List of shipwrecks in 1875

The list of shipwrecks in 1875 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1875.

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1875
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January

1 January
List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Surprize  United Kingdom The pilot cutter foundered in the Bristol Channel off Ilfracombe, Devon. Two crew were rescued by the schooner Britannia ( Sweden).[1]

2 January
List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Britannia  Sweden The schooner ran aground at Port Eynon, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure, France to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[1]

22 January
List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Mediator  United States Carrying general cargo, the screw steamer was wrecked at North Point on Barnegat Shoals, 0.8 nautical miles (1.5 km; 0.9 mi) off Harvey Cedars, New Jersey. Her wreck sank six hours later. Her entire crew survived.[2][3]

24 January
List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Marie Reine  France The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[4]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Georgia Canada The steamship foundered off Maine, United States.

February

4 February
List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1875
ShipCountryDescription
George W. Blunt  United States The pilot schooner, built to replace first schooner of that name, sprang a leak off Gay Head and ran ashore at Jones Inlet, twenty-eight miles from Sandy Hook. She was reported to be a total loss.[5]

14 February
List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Floresta  United Kingdom The 299-ton Sunderland barque grounded on the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall in fog and quickly sank; her crew of ten were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the St Malo lugger Josephine.[6]

15 February
List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Una  New Zealand The 20-ton ketch-rigged steamer sank in the harbour at Napier, New Zealand, after her covering plates gave way.[7]

16 February
List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Havre  United Kingdom The LSWR Channel Packet from Southampton, foundered on Platte Boue rock with 92 survivors. Passengers were put ashore on Amfroque; the wreck was found lying across that of Waverley ( United Kingdom), which had hit the same rock in 1873.[8][9][10]

24 February
List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Gothenburg  United Kingdom
Artist's impression of the wreck of SS Gothenburg.
The McMerkan, Blackwood and Company steamship foundered off the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. At least 98 lives lost.
Janet Grey  New Zealand The 27-ton cutter went ashore near Mercury Bay, New Zealand and became a wreck.[11]

March

9 March
List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Columbus  United States Accidentally rammed and sunk by the White Star Line ocean liner Adriatic ( United Kingdom) in the Crosby Channel at Liverpool.

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date March 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Euphrosyne  New Zealand The 75-ton schooner sailed from Dunedin on 14 March for Oamaru and was not seen again. She carried a crew of six.[11]
Melbourne  Victoria The 53-ton schooner sailed from Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand, on 1 March. Wreckage from the ship was discovered in mid-March close to the northwestern tip of the South Island and two bodies, one believed to have been of the ship's captain, were found washed ashore on Farewell Spit towards the end of the month.[11]

April

23 April
List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Joseph Straker  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore on Norderney, Germany. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Hamburg, Germany.[12]

May

7 May
List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Schiller  Germany The German Transatlantic Steam Navigation Line owned ocean liner ran aground in fog on the Retarrier Ledges, Isles of Scilly, with the loss of 335 lives.[13]

8 May
List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Elderslie  New Zealand A fierce gale and heavy swell hit the New Zealand port of Timaru, where the 203-ton schooner was at anchor. While attempting to leave the roadstead she became enfouled and drifted onto rocks, becoming a total wreck.[11] Two other ships were wrecked at Timaru on 9 May during the same storm (see below)

9 May
List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Cyrene  New Zealand The 527-ton barque succumbed to the same storm at Timaru, New Zealand, that also wrecked the Elderslie and the Princess Alice (qv). The Cyrene took on water during the early part of the storm, and in the early hours of 9 May her cable parted and she ran aground and was wrecked. Her crew of 12 were landed safely.[14]
Princess Alice  New Zealand The 267-ton brig succumbed to the same storm at Timaru, New Zealand, that also wrecked the Elderslie and the Cyrene (qv). Her anchor dragged and she found herself close to shore. He cable then parted and she was thrown among the breakers. The captain ordered her to be run ashore to save the lives of those on board, all of whom were safely rescued.[14]

June

4 June
List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Julia  New Zealand The 16-ton cutter was driven onto a reef near Kawau Island in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf by a gale and was wrecked.[14]

5 June
List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Success Unknown The 59-ton schooner was one of three schooners which were driven ashore while trying to stand to sea for safety during a severe gale at Timaru, New Zealand. The other two ships, Elibanks Castle and Wild Wave, were both successfully refloated and all their crews survived, but Success became a total wreck close to the mouth of the Ashburton River, and the ships crew of four were all lost.[15]
William and Mary  New Zealand The 47-ton schooner capsized during a gale to the north of Kapiti Island. All but one of the ship's crew of five men drowned.[15]

13 June
List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Geffrard  Australia The Fred Davis (Melbourne)-owned brig run aground on a sandbank after the anchor chain parted off Quindalup, Western Australia.[16]

18 June
List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1875
ShipCountryDescription
USS Saranac  United States Navy The sloop-of-war was wrecked on the submerged Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows off Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada.

24 June
List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Caroline Phillips  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all four crew.[1]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date June 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Pacific  New Zealand The 51-ton schooner left Timaru bound for Manukau Harbour, Auckland on 4 June with eight crew and one passenger. She was not seen again.[14]

July

14 July
List of shipwrecks: 14 July 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Lerwick  New Zealand The 14-ton cutter stranded on rocks in Bluff Harbour, New Zealand, and became a wreck.[17]

16 July
List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Champlain II  United States
Champlain II
The 244-foot (74 m) sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground at night and was wrecked in Lake Champlain at Split Rock Mountain between Barn Rock and Rock Harbor off Steam Mill Point, Westport, New York. Her wreck sank in 15 to 35 feet (4.6 to 10.7 m) of water at 44°12.36′N 073°22.58′W.[18]

21 July
List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Forfait  French Navy
An artist′s impression of Forfait sinking.
The screw corvette sank without loss of life in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the east coast of Corsica after colliding with the ironclad central battery ship Jeanne d'Arc ( French Navy) during naval exercises.[19]

23 July
List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Hero  New Zealand The 29-ton cutter was discovered floating empty and abandoned off the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. Only one of the crew of three survived, who came ashore near Mokau. The ship had sprung a leak and was labouring in a heavy swell when the mast gave way. The crew took to the ship's boat, but it capsized and the other two crew members were drowned.[17]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Chanticleer  New Zealand The 186-ton brig sailed from Oamaru, New Zealand for Tasmania on 9 July, with a crew of 10 on board. She was not seen again.[15]
Dauntless  New Zealand The 72-ton schooner left Moeraki, New Zealand, for Wellington on 10 July with a crew of six, and was not seen again.[20]
Pearl  New Zealand The 59-ton schooner sailed from Auckland for Lyttelton Harbour on 8 July, with a crew of five. She was not seen again.[17]

August

18 August
List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Mistletoe  United Kingdom The schooner sank with the loss of three lives after colliding with the royal yacht HMY Alberta ( Royal Navy) in the Solent. Alberta rescued Mistletoe's survivors.[21]

26 August
List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Comet  United States The W. M. Hanna and George W. Chapin (Cleveland, Ohio)-owned commercial wooden propeller ship collided with Manitoba (flag unknown) at Whitefish Bay of Lake Superior and sank. Ten lives were lost.

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date August 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Emily  New Zealand The 17-ton ketch sailed from Collingwood, New Zealand for Nelson on 18 August, with a crew of two. She was not seen again.[17]

September

1 September
List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1875
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Vanguard  Royal Navy
An 1887 illustration of HMS Vanguard (right) sinking. HMS Iron Duke is at left.
The Audacious-class central battery ironclad sank after a collision with the central battery ironclad HMS Iron Duke ( Royal Navy) near Kish Bank, Ireland.

8 September
List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Edith  United Kingdom The London and North Western Railway paddle steamer sank after a collision with the paddle steamer Duchess of Sutherland ( United Kingdom) off Holyhead, Wales. She was salvaged in 1877, rebuilt and returned to service.[22]

9 September
List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Tanner  United States The Barque stranded south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in a Gale. She sank in 20 feet of water, later breaking up. Her Captain drowned. The rest of her crew was rescued.[23]

11 September
List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Alert  New Zealand The 43-ton ketch stranded at the mouth of the Patea River, New Zealand, and became a total wreck.[17]

14 September
List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Tawera  New Zealand The 55-ton schooner was discovered wrecked and stranded to the north of the entrance to the Kaipara Harbour, with no sign of crew on board. The bodies of two of the five crew washed up several days later. Tawera had sailed from Foxton and was en route to Kaipara Harbour.[24]

20 September
List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Sitka  United States The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Wrangell in Southeast Alaska.[25]

27 September
List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Ellen Southard  United States
The wreck of Ellen Southard
The full-rigged ship, owned by T. J. Southard of Maine, was wrecked in a hurricane at the mouth of the River Mersey, Liverpool, England and broke up. Her captain, his wife, six other crewmen, the pilot and three rescuers were killed when a large wave capsized the lifeboat. 12 rescuers and 8 crewmen survived the capsizing. The United States Congress awarded 27 first-class gold Lifesaving Medals to the local lifeboat men.[26]

October

5 October
List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Boyd  New Zealand The 16-ton schooner ran aground south of the mouth of the Motu River, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, during a gale and became a wreck.[27]

16 October
List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Bruce  New Zealand The 204-ton steamer hit rocks and foundered near Taiaroa Head while trying to enter Otago Harbour, New Zealand, in a thick fog. She was en route from Timaru to Dunedin. All crew and passengers were saved.[28]

20 October
List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Cornelia  Belgium The fishing trawler was struck by Khedive and sunk in the River Scheldt, near Bath, Netherlands.[29] Khedive was undergoing sea trials prior to delivery.

31 October
List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Brunette  New Zealand The 18-ton cutter stranded on sunken rocks at Tairua and became a wreck.[30]
Magenta  French Navy An accidental nighttime galley fire aboard the Magenta-class broadside ironclad while she was in port at Toulon, France, spread out of control and reached her after ammunition magazine, causing her to explode and sink 2 hours 55 minutes after the fire broke out.[31]

November

6 November
List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Pacific  United States The paddle steamer sank after colliding with Orpheus (flag unknown) off Cape Flattery, United States. At least 318 lives lost.

7 November
List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Alberta  United Kingdom The schooner foundered off Cardigan. Her crew survived.[32]

8 November
List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Calcutta Canada The ship wrecked on the north side of Grindstone Island in the Magdalen Islands, Quebec. Twenty-three of 28 persons drowned.

9 November
List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1875
ShipCountryDescription
City of Waco  United States The Mallory Line (New York) steamship sank after an on-board fire off Galveston, Texas, with the loss of 56 lives.

19 November
List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Johanna Antoinette  Netherlands The three-masted schooner was lost off Cardigan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[32]
Saladin  Netherlands The two-masted schooner was wrecked at Cardigan.[32]

23 November
List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Foscolo  Kingdom of Italy The 452-ton ship from Naples struck the Seven Stones Reef while bound from Montevideo for Dundee with scrap iron and bones. She managed to reach Crow Bar in the Isles of Scilly and sank in the shallows. She was later refloated.[6]

December

6 December
List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Deutschland  German Empire
The wreck of Deutschland.
The Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship was wrecked on Kentish Knock sandbank with the loss of 78 lives, or 57 that froze to death in the rigging. 173 rescued by Tug Liverpool ( United Kingdom), 1 made it to shore in a lifeboat.[33][34]

14 December
List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Gitana  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked near the Vinga Lighthouse, Sweden. She was on a voyage from West Hartlepool, County Durham to Gothenburg, Sweden.[35]

16 December
List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Alice Gray  United States The steamboat sank in the Missouri River at Rocheport, Missouri, after her boiler exploded.[36]

22 December
List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1875
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Goliath  Royal Navy The Vanguard-class ship of the line, in use as a pauper training ship for workhouse boys, was destroyed by fire at Grays, Essex, England.[37] Of the approximately 500 on board, 23 of the boys were killed.
Jenny  Russia The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Pilton, Devon, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Pensacola, Florida, United States to Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.[1]

26 December
List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Lady of the Lake  New Zealand The 60-ton steamer struck a reef at the northern end of The Catlins, New Zealand, while en route from Dunedin to Port Molyneux, and became a total wreck. The crew abandoned ship in the longboat and made landfall near the mouth of the Catlins River.[30]

29 December
List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Urania  United States The 80-ton schooner departed Kodiak, Territory of Alaska, bound for San Francisco, California, with 13 people and a cargo of furs aboard and disappeared without trace.[38]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875
ShipCountryDescription
A. C. Bird  United States The steamboat sank in the Missouri River at Liberty Landing, below the mouth of the Kansas River, apparently in 1875.[39]
Blonde  New Zealand The 14-ton cutter left Tauranga with a cargo of coal for Auckland with two crew in mid-September. Her hulk was discovered floating close to Kennedy Bay on 16 October.[30]
Comet  United States The 350-ton barque left Port Chalmers, New Zealand, on 27 February bound for Hobart, Tasmania with a 13-man crew, and was not seen again.[11]
Cora 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.[40]
Dunbrody  United Kingdom The barque foundered off Labrador, Canada.
Eleanor  New Zealand The cutter struck rocks while trying to enter the Pleasant River near Palmerston, New Zealand, sometime in the middle of 1875, and was wrecked. All hands survived.[17]
M. J. Forsha Unknown The sloop 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.[40]
The Queen Unknown The steamer 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.[40]
Thomas Fletcher Unknown The barque 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.[40]

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Notes
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  3. Barnegat Inlet to Little Egg Inlet, June 1999, p. A-2.
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  5. "Loss Of A Pilot-Boat". The New York Times. New York, New York. 1875-02-04. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  6. Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  7. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 196.
  8. "1875".
  9. YvesDufiel (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche.
  10. "Wrecks of the _Havre_, off Guernsey". The Times. 17 February 1875. p. 5d.
  11. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 197.
  12. "Joseph Straker". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  13. "Museum News". Scilly Up To Date. April 1999. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
  14. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 198.
  15. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 199.
  16. Inquiry into the shipwreck of 'Geffrard' . Busselton, Western Australia: Court of Inquiry. 1875 – via Wikisource.
  17. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 200.
  18. "Champlain II". Hunting New England Shipwrecks. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  19. dawlishchronicles.blogspot.com The ramming of the Forfait by the Jeanne d’Arc, 1875
  20. Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 199–200.
  21. Poole Museum Society Blog: The Fate of the Mistletoe
  22. "Cargo ship Edith 1870". tynebuiltships.co.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  23. "Annual report of the United States Life Saving Service, Year ending June 30, 1877". University of Michigan. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  24. Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 200–201.
  25. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (S)
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  27. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 201.
  28. Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 201–202.
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  30. Ingram & Wheatley, p. 202.
  31. Gardiner, Robert, ed., Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 287.
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  33. "American Marine Engineer September, 1914". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 12 November 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
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  36. Martin, George W., ed., Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1905–1906, Volume 9, Topeka, Kansas: State Printing Office, 1906, p. 297.
  37. The Times (London), Thursday, 23 December 1875, p.5
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  39. Martin, George W., ed., Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1905–1906, Volume 9, Topeka, Kansas: State Printing Office, 1906, p. 297.
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Ship events in 1875
Ship launches: 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
Ship commissionings: 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
Ship decommissionings: 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
Shipwrecks: 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
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