List of shipwrecks in 1874

The list of shipwrecks in 1874 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1874.

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1874
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Unknown date
References

January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Surat	New Zealand	The 1,000-ton three-masted ship foundered at Surat Bay (formerly Forsyth's Bay) on New Zealand's Catlins coast. She was carrying 271 passengers and 37 crew, all of whom survived.[1]

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Sherman	United States	The steamer sprang a leak and sank off Cape Fear, North Carolina.

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1874
Ship	Country	Description
John Fenwick	United Kingdom	The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked on Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands with the loss of ten of her crew. She was on a voyage from Nicolaieff, Russia to Hamburg, Germany.[2]

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Minnehaha	United Kingdom	The barque was wrecked off Peninnis Head, Isles of Scilly with the loss of ten of her crew. She was on a voyage from Peru to Dublin.

February

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Flora MacDonald	New Zealand	The 18-ton cutter capsized and sank at the mouth of the Manukau Harbour in a southwesterly storm. All on board (the captain, mate, and six passengers) were lost.[3]

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Margaret	United States	The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Kake in Southeast Alaska during a snowstorm. Her crew of three survived.[4]

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Enterprise	Belgium	Stranded off Brouwershaven, Netherlands and broke her back. Declared a total loss.[5]

6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Mary Van Every	New Zealand	The 41-ton schooner was being towed across the bar at the mouth of the Molyneux River by the steamer Lady of the Lake in a heavy swell. Both ships grounded, but a swell carried the Lady of the Lake free and in doing so broke the towline. The Mary Van Every was struck broadside on by several breakers and carried onto rocks. Her crew survived.[6]

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Cyrus	New Zealand	The 317-ton collier barque was caught by a violent storm in Cook Strait while en route from Wellington to Newcastle, New South Wales, and was wrecked to the east of Sinclair Head. The ship was in company with Wellington (qv), which was also wrecked. Five of the twelve on board Cyrus, two crew and three passengers, lost their lives.[7]
Randolph or Helen Burns	New Zealand	The 20-ton schooner capsized and sank near the entrance to Lyttelton Harbour. All hands were saved.[6]
Wellington	New Zealand	The 696-ton collier was caught by a violent storm in Cook Strait while en route from Wellington to Newcastle, New South Wales, and was wrecked to the east of Sinclair Head. The ship was in company with Cyrus (qv), which was also wrecked. Two of the eleven crew on board Wellington lost their lives.[7]

9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Silver Lining	New Zealand	The 219-ton brig struck a reef while attempting to gain shelter at Kakanui, New Zealand, during a stiff gale. Her hull was badly holed by the reef and the rudder had become dislodged, so the decision was taken to abandon ship.[8]

10 March

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Sun Foo	United Kingdom	The steamship ran aground on Reef Island, China and was wrecked.[9]

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Hercules	New Zealand	The 139-ton brigantine went ashore near the mouth of the Kaipara Harbour while en route to Sydney with a cargo of timber. All hands survived.[10]

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Kron Prinz	Germany	Grounded on the outside of a narrow channel around a tight bend, whilst entering the River Avon to Bristol. Then fell over as the tide ebbed, and blocked the river channel. Demasted to clear the channel, then refloated three weeks later and repaired.[11][12][13]

14 April

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1874
Ship	Country	Description
L'Amerique	France	During a voyage from New York City to Le Havre, France, the 4,584-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean when she encountered a violent storm. All 235 people aboard — 83 passengers and 152 crew — transferred safely to other ships. She later was found adrift at sea by a British ship sent to look for her, which towed her to Plymouth, England. She was pumped dry, repaired, and returned to service.[14]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Alma	Norway	The ship was wrecked on the Sizewell Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, United Kingdom. All thirteen people on board were rescued by the Aldeburgh Lifeboat and the Southwold Lifeboat.[15]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Albion	New Zealand	The brig stranded near the mouth of the Kaipara Harbour while carrying a load of railway sleepers. She was badly holed and broke her back.[10]

20 April

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Rydall Hall		The 1,780-ton ship sank despite being taken in tow by Queen of the Bay while off the Seven Stones Reef. She lost most of her head gear while on her maiden voyage from San Francisco with a general cargo. The packet ship received £150.[16]

May

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Emulous	New Zealand	The 157-ton brigantine went ashore in a heavy swell at Oamaru. The schooner Ocean Wave stranded nearby but lifted clear at the next high tide. Although the Emulous was described as a wreck and sold as such at auction, she was refloated later in 1874, only to again run aground just north of Oamaru on 11 October. On this second occasion she was too badly wrecked to be repaired.[17]

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1874
Ship	Country	Description
HMS Endymion	Royal Navy	The screw frigate ran aground in Palermo Bay, Sicily. Refloated and sailed to Cagliari, Sardinia, for assessment.
HMS Narcissus	Royal Navy	The screw frigate ran aground in Palermo Bay, Sicily, suffering moderate damage. Refloated and sailed to Cagliari, Sardinia, for assessment.

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1874
Ship	Country	Description
HMS Niobe	Royal Navy	The wreck of Niobe (center). Illustration from the Illustrated London News, 18 July 1874. The screw sloop-of-war was wrecked in fog off Miquelon Island with the loss of one life. The gunvessel HMS Woodlark ( Royal Navy) saved the rest of her crew.[18][19][20]

23 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1874
Ship	Country	Description
British Admiral	United Kingdom	The passenger ship, travelling from Liverpool to Melbourne, was sunk after hitting rocks off King's Island. Only 9 of the 88 passengers and crew were rescued.[21]

25 May

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Emu	New Zealand	The 27-ton ketch capsized and sank near Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula.[22]

26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Gomos	United Kingdom	Cable ship stranded in Rio Grande do Sul on bar while transporting 204 nmi (378 km; 235 mi) of cable. No loss of life, but the ship and cable were lost. Replacement cable lost with some 58 lives on foundering of CS La Plata (flag unknown) on 29 November 1874.[23][24]
Mary Thompson	New Zealand	The 49-ton collier schooner was driven onto a reef and wrecked at Omaha Bay, New Zealand.[22]

28 May

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Earl of South Esk		The 336-ton barque, laden with a cargo of coal from Australia, hit Barrett's Reef while trying to enter Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, in a heavy sea. The crew abandoned ship and were saved, and Earl of South Esk slipped off the reef and sank minutes later.[22]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date May 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Agnes	New Zealand	The 23-ton cutter left Manukau Harbour on 22 May, heading for the Waikato River. She was not sighted again, although wreckage from her washed ashore near Raglan in late June.[22]

June

7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Gem	New Zealand	The 6-ton ketch foundered on the Wairau Bar, New Zealand.[25]

11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1874
Ship	Country	Description
HDMS Buhl	Royal Danish Navy	The gunboat ran aground in Hornbaek Bay and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.[26]

19 June

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Flying Cloud	United Kingdom	The clipper ran aground on Beach Island Bar, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, a total loss.

30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1874
Ship	Country	Description
L'Hermitte	French Navy	HMS Dido (left) assisting the wrecked L'Hermitte (right). (Illustration from the Illustrated London News, 1874.) The unprotected cruiser was wrecked on a reef off Wallis Island with the loss of two lives. The screw sloop-of-war HMS Dido ( Royal Navy) arrived to assist her survivors on 20 July.[27]
Nick King	United Kingdom	The sidewheel paddle steamer sank near Darien, Georgia, and the mouth of the Altamaha River.[28]

July

13 July

List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Paterson	New Zealand	The 290-ton steamer grounded at the entrance to the Waitara River, New Zealand. Much of her cargo was salvaged before whe was shifted off the spit on which she was resting, rolling out into the river broadside to the tide. She eventually broke up during a storm in early August.[25]

23 July

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Mary	United Kingdom	The sloop was run down and sunk off St Anne's Head, Pembrokeshire with the loss of all hands.[29]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Carl	Germany	The 167-ton brig struck a rock at the entrance to Bluff Harbour, New Zealand, ripping away much of her keel. The crew survived, but much of her cargo was lost.[25]

August

3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Fairy	New Zealand	The 34-ton schooner grounded in the Hokianga Harbour, New Zealand, during a strong gale.[25]

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1874
Ship	Country	Description
City of Adelaide	United Kingdom	City of Adelaide stranded on Kirkcaldy Beach The clipper was stranded on Kirkcaldy Beach, South Australia. Refloated 4 September and returned to service.

29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Emily	United Kingdom	The steamship was in collision with the steamship Londos ( United Kingdom) in the Humber and was cut in two. Both parts sank. She was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to London. The stern section was raised on 18 September. The bow section was cleared on the orders of Trinity House in April 1875.[30]

September

8 September

List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Collingwood	New Zealand	The 15-ton ketch parted her cable outside Nelson Harbour, New Zealand, in a heavy swell, and stranded on a beach to the south of the harbour's mouth. All hands were saved.[31]
D.R. Owen	United States	The schooner sank in a storm in the Chequamegon Bay area of Lake Superior east of Ashland, Wisconsin, near the mouth of the Bad River. Her crew survived.

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Alaska	United States	Alaska 1874 Hong Kong typhoon: The ship was driven ashore at Hong Kong, China.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date September 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Pilot	New Zealand	The 167-ton cutter foundered off Ruapuke Island in southern New Zealand, while at anchor. The crew, who were on land at the time of the incident, all survived.[32]
Tuapeka	New Zealand	The 24-ton stern-wheeled paddle steamer struck rocks and sank in the lower reaches of the Molyneux River, New Zealand, close to Kaitangata, and sank. She had sunk on the river on a previous occasion (in June 1874) but this time she was unsalvageable.[32]

October

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1874
Ship	Country	Description
United Brothers	New Zealand	The 50-ton schooner beached at Papakaio Point, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north of Oamaru after taking on water during a heavy sea. She became a complete wreck.[32]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Emulous	New Zealand	see 3 May.

13 October

List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Kaituna	New Zealand	The 47-ton ketch left Akaroa for Oamaru with a crew of four and was last seen off Banks Peninsula. Wreckage thought to have been from the Kaituna was later found off Le Bons Bay, Banks Peninsula, suggesting that she foundered shortly after leaving Akaroa.[32]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Maju		The 1,000-ton Maju, owned and operated by Killick Martin & Company, left Dundee for Rangoon with a cargo of coal and sank about 12 miles (19 km) west from Stornoway in a gale. She was identified when seven bodies, three lower masts and a piece of the vessel's stern were washed ashore.[33]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Cambria	New Zealand	The 43-ton schooner left Port Chalmers on 9 October for Timaru. She and her five crew were not seen again. It is likely that she foundered in a storm which hit on 12–13 October.[32]

November

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Cospatrick	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship caught fire and sank off the Cape of Good Hope with the loss of 469 lives. Only three people survived.

29 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1874
Ship	Country	Description
La Plata	United Kingdom	W.T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co. cable ship chartered by Siemens Brothers Ltd. to complete the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Chuy, Uruguay cable after foundering of CS Gomos (26 May 1874) itself foundered in the Bay of Biscay with loss of 58 crew and the cable.[34]

December

3 December

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Dextrous	United Kingdom	The schooner was struck by the brig Alfred ( United Kingdom) and foundered in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by Aneroid ( United Kingdom).[35]

9 December

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Centaur		The brig struck the southern section of Marmion Reef north of Perth, Western Australia, and sank. All 13 people on board, including noted politician and lawyer Septimus Burt, survived.

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Corsair	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Seatown, Dorset.[36]

18 December

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Japan	United States	The cargo liner burned off Shantou (Swatow) during her San Francisco-Yokohama-Hong Kong journey.[37]395 died, most of whom are Chinese labor returning from California. Owned by Pacific Mail Steamship Company.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1874
Ship	Country	Description
Ivanhoe	New Zealand	The 72-ton schooner sailed from Auckland for Suva, Fiji, on 26 August. She was never seen again.[32]

References

Notes

Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 189–190.
"John Fenwick". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
Ingram & Wheatley, p. 190.
alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (M)
"Enterprise (1062789)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
Ingram & Wheatley, p. 191.
Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 191–192.
Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 192–193.
"Sun Foo". Caledonian Maritime Heritage Trust. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
Ingram & Wheatley, p. 193.
"SS Idraet (+1899)". Wrecksite.
David Large, ed. (1984). "Docks Committee Minutes 1848-1884". The Port Of Bristol 1848-1884 (PDF). Bristol Record Society. pp. 120–121.
"Wreck of the Kron Prinz in the Avon". Flickr. 1874.
wrecksite.eu SS Amerique (+1895)
Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 193–194.
Anonymous, "Wreck of H.M. S. Niobe," Illustrated London News, July 18, 1974, p. 80.
battleships-cruisers.co.uk List of Royal Navy Cruisers from 1876 -1945
The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events At Home and Abroad For the Year 1874, London: Rivingtons, 1875, pp. 55-56.
"Wreck of the ship British Admiral". Australian Town and Country Journal. Sydney, New South Wales. 6 June 1874. p. 34. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
Ingram & Wheatley, p. 194.
"Description: GLAHM:113841, submarine telegraph cable, Hooper, William, London, England, England, 1868 - 1868". University of Glasgow — History of Science Collection. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
Glover, Bill. "History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - The Evolution of Cable & Wireless, Part 3 — The Western and Brazilian Telegraph Company". Retrieved 26 January 2020.
Ingram & Wheatley, p. 195.
"Sea Accidents and Losses". Danish Naval History. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
Anonymous, "Wreck of a French Warship," Illustrated London News, Volume 65, p. 301.
Gaines, p. 6.
"Cardigan & District Shipwrecks and Lifeboat Service". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
"Emily". Caledonian Maritim Heritage Trust. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 195–196.
Ingram & Wheatley, p. 196.
MacGregor, David R. (David Roy) (1986). The China bird : the history of Captain Killick, and the firm he founded: Killick Martin & Company. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-381-8. OCLC 1015740809.
Glover, Bill. "History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - CS La Plata". Retrieved 24 January 2020.
Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
"Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
"Japan (+1874)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 25 November 2019.

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Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.

Ship events in 1874
Ship launches:	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879
Ship commissionings:	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879
Ship decommissionings:	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879
Shipwrecks:	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879

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[SNZD189190-1] Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 189–190.

[JF-2] "John Fenwick". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 22 February 2020.

[SNZD190-3] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 190.

[alaskashipwrecksm-4] skashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (M)

[5] "Enterprise (1062789)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 16 January 2020.

[SNZD191-6] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 191.

[SNZD191192-7] Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 191–192.

[SNZD192193-8] Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 192–193.

[SF-9] "Sun Foo". Caledonian Maritime Heritage Trust. Retrieved 4 January 2021.

[SNZD193-10] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 193.

[Wrecksite,_Idraet-11] "SS Idraet (+1899)". Wrecksite.

[DCM,_Kronprinz-12] David Large, ed. (1984). "Docks Committee Minutes 1848-1884". The Port Of Bristol 1848-1884 (PDF). Bristol Record Society. pp. 120–121.

[Fred_Little,_Kron_Prinz-13] "Wreck of the Kron Prinz in the Avon". Flickr. 1874.

[14] wrecksite.eu SS Amerique (+1895)

[Walberswick-15] Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.

[larn92-16] Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.

[SNZD193194-17] Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 193–194.

[18] Anonymous, "Wreck of H.M. S. Niobe," Illustrated London News, July 18, 1974, p. 80.

[19] ttleships-cruisers.co.uk List of Royal Navy Cruisers from 1876 -1945

[20] The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events At Home and Abroad For the Year 1874, London: Rivingtons, 1875, pp. 55-56.

[21] "Wreck of the ship British Admiral". Australian Town and Country Journal. Sydney, New South Wales. 6 June 1874. p. 34. Retrieved 31 December 2019.

[SNZD194-22] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 194.

[23] "Description: GLAHM:113841, submarine telegraph cable, Hooper, William, London, England, England, 1868 - 1868". University of Glasgow — History of Science Collection. Retrieved 26 January 2020.

[24] Glover, Bill. "History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - The Evolution of Cable & Wireless, Part 3 — The Western and Brazilian Telegraph Company". Retrieved 26 January 2020.

[SNZD195-25] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 195.

[DNH-26] "Sea Accidents and Losses". Danish Naval History. Retrieved 24 December 2019.

[27] Anonymous, "Wreck of a French Warship," Illustrated London News, Volume 65, p. 301.

[gainesp6-28] Gaines, p. 6.

[Cardigan-29] "Cardigan & District Shipwrecks and Lifeboat Service". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.

[Emily-30] "Emily". Caledonian Maritim Heritage Trust. Retrieved 11 October 2019.

[SNZD195196-31] Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 195–196.

[SNZD196-32] Ingram & Wheatley, p. 196.

[:0-33] MacGregor, David R. (David Roy) (1986). The China bird : the history of Captain Killick, and the firm he founded: Killick Martin & Company. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-381-8. OCLC 1015740809.

[34] Glover, Bill. "History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - CS La Plata". Retrieved 24 January 2020.

[BC-35] Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.

[Dorset-36] "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.

[37] "Japan (+1874)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 25 November 2019.