List of shipwrecks in 1898
The list of shipwrecks in 1898 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1898.
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References |
January
4 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Little Rock | ![]() |
The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River of the South at Moultrie Landing. Declared a constructive total loss.[1] |
7 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fred Stone | ![]() |
The laid up ferry sprung a leak and sank at Coryville, Ohio. Total loss.[2] |
8 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Favorite | ![]() |
The steamer burned to the waterline at dock in Suffolk, Virginia.[3] |
9 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ed. C. Kirker | ![]() |
The steamer was sunk by a windstorm at Point Pleasant, West Virginia.[4] |
Venus | ![]() |
The laid up steamer sprung a leak and sank at Marietta, Ohio.[5] |
12 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mataura | ![]() |
The ship struck a rock off Desolación Island, Chile. She was beached in Sealer's Cove and abandoned. The ship broke in two during March and was a total loss.[6] |
Relief | ![]() |
The steamer filled and sank at Pier 3, Port Richmond, Philadelphia. Raised the next day.[7] |
17 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Water Maiden | ![]() |
The steamer was swamped and sunk at dock by the wake of a passing vessel at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Total loss.[8] |
19 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Active | ![]() |
The ketch was wrecked without loss of life on the Oyster Bank at the entrance of Newcastle Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, near the previously wrecked schooner Colonist at approximately 32.92°S 151.79°E. |
Lord O'Neill | ![]() |
The cargo ship was wrecked in the Blasket Islands, County Kerry. Her crew took to the lifeboats. They were later rescued by Kincora (![]() |
20 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Little Albert | ![]() |
The steamer swamped in a severe windstorm and sank at Louisville, Kentucky. Total loss.[10] |
22 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Plucky City | ![]() |
The steamer sank in a windstorm in the Mississippi River above Greenfield, Missouri. Raised and returned to service.[11] |
23 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Corona | ![]() |
The steamer struck an uncharted rock off the south east end of Lewis Island in the Arthur Passage, British Columbia and sank. Raised and towed to San Francisco for repairs.[12] |
Eva Evert | ![]() |
The laid up ferry was sunk by heavy swells during a severe storm at Vevay, Indiana. Raised and repaired.[13] |
James A. Dumont | ![]() |
The tug sank in a severe gale three miles (4.8 km) east north east of the Sandy Hook Lightship. The crew were rescued by the tug D. S. Arnott (![]() |
Tillie | ![]() |
The steamer sank 30 miles (48 km) south east of Shinnecock Light. Four deaths.[15] |
Yonkers | ![]() |
Manned by a crew of four and under tow by the tug Walter A. Luckenbach (![]() |
24 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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J. E. Wallace | ![]() |
The tug sank in a hurricane despite seeking refuge behind the Sandy Hook Lightship. The crew got onboard the lightship.[17] |
25 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Koonya | ![]() |
![]() Koonya |
26 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Duluth | ![]() |
The passenger/cargo steamer struck the bar entering St. Joseph, Michigan in a gale and was driven ashore 350 feet (110 m) west of the North Pier, was wrecked, and broke up.[18][19] |
31 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Glouchester | ![]() |
The steamer struck "the Graves" in Boston Harbor and was beached to prevent sinking. Afterward the vessel was refloated and towed to Boston.[20] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alaska | ![]() |
While operating as a ferry on a service between Wrangell, Territory of Alaska, and the Stikine River, the small steamer became a total loss after she struck a rock in Southeast Alaska.[21] |
Waipara | ![]() |
The cargo ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Okarito, New Zealand.[22] |
February
1 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Channel Queen | ![]() |
Steaming from Plymouth to the Channel Islands was wrecked in bad weather and fog on the Black Rock, 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) off Guernsey. Forty were saved but 14 passengers and 5 crew were drowned.[23][24] |
Frank Scripture | ![]() |
The steamer broke free from her dock in Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts during a severe gale and was wrecked on rocks, a total loss. One crewman killed.[25] |
H. W. Hills | ![]() |
The steamer sank at dock in East Boston, Massachusetts.[26] |
Senorita | ![]() |
The sloop – probably 23.8 feet (7.3 m) in length – departed Seattle, Washington, bound for Juneau, Territory of Alaska, with a crew of seven men and was never seen or heard from again.[27] |
2 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Montezuma | ![]() |
The steamer while laying at the bank at Holloway's Landing, Kentucky, across the river from Mound City, Illinois sprung a leak and sank. Total loss.[28] |
Wave | ![]() |
The steamer sank at Hill's Wharf, Providence, Rhode Island from unknown causes.[29] |
5 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Clara Nevada | ![]() |
![]() The propeller shaft of Clara Nevada on the sea floor. |
6 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Veendam | ![]() |
The ocean liner hit a derelict ship in the North Atlantic and sank, with all on board saved. |
9 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Port Admiral | ![]() |
The 38-gross register ton, 60-foot (18.3 m) schooner was wrecked during a gale and snowstorm in Lynn Canal at Skagway, Territory of Alaska.[31] |
10 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mystic | ![]() |
The yacht struck a snag in the Edisto River two miles (3.2 km) below the Jacksonboro, South Carolina Bridge and sank in four feet (1.2 m) of water.[32] |
15 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Maine | ![]() |
![]() USS Maine The armored cruiser (often referred to as a "battleship") sank in the harbor at Havana, Cuba, after an on-board explosion. |
16 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ericsson | ![]() |
The steamer careened, filled, and sank during a north west gale in shallow water in Wilmington Creek.[33] |
17 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Doc B. | ![]() |
The steamer sank at dock over night in Norfolk, Virginia, possibly caught on dock on a rising tide, tipping, filling and sinking.[34] |
St. M. V. T. Co. No. 34 | ![]() |
The barge, under the tow of Henry Lowery (![]() |
19 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Canada | ![]() |
With a cargo of lumber, hay, grain, and four horses aboard, the 1,190.58-gross register ton, 176.6-foot (53.8 m) bark broke her moorings and went adrift during a gale and was wrecked at Skagway, Territory of Alaska. Her crew survived.[36] |
23 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Two Brothers | ![]() |
The steamer sank over night at Shire Oak on the Monongahela River. Raised afterwards.[37] |
28 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Camilla | ![]() |
The steamer was sunk in a collision with Paoli (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Midas | ![]() |
The barque departed Nagasaki, Japan, bound for the United States West Coast sometime around 14 February and was never heard from again. She probably sank with the loss of all hands in a violent storm other ships reported encountering along the same route at around the same time.[39] |
March
1 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Eliza Anderson | ![]() |
Anchored at Unalaska on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands since she had been abandoned there in September 1897 during a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, by a group of miners who had been defrauded into believing she was seaworthy enough for the trip, the 197-ton schooner-rigged sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked when she dragged her anchor during a gale and was stranded on the beach. Only one person, a watchman, was aboard.[40] |
3 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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William Ernst | ![]() |
The steamer struck a rock and sank in Machine Ripple in the Great Kanawha River. Raised and taken to Middleport, Ohio for repairs.[41] |
4 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Whitelaw | ![]() |
The 363.14-gross register ton, 145-foot (44.2 m) cargo liner was destroyed by fire while at anchor in the harbor at Skagway, Territory of Alaska. There was no loss of life.[42] |
8 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Sitka | ![]() |
During a voyage from Sitka to Wrangell, Territory of Alaska, with three people aboard, the small two-masted schooner was lost off Cape Ommaney (56°10′00″N 134°40′20″W) in Southeast Alaska.[36] |
9 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Savannah | ![]() |
The steamer burned to the waterline and sank at Memphis, Tennessee. Total loss[43] |
11 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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G. B. Monteith | ![]() |
The steamer swamped in a windstorm and sank while tied up to the bank at Troy, Indiana in the Ohio River. Total loss.[44] |
S. D. Barlow | ![]() |
The steamer burned to the waterline while laying at the bank at Bird's Point, Missouri. Total loss.[45] |
13 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Grand Republic | ![]() |
The laid-up steamer burned at St. Louis, Missouri. Total loss.[46] |
15 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Rosa Bland | ![]() |
The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River of the South at Douglas Landing. Total loss.[47] |
19 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Col. T. G. Sparks | ![]() |
When the water level fell while she was moored to a dock, the laid-up steamer was punctured by a snag sank in the Red River of the South at San Gabriel, Louisiana.[48] |
25 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Stad Nieuport | ![]() |
The steamer departed Antwerp, Belgium, bound for King's Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom. No further trace.[49] |
27 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Velnette | ![]() |
The steamer sank at dock in Jacksonville, Florida. Promptly raised.[50] |
29 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Filibustier | ![]() |
The Filibustier-class torpedo boat sank after colliding with the protected cruiser Friant (![]() |
30 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sitka (or City of Sitka) | ![]() |
The 17.44-ton, 41.5-foot (12.6 m) two-masted sealing and trading schooner was lost off Cape Ommaney (56°10′00″N 134°40′20″W) in Southeast Alaska during a voyage from Sitka to Fort Wrangell, Territory of Alaska. Her entire crew of three perished. The schooner Northern Star (![]() |
31 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ella C. | ![]() |
The steamer burned at anchor in Little Bay, Virginia. Total loss.[53] |
Job T. Wilson | ![]() |
The tow steamer burned at Bacon Wharf in the St. Marys River. Total loss[54] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bay of Panama | flag unknown | The sailing ship was wrecked under Nare Head, near St Keverne, Cornwall, United Kingdom, during a great blizzard.[55] The ship carried jute from Calcutta; Eighteen of those on board died while nineteen were saved.[56] |
Eliza Anderson | ![]() |
The abandoned sidewheel paddle steamer broke her moorings and was driven ashore during a storm at Dutch Harbor, Territory of Alaska, a total loss. |
Henry Harvey | ![]() |
The brigantine was stranded on Battery Rocks, Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom, during a gale. Five people aboard were rescued by lifeboat.[57] |
April
2 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Laira | ![]() |
![]() Laira ![]() |
6 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Henry Morrison | ![]() |
The steamer burned at dock at Winthrop, Massachusetts.[58] |
7 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Stella | ![]() |
The steamer blew the head of the mud drum out through the ship's side, causing her to capsize and sink in the Great Kanawha River.[59] |
8 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Douglass | ![]() |
The tug was sunk in a collision with Emma C. Knowles (![]() |
9 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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John K. Davidson | ![]() |
The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Allegheny River. Raised afterwards.[61] |
Metamora | ![]() |
The steamer sank at dock in Palatka, Florida.[62] |
11 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mercury | ![]() |
With a crew of 40 and 1,500 tons of general merchandise aboard, the 1,050.29-gross register ton, 193-foot (58.8 m) wooden ship was stranded in the harbor at Skagway, Territory of Alaska, after she dragged her anchor during a gale. She later was refloated and placed back in service as a barge.[39] |
12 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Memphis | ![]() |
The steamer burned at dock and sank at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Total loss.[63] |
13 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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R. M. Blackburn | ![]() |
The steamer struck a snag and sank in Pool No. 5 in the Monongahela River. Raised afterwards.[64] |
15 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Twilight | ![]() |
The steamer struck a pier of the old Aqueduct Bridge and sank in Pittsburgh in the Allegheny River. One crewman drowned. Raised afterwards.[65] |
17 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Crofton Hall | ![]() |
The barque ran aground on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Her crew were rescued by breeches buoy. She was on a voyage from Dundee, Perthshire to New York, United States.[66] |
Mayflower | ![]() |
The steamer struck a sandbar in the Mississippi River one mile (1.6 km) above Chester, Illinois and sank. Raised, repaired, and returned to service.[67] |
22 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Atlantis | ![]() |
During a voyage to Skagway, Territory of Alaska, the steam schooner was lost near Yellow Rock Light (54°47′30″N 131°13′45″W) in Southeast Alaska near Dixon Entrance, 6.5 nautical miles (12.0 km; 7.5 mi) south of Duke Island in the Alexander Archipelago. All on board survived, but she was deemed a total loss.[21] |
23 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Leah | ![]() |
The steamer was forced by a strong current into the bridge at Abbeville, Louisiana in the Atchafalaya River resulting in her sinking. Total loss.[68] |
25 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Elsie | ![]() |
During a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands with 24 miners, a crew of five, and a cargo of 80,000 pounds (36,000 kg) of lumber and miners' supplies aboard, the 67.7-foot (20.6 m) schooner was wrecked without loss of life on the northeast coast of Chirikof Island in the Gulf of Alaska. She was deemed a total loss.[40] |
27 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Servia | ![]() |
The bulk carrier burned in a gale between West Superior, Wisconsin and Prescott, Ontario when a man tripped with a lit candle. The crew were rescued by Alberta (![]() |
28 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cadet | ![]() |
The steamer went ashore on Shirley Gut, Boston Harbor. Heavy seas lifted her stern and wind drove her ashore, total loss.[71] |
29 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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John Harlan | ![]() |
The tug was struck by a gale off Cape Lookout and sought shelter in Lookout Bight where she went ashore. Later refloated.[72] |
May
1 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Castilla | ![]() |
![]() Castilla ![]() |
Don Antonio de Ulloa | ![]() |
![]() Don Antonio de Ulloa ![]() |
Don Juan de Austria | ![]() |
![]() Don Juan de Austria ![]() ![]() |
Elcano | ![]() |
Spanish–American War, Battle of Manila Bay:The General Concha class Gunboat was shelled and sunk by US Navy ships off Sangley Point, Luzon, or captured by the U.S. Army after the battle (beached?). Either way salvaged and put in U.S. Navy service.[76][77] |
General Lezo | ![]() |
Spanish–American War, Battle of Manila Bay:The General Concha class Gunboat was shelled and sunk by US Navy ships off Sangley Point, Luzon.[78][79][80] |
George H. Sharp | ![]() |
The tug burned at dock in Greenbush, New York and was totally destroyed.[81] |
Isla de Cuba | ![]() |
![]() Isla de Cuba ![]() ![]() |
Isla de Luzón | ![]() |
![]() Isla de Luzón ![]() ![]() |
Marques del Duero | ![]() |
Spanish–American War, Battle of Manila Bay: The Fernando el Catolico-class gunboat was shelled by ships of the Asiatic Squadron (![]() ![]() |
Mindanao | ![]() |
Spanish–American War, Battle of Manila Bay: The transport was shelled by ships of the Asiatic Squadron (![]() |
Reina Cristina | ![]() |
![]() Reina Cristina Spanish–American War, Battle of Manila Bay: The Alfonso XII-class cruiser was shelled and sunk in Manila Bay by the protected cruisers USS Baltimore, USS Boston and USS Olympia (all |
Unknown | ![]() |
Battle of Manila Bay: The unidentified Torpedo Boat was shelled and sunk in Manila Bay by ships of the Asiatic Squadron (![]() |
Velasco | ![]() |
![]() Velasco ![]() |
5 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hereward | ![]() |
![]() Hereward The clipper was wrecked at Maroubra Beach, Sydney, Australia. |
7 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Merksworth | ![]() |
The screw steamer was wrecked off Stockton Beach, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. |
8 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Abernyte | ![]() |
While carrying nitrate of soda from Caleta Buena to Falmouth, Cornwall, the barque was wrecked under Rill Head on the Lizard.[88] |
Thomas G. Smith | ![]() |
The tow steamer lost her house, filled with water, and sank during a north east gale between Fenwicks Island and Chincoteague, Virginia. Crew rescued by the schooner Alice M. Colbourne (![]() |
10 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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H. W. Hills | ![]() |
The tug sank four miles (6.4 km) south south east of Marblehead, Massachusetts.[90] |
18 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bulgaria | ![]() |
The steamer went ashore in fog on Gull Island in Lake Superior.[91] |
Vega | ![]() |
The steamer went ashore in fog on Gull Island in Lake Superior.[92] |
20 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pete Gorman | ![]() |
The steamer rolled, filled, and sank when she was struck by City of Buffalo (![]() |
Sterling | ![]() |
During a voyage from San Francisco, California, to the Bristol Bay coast of the Territory of Alaska with 150 Chinese cannery workers, 25 crewmen, and a cargo of cannery supplies on board, the 1,731.62-gross register ton, 208.4-foot (63.5 m) wooden ship was wrecked without loss of life on an uncharted shoal – thereafter known as Sterling Shoal (58°18′N 158°53′W) – 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) southwest by south of Cape Constantine on the coast of the Territory of Alaska.[27] |
22 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Helen | ![]() |
The 27.82-ton, 45.6-foot (13.9 m) schooner suffered minor damage when she ran aground at Unalaska on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands.[94] |
Unidentified junk | ![]() |
The junk was sunk in a collision with City of Rio Janeiro (![]() |
26 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Janie Rae | ![]() |
The steamer struck an obstruction in the Apalachicola River below Blountstown, Florida and sank. After an attempt at raising her failed, her machinery and cabin fixtures were salvaged.[96] |
Nyanza | ![]() |
The Newlyn fishing lugger was run ashore on Great Crebawethan, Isles of Scilly after hitting the Crims and springing a leak. The St Agnes lifeboat, James and Caroline took off four of the crew and the fifth was saved by an island boat.[97] |
27 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alton | ![]() |
The 84-ton schooner was lost in a gale near the mouth of Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska as she departed Cook Inlet bound for Tacoma, Washington, with a crew of five on board. Her wreck was found in June.[21] |
29 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Worchester | ![]() |
The steamer struck Cormorant Rock off the harbor of New London, Connecticut and was beached in Green Harbor in sinking condition.[98] |
30 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Agnes Arnold | ![]() |
The steamer burned at Chambers Island.[99] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Adelaide | ![]() |
The schooner was lost with the loss of two lives after leaving Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, carrying a load of coal on a voyage to Gisborne, New Zealand. |
June
2 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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General | ![]() |
The barge sank off the Aleutian Islands. Her towing vessel, Rival (![]() |
USS Merrimac | ![]() |
![]() USS Merrimac ![]() |
3 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fu Ch'ing | ![]() |
The unprotected cruiser was wrecked in a storm at Port Arthur, China, with the loss of 180 lives. Four members of her crew survived.[101][102] |
Record | ![]() |
The tug was sunk in a collision with Robert L. Fulton (![]() |
4 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Charles A. Silliman | ![]() |
The steamer sank at dock in East Boston, Massachusetts when she got hung up on the dock on a rising tide and tipped enough to fill and sink. Raised later.[104] |
J. D. Farrell | ![]() |
The steamer was damaged on a rock in the Box Canyon of the Kootenai River and was partially sunk. Raised and beached for repairs.[105] |
6 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Minna | ![]() |
The steamer capsized and sank in a Gale in the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Total loss.[106] |
9 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ed. R. Vanburen | ![]() |
The tug burned at the government dike at the Abbey Cut from an exploding lamp and was totally destroyed.[107] |
Mary Nixon | ![]() |
The cargo ship collided with the steamship Curler (![]() ![]() |
15 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Evelyn | ![]() |
The catboat sank in a collision with Manhattan (![]() |
17 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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No. 1 | ![]() |
The barge sank off the Territory of Alaska.[110] |
18 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Messenger | ![]() |
The yacht sank at dock at Owensboro, Kentucky. Total loss.[111] |
Sygnet | ![]() |
The schooner was sunk in a collision with ferry Sappho (![]() |
19 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Game Cock | ![]() |
The schooner was sunk in a collision with Adirondack (![]() |
20 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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No. 5 | ![]() |
The barge sank off Cross Sound in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[110] |
No. 7 | ![]() |
The barge sank off Cross Sound in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[110] |
21 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Argo No. 2 | ![]() |
After breaking loose from the vessel Argo No. 1 (![]() |
Jacob Brandow | ![]() |
The steamer burned a dock in Southport, North Carolina.[114] |
22 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Terror | ![]() |
Spanish–American War: Second Battle of San Juan: The destroyer was severely damaged in combat with the auxiliary cruiser USS St. Paul (![]() |
25 June
28 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Antonio Lopez | ![]() |
![]() The wreck of Antonio Lopez ![]() ![]() |
Jessie | ![]() |
While towing an unidentified barge and the barge Minerva (both ![]() |
Minerva | ![]() |
While under tow along with an unidentified barge by the steam cargo vessel Jessie (![]() |
Unidentified barge | ![]() |
While under tow along with the barge Minerva (![]() ![]() |
Western Star | ![]() |
While on a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Saint Michael, Territory of Alaska, with 16 crewmen and no cargo aboard, the 718.68-gross register ton, 176.1-foot (53.7 m) river steamer was wrecked on a reef in Katmai Bay (57°58′N 154°57′W) after losing her ground tackle during a gale. The tug Resolute (![]() |
29 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Arayat | ![]() |
The Arayat class Gunboat was scuttled in the Pasig river, Luzon, Philippines to prevent capture. Raised, repaired and put in US Navy service, October, 1899.[119] |
30 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Centinela | ![]() |
Spanish–American War: First Battle of Manzanillo: Damaged by gunfire while in action with the gunboats USS Hist and USS Hornet (both ![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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International | Flag unknown | While under tow by the vessel Connemaugh (flag unknown) from Vancouver, British Columbia, to the Territory of Alaska, the river steamer broke loose from her towline and sank sometime prior to reaching the Bering Sea.[120] |
Unidentified barge | Flag unknown | While under tow by the vessel Connemaugh (flag unknown) from Vancouver, British Columbia, to the Territory of Alaska, the barge broke loose from her towline and sank sometime prior to reaching the Bering Sea.[120] |
July
2 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Argo No. 2 | ![]() |
The river steamer broke up in a heavy southeast gale, probably between Washington and the Alaska Territory.[121] |
International | ![]() |
The steamer, without boilers or engines, sank in a gale off Unimak Pass, Territory of Alaska. The crew were rescued by the tug Conemaugh (![]() |
J. Eppinger | ![]() |
The schooner was sunk in a collision with Columbia (![]() |
J. E. Pratt | ![]() |
The pleasure steamer burned off Van Wies Point, totally destroyed.[124] |
Moonlight | ![]() |
With 42 passengers aboard, the 71-ton schooner was wrecked without loss of life on a small island 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) from the mouth of the Kobuk River in the Territory of Alaska.[39] |
Rosario | ![]() |
Ice driven by a gale crushed the 148-gross register ton, 99-foot (30.2 m) whaling schooner in the Chukchi Sea on the coast of the Territory of Alaska 0.75 nautical miles (1.39 km; 0.86 mi) south of Point Barrow. Her crew of 26 survived.[125] |
3 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Almirante Oquendo | ![]() |
![]() Almirante Oquendo ![]() |
Cristóbal Colón | ![]() |
![]() Cristóbal Colón ![]() |
Furor | ![]() |
Spanish–American War, Battle of Santiago de Cuba: The Furor-class destroyer was beached, exploded, and sank with the loss of her commanding officer and over half her crew just west of Cabanas Bay, Cuba, during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba after suffering heavy damage from gunfire from the ships of the North Atlantic Squadron (![]() |
Infanta Maria Teresa | ![]() |
![]() Infanta Maria Teresa ![]() |
Plutón | ![]() |
Spanish–American War, Battle of Santiago de Cuba: The Audaz-class destroyer was beached and wrecked just west of Cabanas Bay, Cuba, after suffering heavy damage from gunfire from the ships of the North Atlantic Squadron (![]() |
Vizcaya | ![]() |
![]() Vizcaya ![]() |
4 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alfred J. Beach | ![]() |
While under tow from Vancouver, British Columbia, to St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, by the steam schooner Noyo (![]() |
Bessie | ![]() |
The steamer burned at dock in Montgomery, Georgia, total loss.[127] |
Kate Spencer | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked on the Sapelo Island Bar, breaking in two, a total loss.[128] |
La Bourgogne | ![]() |
The passenger ship collided with Cromartyshire (![]() |
Surf City | ![]() |
The steamer capsized and sank during a heavy squall between Salem Willows and Beverly, Massachusetts. Eight passengers were killed.[130] |
William Hinds | ![]() |
The laid up tow steamer burned at Calais, Maine, total loss.[131] |
5 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Alfonso XII | ![]() |
Spanish–American War: Bound from Cádiz, Spain, to Havana, Cuba, with a 6,000-ton cargo of provisions, guns, and ammunition, the 5,063-displacement ton armed transport was destroyed on the coast of Cuba by the gunboat USS Castine and patrol yacht USS Hawk (both ![]() |
Reina Mercedes | ![]() |
![]() Reina Mercedes Spanish–American War: Siege of Santiago de Cuba: The Alfonso XII-class cruiser was scuttled at Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Later salvaged by the Americans, repaired and entered service as USS Reina Mercedes. |
8 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Delaware | ![]() |
During a voyage from New York City to Charleston, South CArolina, with cargo and 32 passengers aboard, the 1,646 GRT Clyde Line wooden steamer caught fire at about 9:20 p.m. off Barnegat, New Jersey. The ship was abandoned and survivors headed to shore aboard four lifeboats and a raft. A lifeboat of the United States Life-Saving Service met two of the lifeboats and the raft and took them to shore after daylight. Another lifeboat load was rescued by the fishing smack S. B. Miller (flag unknown), and the fourth lifeboat load was rescued by the tug Storm King (![]() |
Raymond | ![]() |
The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Salt River in Kentucky. She was raised and repaired.[137] |
Salvation | ![]() |
The steamer burned and sank on the Crooked River in Florida. She was declared a total loss.[138] |
9 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Ida Jane | ![]() |
The schooner lost her steering as she was about to enter the harbor at White River, Michigan on Lake Michigan and went ashore. Refloated by the United States Life Saving Service, but sprung a leak and had to be beached on a sand bar to prevent sinking.[139] |
10 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
J. K. Graves | ![]() |
The steamer was swamped and sunk by high waves caused by high winds while laying at the bank at Cairo, Illinois. Raised and repaired.[140] |
12 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Regulator | ![]() |
![]() Regulator |
Santo Domingo | ![]() |
Spanish–American War: Pursued by the gunboat USS Eagle (![]() |
13 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Josefita | ![]() |
Spanish–American War: The armed tug USRC Hudson (![]() |
Regulator | ![]() |
The steamer was driven by wind and currents on rocks at the lower entrance to the Cascade Locks and was sunk.[142] |
15 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Lela | ![]() |
The ferry sprung a leak and sank while laying at the bank at Columbus, Kentucky. Total loss.[143] |
16 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Northampton | ![]() |
The steamer burned at dock in Norfolk, Virginia. Total loss. 1 crewman killed.[144] |
17 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Mable Lane | ![]() |
While under tow by the vessel South Portland (![]() |
18 July
20 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Wendouree | ![]() |
The steam passenger ship was wrecked on the Oyster Bank at the mouth of the Hunter River at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. |
21 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Baracoa | ![]() |
Spanish–American War, Battle of Nipe Bay: The gunboat was scuttled by her crew upriver from Nipe Bay, Cuba, to prevent her capture by a United States Navy squadron. Later raised, repaired and placed in Cuban Navy service.[148] |
Jorge Juan | ![]() |
![]() Jorge Juan ![]() |
23 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Mono | ![]() |
While under tow along with the sternwheel paddle steamer Stikine Chief (![]() |
24 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Edward Smith No. 2 | ![]() |
The steamer was sunk when she sheared off course and was struck by the barge Aurania (![]() |
James Eva | ![]() |
The river steamer was abandoned in a Gale and burned, probably between Washington and the Alaska Territory.[150] |
26 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Frank Preston | ![]() |
The tow steamer sprung a leak and sank over night at dock at Stewart's Landing, Ky. Raised, taken to Ludlow, Kentucky and was broken up.[151] |
27 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
HDMS Absalon | ![]() |
The schooner was torpedoed by HDMS Søbjørnen (![]() |
No. 6 | ![]() |
The barge sank near Dutch Harbor, Territory of Alaska.[110] |
28 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Baby | ![]() |
The launch was sunk in a collision with J. S. Worden (![]() |
No. 8 | ![]() |
The barge sank near Dutch Harbor, Territory of Alaska.[110] |
Phoenix | ![]() |
The tug struck rocks near Hog's Back while going through Hell Gate and sank in eight feet (2.4 m) of water.[154] |
29 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
HM Torpedo Boat 28 | ![]() |
The TB 26-class torpedo boat was stranded at Kalk Bay on the coast of South Africa near Cape Town. She was salvaged but did not return to service, and was sunk as a target in December.[155] |
30 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Bella Mac | ![]() |
The passenger steamer sank in Sawyers Bend, St. Louis Harbor. Total loss.[156] |
Sea Bird | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore on Nauset Beach. Refloated by the United States Life Saving Service, but sprung a leak and sank the next day. Refloated again on 6 August and sailed to Provincetown, Massachusetts.[157] |
31 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Lapérouse | ![]() |
The cruiser was wrecked without loss of life at Anosy, Madagascar, during a storm. |
August
1 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Stikine Chief | ![]() |
While under tow from Wrangell to Saint Michael in the Territory of Alaska by the vessel Fastnet (flag unknown), the sternwheel paddle steamer broke loose from her towline in rough weather in the Gulf of Alaska between Cross Point and Kodiak and broke up off Yakutat. The steamer Dora (flag unknown) discovered her wreck floating 75 nautical miles (139 km; 86 mi) off Kodiak on 5 August and rescued a dog from it, but found no sign of her crew. Fastnet had also lost the steamer Mono (![]() |
2 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Lalulula | ![]() |
Spanish–American War: Pursued by the gunboat USS Bancroft (![]() |
3 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
City of Astoria | ![]() |
While towing a barge, the 56.47-gross register ton, 72-foot (21.9 m) towing steamer struck a submerged rock 250 feet (76 m) off Taiya Sahnka near Sullivan Island in Lynn Canal in Southeast Alaska, then rolled off the rock and sank when heavy weather struck. Later raised and taken to Skagway, Alaska for repairs.[36][160] |
Olivette | ![]() |
The steamer sank at anchor in Fernandina, Florida. Later raised.[161] |
William J. Keyser | ![]() |
The tugboat foundered 15–20 nautical miles (28–37 km; 17–23 mi) off Point St. Joseph, Florida. Four of the 13 crew were lost.[162] |
4 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Ethelyn | ![]() |
The sloop yacht ran aground on the south side bar of the channel into Corson Inlet. She was pounded by wind and heavy seas and washed over the bar into a slue. Total loss.[163] |
Josephine | ![]() |
Spanish–American War: During a voyage from Batabanó, Cuba, to Nueva Gerona on the Isle of Pines, the 10-displacement ton sailing vessel was captured and destroyed by the gunboat USS Bancroft (![]() |
7 August
8 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Blanco | ![]() |
Spanish–American War: The torpedo boat USS McKee (![]() |
Vivero Lorenzo | ![]() |
Spanish–American War: The torpedo boat USS McKee (![]() |
10 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
S. G. Hart | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore three-quarters mile (1.2 km) north east of the Little Kinnakeet, North Carolina Life Saving Station and was wrecked. All eight crew rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[165] |
Wahneta | ![]() |
The sloop yacht was sunk in a collision with Gov. Andrew (![]() |
11 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Joven Genaro | ![]() |
Spanish–American War: The torpedo boats USS Gwin and USS McKee (both ![]() |
12 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Eva | ![]() |
The steamer sank in a gale at Apalachicola, Florida. Raised and repaired.[167] |
Hudson Pet | ![]() |
The steamer sank in a gale at Apalachicola, Florida. Raised and repaired.[168] |
Ocean Gem | ![]() |
The steamer sank in a gale at Apalachicola, Florida. Raised and repaired.[169] |
14 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Mangrove | ![]() |
The armed supply ship ran aground outside the harbor at Caibarién, Cuba. She quickly refloated herself and resumed operations.[170] |
16 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
R. F. Goodman | ![]() |
The tow steamer burned off Lester Park in Lake Superior. Total loss.[171] |
17 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Decorra | ![]() |
The schooner stranded on Black Head 4 1/2 miles east north east of the Crumple Island Life saving Station. her crew refloated her, but was leaking badly and in danger of sinking. She was towed to Jonesport, Maine and beached.[172] |
19 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Louise J. Kenny | ![]() |
With a crew of nine and a cargo of 20 tons of lumber, machinery, and general merchandise aboard, the 155-net register ton, 96.8-foot (29.5 m) schooner dragged her anchor in a gale in the Chukchi Sea and was wrecked without loss of life on the coast of the Territory of Alaska on the south side of Point Hope.[173] |
20 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Coquette | ![]() |
The steam fishing schooner was sunk in a collision with the Liner Norge (![]() |
Ruth | ![]() |
The sailboat was sunk in a collision with the yacht Manila (![]() |
Toledo | ![]() |
The 2,843-ton Sunderland steamer hit Steeple Rock, in the Isles of Scilly and ripped open her hull. Her crew managed to lower the ship's boats and escape before she sank in twenty-five fathoms.[97] |
W. J. Bryan | ![]() |
The steamer sprung a leak and sank near Elgin Landing, Arkansas in the Black River. 1 crewman drowned after refusing to enter lifeboat.[177] |
22 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Kate | ![]() |
The steam tug sank off Garden Island, New South Wales, Australia, after colliding with the passenger ferry Narrabeen (![]() |
Oakland | ![]() |
The passenger cargo ship ran aground on the bar at Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. |
23 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Henry E. Bishop | ![]() |
The steamer burned at dock in Tottenville, New York on Staten Island. total loss.[178] |
Seaboard | ![]() |
The row steamer burned at dock in Pilot Town, Florida in the St. Johns River. Total loss.[179] |
24 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
George Wood | ![]() |
The tow steamer burned to the waterline and sank in the harbor of coal Grove, Ohio.[180] |
26 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Actress | ![]() |
The Schooner sprung a leak and sank 29 miles south east of Brenton Point. Crew escaped in lifeboats.[181] |
Torpedo boat No. 5 | ![]() |
The torpedo boat was rammed and sunk in the Øresund by the steamship Doktor Siegler (![]() |
28 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
F. Fitch | ![]() |
The schooner was damaged in a collision with a steam barge three miles (4.8 km) south west of Point Betsie, Michigan Life Saving Station in Lake Michigan. She sank four hours later five miles (8.0 km) south west of the station. The crew, the captain and his son, escaped on a scow, and were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[182] |
Superior | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked on Gull Island, Michigan.[183][184] |
30 August
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Pizarro | ![]() |
Spanish–American War: The Hernan Cortez-class gunboat was scuttled by being blown up by her crew at Nuevitas, Cuba, when American forces captured Nuevitas.[186][187] |
Salve Maria | ![]() |
Spanish–American War: Captured by the gunboat USS Hornet (![]() |
September
3 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Fleur-de-Lis | ![]() |
The steamer burned in the Delaware River above Delaware City, Delaware during a thunder storm when her master dropped a lamp when stunned by a lightning strike. The ship was totally destroyed.[188] |
Lindia M. Newlin | ![]() |
The tug burned in the Albany, New York area and was totally destroyed.[189] |
Orlinda | ![]() |
The steamer grounded on the bar at the mouth of the San Bernard River and broke up over night. Total loss.[190] |
5 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Kanapaha | ![]() |
The yacht was wrecked off the coast of Cuba. Total loss.[191] |
Lewiston | ![]() |
The steamer ran aground on the breakwater at Point Judith, Rhode Island. 149 passengers, (sick soldiers, nurses, and doctors), plus her crew of 52 taken off and she was pulled off by a tug. She was leaking badly and was beached. Refloated on 8 or 9 September and towed to Boston, or Providence, Rhode Island, for repairs.[192][193] |
7 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Embla | ![]() |
The yacht was scuttled in the harbor of Stamford, Connecticut after she caught fire from a naptha explosion. Later raised. One crewman died of burns.[194] |
Minnie | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore at Port Austin, Michigan in high winds and was pounded to pieces. The United States Life Saving Service assisted in stripping the wreck.[195] |
Wenona | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore when her tow steamer made a navigational error in Lake Superior while trying to enter the Michigan Ship Channel. She was grounded where she could not be pulled off. Remains of the wreck were blown up during widening of the canal in 1935.[196][197] |
11 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Dart | ![]() |
The pleasure steamer struck an obstruction and sank near Culloms, Ohio in the Ohio River. Raised and repaired.[198] |
13 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Hattie Belle | ![]() |
The steamer struck a rock at the lower entrance to the Cascade Locks and was sunk.[199] |
16 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Alice C. Jordan | ![]() |
The schooner was sunk in a collision with Gloucester (![]() |
17 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Hoag | ![]() |
The steamer struck a rock at the lower entrance to the Oregon City Locks and was sunk.[201] |
18 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Fritz Reuter | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Mobile, Alabama, United States to Greenock, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom.[202] |
19 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Colorado | ![]() |
The cargo ship stranded on Eagle River Reef on Lake Superior after hitting the prop of a submerged wreck in smoky weather. Broke up in a storm on 24 September.[203][204] |
Eugene | ![]() |
The steamer swamped and sank in seven feet (2.1 m) of water two miles (3.2 km) from dock in Galveston, Texas. Raised later.[205] |
Keystone | ![]() |
The cargo ship/steam barge burned off Summer Island in Lake Michigan. Total loss.[206][207] |
Mediator | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore one mile (1.6 km) west of the mouth of the Gratiot River. Her cargo was salvaged and she was pulled off on 26 September and taken to Houghton, Michigan where she was abandoned, a total loss.[208] |
20 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Harriet S. Jackson | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore on Pollock Rip Shoal. She was refloated in two hours but was leaking badly and ran aground again in a failed attempt to beach her. She filled and sank, a total loss.[209] |
Maud Preston | ![]() |
The steamer burned to the water line in Maumee Bay.[210] |
21 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Tell City | ![]() |
The steamer struck an old lock gate and sank in the Louisville and Portland Canal. Raised and repaired.[211] |
22 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Ira O. Smith | ![]() |
The tug burned in Lake Michigan between the Chicago River and the Lake View Water Works, Chicago.[212][213] |
24 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Unison | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore near Odiorne Point. She broke up, a total loss.[214] |
26 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Uto | ![]() |
The steamer went ashore six miles (9.7 km) north of the Fort Lauderdale, Florida Life Saving Station. She was refloated 6 October and went to Key West, Florida.[215] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Hattie | ![]() |
The 84-gross register ton barge was stranded at the Sabine Pass Lighthouse on the coast of Louisiana across Sabine Pass from Sabine Pass, Texas. The only person on board survived.[216] |
October
1 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
C. and E. Lenox | ![]() |
The steamer burned to the waterline at dock at Pier 7, Port Richmond, Philadelphia.[217] |
2 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Wandering Jew | ![]() |
The barkentine sprung a leak during a severe Hurricane and went ashore and sank 11 miles (18 km) south east of the Sullivan's Island, South Carolina Life Saving Station. The crew were rescued by the tug John Harlin (![]() |
3 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
City of Detroit | ![]() |
The tug was sunk at dock when struck by Alva B. (![]() |
Crocodile | ![]() |
The sloop yacht went ashore one-half mile (0.80 km) east south east of the Quonochontaug, Rhode Island Life Saving Station in thick fog. The two crewmen on board were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. She broke up, a total loss. Some furniture and $800 in lead ballast were salvaged.[220] |
4 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Pewaukee | ![]() |
The steamer sprung a leak 24 miles (39 km) north of Chicago. She was towed to Chicago where she sank.[221] |
Walkatomica | ![]() |
The steamer burned and sank at Milton, Florida. Total loss.[222] |
7 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Lena Archer | ![]() |
The tow steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Rough River between Hartford, Kentucky and Livermore, Kentucky. Total loss.[223] |
Pilot | ![]() |
The tow steamer struck rocks in the Upper Rapids of the Mississippi River and sank in 4 1⁄2 feet (1.4 m) of water. Raised, and repaired at Le Claire, Iowa.[224] |
11 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Sallie | ![]() |
The steamer was sunk in a collision with Hampton Roads (![]() |
12 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Helen | ![]() |
The steamer burned to the waterline at dock over night and sank at Leesburg, Louisiana.[226] |
13 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Cyrus Chamberlain | ![]() |
The lime schooner's cargo caught fire in the harbor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire while anchored off Clarks Island. She was run aground on flats on 14 October and stripped of useful items.[227] |
Brixham | ![]() |
While on a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Dyea and Skagway, Territory of Alaska, with 18 passengers, a crew of 42, and a 240-ton cargo consisting mostly of cattle, hogs, and sheep, the 626.68-gross register ton, 183-foot (55.8 m) steamer was wrecked on the southeast end of Blashke Island (56°07′N 132°54′W) in Clarence Strait near Zarembo Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. She broke up during a heavy gale on 15 December. The ship and her cargo were lost, but her passengers and crew survived.[228][229] |
Hattie Belle | ![]() |
The steamer struck a rock at the lower entrance to the Cascade Locks and was sunk.[230] |
14 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Mohegan | ![]() |
![]() Mohegan |
15 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Mary E. Bennett | ![]() |
The tow steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River near Cooks Landing, Nebraska. Total loss.[232] |
16 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Horace A. Tuttle | ![]() |
The steamer struck the bottom of the Harbor at Michigan City, Indiana and drifted into a pier, resulting in a total loss.[233] |
17 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
E. F. Gould | ![]() |
The steamer was beached at Au Sable, Michigan on Lake Huron after being caught at dock in a Gale to save her from being beaten to pieces.[234] |
18 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
G. W. Shaver | ![]() |
The steamer was sunk in a collision with T. J. Potter (![]() |
John Jewett | ![]() |
The lumber schooner was wrecked in Grace Harbor, Michigan in a gale.[236] |
20 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Henry Chisholm | ![]() |
![]() The wreck of Henry Chisholm, ca. 2008. |
L. P. Smith | ![]() |
The tow steamer rolled over and sank when she was struck by Olympia (![]() |
21 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Cutter No. 2 | ![]() |
Cutter No. 2, with a launch lashed to the starboard side, collided with a barge under tow by the tow steamer Pioneer (![]() |
Rescue | ![]() |
The steamer, laying on the bank just above Lock No. 3 on the Monongahela River, was destroyed when her boiler exploded. Her captain was killed and seven crewmen wounded.[240] |
22 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Adalanta | ![]() |
The barge, under tow by Thos. J. Sculley (![]() |
Admiral | ![]() |
The barge, under tow by Thos. J. Sculley (![]() |
Albania | ![]() |
The steamer, laid up for repairs, sank at dock over night at Orange, Texas. Raised and repaired.[243] |
Canary | ![]() |
The barge, under tow by Thos. J. Sculley (![]() |
Wyandotte | ![]() |
The barge, under tow by Thos. J. Sculley (![]() |
24 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Rebel | ![]() |
The steamer lost covering boards near her stern in a heavy snowstorm and sank between Duluth, Minnesota and Two Harbors, Minnesota. Crew boarded a barge she was towing and was rescued from it by City of London (![]() |
25 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
D. F. Skinner | ![]() |
The tug burned off Beaverwyck Island and was totally destroyed.[247] |
L.R. Doty | ![]() |
The steamer was lost during a storm on Lake Michigan north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the loss of seventeen lives. |
26 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Calabar | ![]() |
The Elder Dempster 1,756 GRT cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked at Yellow Well Reef, off Grand Bassa, Liberia, on a voyage from the west coast of Africa to Liverpool.[248] |
Horace A. Tuttle | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked on the bar off Michigan City, Indiana and broke up after heavy damage in Lake Michigan in a gale. Her 11 crew members were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[249] |
27 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
St. Peter | ![]() |
The schooner sank in a gale in Lake Ontario off Bear Creek 16 miles (26 km) east of the Charlotte, New York Life Saving Station. Her captain was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service, but his wife and the other four crewmen died.[250] |
28 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
John Owen | ![]() |
The steamer struck the side of the Channel in the Detroit River at the Limekiln crossing and sank after being in a minor collision with Atlantis (![]() |
Julia | ![]() |
The tug burned in the Albany, New York area and was totally destroyed.[252] |
29 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Cresent | ![]() |
The steamer sank at the Clyde Steamship Dock in Jacksonville, Florida. Promptly raised.[253] |
31 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Eagle | ![]() |
The passenger steamer struck a snag and sank in St. Louis Harbor. Later raised.[254] |
M. Capron | ![]() |
The schooner stranded in a gale in Lake Michigan 1 1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) west of the Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin Life Saving Station and broke up. Her crew of five was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. Her rigging was salvaged.[255] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Blengfell | ![]() |
The ship caught fire off Margate and was completely burnt out.[256] |
Fortune Hunter | ![]() |
The steam schooner was discovered in a waterlogged and unmanageable condition approximately 55 nautical miles (102 km; 63 mi) from St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, by the steamer Tillamook (![]() |
Unidentified barge | ![]() |
The barge was discovered in company with the waterlogged steam schooner Fortune Hunter (![]() ![]() |
November
1 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Croatan | ![]() |
The passenger/cargo ship burned and sank 18 miles (29 km) off Cape Charles, Virginia. Three crewmen, the wife of one of the dead crewmen, and one passenger were killed. Survivors left the ship in two of her lifeboats and a boat from schooner Alice E. Clark (![]() |
2 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
J. D. Peters | ![]() |
The steamer was damaged in a collision with Czarina (![]() |
3 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Starrucca | ![]() |
The steamer was sunk in a collision with Maritana (![]() |
4 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Columbia | ![]() |
After her towline parted in gale near Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska and Port Simpson, British Columbia, while she was under tow by the tug Wallowa (![]() |
5 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Nellie | ![]() |
The steamer burned at dock in White Lake, Michigan.[263] |
6 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Josephine | ![]() |
The ferry boat sank at the foot of Greenwood Street, Allegheny City, Pennsylvania in the Ohio River. Raised and repaired.[264] |
7 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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D. S. Austin | ![]() |
The schooner lost her tow vessel in heavy seas just off Ludington, Michigan, stranding in Lake Michigan 3/4 miles north of the Life Saving Station and was wrecked, total loss. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. Her rigging was salvaged.[265] |
Minnehaha | ![]() |
The schooner missed the entrance to Sheboygan, Wisconsin in a Gale, stranding in Lake Michigan and broke up, a total loss. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. Her rigging was salvaged.[266] |
9 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Blue Jacket | ![]() |
The steamer was unaccountably wrecked on a clear night a few yards from the Longships Lighthouse. The crew were saved by the Sennen lifeboat.[267] |
10 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Iron Cliff | ![]() |
The schooner lost her tow on Lake Michigan off Chicago in a heavy gale and grounded. she sprang a leak and sank, but was raised on 16 November. Her seven crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[268] |
Lena M. Nielson | ![]() |
The schooner missed the entrance to Saint Joseph, Michigan in a gale and snowstorm and ran aground on a bar. She drifted off the bar and ran aground again in Lake Michigan at Lakeside, Michigan, 20 miles (32 km) away, a total loss. Three of her crew that had not made it to shore earlier were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[269] |
Theodore S. Fassett | ![]() |
The lumber schooner lost her tow on Lake Huron in a heavy gale. She ran aground 7 miles (11 km) south of the Sand Beach Township, Michigan Life Saving Station. Attempts to refloat started on 11 November and continued until 9 December when salvage efforts were stopped and she was stripped and abandoned. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[270] |
Whaleback 104 | ![]() |
The whaleback barge lost her tow leaving Cleveland, Ohio, causing her to drifting against the west breakwater. Pounding on the breakwater opened her seams and she sank. Her six crew were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[271] |
12 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cinderella | ![]() |
The 57-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Fire Island Inlet on the coast of Long Island, New York. All three people on board survived.[272] |
Joseph C. Rich | ![]() |
The steamer sank at Spanish Fort, Alabama. Later raised.[273] |
Plymouth | ![]() |
The steamer sank at dock at the foot of Court street, Brooklyn. The two crewmen on board died. Raised and repaired.[274] |
14 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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George W. Wesley | ![]() |
The schooner sprang a leak in harbor at Cleveland, Ohio and was beached.[275] |
16 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Harry | ![]() |
The laid up tug filled and sank at dock in the Schuylkill River at Pine Street, Philadelphia.[276] |
17 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Atalanta | ![]() |
The sailing ship was wrecked off Newport, Oregon. 23 crewmen killed, 3 made it to shore. Total loss of ship and cargo.[277][278] |
Corona | ![]() |
The steamer burned at dock alongside Vision (![]() |
Vision | ![]() |
The steamer burned at dock alongside Corona (![]() |
Wildwood | ![]() |
The tow steamer burned at Kinders Landing in the Mississippi River. Total loss.[281] |
18 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Selenoa | ![]() |
The ferry ran into the Crabtree Ledge Light causing a leak bad enough to beach her. Later refloated and taken to Rockland, Maine for repairs.[282] |
Wm. M. Everett | ![]() |
The 167-gross register ton schooner sank at Shelter Island, Long Island, New York. All four people aboard survived.[283] |
19 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ruby | ![]() |
The steamer caught fire three miles (4.8 km) below Glen Haven, Wisconsin. She was beached, but was destroyed.[284] |
20 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Annie Weston | ![]() |
The barge, under tow of Mars (![]() |
22 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Arthur Orr | ![]() |
The steamer went ashore on the north coast of Lake Superior near the Mouth of the Baptism River in a severe snowstorm. Refloated after cargo was Lightered and towed to Duluth for repairs.[286] |
Tampa | ![]() |
The steamer went ashore near Beaver Bay, Minnesota on Lake Superior in a severe gale and snowstorm. Given up as a total loss, but refloated and towed to Duluth, Minnesota by a wrecking company.[287] |
23 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Troy | ![]() |
The tug burned at dock at Greenbush, New York, totally destroyed.[288] |
25 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Detroit | ![]() |
During a voyage in the Territory of Alaska from Skagway to Juneau with a crew of 10 and about 27 passengers on board, the 109-gross register ton, 81-foot (24.7 m) steamer struck a reef in Lynn Canal off the north end of Shelter Island in the Alexander Archipelago during a snowstorm and sank in 50 feet (15 m) of water. All on board abandoned ship in her lifeboats and survived.[289] |
St. Lawrence | ![]() |
The bulk carrier was wrecked two miles (3.2 km) south of Point Betsy in Lake Michigan in a heavy snowstorm. One crewman drowned when ship's yawl overturned. Survivors rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. She broke up on 9 December after a failed salvage attempt.[290][291][292] |
26 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Edgar S. Foster | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was wrecked on Brandt Rock, Marshfield, Massachusetts during the gale.[293] |
F. R. Walker | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The fishing schooner foundered near Cape Cod during the gale. Lost with all 15 hands.[294] |
Harlem | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked on a reef five miles (8.0 km) south west of Isle Royal in Lake Superior in a violent gale and snowstorm. Total loss.[295][296] |
McConnell | ![]() |
The scow stranded one-quarter mile (0.40 km) from the Erie, Pennsylvania Life Saving Station on Lake Erie. Salvage work began immediately but were abandoned on 29 December and she broke up on 10 February 1899.[297] |
Mertis H. Perry | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The fishing schooner was wrecked at Rexhame Beach, Marshfield, Massachusetts during the gale. Lost with 5 of 14 crew.[298] |
Willy | ![]() |
The steamer sank after hitting the abutment of a bridge on Darby Creek.[299] |
27 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Abbot Devereaux | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard, at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Abby K. Bentley | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven, or Vineyard Sound near Providence, Rhode Island.[301] |
Abel E Babcock | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was wrecked on Toddy Rocks a mile off Stony Beach, Hull, Massachusetts and broke up during the gale. all 12 crew died.[302][303] |
Addie E Snow | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner sank with the loss of all hands, near Gloucester, Massachusetts about one-quarter mile (0.40 km) from where Portland (![]() |
Addie Sawyer | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The lumber schooner was swept ashore on the north side of Martha's Vineyard. Her captain and two crewmen were killed, two rescued.[301] |
Adelaide T. | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The sloop was swept ashore in Fort Pond Bay during the gale. Refloated undamaged on 3 December.[297] |
Agnes Smith | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner dragged anchor at Point Judith, Rhode Island and was swept away, probably sinking during the gale. Crew transferred to John Harvey (![]() |
Albert L. Butler | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was wrecked on Peaked Hill Bar near Cape Cod during the gale. Four crewman died, or two crewman and one passenger. Five crew members were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[305] |
Alida | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was anchored at Islesboro, Maine but broke her anchor chain and blow out to sea. She drifted for 20 miles (32 km) before she went ran aground on flats in Lobster Cove during the gale. After the storm she was hauled ashore in a cove and stripped.[306] |
Aloha | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore, or swamped, at New Shoreham, Rhode Island during the gale and lost.[307] |
Amelia G. Ireland | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner dragged anchor and was swept ashore on Dogfish Bar during the gale. Six crewmen were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service, the rest of the crew lost.[308] |
Anna Pitcher | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore, or swamped, at New Shoreham, Rhode Island during the gale. Later saved.[309] |
Anna W. Barker | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was wrecked on Southern Island three miles (4.8 km) from the life saving station during the gale. After the storm she was stripped.[310] |
Annie Blankenship | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The fishing sloop was swept ashore on flats south of Collin's Wharf, Martha's Vineyard.[301] |
Antionette M. Acker | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore at Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Arabell | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Block Island, Rhode Island during the gale. Later refloated.[309] |
Barge No. 1 | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The barge was wrecked near Toddy Rocks near Point Allerton, Massachusetts during the gale. Five crew members were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service and the Massachusetts Humane Society. Total loss.[311] |
Coal Barge No. 4 | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The barge was wrecked near Toddy Rocks near Point Allerton, Massachusetts and broke up during the gale. Three crewmen killed, her captain and one crewman made it to shore.[312] |
Beaver | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The barge was sunk at Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard. The crew were rescued.[301] |
Bertha E. Glover | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The lime schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven on the east side of the harbor. She sprung a leak causing her cargo of lime to ignite, burning until 19 December when everything above the waterline was consumed.[301][313][314] |
Brunhilde | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The sloop was swept ashore in Point O' Woods, New York during the gale. Refloated undamaged on 30 November.[309] |
Byssus | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The barge was sunk at Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard. Crew rescued.[301] |
Calvin Baker | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was stranded on the north side of Little Brewster Island (Boston Light) and wrecked. Three crewmen lost, five were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[315][316][311] |
Canaria | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
Caritu | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
Carrie L. Payson | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was stranded at Chatham, Massachusetts during the gale.[317] |
Cassia | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The sloop was swept ashore, or swamped, at New Shoreham, Rhode Island during the gale and lost. One crewman killed.[309] |
Cathy C. Berry | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore in "the bend" in the harbor at Martha's Vineyard.[301] |
Charles J. Willard | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner went ran aground at Quoddy Head, Maine during the gale. The crew were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service and fishermen. Salvage work began 13 December and was she refloated on 16 December.[297] |
Chas. E. Raymond | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
Clara Leavitt | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner dragged anchor and was swept ashore on Dogfish Bar and broke up immediately during the gale. Six crewmen killed, one crewman made it to shore.[318] |
Clara Smith | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner dragged anchor and was swept across Horse Shoe Shoal off Martha's Vineyard, sinking in 7 fathoms (42 ft; 13 m) of water in the ship channel. Her crew rescued from her masts after 19 hours by the steamer Nereus (![]() |
Columbia | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner, a Boston pilot boat, was wrecked on the beach at Scituate, Massachusetts, during the gale. All five crew died. A total loss, she was sold and eventually burned in place.[319][320][321] |
Delaware | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The 310-foot (94 m) barge sank in 60 feet (18 m) of water off North Scituate, Massachusetts, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) east of the reef known as Collamore Ledge, during the gale.[322][323] |
E. J. Willard | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The lime schooner was grounded on Martha's Vineyard on the east side of the Harbor at Vineyard Haven after loosing her anchor. She sprung a leak causing her cargo of lime to ignite. Her crew was able to transfer to J. D. Ingraham (![]() |
E. J. Hamilton | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[325] |
Earl | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The catboat dragged anchor and was swept ashore at Cuttyhunk Harbor during the gale.[326] |
Edith | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The catboat dragged anchor and was swept ashore at Cuttyhunk Harbor during the gale.[326] |
Edith McIntyre | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
Edna and Etta | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The Schooner was swept ashore in Great Egg, New Jersey during the gale. Later refloated.[309] |
Eureka | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The tug dragged anchor and went ashore on Spectacle Island in Lower Boston Harbor during the gale. Refloated and repaired.[327] |
E. W. Stetson | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner barge was blown ashore during the gale at Jamesport, New York on Long Island. Refloated and returned to service.[328] |
Etta A. Stimpson | ![]() |
The schooner capsized in a storm in Muskeget Channel. Her captain, his wife, and four crewmen died. The mate, the sole survivor, was rescued by Captain James Wilber in a sailboat.[300] |
Fairfax | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The 2,551-gross register ton steamer went aground on Sow and Pigs Reef off Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, during the gale. She sank at 41°24.126′N 070°57.954′W. Her entire crew and all six of her passengers were rescued by a tug.[329][326][330] |
Falcon | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The barge was sunk at Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard. Crew rescued.[301] |
Francis Coffin | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept by the gale and sank in a collision with R. H. Shannon (![]() |
Frances Ellen | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore at Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Free Wind | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore at Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Freddie L. | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The steamer broke from her moorings during the gale and was wrecked at Gloucester, Massachusetts.[331] |
Geo. H. Mills | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
George A. Chafee | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The steamer parted her stern chains at dock at Pigeon Cove, Cape Ann and went on the rocks during the gale. Total loss.[332] |
George Walker | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore at Martha's Vineyard, at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Georgietta | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner went ran aground on Great Spruce Head Island during the gale. Salvage work began 29 November and was she eventually refloated and taken to Rockland, Maine for repair.[310] |
Henry R. Tilton | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was wrecked at Stony Beach, Hull, Massachusetts during the gale. Seven crew members were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service and the Massachusetts Humane Society. A Total loss.[333][320][311] |
Howard Holder | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Ida G. Broere | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The catboat was swept ashore in Lone Hill, New York during the gale. Refloated undamaged on 4 December.[309] |
Idella Small | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on Fletcher's Neck, Maine during the gale. Two crew members were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service, one made if off on his own. Total loss.[334] |
Independent | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner barge was blown ashore during the gale at Riverhead, New York on Long Island. Refloated and returned to service.[328] |
Ira and Abbie | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Block Island, Rhode Island during the gale. Later refloated.[309] |
Island Belle | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore at Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Island City | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore at Cottage City on Martha's Vineyard. Lost with all hands.[301] |
Ivy Bell | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner dragged anchor and was swept ashore and wrecked at the entrance to the harbor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire during the gale. Her 4 crewmen rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[335][310] |
J. D. Ingraham | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard after being torn from her moorings at Vineyard Haven. While drifting across the harbor she drifted alongside E. J. Willard (![]() |
James A. Brown | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[325] |
James Ponder, Jr | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[325] |
James Wilson | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard, at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
John Harvey | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The barge dragged anchor at Point Judith, Rhode Island and was driven ashore during the gale. Her crew and Agnes Smith's crew rescued from her by the United States Life-Saving Service. Pulled off later by a tug.[326] |
Jordan L. Mott | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was sunk in Provincetown, Massachusetts during the gale. Her master's father and one crewman died. Four crew members were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[308] |
Juanita | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The fishing schooner was driven ashore at Cohasset, Massachusetts during the gale. Later salvaged.[320] |
Lady Fenwick | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The steamer went ashore 40 feet (12 m) from her slip at Saybrook, Connecticut after the snowstorm parted her line by chafing.[336] |
Leora M. Thurlow | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was sunk at Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard.[325] |
Lester A. Lewis | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was wrecked in Provincetown, Massachusetts during the gale. All Five crewman died in the rigging.[337] |
Lexington | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore, or swamped, at New Shoreham, Rhode Island during the gale and lost.[309] |
Lucy Hammond | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
Lucy Nickels | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The barque was wrecked on Black Rock near Point Allerton, Massachusetts during the gale. Her master and mate died. Three crew members were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service and the Massachusetts Humane Society. Total loss.[334] |
Lunet | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner dragged anchor and was wrecked at Tarpaulin Cove, Naushon Island, Massachusetts during the gale. Lost with all seven crew.[338] |
M. E. Eldredge | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard.[325] |
Margaret J. Stanford | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The steamer went ashore on Prudence Island during the snowstorm. Refloated on 4 December and towed to Providence, Rhode Island for repairs.[339] |
Mars Hill | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Marion Draper | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
Mertis H Perry | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The fishing schooner dragged anchor and was driven ashore two miles (3.2 km) north north west of the Brant Rock, Massachusetts Lifesaving Station in Massachusetts Bay and broke up during the gale. Five crewmen killed, nine survivors made it to shore.[340] |
Montillo | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore at Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Mountain Laurel | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Nancy Hanks | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The cat boat was swept ashore at Fourth Cliff, Massachusetts. Refloated on 19 May 1899.[306] |
Narcissus | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was lost at sea during the gale after leaving Boston, Massachusetts.[341] |
Nellie B. | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore, or swamped, at New Shoreham, Rhode Island during the gale and lost.[342] |
Nellie Doe | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
Nellie M. Slade | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The bark was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[325] |
Newburgh | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at steamboat wharf, Vineyard Haven.[325] |
Newell B. Hawes | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was driven ashore on east side of Davis Neck, Massachusetts during the gale. Five crew members were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. Refloated on 4 December.[343][334] |
Northern Home | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
P. T. Willets | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Pentagoet | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner sank off Cape Cod during the gale. 15 crew died.[344] |
Pinafore | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The steamer sank at dock in the Isles of Shoals, Maine during the gale.[345] |
Portland | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The paddle steamer sank with the loss of all hands (believed to be between 192 and 245 persons) (A US Government report at the time stated 63 crew and 60 passengers.); near Gloucester, Massachusetts. The wreck was identified in 2002.[346] |
Queen of the West | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was wrecked on Fletcher's Neck, Maine during the gale. Two crew members, and a dog, were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. She broke up an hour after her crew was rescued.[310] |
Quetay | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
R. H. Shannon | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Rebecca W. Huddell | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
Reliance | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The catboat was swept ashore in Point O' Woods, New York during the gale. Refloated undamaged on 28 November.[309] |
Renfrew | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was wrecked off Hart's Isle, Canso during the gale.[347] |
Rose Brothers | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore, or swamped, at New Shoreham, Rhode Island during the Gale and lost.[309] |
Sadie Willcult | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
Secret | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The catboat dragged anchor and was swept ashore at Cuttyhunk Harbor during the gale.[326] |
Smeed | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner dragged anchor at New Shoreham, Rhode Island and was swept ashore during the gale. She was refloated on the next high tide.[326] |
Sport | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The catboat dragged anchor and was swept ashore at Cuttyhunk Harbor during the gale.[326] |
Starlight | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Stranger | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The catboat was swept ashore, or swamped, at New Shoreham, Rhode Island during the gale. Later saved.[309] |
Success | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was wrecked off Ferguson's Cove, Halifax, Nova Scotia during the gale. Two killed.[348] |
Teddie | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The steamer sank at dock at New London, Connecticut during the snowstorm.[349] |
Telegraph | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore at Cottage City on Martha's Vineyard. Lost with all hands.[301] |
Terry | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
Timothy Field | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore at Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
Unidentified sloop | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The sloop swamped at dock at White Head, Maine during the gale. Raised after the storm passed.[309] |
Valetta | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on "the point" in the harbor, Martha's Vineyard.[301] |
Valora | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The steamer sank at dock at East Boston, Massachusetts during the gale. Raised and repaired.[350] |
Vigilant | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The steamer was wrecked at Provincetown, Massachusetts during the gale. Total loss.[351] |
Virginia | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The downeast lumberman was lost off Thompson Island.[315] |
Wild Rose | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner went ashore at Cranberry Isles, Maine during the gale. Salvage work began 2 December and was she refloated on 5 December.[297] |
Wildwood | ![]() |
The steamer struck a submerged piling at dock on a falling tide at Port Townsend, Washington and sank. Raised and repaired.[352] |
William Penn | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven.[300] |
William Todd | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was sunk at Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard.[301] |
William M. Wilson | ![]() |
The schooner sprung a leak and sank three miles (4.8 km) north north east of Wachapreague, Virginia. The crew were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[309] |
Winnie Lawry | ![]() |
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard, at Vineyard Haven.[301] |
December
3 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Yonkers | ![]() |
The launch was damaged in a collision with Manhattan (![]() |
L. W. Brown | ![]() |
The steamer sank in a gale in Lake Pontchartrain at the North East Bridge. Raised and repaired.[354] |
5 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Thomas Booz | ![]() |
The schooner dragged anchor and stranded on the east side of Hooper's Island near Port Clyde, Maine. She was stripped and abandoned, a total loss.[355] |
Vamoose | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked, breaking in two, on the north east coast of Block Island, Rhode Island in a gale. Her master and mate were killed, four crew members were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service and two made it to shore on their own.[356] |
6 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Geo. B. Owen | ![]() |
The schooner's towline parted and she stranded on the east side of the Harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio in a heavy snowstorm. She was abandoned, a total loss. Six crew members, five men and a woman, were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. Wreck abandoned to the insurance company.[357][358] |
7 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Puritan | ![]() |
The schooner was beached at Assateague Beach, Virginia, after springing a leak in a gale at sea and being heavily damaged. Refloated on 15 December.[358] |
8 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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J. N. Harbin | ![]() |
The steamer struck an obstruction and sank near Swan Lake, Arkansas in the Arkansas River. Later raised.[359] |
Pioneer | ![]() |
The 25-ton sealing schooner was wrecked with the loss of all hands on the northern coast of Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. First Nations residents found her wreckage and the skeletons of eight members of her crew in 1899.[31] |
9 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Advance | ![]() |
The steamer sank when rammed by the Icebreaker Bulldozer (![]() |
Black Ball No. 2 | ![]() |
The tow steamer was sunk by ice in the Chicago River. Total loss.[361] |
Castalia | ![]() |
The hospital ship was struck by Barrowmore (![]() |
10 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Governor | ![]() |
The tug was sunk in a collision with Peter Cahill (![]() ![]() |
Little Lizzie | ![]() |
The schooner stranded on Norton's Island near White Head, Maine. She started to break up after pounding on the rocks and was abandoned after being stripped, a total loss. Two crew members were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[362] |
Peter Cahill | ![]() |
The tug was in a collision with Governor (![]() ![]() |
11 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bob Connell | ![]() |
The steamer was sunk by ice in the Allegheny River across the river from Thirteenth street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Raised and repaired.[365] |
Ida | ![]() |
The cutter was wrecked and broke up.[366] |
Ida | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked.[367] |
13 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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John Howard | ![]() |
The steamer burned at Columbia, Louisiana. Total loss.[368] |
14 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Joseph Curtis | ![]() |
The tug tilted to port, filled and sank in the Harlem River when her tow schooner Joseph Murray's (![]() |
Rescue No. 2 | ![]() |
The tow steamer burned in St. Louis Harbor. Total loss.[370] |
15 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Brinkburn | flag unknown | The ship struck the Maiden Bower, Isles of Scilly in fog and sank, while bound for Le Havre from Galveston with cotton and cotton seed. Her crew of mainly lascars survived. An inspection of the wreck in 1966 found two other ships beneath her; one, Sussex, which sank in 1885 and an unknown warship.[97] |
Geo. B. McClellan | ![]() |
The steamer burned to the waterline at dock in Michigan City, Indiana.[371] |
17 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Martin Swain | ![]() |
The fishing steamer burned to the waterline at Rain's Dock in the Ste. Marie River. One fisherman was missing, presumed dead.[372][373] |
21 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Oakland | ![]() |
The passenger cargo ship ran aground on the bar at Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. |
22 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mayport | ![]() |
The steamer burned at Jacksonville, Florida.[374] |
T. M. Moore | ![]() |
The steamer burned at dock at Grand Island, New York. Total loss.[375] |
23 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Joys | ![]() |
The ship burned while at anchor in the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal.[376] |
24 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Osceola | ![]() |
The steamer struck an obstruction leaving Avenue Landing, Missouri, and sprung a leak. She was beached on a bar across the river, but sank in 26 feet (7.9 m) of water, a total loss.[377] |
25 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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C. H. Woods | ![]() |
The sawmill steamer burned near Poseys Landing, Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.[378] |
26 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Teche | ![]() |
The steamer struck an obstruction in the Mississippi River 55 miles (89 km) above New Orleans, then burned. Total loss.[379] |
28 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lakme | ![]() |
The steamer caught fire at sea and arrived at Astoria, Oregon on 26 December. On 28 December she was beached/scuttled.[380] |
Saint Lawrence | ![]() |
The 41-gross register ton, 64.6-foot (19.7 m) fishing schooner was wrecked in a blinding snowstorm and heavy gale in Pybus Bay southwest of Brother Island (57°18′N 133°50′W) in Frederick Sound in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. The schooner North (![]() |
29 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Glenavon | ![]() |
The cargo ship was wrecked on the Linting Rock in the Sa Mun group off the coast of China with the loss of four lives. |
31 December
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Lottie | ![]() |
The tow steamer caught fire off the Tulleytown, Pennsylvania Wharf and was beached. Burned to water's edge.[381] |
Unknown
Ship | Country | Description |
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HM Torpedo Boat 28 | ![]() |
The decommissioned TB 26-class torpedo boat was sunk as a target off Cape Town, South Africa, after stranding in July and being refloated.[155][382] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Anita | ![]() |
The steamer was reported lost in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska.[21] |
Constantine | ![]() |
While under tow by the steamer Progresso (![]() |
Gouverneur-Generaal Loudon | ![]() |
The mail steamer and excursion vessel was wrecked in the Flores Sea off the Tengga Batoe reef south of Selayar Island. |
Lofthus | ![]() |
The barque sank off Manalapan, Florida, United States. |
Matinee | ![]() |
The 37-ton schooner was lost with all hands in the Aleutian Islands.[39] |
Naro | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked at Point Highfield (56°29′15″N 132°23′15″W) on the northern tip of Wrangell Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[110] |
Ohio | ![]() |
The schooner broke free of her anchorage at Port Simpson, British Columbia, in a gale and went adrift, eventually being wrecked on a small uninhabited island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska near the south end of Revillagigedo Channel. Her crew survived and was rescued by Alaskan Natives a week later.[383] |
SMS S85 | ![]() |
The torpedo boat was stranded. She was raised, repaired, and returned to service.[384] |
Saxon | ![]() |
The tug became disabled in the Bristol Channel and ran aground on Frenchman's Bank. Her crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat.[385] |
Toledo | ![]() |
The steamer became water logged 25 miles south west of the Michigan Ship Canal in Lake Superior on either 29 September or 29 October. She was towed to shore at the entrance to the Canal where she broke up in a strong wind, a total loss. The remains of the wreck were blown up during widening of the Canal in 1935.[386][387] |
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Ship events in 1898 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 |
Ship commissionings: | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 |
Shipwrecks: | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 |