List of shipwrecks in 1888
The list of shipwrecks in 1888 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1888.
1888 | |||
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Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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References |
January
2 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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William Porter | United States | The steamer burned five miles (8.0 km) below the Mouth of the Salt River, a high wind fanned the flames. She either sank or was scuttled short of the beach. One of her deck hands died.[1] |
5 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Goolwa | United Kingdom | The clipper started to leak during heavy weather on route from Penarth, Wales to San Francisco. She started to sink after the loss of deck hatches and was abandoned in the Bay of Biscay on 5 January 1888.[2] |
13 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Milan | United Kingdom | The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Overton, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat or rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, to Alexandria, Egypt.[3] |
19 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bronx | United States | The tug was run down and sunk by Miranda ( Canada) in the East River off Blackwell's Island. Her fireman drowned.[4] |
21 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Switserland | Belgium | The steamer collided with the steamer La Gascogne (flag unknown) in the Atlantic Ocean off New York City, United States, and holed. She put into New York for repairs and later returned to service.[5] |
22 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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May Queen | United Kingdom | The iron barque wrecked in Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand. She was inward bound from London carrying general cargo. |
28 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gleaner | United States | The steamer swamped in a heavy squall in the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon. Three passengers died.[6] |
February
27 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Julia | United States | The ferry's boiler exploded at South Vallejo, California causing her to burn to the waterline and sink. The fire also set on fire 600 feet (180 m) of the wharf, large vats of petroleum, the telegraph office, and freight depot. 30 to 40 killed and 14 wounded.[7][8] |
28 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Dayot | French Navy | The unprotected cruiser foundered in a cyclone at Tamatave on the coast of Madagascar.[9][10] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Eastminster | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship disappeared with the loss of all on board after ignoring a pilot's warnings and departing Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, bound for Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, on 17 February in deteriorating weather. She presumably sank in a tropical cyclone that struck the area soon afterward. Her wreckage was found on a coral reef in the Capricorn and Bunker Group in the Coral Sea approximately 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) east of Rockhampton, Queensland. |
March
8 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lanoma | United Kingdom | The barque was driven ashore and wrecked near Fleet, Dorset with the loss of twelve of her eighteen crew.[11] |
12 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Charles W. White | United States | The barge, under tow by the steamer Gertrude ( United States), sank in Huntington Bay on the north coast of Long Island, New York. One crewman drowned.[12] |
William H. Starbuck | United States | The pilot boat sank after colliding with the steamer Japanese ( UKGBI) off Barnegat, New Jersey, with the loss of six of her crew.[13] |
28 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Canonbury | United Kingdom | During a voyage from Matanzas, Cuba, to Boston, Massachusetts, with a cargo of sugar, the 258-foot (79 m), 1,080-net register ton cargo ship, a screw steamer, was wrecked on the Nantucket Shoals off Nantucket, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) southeast of the United States Life-Saving Service station at Surfside, Massachusetts, with the loss of one life. There were 23 survivors.[14] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Levant | United Kingdom | The South Shields steamship, built of iron at Hartlepool, England, in 1865, disappeared with the loss of her entire crew of 15 after departing Penarth, Wales, bound for Oporto, Portugal, on 24 March with a cargo of coal. A Board of Trade report on her loss did not speculate on its cause, but she may have been overloaded.[15] |
April
13 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Yorouba | France | The ship was on a voyage to Le Havre, France, when she hit a rock west of Guernsey in the Channel Islands in fog and sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) from shore and 7 nautical miles (13 km) from Les Hanois Lighthouse. All passengers and crew were saved.[16][17] |
16 April
27 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ellengowan | United Kingdom | The schooner-rigged screw steamer sank at her moorings, unmanned, at Port Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, and was abandoned. |
Julia Foard | United States | The 445.97-ton, 136.7-foot (41.7 m) bark was wrecked on the Karluk River on Kodiak Island in the Territory of Alaska. All 17 people on board survived.[18] |
May
3 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Isabel | United States | The 184.93-gross register ton, 103.2-foot (31.5 m) two-masted cod-fishing schooner sank at sea in the Territory of Alaska's Shumagin Islands during a storm. All 19 members of her crew abandoned ship in eight dories, but 12 of them perished in the boats. Over the month following the sinking, the seven survivors were rescued, the last two from a dory on 4 June by the schooner Kodiak ( United States).[19] |
8 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Henry Edmunds | United Kingdom | The brigantine was wrecked at Overton, Glamorgan. Her crew survived.[3] |
17 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Jeune Hortense | France | The schooner was wrecked at Long Rock, Cornwall, England.[20] The Penzance lifeboat, having been brought by carriage to the beach near Marazion, rescued four of her crew.[21] |
Otto | Flag unknown | The ship was stranded in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England. She was salvaged and later was renamed Providence and operated out of Penzance.[22] |
Nulli Secundus | Germany | The brigantine was stranded in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England. Under the name Tobaco, she previously had been stranded on the Eastern Green in Mount's Bay in 1865.[22] |
June
4 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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H. W. Crawford | United States | The vessel was beached during a storm 3 miles (4.8 km) west of the West Pass of St. Andrew's Bar.[23] |
7 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gleam | United States | The yacht was sunk in a collision with Joppa ( United States) in Chesapeake Bay near Seven Foot Knoll Light (39.1572°N 76.4034°W), in the mouth of the Patapsco River. One man died.[24] |
14 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pony | United States | The tow steamer capsized and sank during a turn on Muskegon Lake. Her engineer drowned.[25] |
23 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Olivette | United States | The pleasure Launch struck a dike in Newark Bay and capsized. Six, men and women, drowned.[26] |
27 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unknown launch | United States | The pleasure launch was sunk in a collision with James W. Baldwin ( United States) one mile (1.6 km) above Newburg, New York. Six rescued, two women drowned.[27] |
30 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alhambra | United Kingdom | The screw steamer collided with the derelict steamer John T. Berry ( United States), which she was trying to salvage, and sank off Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The steamer Tasmania ( United Kingdom) rescued her crew. The steamer Thetis ( United Kingdom) later sank John T. Berry as a danger to navigation. |
July
16 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Henrietta L. | United States | The schooner was wrecked on St. George Island, Florida.[23] |
25 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Beaver | Canada |
August
3 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fleetwing | United States | The 114.4-foot (34.9 m) whaling bark was wrecked on a reef 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) northeast of Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska during a gale. Her entire crew of 37 survived.[28] Her crew was rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[19] |
Jane Grey | United States | The 109-ton schooner was wrecked near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska during a gale.[18] Her crew was rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[19] |
Mary and Susan | United States | The 327-ton, 114.7-foot (35.0 m) whaling bark was wrecked on a reef 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) south of Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska during a gale.[29] Her crew was rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[19] |
Young Phoenix, or Young Phenix | United States | The 355-ton, 107.3-foot (32.7 m) whaling bark was crushed against the shore by ice and lost near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska during a gale. Her entire crew of 38 survived.[30] Her crew was rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[19] |
8 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ino | United States | The 98-ton schooner dragged her anchor and was wrecked at Cape Smyth (71°17′35″N 156°47′15″W) near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska during a gale. Her crew was rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[19] |
19 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Warren | United States | The steamer was blown ashore in a Gale at Baton Rouge. One crewman killed in a fall.[31] |
22 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Chester | United States | |
Gov. Jackson | United States | The barge, under tow of Raleigh ( United States), sank off Winter Quarter Shoal. One crewman lost, survivors rescued by Raleigh.[34] |
27 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Vanderbilt | United States | Operating in ballast on a fishing and hunting expedition, the 92.87-gross register ton 85-foot (26 m) wooden schooner was wrecked in a severe storm with heavy rain and high seas at Pirate Cove (55°21′40″N 160°21′25″W) in the Territory of Alaska. Her crew of 27 survived.[35] |
September
6 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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E. B. Ward, Jr. | United States | The steamer foundered in a Gale in the Gulf of Mexico. Twenty one killed.[36] |
13 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sud America I | Italy | The ocean liner was sunk in a collision with the collier France ( France) in the bay at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, with the loss of 79 lives. |
19 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lota | Chile | The frigate foundered in the Pacific Ocean 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) off an unspecified "Palmer Island," possibly an island west of Fiji. Her two survivors came ashore on the island, where one died in 1890 and the other finally was rescued by a German ship in 1893. |
26 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fleetwing | United States | The schooner was wrecked on a rocky beach in Lake Michigan off Liberty Grove, Wisconsin, during a gale and eventually sank. |
W. W. Graham | United States | The tug was caught in the suction of a Foreign vessel she was aiding and capsized and sank off Wilmington, Delaware. Her engineer died. Survivors rescued by Philadelphia ( United States).[37] |
October
3 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ohio | United States | The 195-ton 92.6-foot (28.2 m) bark was driven ashore and wrecked in a gale and snowstorm at Point Hope (68°20′20″N 166°50′40″W) on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska, with the loss of 25 of her 33 crew members. The eight survivors were rescued eight months later.[38] |
November
5 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Goldsmith Maid | United States | The schooner sank after colliding with the steamer Glaucus ( United States) in the Narrows of Boston Harbor. Two crewmen were lost.[39] |
6 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Stella | United States | The steamer capsized and sank in a squall in the Monongahela River near Coal Bluff, Indiana. One passenger was killed.[40] |
11 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Iberia | France |
15 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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USFC Grampus | United States Fish Commission | The fisheries research vessel, a schooner, ran aground during a gale on Bass Rip 41.2834554°N 69.8994561°W, a shoal in the North Atlantic Ocean 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) east of Nantucket Island off the coast of Massachusetts and her crew abandoned ship. Unmanned, she floated free and was adrift for several days before she was recovered. She returned to service.[42][43] |
18 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Maud M. Fish | United States | The steamer capsized and sank at Gould's Store 22 miles (35 km) below New Orleans. One crewman killed.[44] |
21 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Atalanta | Russia | The steamer ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, South Holland, the Netherlands, with the loss of six lives.[45] |
25 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Allentown | United States | The collier broke up and sank in a gale off Cape Ann in over 200 feet (61 m) of water with the loss of all 18 crew.[46][47][48] |
Estrella de Chile | United Kingdom | The barque ran aground in the Solway Firth with the loss of one of her fifteen crew. Survivors were rescued by the Maryport Lifeboat. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Vaitarna | Flag unknown | The schooner-rigged passenger steamer disappeared in a storm in the Arabian Sea with the loss of all 746 people on board sometime after she was last sighted off Mangrol, India, on 8 November. |
December
3 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Seaton | United Kingdom | The steamship collided with Argo ( United Kingdom) and sank off Hull, Yorkshire with the loss of two of her crew.[49] |
9 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Yaquina Bay | United States |
22 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mendocino | United States | The steamer was wrecked crossing the Bar at Humboldt Bay. Her engineer, his wife, and infant daughter drowned when a lifeboat overturned.[50] |
23 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kate Adams | United States | The US Mail steamer burned in the Mississippi River opposite Commerce, Mississippi. Twelve crew, a cabin boy, and 20 passengers killed.[51][52] |
24 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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John H. Hannah | United States | The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Mississippi River off Plaquemine, Louisiana . Four passengers and 17 crewman killed.[53] |
31 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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H. C. Warmoth | United States | The steamer was sunk in a collision with Sarah ( United States) in the Pearl River. One passenger killed.[54] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Andrew H. Edwards | The barque was lost off Island Beach on the coast of New Jersey.[55] | |
Anna Delius | Norway | The barque was abandoned in the North Atlantic. Crew rescued by Deutschland ( Germany) and later transferred to Pieter de Coninck ( Belgium) which landed them at Boston, United States.[5] |
Civitas Carrera | The barque was lost at Manasquan, New Jersey. Her wreck was buried until a storm uncovered it and it was salvaged in 1937.[55] | |
Star of Greece | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was wrecked off Port Willunga, South Australia with the loss of seventeen lives.[56] |
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Ship events in 1888 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 |
Ship commissionings: | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 |
Shipwrecks: | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 |
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