[88] |
25 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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De Ruyter | ![]() |
Aground in the Scheldt near Hoedekenskerke.[89] Refloated on 27 September and returned to service.[90] |
26 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Racer | ![]() |
The Ramsgate fishing lugger was run down by the screw-steamer Pleiades off the North Foreland in the North Sea. One drowned.[91] |
28 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Anna Clara | The boiler of the steamer exploded while entering the bar at Santa Cruz, with the loss of two crew and a passenger. Most of the cargo and the mail was saved.[92] | |
Emmanuel | ![]() |
The brigantine stranded on the Sokendal coast, to the north of the Haadyr look-out station, Norway, and sank almost immediately.[93] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Quebec | ![]() |
The Dominion Line steamer stranded off East Point, Prince Edward Island. The sixty passengers were taken off by Griffin.[94] |
Seagull | The steamship was wrecked on Maldive Island.[95] |
October
18 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nuevo Pajano del Oceano | The ship caught fire while en route to Nuevitas from Havana and sank in the Old Bahama Channel. Seventeen of the crew were landed at New Orleans and forty-two passengers died.[96] |
26 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sea Spray | ![]() |
The Sunderland barque sank after catching fire approximately 240 miles from St Vincent. The crew took to the boats and arrived at St Vincent two days later.[97] |
27 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sally | ![]() |
The brigantine capsized during a gale in the Gulf of Mexico. Two survivors were picked by up by the Spanish steamer Enrique and landed at New Orleans.[98] |
November
5 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Taufahau | ![]() |
The two-masted brigantine ran aground off Seal Rocks, New South Wales.[99] |
9 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Florence and Johanna | ![]() |
The Yarmouth smack was hit by another vessel and sank at the fishing grounds in the North Sea. The five crew drowned and only the master survived.[100] |
13 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Scarborough King | ![]() |
The smack was swamped in a heavy sea and sank in the North Sea, with the loss of the skipper and all four crew.[101] |
Name un-reported | ![]() |
The mast of a smack was seen above water on the Scroby Sands, off Great Yarmouth. It is thought that the crew perished.[102] |
15 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Venerata | ![]() |
The barque was abandoned off the coast of Portugal after springing a leak on 5 November following a south-east gale three days earlier. Fifty tons of pig iron was thrown overboard in an attempt to stay afloat and the crew abandoned ship when the Vega (![]() |
18 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Warren Hastings | ![]() |
The barque left Lisbon for the Delaware River in ballast on 6 November, and during a heavy gale on 15 November was hit by large waves which took away the wheel-house. On 18 November the Tollington of Nova Scotia picked up the crew, transferred them to Mabel and the crew were finally landed at Falmouth, Cornwall.[104] |
22 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Waubuno | ![]() |
Foundered off Christian Island, Lake Huron with the loss of all twenty-four on board. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Edith | ![]() |
The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean while en route for Queenstown from Philadelphia. Survivors were picked up by Atlas of the Cunard line and landed at New York.[105] |
December
4 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Relic | ![]() |
The Brixham smack was driven onto the breakwater in Brixham harbour during a gale and became a total loss. Two fishing boats were grounded and others received damage.[106] |
5 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Romola | ![]() |
The Arbroath schooner was taken in tow to Dartmouth by the steamer Yorkshireman (![]() |
11 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alexandra | ![]() |
The Penzance vessel was taken in tow by Bessie Belle after being hit on the port side by Secret (![]() |
Bristol City | ![]() |
The steamer leaving Bristol for New York, went ashore, in thick fog, at Nelson Point, at the mouth of the River Avon.[109] |
21 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Barque Adelphoi | ![]() |
Wrecked off Port Hacking. |
28 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Agnes Irving | ![]() |
Wrecked in the Macleay River, Trial Bay. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Albatross | The steamer left Grimsby for Alexandria on 10 January and has not been sighted since.[26] | |
Carrie Annie | ![]() |
The ship left Cadiz on 27 May, and sank after colliding with a Brazilian steamer. The crew were landed in Rio Grande.[110] |
Covadonga | ![]() |
The naval vessel stranded in Autofogasta roadstead.[111] |
Glencoe | ![]() |
Refloated after running agound in the Shanghai River, which detained her for a week along with her cargo of the new-seasons tea.[112] |
Glynllifon | ![]() |
The Swansea vessel left the Coosaw River, South Carolina with phosphate rock on 29 January. There have been no reports since.[113] |
Petrel | The whaling schooner capsized in mid-ocean with the loss of all fourteen crew.[114] | |
Samanoot | ![]() |
The steamer was lost between Mauritius and Egypt with the loss of twenty-fives lives.[115] |
Shenandoah | ![]() |
Wrecked in the Persian Gulf with the loss of several lives. Shenandoah was involved in the War of Secession and passed to the Sultan of Zanzibar following arbitration at Geneva.[116] |
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Ship commissionings: | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 |
Shipwrecks: | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 |