List of shipwrecks in 1897

The list of shipwrecks in 1897 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1897.

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1897
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January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1897
ShipCountryDescription
"Favorite" Unknown The vessel was wrecked on this date in Australia.[1]

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Commodore  United States The steamboat was wrecked, or sprung a leak and sank, off Mosquito Inlet, Florida with the loss of either one or seven lives.[2]

3 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Quickstep  United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Lake Washington.[3]

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Job T. Wilson  United States The Tug was sunk by Howard ( United States) in the Patapsco River. Her Cook and Engineer drowned.[4]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Belle of the Coast  United States The laid up Steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Carrollton, Louisiana.[5][6]
Peankeshaw No. 108  United States The steamer was crushed by ice in mid-channel between Evansville, Indiana and the Green River, a total loss. Her Chief Engineer drowned.[7]

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Belle of Brownsville  United States The ferry burned to the waterline at Cairo, Illinois.[8]
Elsa  United States The Steamer was wrecked on Colorado Reef on a trip from New Orleans to Central America.[9]

14 January

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1897
ShipCountryDescription
RIMS Warren Hastings Royal Indian Marine
A sketch depicting the wreck of RIMS Warren Hastings, published by the Dundee Courier on 24 March 1897

The troopship was wrecked off the coast of Réunion with the loss of two lives.

28 January

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Argo  United States The Yacht was sunk in a collision with Albert Dumois ( Norway) in the Mississippi River 80 miles below New Orleans. Two passengers, reporters for the Times Picayune, killed.[10][11][12]

30 January

List of shipwrecks: 30 January 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Iron Cliff  United States The steamer sprung a leak and sank at Greenville, Mississippi, a total loss.[13]

February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
"Alice"  United States The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Amite River Later raised.[14]
City of Athens  United States The steamer sprung a leak and sank at Port Thompson, Florida.[15]
H. M. Townsend  United States The laid up steamer was sunk by ice 1 mile below Memphis, Tennessee, a total loss.[16]

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Imbros  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Helwick Bank, in the Bristol Channel. She was subsequently refloated and beached at The Mumbles, Glamorgan.[17]

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Roy Lynds  United States The Ferry's port side was crushed by ice and she sank opposite Lexington, Missouri in the Missouri River, a total wreck.[18]

7 February

List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Maggie Paden  United States The steamer was sunk by ice while harbored at the Mouth of the little Kanawha River, a total loss. her machinery was salvaged.[19]

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Eugene  United States The steamer struck a snag near Clayton's Landing and sank in shallow water. Was pumped out and taken to Pine Bluff, Arkansas for repair.[20]

9 February

List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Josephine  United States The Ferry sank lying at Glenwood, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River when a pipe froze and burst. Later raised.[21]

11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
A. C. Van Raalte  United States The tow steamer's bow was damaged by ice in Lake Michigan, she made it in to the Calumet River and sank.[22]
General Franz Sigel  United States The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with tow steamer New York Central Lighterage Co. No. 19 ( United States) in the East River off Baltic street, Brooklyn. Raised and repaired. crew rescued by New York Central Lighterage Co. No. 19.[23]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Rapid  United Kingdom The ketch ran aground and was wrecked at Cardigan.[24]

13 February

List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Edna  United States The steamer struck something holing her and she sank at Gretna, Louisiana, a total loss.[25]

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Mike Dougherty  United States The Tug sank at Brown's Station, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River when a pipe froze and burst. Later raised.[26]

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
T. W. Ferry  United States The fishing steamer was sunk at dock at the Pere Marquette Railway Company dock, Ludington, Michigan when struck by SS Pere Marquette.[27]

22 February

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Lucille  United States The laid up Launch foundered in a gale at dock in New Orleans. Later raised.[28]

23 February

List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
C. W. Batchelor  United States The passenger steamer was forced onto the bank by ice at St. Louis and sank, a total loss.[29]

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Eagle  United States The passenger steamer burned at Lexington, Missouri, a total loss.[30]

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Cyril  United Kingdom The ketch, registered at Falmouth, England, with official number 62042, went missing in Bristol Channel with the loss of her captain, master mariner Thomas G. R. Cooper, and his 17-year-old son Norman Copper, both of Middle Terrace, Falmouth.
Favorite  United States The steamer struck a tree that had collapsed into the Big Sandy River causing her to careen and sink up to the Hurricane Deck, from which the passengers climbed onto the tree and from there they were taken to shore in boats. Her machinery was salvaged, otherwise a total loss.[31]

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Loy B.  United States The passenger steamer was blown from her moorings at Kimmswick, Missouri sinking in the Mississippi River, a total loss.[32]

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Rialto  United Kingdom The cargo ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean 500 miles off the coast of Ireland in a Hurricane. Her 3rd Engineer was killed in an explosion. The rest of the crew was rescued, when she was abandoned on the 5th, by Cartheginian ( United Kingdom) that had been standing by for a break in the weather.[33][34]

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Dauntless  United States The steamer struck a pier of the Union Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, rolled on one side and sank in the Allegheny River. Raised and repaired.[35]

9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Beverly  United States The Ferry struck a bridge entering her slip and sank at Camden, New Jersey.[36]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Occident  United States The steamer struck bottom crossing the Bar into Nehalem River bringing down her smokestack and breaking the steam pipe disabling the ship. She was anchored and her crew went ashore. During the night she dragged anchor and went ashore, a total loss.[37]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
C. O.  United States The steamer, under tow of "Oakland" ( United States), struck "The Big Eddy" off Hickman, Tennessee, parted her towlines, turned sideways, capsized and sank in 100 feet of water, a total loss.[38]
Hawk  United States The steamer careened and capsized in the Ohio River in a Gale near Jack's Run. Her Pilot was killed. Raised and repaired.[39]

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Ville de Saint Nazaire  France The 2,640-gross register ton steamer foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a storm with the loss of 80 lives. The 648-gross register ton schooner Hilda ( United States) rescued her four survivors from a lifeboat on 22 March; they were all that remained alive out of 38 people who had boarded the lifeboat when Ville de Saint Nazaire sank.[40][41]

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Sunol  United States The sternwheel passenger steamer was capsized and sunk in a collision with barque Olympic ( United States) in San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island. All 45 passengers and 16 crew transferred to Olympic before she sank by stepping across the decks. Later raised.[42][43]
Unidentified schooner  Greece International intervention in Crete: Attempting to reach Crete with a cargo of munitions and manned by Cretan insurgents, the schooner was sunk off Cape Dia, Crete, in an exchange of gunfire with the torpedo cruiser SMS Sebenico ( Austro-Hungarian Navy), which was operating as part of the International Squadron intervening in the Cretan rebellion against rule by the Ottoman Empire. The schooner′s crew suffered no casualties and swam to shore on Crete.[44]

18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Little Sandy  United States The steamer was carried by wind and current into a lock wall at Lock No. 2 on the Kentucky River. She was towed off, but sank a short distance down river.[45]

19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Willapa  United States The steamer was stranded on Regatta Reef, south east Alaska Territory.[46]

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Fidget  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with Asa W. Hughes ( United States), Philadelphia. Crew rescued by Asa W. Hughes.[47]

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Fred Nellis  United States The steamer burned at Brooklyn, Illinois, a total loss.[48]

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Amelia  United States The sloop foundered during a storm off the Bell Buoy in Pensacola Bay, Florida. Eight of nine people aboard lost.[49]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
El Rio Rey  United States The steamer filled and sank at the Memphis Wharf at the foot of Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee,in a violent storm, a total loss.[50]

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
"City of Columbus"  United States The steamer struck rocks and sank in Smith's Bend 2 miles above Gordon, Alabama on the Chattahoochee River, a total loss.[51][52]

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April
ShipCountryDescription
J. F. C. Griggs  United States The steamer struck an embedded log and sank at Barnett's Landing in the Chattahoochee River, a total loss. Her Chief Engineer and 2 other Crewmen killed. Her machinery was salvaged.[53][54]

2 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Clifton  United States The steamer sank overnight at the Pittsburgh Wharf. Raised and repaired.[55]

3 April

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
R. T. Coles  United States The steamer took a shear in King's Eddy and struck the bluff tearing a hole in her starboard side and she sank in 10 feet of water in the Cumberland River.[56]

5 April

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Assaye  United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked on Blonde Rock, off Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.[57]
John W. Hart  United States The steamer struck an obstruction in the Cumberland River near Granville, Tennessee and was beached. She caught fire and burned to the water's edge.[58]

7 April

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
James and Agnes  United Kingdom The schooner struck the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel and was consequently beached in Black Rock Bay. Her five crew were rescued.[17]

9 April

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Nellie Smith  United States The barkentine was sunk in a collision in thick fog with steamer La Grande Duchesse ( United States) off the Fenwick Shoal Lightship. Three crew rescued by La Grande Duchesse; her captain and four crewmen killed.[59]

11 April

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Yaquina  United States The freighter grounded on a bar off a wharf at Hueneme, California causing her to flood and sink, abandonend as a total loss.[60]

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Howard P. Simmons  United States The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Crooked River. Later raised.[61]

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Ibex  United Kingdom The GWR-owned ship struck the Noirmontaise rocks off Jersey, Channel Islands and was beached in Portlet Bay, Jersey. She was refloated and re-entered service.

17 April

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Therese  United States Carrying a cargo of about 10 tons of general merchandise, seven passengers, and a crew of six, the 74.45-gross register ton, 77.8-foot (23.7 m) schooner was wrecked without loss of life at 57°43′N 155°28′W in Puale Bay (57°41′N 155°29′W), sometimes also called "Cold Bay," on the coast of the Territory of Alaska during a gale.[62]

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
ARA Santa Fe  Argentine Navy The Corrientes-class destroyer was wrecked in the River Plate off Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.[63][64]

27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
"Wanderer"  United States The steamer burned to the waterline at dock when a nearby burning warehouse exploded and she was enveloped in flames at Newport news, Virginia. 2 crewmen drowned.[65]

29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Ada  New South Wales The ketch was wrecked at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Barga  Belgium The steamer was declared missing, having departed Huelva, Spain, for Antwerp, Belgium, on 30 March.[66]

May

1 May

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Ability  New South Wales The ketch was driven ashore along with four other ships at Cape Hawke Bay, Australia, during a storm.

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Bruxelles  Belgium The steamer ran aground on St. Pierre Island, Seychelles, a total loss.[66]
"L. B. Gilchrist"  United States The Barge, under tow of Right Arm ( United States), sank 5 miles southeast of Montauk Point. Crew rescued by Right Arm.[67]

5 May

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1897
ShipCountryDescription
General Siglin  United States The 81-ton, 80-foot (24.4 m) sealing schooner was sighted by the sealing schooner Willard Ainsworth ( United States) in the North Pacific Ocean at 53°15′N 135°55′W in a waterlogged condition, dismasted, with her bulwarks stove in and her boats missing. Ordered to search for General Siglin after Williard Ainsworth reported the sighting, the revenue cutter USRC Thomas Corwin ( United States Revenue Cutter Service) found her again on 14 June with the body of her first mate and a young boy on board, but the bodies of the other seven people who had been aboard were never found. General Siglin was salvaged and returned to service.[68]
Talfer  United States The Schooner-Yacht was sunk in a collision in thick fog with steamer City of Fitchburg ( United States) off Falkner Island in Long Island Sound. Crew rescued by City of Fitchburg after abandoning ship in her boat.[69][70]

6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Plow Boy  United States The passenger steamer struck a snag below De Witt, Missouri and sank in the Missouri River, a total loss. Her machinery was salvaged.[71]

8 May

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Gwendoline  Canada The steamer struck rocks and the wrecked Ruth an hour after Ruth wrecked in the Upper Kootenai River going through "Jennings Canyon" 5 miles above Jennings, Montana. Later raised and taken to Jennings for repair.[72]
Maggie  United States The Steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Conway, South Carolina.[73]
Ruth  United States The steamer struck rocks in the Upper Kootenai River going through "Jennings Canyon" 5 miles above Jennings, Montana when a log jammed her rudder, a total loss.[74]

9 May

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Annie E. Rudolph  United States The Schooner was sunk in a collision with Tug "Paoli" ( United States) off Cape Cod, or Nauset Light, in 50 feet of water with her mast tops above water, but a total loss. Her Captain and 2 crewmen died. Two crewmen rescued by "Paoli".[75][76]

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1897
ShipCountryDescription
May  United States The steamer sank in a gale at Bolivar Point, Galveston Bay Texas, a total loss.[77]

18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1897
ShipCountryDescription
"Ida"  United States The Canal Boat, under tow by steamer G. H. Notter ( United States) was sunk in a collision a car float under tow by steamer Transfer No. 10 ( United States) off Roosevelt Street in the East River.[78]

20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Florida  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision in dense Fog with George W. Roby ( United States) in Lake Huron between False Presque Isle and Middle Island in 200 feet of water.[79][80]

31 May

List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Arctic  United States The Alaska Commercial Company sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed at Circle City, Territory of Alaska, by the spring breakup of ice on the Yukon River.[81]

June

2 June

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Pottsville  United States The steamer grounded at a wharf in Beverly, Massachusetts and filled. Raised and repaired.[82]

12 June

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Gangut  Imperial Russian Navy The coast defense ship struck an uncharted rock and sank in the Gulf of Finland.

14 June

List of shipwrecks: 14 June 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Lulu B. Crammer  United States The steamer's condenser pipe developed a leak and she was put ashore on Tinicum Island to make repairs. She caught fire and burned to the waterline.[83]

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Clara Cavett  United States The steamer struck a snag near Pittsburgh in the Ohio River springing a bad leak. She was run onto a Bar and sank up to her Main Deck. Raised and repaired.[84]

16 June

List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1897
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Foudroyant  United Kingdom
HMS Foudroyant
The training ship, a former ship-of-the-line, was driven ashore at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, and wrecked.

18 June

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1897
ShipCountryDescription
David Kemps  United States The Steamer was destroyed by fire in Black Creek off the St. Johns River.[85][86]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Hattie  United States The Schooner was sunk in a collision with Dorchester ( United States) near Smiths Point Light.[87]

21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Cadet  United States The steamer grounded at a wharf in Lynn, Massachusetts and sank. Raised and repaired.[88]

25 June

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Christie and Mabel  United States The fishing Sloop was sunk in a collision with State of Maine ( United States) near Monhegan Island. Her crew of 2 saved by State of Maine.[89]
William O. Lowery  United States The Schooner was sunk in a collision with Tug Chicago ( United States) near Poplar Island in Chesapeake Bay.[90]

30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Harry F. Browder  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with Barge "D. H. Keyes", under tow by Joe D. Dudley ( United States), in the Harbor at Duluth, Minnesota.[91]

July

1 July

List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Dove  Queensland The Steamer was wrecked 3 miles off Cape Tribulation. Raised in November, repaired and returned to service as Jessie.[92]

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Heathmore  United Kingdom The Liverpool steamer ran into the Seven Stones Reef at full speed while en route from Santander to Glasgow with 2,400 tons of iron-ore. She floated clear at 8 am and anchored two miles away with the crew pumping water all day. By evening they took to the boats and were picked up by Lady of the Isles as Heathmore sank in 40 fathoms (73 m).[93]

9 July

List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Anna L. Russell  United States The Schooner was damaged in a collision with Seth Chapman ( United States) off Goose Island and was beached to prevent sinking. One crewman missing.[94]

15 July

List of shipwrecks: 15 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Jim Montgomery  United States The steamer sprung a leak and sank at dock at Madison, Indiana. Later raised.[95]

17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
A. R. Gray  United States The steamer burned to the waterline while lying at Andalusia, Pennsylvania.[96]

19 July

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Seth Chapman  United States The Tug was passing through Hell Gate when a towline got hung up in her wheel, she drifted onto Mill Rock and sank.[97]

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Concha  Belgium The steamer collided with Saint Fillans ( United Kingdom) off the Owers Lightship, English Channel and sank.[66]
J. W. Eviston  United States The steamer was burned to the waterline in the Harbor at Duluth, Minnesota.[98]

25 July

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Hester Thomas  United States The vessel struck an obstruction in the Wabash River and sank in 3 feet of water. Later raised and repaired.[99]

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Advance  New South Wales While anchored off New South Wales, Australia, in Botany Bay at the entrance to Cooks River, the schooner was driven ashore on Lady Robinsons Beach during a fierce squall after her port anchor chain parted and she dragged her starboard anchor chain. She was refloated, repaired, and returbed to service.
Benton  United States The passenger steamer struck a bridge at Sioux City, Iowa and sank with 2 holes in her hull, a total loss.[100]

28 July

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Gleaner  United States The Sloop was sunk in a collision with City of Gloucester ( United States) in the Harbor of Boston, Massachusetts.[101]
Gypsy  United States The steamer struck a snag in the Upper Willamette River 4 miles above Salem, Oregon sinking in 8 feet of water.[102]

August

3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Fleming  United States The Schooner was sunk in Chesapeake Bay. Work to remove the wreck completed 18 November, 1897.[103]

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
River Queen  United States The steamer was sunk at dock in Detour, Michigan when struck by Barge "Martha". Raised and repaired.[104]

5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Leo  United States The steamer was dragged down and sunk while tied up along side Mattie Winters ( United States) when she filled and sank at Greenville, Mississippi. Later raised.[105]
Mattie Winters  United States The steamer filled and sank over night due to a leak at Greenville, Mississippi,a total loss. She dragged down Leo ( United States) tied up along side.[106]
Mexico  United States During a voyage from Sitka, Territory of Alaska, to Victoria, British Columbia, and ports in Puget Sound in Washington with 70 passengers, 71 crewmen, and a cargo of three tons of general merchandise on board, the 1,797-gross register ton, 265-foot (80.8 m) steam schooner sank in 510 feet (155 m) of water two hours after striking West Devil Rock (54°40′N 131°36′W) in Dixon Entrance on the Canada-United States border between British Columbia and the Territory of Alaska. Everyone on board reached safety in the ship′s boats.[107]

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Oakland  New South Wales The passenger cargo ship ran aground on the bar at Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Katy Smith  United States The tow boat sprang a leak over night and sank at dock in Port Richmond, New York. Raised the next day.[108]
Navarch  United States Trapped in pack ice in the Chukchi Sea off Icy Cape, Territory of Alaska, since July 1897, the 494-ton steam whaling bark was abandoned off Blossom Shoals (71°23′29″N 156°28′00″W). Sixteen of her crewmen died while trying to cross the ice and reach shore. Her 16 surviving crewmen were rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue Cutter Service) and the steamer Thrasher ( United States). Navarch eventually drifted in the ice as a derelict to the vicinity of Point Barrow, where she ultimately was burned by salvors in January 1898.[109]
Unknown  United States The coal boat was sunk in a collision with excursion Barge "Carrier", under the tow of Hot Spur ( United States), at "Glass House" in the Ohio River. Raised and repaired.[110]

13 August

List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Nat Sutton  United States The tow steamer burned at Providence Dry Dock, Providence, Rhode Island, a total loss.[111]

16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
"Onward"  United States The tow boat burned at Lucas Landing in the Monongahela River, a total loss.[112]

18 August

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Gov. John A. Dix  United States The steamer foundered lying at New Orleans, a total loss.[113]

21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Ralph  United States The steamer struck a snag and sank in the St. Francis River 2 miles above the Mouth of the L'Anguille River. Raised and repaired.[114]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
"Felix"  United States The Barge, under tow of Nathan Hale ( United States), sank near Quicks Ledge. Crew rescued by Nathan Hale.[115]

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
White Beaver  United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at Brownsville, Minnesota.[116]

31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Three Brothers  United States The Schooner was sunk in a collision with Potomac ( United States) near Seven Foot Knoll in Chesapeake Bay. Work to remove the wreck completed 18 November, 1897. Her Captain drowned.[117][118]

September

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Geo. L. Bass  United States The steamer foundered at Cabin Point, Louisiana when her seams open. Later raised.[119]

6 September

List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Unknown  United States The Barge, under tow of William K. Stevenson ( United States), foundered in the Niagara River near Strawberry Island. One crewman was killed.[120]

7 September

List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Hueneme  United States During a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, carrying two passengers, nine crew, and 600 tons of cargo consisting of a steam launch and the lumber and materials to construct two river steamers and a barge, the 346.77-net register ton, 142.3-foot (43.4 m) schooner was wrecked without loss of life in rain and fog at Cape Khituk (54°24′15″N 164°47′30″W) on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands.[121]

11 September

List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
"City of Brunswick"  United States The Steamer burned to the waterline at dock in Mayport, Florida.[122]

12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Florence  United States 1897 Hurricane No. 2:The steamer sank at dock in a Hurricane at Sabine Pass.[123]
Henrietta  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in 4 feet of water in the Ohio River at Five Mile, Ohio. Raised and repaired.[124]
John P. Smith  United States 1897 Hurricane No. 2:The Tug broke free from the Barge "Mexico", capsized and sank in a Hurricane in Sabine Pass, later located in Sabine Lake. All on board, her Captain, the Pilot, and one other crewman died.[125]
J. V. Guillotte  United States 1897 Hurricane No. 2:The steamer sank at dock in a Hurricane.[126]

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Lillie  United States The steamer burned at dock in Nantasket, Massachusetts, a total loss.[127]

14 September

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Belle Memphis  United States The passenger steamer struck an obstruction below Chester, Illinois and sank in the Mississippi River, a total loss.[128]

15 September

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Catskill  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with St. Johns ( United States) off Fifty-Eighth Street in the North River. Crew and passengers rescued by St. Johns and a Tug, one boy possibly died. Raised, rebuilt and returned to service as City of Hudson.[129][130]

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
John Rourke  United States The Steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in the Satilla River.[131]

20 September

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Gazelle  United States The Steamer sank at dock in Yalaha, Florida in a storm when she got caught under the dock over night. Raised the next day.[132]

21 September

List of shipwrecks: 21 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
"Edna"  United States The Yacht was sunk at dock in the Milwaukee River when struck by Coe ( United States).[133]
James B. Schuyler  United States The steamer caught fire at dock over night at East Twenty-First Street, New York City. The New York City Fire Department was unable to put out the fire and she sank.[134]
Jessie H. Freeman  United States The steam whaling bark was crushed by ice in the Seahorse Islands off Point Franklin, Territory of Alaska in the Arctic Ocean, Two days later she was accidentally set on fire by natives and burned to the water's edge. The whaling steamer Belvedere ( United States) rescued her crew.[135]
Orca  United States The 628-ton three-masted steam whaling bark was crushed by ice in the Seahorse Islands off Point Franklin, Territory of Alaska, in the Arctic Ocean, sinking three or four days later. The whaling steamers Jessie H. Freeman and Belvedere (both  United States) rescued her crew.[136][137]

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Jessie H. Freeman  United States The 516-ton steam whaling bark was crushed in ice and abandoned in the Chukchi Sea off the Seahorse Islands (70°53′N 158°42′W) off the coast of the Territory of Alaska. Her crew survived. Eskimos later accidentally burned the vessel, and she sank.[138]
R. L. Mabey  United States The Steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Brunswick, Georgia.[139]
SMS S26  Imperial German Navy The S24-class torpedo boat sank in a storm at the mouth of the Elbe off Cuxhaven, Germany.[140][141]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Glance  United States The Steamer was crowded by Gazelle ( United States) that was trying to pass in Buffalo Creek causing her to tip enough to fill and sink. Her Engineer was killed.[142]

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Lynx  Royal Navy The Ferret-class destroyer ran aground on Dodman Point, Cornwall, England, in fog. She managed to refloat herself and limped to Devonport.[143]
HMS Thrasher  Royal Navy The Quail-class destroyer ran aground on Dodman Point, Cornwall, England, in fog. She was escorted to Falmouth, Cornwall, and eventually made it to Devonport for repairs.[143]

unknown September

List of shipwrecks: unknown September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
John M. Abbott  United States The laid up steamer sprung a leak and sank at Phillip, Mississippi. Total loss.[144]

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Idaho  United States The 81-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Great Gull Isle on the coast of Maine. All three people on board survived.[145]

2 October

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Mary Morton  United States The passenger steamer struck an obstruction at Tower Island, Illinois and sank, a total loss.[146]

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Rowena Lee  United States The steamer struck a snag and sank in 12 feet of water at Ashleys Point, Arkansas. Raised and repaired.[147]

6 October

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Commodore Duryea  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with "City of Chester" ( United States) in dense fog at Norfolk, Virginia.[148]
Sallie  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with Old Point Comfort ( United States) in dense fog at Norfolk, Virginia.[149]

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Mary Me  United States The schooner was wrecked in a gale on the west end of St. George Island, Florida.[49]

8 October

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Bart E. Linehan  United States The steamer struck a snag and sank a 1/4 mile above Buena Vista, Iowa in 8 feet of water. Raised and repaired.[150]
Clyde  United States The Tug burned to the waterline and sank while anchored at Tavenier Key, a total loss.[151]
E. B. Hale  United States The steamer foundered after suffering engine failure in a Gale on Lake Huron and got caught in the wave troughs 37 miles above Pointe aux Barques Light. After failed attempts to pass tow lines her crew was rescued by Nebraska ( United States).[152][153][154]

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Ouida  United States The steamer foundered on Grand Lake, Louisiana in a gale. Boiler and machinery scheduled to be salvaged.[155]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Daisy  United States The steamer burned near Clinton, Washington.[156]
May Bryan  United States The laid up steamer sank at Washington, Missouri in the Missouri River due to dried out seams, a total loss.[157]

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
C. W. Wells  United States The Steamer caught fire on Lake Erie 3 miles from Bar Point Shoal Light and burned to the waterline.[158]
New Mattie  United States The steamer struck a snag and sank near Star Landing, Mississippi in the Mississippi River. Raised and repaired.[159]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
George R. Ford  United States The Dredge was sunk when her boilers exploded at Charleroi, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River, a total loss. Her Captain and Steward were killed.[160]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Ida Smith  United States The steamer caught fire over night, burned to the waterline and sank at Letart Falls, Ohio, a total loss.[161]

23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Caspar  United States The steam schooner was wrecked on Saunder's Reef 4 miles south of Point Arena in a Gale causing her to capsize and go ashore, a total loss. 13 crew killed, her Captain and 1 crewman survived.[162][163]
Richard H. Vandecar  United States The Tug was destroyed by fire at dock in Watervliet, New York.[164]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Pelican  United Kingdom Carrying a crew of 40 and a cargo of railroad ties, the 2,338-gross register ton, 327-foot (99.7 m) tramp steamer departed Port Gamble, Washington, on 3 October[165] or Port Townsend, Washington on 12 October[166] (sources disagree) bound for Taku, China, via Yokohama, Japan, and was never seen again after passing Cape Flattery, Washington[166] (although one source claims she was last sighted on 16 October[66]). A message in a bottle later found washed ashore on the coast of the Territory of Alaska on the Alaska Peninsula in Portage Bay (50°34′N 155°35′W) on 15 May 1899[167] was from a man known to be aboard Pelican, and it stated that Pelican was sinking in the North Pacific Ocean about 120 nautical miles (220 km; 140 mi) south of Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands at 57°N 175°W and that those aboard were abandoning ship in "frail" lifeboats.[165] Another message in a bottle from the same man found on "Ukomok Island"[168] (probably Chirikof Island in the Gulf of Alaska)[165] on 9 February 1900 identified the date of the sinking as 24 October 1897.[165][168] Other ships reported a severe gale in the area in which Pelican sank at the time she sank.[167]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
John W. Dodge  United States The Oyster boat sank at dock at East Providence, Rhode Island when an unknown person boarded and opened her Seacock. Raised and found undamaged.[169]

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Fusō  Imperial Japanese Navy When a strong gale struck while she was anchored in the Seto Inland Sea off Nagahama, Shikoku, Japan, the central battery ironclad′s anchor chain broke and she drifted across the harbor, collided with the ram of the protected cruiser Matsushima ( Imperial Japanese Navy), and then struck the protected cruiser Itsukushima ( Imperial Japanese Navy). To keep her from sinking in deeper water, she was run onto a reef, where she sank in shallow water.[170][171][172] She was refloated in July 1898 and returned to service in 1900.[172]

November

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Progress  United States The Dredge burned and sank at the foot of Twenty-Second Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River.[173]

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
H. D. Mould  United States The steamer struck a dike at Reedy Island knocking a hole in her bottom and was beached at Port Penn, Delaware.[174]

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Idaho  United States The Steamer foundered in a heavy Gale of rain and hail in Lake Erie 12 miles above Long Point, Ontario in 7 Fathoms of water. Her Captain and 18 crew died. 2 crewmen rescued by Mariposa from her mast.[175][176][177]

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Castalia  United States The steamer struck a piling below a bridge at Sioux City, Iowa in the Missouri River and sank. Later raised and repaired.[178]

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Vision  United States The Yacht was wrecked in a gale near the Pass A L'Outre Light, Louisiana, a total loss.[179]

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Hattie T. Brown  United States The steamer foundered at anchor in a Gale in Saginaw Bay.[180]

12 November

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Shirley  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank to just over her Main Deck below Portsmouth, Ohio in the Ohio River. Was a total loss after several unsuccessful attempts to raise her.[181]

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Rover  United States The steamer struck a snag and sank at Van Lane, Mississippi, a total loss.[182]

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Progress  United States The steamer struck the pier of a railroad bridge and sank at Point Perry in the Monongahela River. Raised and repaired.[183]
Ondawa  United States The Tug was destroyed by fire at dock in Watervliet, New York.[184]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Bluff City  United States The stern wheeler passenger/cargo steamer burned at Chester, Illinois in the Mississippi River, a total loss.[185][186]
Truckee  United States The steamer was caught in a terrific 3 day Gale that began on the 16th, she developed a significant leak on the 17th and was wrecked when rising water put out her fires after crossing the Bar into Umpqua River on the 18th and went ashore, a total loss. All on board rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[187][188][189]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Dreadnaught  United States The Schooner was sunk in a collision with Tug Col. John F. Gaynor ( United States) near the Bartlett Reef Lightship.[190]
F. A. Pike  United States The Schooner was sunk in a collision with Menemsha ( United States) in Boston harbor in 30 feet of water on the north side of the Main Channel, south of Governor's Island.[191][192]
Telegraph  United States The passenger steamer struck the bank 15 miles above Louisville, Kentucky with such force that she sank, a total loss.[193]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Flirt  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Burton Bradstock, Dorset with the loss of three of her six crew.[194]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Dove  United States The Steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Toledo, Ohio.[195]

25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Jennie B.  United States The Yacht capsized and sank in the Yazoo River. Her machinery was salvaged.[196]

26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
H. E. Runnells  United States The steamer stranded on Point Abbaye in Lake Superior in a snowstorm. Pulled off November 30.[197]{[198]

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
"J. R. Silliman"  United States The Barge, under tow of Gertrude ( United States), was sunk in a collision with Lottie ( United States) between Watch Hill, Rhode Island and Fall River, Massachusetts. Her Captain and a crewman drowned.[199]
Lottie  United States The Schooner was sunk in a collision with Barge "J. R. Silliman", under tow of Gertrude ( United States) between Watch Hill, Rhode Island and Fall River, Massachusetts. Crew rescued by Gertrude.[200]

29 November

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Frank A. Low  United States The steamer burned to the waterline at Norfolk, Virginia.[201]
Nahant  United States The steamer caught fire at the Chicago and North West Dock No. 4 at Escanaba, Michigan. The Dock caught fire and was destroyed along with 30 Ore Cars, and she was burned out. Two crewmen killed.[202][203][204]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Edith H. Koyen  United States The schooner sank in the vicinity of the Kewaunee, Wisconsin Life Saving Station. Salvage started, with assistance of the United States Life Saving Service, on 21 September 1898 and hauled onto the ways on the 28th.[205]
Innisfallen  United Kingdom The ship sank in a storm in the English Channel near the Goodwin Sands with the loss of eight lives.

December

2 December

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Friend to all Nations  United Kingdom The Margate surfboat capsized with the loss of nine of her 13 crew.[206] She was going to the assistance of Persian Empire ( United Kingdom).[207]
Persian Empire  United Kingdom The ship collided with a steamship and was beached on the Margate Sands, Kent. Her crew were rescued by the lifeboat Quiver ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution.[207]
Prince Albert de Belgique  Belgium The steamer collided at Antwerp, Belgium, with the sailing ship Larnaca ( United Kingdom) and sank. She was raised on 6 July 1900.[208]

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
George W. Morley  United States The steamer, (A.K.A. Geo. W. Morley), caught fire from a lantern exploding in the engine room. She was run aground 100 yards off Greenwood Avenue, Evanston, Indiana and burned to the waterline, a total loss. Her engine salvaged 1898. Her wreck was removed 1918.[209][210][211]
Nor’Wester  United States The 32.52-ton fishing schooner was blown onto rocks and wrecked in Clarence Strait in Southeast Alaska. All on board abandoned ship in a small boat and survived.[109]

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
"Cleveland"  United States The steamer broke her shaft off the Columbia River and drifted ashore at Lyall Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Refloated and taken to Quartermaster Harbor arriving 5 January, 1898. Her crew abandoned ship in her boats. One died of exposure. One boat with 8 crew aboard disappeared and was lost. 13 crew and 2 passengers survived.[212]
Moro  United States The freighter broke her rudder crossing the Bar into Coquille River and went ashore, a total loss.[213]

7 December

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
C. L. Marchal  United States The Lighter filled and sank at dock at the Foot of Sixteenth Street in the East River due to a tank being allowed to overfill. Raised and drydocked.[214]

9 December

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Winifrede  United States The steamer caught fire over night, burned to the waterline and sank just below Plymouth, West Virginia in the Great Kanawha River, total loss.[215]

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
W. K. Phillips  United States The steamer destroyed by fire in the Cumberland River 3 miles above Dover, Tennessee.[216]

14 December

List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Pargoud  United States The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River near the Mouth of the Red River, a total loss.[217]
Stella Wilds  United States The steamer struck a snag at Ober's Landing, Cross's Post Office, or Schleicher's Landing, 25 miles below Natchez, Mississippi in the Mississippi River. Her bow was run onto the bank with the stern sunk in 4 feet of water. Later raised.[218][219]

18 December

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Belle  United States The tow steamer filled and sank at dock at the Foot of One Hundred Thirty Third Street in the Harlem River due to a tank being allowed to overfill.[220]

22 December

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Alexandra  United States Anchored for two years out of commission off Goose Island — more commonly called Aiaktalik Island (56°42′N 154°07′W) — in the Geese Islands in the Territory of Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago off the south end of Kodiak Island, the 7.66-ton, 35.6-foot (10.9 m) schooner dragged her anchor during a gale and became a total loss. All three people on board survived.[81]

23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
W. R. Billups  United States The Bugeye was sunk in a collision with Chesapeake ( United States) at Norfolk, Virginia.[221]

24 December

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
"Galatia"  United States The Barge, under tow of "America" ( United States), foundered in a heavy Gale near Chincoteague Lighthouse.[222]
Hotspur  United States The steamer lost an engine causing her to go over Dam No. 4 on the Monongahela River, and was sunk/wrecked.[223][224]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Andy Hatcher  United States The laid up steamer caught fire, burned to the waterline and sank in 3 feet of water at Paint Creek near Paintsville, Kentucky in the Big Sandy River, total loss. Her machinery was salvaged and installed in Mill Boat "Ray".[225][226]

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Charles E. Leland  United States The Tug was destroyed by fire while lying at Coeymans, New York.[227]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Clarissa Radcliffe  United Kingdom The 2,544 GRT steamer was on a voyage from Odessa to Rotterdam with a cargo of grain. The vessel met a gale off Cape St Vincent, the cargo shifted and the vessel sank with the loss of sixteen lives.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Cape Horn Pigeon  United States The 212-ton, 100-foot (30.5 m) whaling vessel was lost at Hakodate, Japan, during the whaling season of 1897.[228]
Margaret and Mary  United Kingdom The Welsh schooner from Port Dinorwic was lost at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall.[229]
Mortera  Spain The cargo ship was lost at the entrance to the harbor at Nuevitas, Cuba, in an accident caused by strong tides and currents.[230]
New Racket  United States The approximately 50-foot (15.2 m) sternwheel paddle steamer was carried away and wrecked in the breakup of ice on the Yukon River in the Territory of Alaska in the spring of 1897, ending up on a stump about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) into the forest at the back of a blind slough about four miles (6.4 km) above the trading post at Pelly.[109]
Sapphire  United States The 109-ton sealing schooner caught fire and exploded in the North Pacific Ocean 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) off Ucluelet, British Columbia. Her crew of four abandoned ship just before the explosion and survived.[231]

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Ship events in 1897
Ship launches: 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902
Ship commissionings: 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902
Ship decommissionings: 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902
Shipwrecks: 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902
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